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Negotiating your offer
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BusinessBeginner
Launching to your first hundred
Find, reach and keep the first hundred people who pay you.
Rated 4.71,610 reviews14,900 learners
Taught by Sam Okafor, verified instructorFounder · two exits · Meridian Lab- Length
- 4 weeks at 3 hours a weekAt your own pace, starting today
- Credential
- Earn a course certificateIssued by Meridian Lab
- Language
- Taught in EnglishWith subtitles in 11 languages
- Tutor
- An AI tutor in every lessonIt answers from the lesson on screen
$69once, yours to keep
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About this course
For founders with a product that works and no customers to show for it yet. The four weeks follow the plan Sam would run again on a third company, from the first customer you can name to that customer's first referral.
Skills you practice
Syllabus
4 modules
Ends on the project
12 lessons
7 to 18 min each
2 h 36 min of video
Pause to ask the tutor
2 free lessons
Watch before you pay
3 quizzes
19 questions in all
1 project
Reviewed by Sam's team
- 1.2Where they already gather18 min
- 1.3A one-line pitch they repeat15 min
- Quiz · 5 questions6 min
- 2.2Communities, without spamming them7 min
- 2.3A waitlist page that converts12 min
- Quiz · 7 questions6 min
- 3.1The launch checklist16 min
- 3.2Pricing for early customers9 min
- 3.3The first support requests18 min
- Quiz · 7 questions8 min
- 4.1Onboarding calls12 min
- 4.2Asking for referrals10 min
- 4.3Retention from week one18 min
- Project · Run a four-week launch plan and report on your first paying customers2 hours
What the price covers
In the price
- 12 video lessons, 2 h 36 min in all
- The AI tutor beside every lesson
- 3 quizzes, graded as you answer
- A project reviewed by Sam's team
- A course certificate when you finish
- Transcripts in 11 languages
Not in it
- Answers the tutor writes for you
- Live classes
- One-to-one mentoring
- A job guarantee
Your instructor
Sam Okafor, verified instructor
Founder · two exits
- Rating
- 4.8
- Learners
- 45.8K
- Courses
- 3
12 years building companies
I founded two software companies and sold both.
Career highlight
My second company grew to ten thousand customers.
How Sam teaches
I teach from my own spreadsheets, mistakes left in.
Reviews, rated4.71,610 reviews
Overall rating
- 5 stars, 79% of reviews
- 4 stars, 14% of reviews
- 3 stars, 4% of reviews
- 2 stars, 1% of reviews
- 1 star, 1% of reviews
Nate G.Founder
3 weeks agoFinished
I raised my prices in week two, and the course paid for itself within a month. Sam does not let a neat spreadsheet hide a guess from you.
Chloe M.Account executive
2 months agoFinished
It changed how I prepare for any conversation about money. I walked into my salary review with a number, and I walked out with it.
Hannah O.Marketing lead
4 months agoFinished
Short lessons, real homework and a project that somebody reads and answers. I have not found that on any other course I have paid for.
Zara H.Founder
3 months agoFinished
I used what I built in module three in a real investor meeting last spring. Nobody found a hole in it, and I knew where the holes would have been, because the course had made me dig every one of them myself first. We closed the round in June, and two of the investors asked which consultancy had built our model. I had built it myself, at my kitchen table.
Raj K.Bakery owner
1 month agoFinished
Useful, but it assumes a software business. I run a bakery, so I translated half of the examples into flour, rent and staff hours.
Steve W.Sales lead
2 months agoFinished
A lot of theory for a course sold as practical. The second half is better than the first, and it is where the exercises and the project start.
6 of 1,610 reviews
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No. The first module starts from nothing, and the tutor in each lesson answers the questions a first-timer asks, however basic they feel. What you need is 3 hours a week and a browser.
Nothing expires. 4 weeks at 3 hours a week is the pace the course was planned at, and at an hour a week it takes 12 weeks. The panel above works out a finish date for whatever pace you give it.
This one is self-paced only: at 4 weeks it would be over before a cohort found its rhythm. The discussion under each lesson is where the other learners are, and the instructor reads it.
A certificate from the school that made the course, and the project the instructor's team reviewed. Each comes with a link that anyone, an employer included, can open and check in a few seconds.
Yes, within 30 days of enrolling, from your account page and with no form to fill in or reason to give. Lesson one is free with the tutor, so most people know the course suits them before they pay.
Waypoint Plus is $29 a month and opens this course along with every other. At $69 this one costs about 2 months of it, so buy it on its own if it is the only course you mean to take this year.
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