I’m truly amazed with how 30 million people can be drawn to Instagram or 50 million to Draw Something, not to mention 800+ million users on Facebook. It’s really interesting to see them grow, but what interests me more is how they can get their first million users. How did they do that? Of course the next obvious question is how you can implement their strategy to your own startup?

Rama wrote a great piece about this topic as well yesterday, he suggested that we go directly to phone manufacturers and telcos. If you’re in a content or mobile app business then this is totally true. But it may not work if you’re in e-commerce like me. I myself prefer a more simple and direct approach, so here are the top three ways that I learned from my research.

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