Startup Life Featured Founder-Led Sales for Introverts I pictured the sales floor of a previous workplace, packed with cubicles, each inhabited by a smooth-talking, cold-calling salesperson. Prolonged calls and meetings wear me down. My aversion stemmed from a skewed perception of what sales entailed.
Startup Life Featured Selling Wavve A good business should feel like something you don't want to sell. Build the dream business that you want to run, and your purchase price will reflect that.
Startup Life Wavve Business Updates So much of a startup's success and failure really does come down to timing. 2020 was a booming year for content creators and Wavve benefited directly from that surge. We nearly doubled in the 12 months since lockdowns began.
Startup Life We Built a Printing Press SaaS businesses get a lot of hype for a reason. It's hard to wrap your head around it until you're on vacation, wake up to check your phone, and see you have 50 new customer notifications. Then you realize each of these $12/mo subscriptions will
Startup Life Improve Retention with ChurnKey Over the last year, we decided to take everything we've learned about user retention and make our tools available to other SaaS businesses.
Startup Life Launching Casa It's a miracle we were able to pull this off. There we were, building a bitcoin focused business with minimal runway, and VCs were on the whole blockchain-not-bitcoin train. Plus, most of them were headed home for the holidays and wouldn't be back until the new year.
Law Why you need an LLC If you run a business without liability protection, you're risking financial ruin.
Startup Life Learn to Code. Build a Business. In this video, I demonstrate the most efficient way for learning to code. Motivation can be challenging, so I'll give you some tips on staying motivated and give some advice around what might be a good first project.
Startup Life Learning how to Learn If new to code, avoid biting off more than you can chew when picking a project. Persistence is key so choose something you're naturally excited to build.
Learning Financial Freedom Fast The conventional advice around careers and education is outdated and completely wrong. After years of following along, I was tired of feeling like I had no control over my ability to earn a livelihood.
Startup Life Wavve Origins and Lessons There are some months that turn an entire company around. June 2017 was that month for Wavve.
Startup Life Startup Money Ball Determined not to make the same mistakes as with our first business, we adopted a "money ball" approach to product development and focused on building a profitable business rather than optimizing around a venture raise.
Startup Life Startup: End of Year 2 Here’s my long-overdue quarterly update to close out our second year building Wavve. December 16′ * Continued fruitlessly to find product-market fit for the mobile app. * Reached the conclusion that radio is a dying industry and not the way forward for our business model. * Invested more time and energy into
Startup Life When to Pivot? We've already got paying customers for this new audiogram tool I set up. Wondering if this could be our new focus?
Startup Life Pitch Event & Name Change This period covers months 11-14 of my startup journey. March Introducing Wavve, Inc. We changed our name to Wavve and re-incorporated in Delaware. April Pitch Event. Dig South. We also introduced Wavve to a few thousand during Tech Night at a local Charleston Riverdogs game. Media passes for the entire
Startup Life Building, Raising Money, and Trademark woes I'm long overdue for an update here. Since launching the MVP in August, it's only gotten crazier over the last 6 months. It's hard to raise venture money in SC Everyone wants to know when you plan to relocate to the Bay Area or
Startup Life The MVP Has Landed > If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late - Reid Hoffman Our MVP is now public. Embarrassed? ✅ In mid July we released the alpha version to our advisors and a few other private beta testers. I'm still
Startup Life Building uTalk Sports *** As of March 10, 2016, we’ve renamed our startup Wavve Did you know there are 86,400 seconds in a day? The last 90 days have forced me to take an honest look at how I manage each and every moment. A few months ago, I started an exciting
Startup Life Can I build a startup while working a day job? Yes. But you'll need to realize that weekends and evenings are overrated! At least that's how I'm choosing to view it. If you rely on the income of your normal 9-5 job, it's pretty simple. You need to spend your free time
Startup Life Starting Up: UTalk Sports It was a busy few months as my cofounder and I formally kicked things off. And Finally, a chance to use that overpriced law degree! In May I drafted our articles, business partnership agreement, and officially formalized the business as a South Carolina LLC. That last part is way easier
