Story Tag: startup
Bruno is the CEO of Trackin, a startup that releases technology for companies to start a food delivery business. He rapidly built the MVP, acquired $25,000 from the 3 best French entrepreneurs, and started with different marketing campaigns. Today, Tracking is making +$167,000/month!
Andrew Askins, in partner with two of his best friends, started his company Krit in 2014. In 2015 they launched Ink, a tool that let freelancers create contracts and get them signed online. They got a couple thousand free users, but ultimately got burnt out before they could make the business model work. Now, they have been able to overcome this failure and build a successful consulting business.
In April we put little focus on marketing and growth. Instead, following our plan of enlarging the scope of the website, we put all of our efforts on building new cool stuff. Moreover, there was a huge improvement in our Google rankings. Read on to learn how did we get 10,407 sessions, 4,238 email subscribers, and $120.
WURA was an on-demand video platform for African and Nollywood movies. Mike hired a few developers to build it and spent $35,000 on Facebook marketing. The business grew fast and he was making $3,861 per month. However, YouTube competition and cash flow killed the startup.
A few years ago, Travis Peterson accidentally started his company Joker Greeting, which sells prank musical greeting cards. It started as a small project, but when he published it on Kickstarter, he was able to raise $92,073 and got a lot of press coverage. He is now making +$30,000/month.
Autto.in was an on-demand doorstep car service provider, created by Deepak in 2017. Soon after launching, a co-founder joined him and they started marketing the startup, spending a lot of money in customer acquisition. As money burnt, they decided to reach investors, who put them pressure in growing fast. After some months, they decided to shut down.
Bugfender is a tool to help developers debug their mobile applications by collecting the logs of their user’s mobile devices. It started as an internal tool, but Jordi and his co-founder saw a great potential and decided to turn it into a side business. They now have 165 paying customers which makes a MMR of +€9,100/mo. Learn how did they build and grow Bugfender and the mistakes they have committed.
Gymlisted was a website for finding the right private gym. Every day, Tom would go home from his day job and code up features for Gymlisted until midnight. Once launched, they started with their marketing efforts. But they soon realized there was pretty much no demand for what they were offering.
Mike Carson, a computer programmer, built park.io, a service that allows you to backorder top level domains that have expired and will be available for registration again soon. He started it as project to solve a problem he was facing. But, with almost none marketing, he was able to grow it to a business generating +$125K per month.
QuickHaggle was a community in which online users could exchange their skills. However, just like in old age, with the barter system, it became really difficult to find people who were looking for your service, and in exchange, could carry out what you needed. After some months, Bilal decided to shut it down.