During this week’s roundtable, we discussed several businesses for which the principle of niche Go-to-Market works better than broad holds true. SwiftAds First up, we had Brian Leung from Toronto, Canada, pitch SwiftAds as a marketplace. I thought it first needs to establish the value proposition of why advertisers should work with them. Valence Vibrations
Sramana Mitra: How many consumers do you have currently? KunHee Park: Five million. If I counted paid subscription, we have over one million. Sramana Mitra: What’s the monthly subscription fee? KunHee Park: $6.99. Sramana Mitra: Do you have a sense of who is paying to subscribe to this? Is it mostly Korean speaking people?
I started one of the Internet’s first fashion e-commerce companies in 1999. It was very expensive to do so at the time. Today, an online fashion business can be launched in an extraordinarily capital-efficient manner. There are so many effective e-commerce platforms from Amazon, eBay and Etsy to Shopify and BigCommerce that will allow you
Most adult professionals have jobs, families, and other responsibilities. People working in the tech industry have big salaries to forego if they want to start a company. For ambitious folks who want to start a technology startup while working full-time, having a job means your income doesn’t depend on the immediate success of your startup
Today’s 603rd FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, March 30, at 8 a.m. PDT / 11 a.m. EDT / 5 p.m. CEST / 8:30 p.m. India IST. CLICK HERE to join. PASSWORD: startup All are welcome!
Today’s 603rd FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, March 30, at 8 a.m. PDT / 11 a.m. EDT / 5 p.m. CEST / 8:30 p.m. India IST. CLICK HERE join. PASSWORD: startup All are welcome!
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Co-founders Mary Oemig and her husband, Eric, have been scrappy bootstrappers through a decade-long journey building Boom Cards and Boom Learning. Awesome story! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what
Sramana Mitra: You became the CEO of Kocowa? KunHee Park: No, CTO in the beginning. My original plan was to stay in the States for a year. After one year, they asked me to be the CEO. That was in 2018. Our seed money was very tiny. Seed money was just $15 million. Sramana Mitra: