1. Getting Started..
Wibiya’s journey to 200M unique users
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2. Who are we?
IDC Graduate
Zell Entrepreneurship Program
Co-Founders of Joongel.com
Founders & CEO’s Wibiya.com
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3. Agenda
The Story
The Perfect Team
Get out there and Get it out there
Low Burn-Rate & 3rd Party Tool
Perception is Everything
Anatomy of a Fundable Startup
Questions
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5. From Joongel to Wibiya
Worked on Joongel for 2 year.
Launched at TechCrunch 50
Demopit - 2008
Understood we created “A” and
people wanted “B”
Killed Joongel and started Working
on Wibiya
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11. Developer, Designer, Distributer
The perfect startup has all three founders:
Developer - someone who understands Technology
Designer - someone who understands how to shape the
experience
Distributer - someone who understands how to reach, talk to and
sell to the product
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12. Get out there
&
Get it out there
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13. Getting out there
Do Furmansky!
Don't be afraid to talk about your idea.
Every advice is good, but not all good for you
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14. Get it out there
Start working on your free time
Launch the “Minimum Viable Product”
Features are your Enemy!
Launch in 3 months (Unless you are building a nuclear plant!)
Don’t read too much news, read product related blogs
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15. Reading List
@KissMetrics - Holly Grail
Smashing Magazine
37Signals
Product Development - Eric Reis
Quora
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18. Concept Testing
Find a test group and start a closed Beta - (Walyou.com)
Measure everything: engagement, time on site, installs, Viral
effects, traffic sources etc’.
Get Feedback on your product.
Getsatisfaction.com
UserVoice.com
A/B test everything
KissMetrics.com
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19. Low Burn-Rate
&
3rd Party tools
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20. Tight Tight Budget
Use 3rd party tool whenever you can
Support - Zendesk
Wire framing - Balsamic
Analytics - KissMetrics / CrazyEgg / Clicktale
Newsletters - MailChimp / MadMimi
Collaboration - DropBox / Evernote
Billing - Plimus / Chagify / Recurrly
Design - 99Designs / IconFinder
Project Management - Pivotal Tracker / Basecamp
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