Tag: ecommerce
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51: Goldback’s Rise from Zero to One Million Customers
Summary Goldback, a company that offers a gold-based physical currency, experienced rapid growth in just four years from zero customers in 2019 to over 1 million customers today. Benjamin Shaffer shares the story of how their gold-backed currency solves the problem of making small transactions with gold. Mentions & Links Quotes Takeaways Key Moments 00:00…
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26: How did Tyler Robertson grow Diesel Laptops from $0 to $100 million in revenue in 8 years?
Tyler Robertson, Founder/CEO of Diesel Laptops, quit his six figure job in the truck service business and scaled his part time gig into a $100 million business. This is a great story about slow and steady growth, taking smart risks, and obsessing over solving your customers’ problems. Show Links Show Transcript This is an automated…
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Starting a watch brand… or maybe not.
I started building a watch brand in 2019. It didn’t work out. Here’s the story about what happened during one of many entrepreneurial experiments I pursued in 2019. In the past, I never thought about watches much. Wore them a few times, but couldn’t get into it. The Apple Watch [1] had enough utility to…
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12: How did COO Kent Wilson help RV SnapPads sell over 500,000 units across North America?
Kent Wilson is the COO of RV SnapPads, a fast growing company that started in their family garage and grew to over 500,000 units sold across North America. I was blown away by their story. This episode of the First Customers podcast is available on all major podcasting platforms including YouTube. They’ve built a great business with…
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Idea: Pay-as-you-leave shopping experience
Idea Summary:– swipe card or facial recognition connected to your account as you enter store– put stuff in cart and leave store, items detected by RFID or similar tech– your account is charged with no cashier human interaction needed 🙁 (At the time when I wrote this, these kinds of stores didn’t exist. Amazon came…