The regular narrative of startups is wrong. You don’t need venture capital to build a startup anymore in 2018. You do need a DIY attitude, a lot of persistence and become a generalist who can learn new skills like coding, design and marketing quickly. This way of building a startup is called bootstrapping and it’s the coolest way to do it I think.
My presentation will be informal and interactive. That means you can ask questions during it and the audience steers my presentation.
What People Will Learn:
The 6 stages of startup: getting ideas, building, launching, growing, monetizing and automating.
This is straight from my book that’s coming out this month called MAKE (http://makebook.io) for $30. Don’t worry, this book is only 1% of my income, so I’m not a bullshit artist telling you to buy my book. I am doing fine without it! Thanks
Please visit my presentation. I won’t be able to get you success, but I can give you some tips of what worked for me!
About the speaker:
I am Pieter Levels, the founder of Nomad List (https://nomadlist.com), the biggest crowdsourced city database and digital nomads social network. I also founded Remote OK (http://remoteok.io), the biggest remote jobs board in the world. After I was quickly going broke in 2014, I started building “12 startups in 12 months” which got a lot of attention and forced me to ship a new app every month. Most of those apps didn’t become successful, but some did: Nomad List became a real startup with millions of monthly users, multiple acquisition offers, $20,000 to $40,000/month revenue while having a real cultural impact. Remote OK started as a basic jobs board for remote workers, and grew out to now be the highest traffic generating remote careers platform.
I am also Product Hunt’s Maker of the Year, and launched 2 of my apps (Nomad List and Hoodmaps) to the frontpage of Reddit.
I don’t have the keys to success, so I can only tell you what worked for me. A few principles I hold is that I don’t take external funding, I do everything myself, I mostly don’t really hire, I automate a lot which means I have lots of robots working for me 24/7, I like transparency and I hate business bullshit. That means I share my revenue, share the problems I have and the successes when things do work. This presentation will be pretty much that!
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This event is for free and open to public. Limited to 50 place. If you want to join this event, please register at the Dojo Front Desk or send us an email to rsvp@dojobali.org
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