Lunchtime Talk - Making it Count
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Starts as a $150 WordPress template, tests demand with surveys and WhatsApp groups and Facebook communities, lands a first commercial campaign for $6,000 before company formation, then iterates into niche sites (pregnancy), uses strict A/B testing and product-first metrics, scales to 6 million users across five markets, hires 80–100 staff, monetizes into millions of revenue and raised $4.5M, and concludes that small MVPs, customer development and clear USP beat feature-heavy launches.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:55From babysitting to founding an Asian parenting platform
- 7:51Growth of Tickle Media
- 10:02Why apps fail and market fit
- 14:00Lessons from founders on problem-solving
- 15:25Key steps to build apps people actually want
- 18:19Balancing product and marketing
- 20:50Bootstrapping sustainable growth
- 21:53Asian parenting market insights
- 23:38Social network for Asian moms
- 27:56Q&A
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