mschaecher

Perfect timing as we have a huge need for this for an upcoming launch.

Question...will you be able to replay/backfill as you add new integrations? For example, Klaviyo is a huge hole in your integrations right now especially for marketing and ecomm. If I install Autotrack now, set up a few events and then a month from now you add Klaviyo, I can just replay everything into Klaviyo?

Also FWIW, I was an early user at Segment (was in their seed deck as case study), Klaviyo, and many others. I'm a technical marketer so can be helpful as beta tester and user research. reach out directly if you'd like to connect [email protected]

Craiglist generates tons of cash, wildly profitable, no investment

Bose has always funded itself via profits for 50 years with no outside investment. $3b-$4b revenue last year.

Beats waited 4-5 years and was huge before taking first equity investment from HTC

Munchery

As a former early Munchery (and Airbnb) employee, you sound like the worst type of arm chair quarterback – hopelessly wrong.

Munchery was first mover in the space and is an order of magnitude bigger than most in the space, and already doing volume that would blow your mind. Original investors in an A round don't reup to lead the B & C rounds unless there is some serious "proof" of customer base.

Munchery is upfront in app too.

This. I've been back multiple times over the years to run some small campaigns for some big startups there and can't believe how bad and rough around edges their tools and processes are.

If I didn't love reddit so much there is no way I would've put up with them to run a small campaign.

I've managed tons of product launches at Airbnb, Munchery and other startups as a consultant.

Do not launch on Thanksgiving. Trust me. Delay until the week after.

Also you should know that Thanksgiving through New Years is by far the worst time of year to try and launch a new (consumer) product of any kind. Every single (consumer) product in the world fights a bloody battle for attention and sales this time of year. Every store, every brand and every product category will be filled with promotions and/or slightly new offerrings.

If you must launch during that window, what you're launching must be either a) fucking amazing itself or b) your fucking amazing at marketing to cut through all that noise.

definitely this. Can get more expensive quick too, especially if a video requires multiple locations, multiple actors, multiple actors speaking, etc etc.

Also I can't remember if Adam does this, but most the industry will have different price tiers based on what you want to do with it. Running something on your homepage is a whole different ballgame compared to homepage + TV ads.

FWIW the Airbnb video stars a very talented Airbnb employee, Venetia Pristavec, who ran video efforts there since the early days.

Everything. Researching is horrible. Purchase flows suck. Fees suck.

Portfolio analysis terrible – For example on a stocks page there isn't even an easy way to see existing positions, let alone my historical purchases like when, how much and what price. It's just "here's this stocks history" not "here's this stocks history including YOU'RE history with this stock.

And on and on like that.

I'm just sick of using software that feels like it stopped improving 5-10 years ago....and figured that has to be more out there.

Thanks never checked out either but will now!

Not super active. Few trades a month. Mostly for fun and to get skin in companies I believe in.

Sharebuilder is horrible. Will check out Schwab thanks!