Amanda Bradford
8 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 15, 2018 by Amanda Bradford · across every show →
On the record as a speaker too: Amanda Bradford's record, appearances and statements → this page counts the times other people say the name.
Everything said about Amanda Bradford, oldest first
Jun 15, 2018 negative
Jun 15, 2018
Jun 15, 2018
Jun 15, 2018 positive
Bradford: Solo founders eliminate co-founder conflict, a top startup failure cause
“So, you know, I think the two things they say startups fail is, one, you know, co-founder issues, and two, is running out of money, and so those are the two things I was like, I'm going to make sure those two things don't happen, and you can eliminate one of t…”
Jun 15, 2018 positive
Bradford raised The League's $1M seed via a party round
“What I ended up doing is, is more or less a kind of a party round strategy where I had some awesome VCs in that kind of gave me the credibility and some great angels in that gave me credibility. And so I said, I think I can get A bunch of hundred K, 50 K check…”
Jun 15, 2018
Bradford raised a $200K-$300K insider bridge round before launching monetization
“I also de-risked the fact that monetization might be a complete disaster by taking a small bridge round from my insiders. I think it was Two or 300 K just to kind of have as rainy day funds in case all hell broke loose.”
Jun 15, 2018
Bradford tested monetization on The League using a fake $15 upgrade button
“But what I did is I created an HTML fake page where I said, Hey, you want to upgrade for 15 dollars? If so, click this button. And then we just said, great, you're upgraded. And we gave them the advanced features without charging their card. And so that gave m…”
Jun 15, 2018 positive
Bradford: Solo founders should hire A-player contractors over B-player employees
“And so I think you have to be, I like to say, it's like, you can't really get the A players. So then you have a couple of different options. You can hire B players or you can contract out A players and pay a hefty price tag. And so I chose the latter and reall…”