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Mariam Naficy

7 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 2, 2018 by Mariam Naficy · said 6 times in 3 episodes since 2018 · across every show →

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Mar 2, 2018 negative
Insight
Injecting capital too early into paid marketing creates unsustainable growth
“So my conclusion really right now is that there's this organic pace of growth that makes sense. And that sometimes if you try to inject capital too early to try to accelerate that pace through marketing, you end up with a marketing mix, which is so heavily wei…”
Mariam Naficy Mar 2, 2018 ▶ 11:46 20VC: The Right Way For Founders To Think About Capital Efficiency, How To Create A Culture of Continuous Learning & The Secret To Talent Assessment and Optimisation with Mariam Naficy, Founder & CEO @ Minted
Mar 2, 2018 positive
What-if
Delaying early VC funding preserved Naficy's equity in Minted
“I mean, I've retained a much larger ownership stake in the company, which is what I wanted to do. Then I think I would have had I taken money early, bigger money earlier.”
Mariam Naficy Mar 2, 2018 ▶ 11:11 20VC: The Right Way For Founders To Think About Capital Efficiency, How To Create A Culture of Continuous Learning & The Secret To Talent Assessment and Optimisation with Mariam Naficy, Founder & CEO @ Minted
Mar 2, 2018 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Minted was constantly near failure and out of cash for five years
“Every year for the first four or five years when Minted was constantly almost going out of business. Because we were almost all, almost always out of cash. It was brutal the first couple of years of building this business.”
Mariam Naficy Mar 2, 2018 ▶ 23:41 20VC: The Right Way For Founders To Think About Capital Efficiency, How To Create A Culture of Continuous Learning & The Secret To Talent Assessment and Optimisation with Mariam Naficy, Founder & CEO @ Minted
Mar 2, 2018 neutral
Disclosure
Minted keeps paid customer acquisition under 30% of its total mix
“So I think a healthy ratio for us, we have a very high bar, I would say, would be under 30% paid as a percentage of our acquisition mix.”
Mariam Naficy Mar 2, 2018 ▶ 12:46 20VC: The Right Way For Founders To Think About Capital Efficiency, How To Create A Culture of Continuous Learning & The Secret To Talent Assessment and Optimisation with Mariam Naficy, Founder & CEO @ Minted
Mar 2, 2018
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Minted received zero orders for its first month after launch
“There was not a single order for probably three weeks, four weeks after the site was live”
Mariam Naficy Mar 2, 2018 ▶ 8:37 20VC: The Right Way For Founders To Think About Capital Efficiency, How To Create A Culture of Continuous Learning & The Secret To Talent Assessment and Optimisation with Mariam Naficy, Founder & CEO @ Minted
Mar 2, 2018
Assertion Supported
Eve.com reached $10M in sales in its first year
“We reached ten million dollars of sales in our first year in 1999.”
Mariam Naficy Mar 2, 2018 ▶ 8:32 20VC: The Right Way For Founders To Think About Capital Efficiency, How To Create A Culture of Continuous Learning & The Secret To Talent Assessment and Optimisation with Mariam Naficy, Founder & CEO @ Minted
Mar 2, 2018
Assertion Supported
Naficy raised $26M in Eve.com's first year
“Eve, I started with a co-founder and I raised twenty six million dollars in the first year.”
Mariam Naficy Mar 2, 2018 ▶ 4:21 20VC: The Right Way For Founders To Think About Capital Efficiency, How To Create A Culture of Continuous Learning & The Secret To Talent Assessment and Optimisation with Mariam Naficy, Founder & CEO @ Minted
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