Bags
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the Startup Ideas Podcast 15 
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Isaacson: Bags' core metric is first-day account funding and trading
“And then with DAGS, right, with my latest app, the core metric is How many people are coming in that are funding their accounts and making one trade, ah, in the first day, right?”
Isaacson: Using community slang in app names and copy builds instant user rapport
“By using slang, by using like, you know, words from a specific community, it can kind of set the vibe and the tone to be more like young and like comfortable and like colloquial and like, we're just friends talking and hanging. And that's why the app is called…”
Isaacson: Bags reached 100,000 Twitter followers via an invite leaderboard loop
“One of the loops we had was, you know, you would log in with Twitter, you claim your bags link, and then you share it. And then if people join from your link, we would mark those people as like one of your invites. And then we had like a leaderboard of all the…”
Pre-Herschel bags were too busy and lacked a generational brand
“So, for us, when we looked at bags in general, I think it was the one category that probably our generation didn't have. One that we could call our own. It seemed like there was the right denim, the right footwear, the right eyewear, the right watches. Bags ju…”