Everything Moe Abbas said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Abbas: Startup focus is overrated when testing multiple product iterations
“So yes, focus is important. It's a bit overrated in a way, But not, there's some things you absolutely need to focus on. Like one vertical made a lot of sense, but you know, focusing on multiple product iterations that could also really work for you because it…”
Abbas: Manual Matching for Apprenticeships Was Unsustainable Despite Validated Demand
“It was a tremendous amount of matching effort to actually get them matched with each other for something that is, you know, relatively low value and should be low touch point. So it just wasn't worth the effort in a way because of the way we were doing it manu…”
Abbas: Decent conversion on a poor landing page validates real demand
“If the conversions are not good, but they're decent, that's totally fine because you know you can improve conversions by building a better product and a better website and better marketing. So if it converts with the shitty ass landing page, you know that you'…”
Mo Abbas: Retention is much harder to solve than growth
“Retention is a much more difficult thing to solve than growth. Right? Because growth is all upfront. You get the data right away. You can figure that out and move or pivot or persevere with retention. There's a lot of reasons why people may not retain and it t…”
Abbas: Acadium Used Apprenticeships as a Wedge to Sell All Marketing Talent
“Apprenticeships and work experience allowed us to build a wedge and a brand In finding marketing talent and launching a marketing career. But, you know, we can now sell businesses on any kind of marketing talent because we have this amazing brand that is the n…”
Acadium paid $5K-$10K for original courses that thousands still use monthly
“We spent, you know, we paid someone five or 10 K to create all the courses for us. We haven't changed them. We haven't updated that technology at all. And people, you know, thousands of people a month still use it”
Abbas: Traditional schools do a really bad job training digital marketing
“And schools do a really bad job of training this. So for those reasons, we picked digital marketing and that was a good decision.”
Abbas: Acadium sparked after receiving 100+ unpaid intern applications
“We were actually hiring An intern for another project we were working on and we had like over a hundred applicants. Nobody had experience and they needed experience. So they would come and volunteer to work with our company.”