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Pujji: The Plunge could be a $10M business generating $2M annual profit
“Cause I think it, I still believe what I've said to you every time, which is, is this going to be a hundred million dollar business? I don't know, but do I think it could be a ten million dollar business that made one to two million dollars a year? A hundred p…”
Opinion
Lieberman: I may be hamstringing The Plunge by avoiding expert hires
“I do think there's an argument to be said that I'm actually hamstringing the business a little bit right now by not Spending money on experts who are going to inevitably be better at certain tasks than I am.”
Insight
Pujji: Having an Operator From Day One Is Critical for New Ventures
“Having someone from day one is, is much more critical than I thought, I think I realized and so I would try to find that person now.”
Disclosure
Lieberman spent up to $50,000 validating his backyard game company, The Plunge
“Whereas take another business that, you know, I started, which was the plunge, which was my backyard game to be able to get to a point where Where I knew if there was appetite in the market, I had spent 37,000 dollars in the business. I probably had to spend 5…”
Disclosure
Lieberman: Invested about $40,000 into backyard game startup 'The Plunge'
“I put about 40,000 dollars into the business, and our customers gave us data that we really had to think about.”
Disclosure
Lieberman shuts down backyard game startup The Plunge to cut losses
“And I spent the last few weeks thinking about it, and I made the decision to go with option D, which is to cut my losses and throw in the towel for the plunge.”
Insight
Lieberman attributes The Plunge's failure to high product-market fit costs
“I understand that the plunge failed because it didn't leverage my unique abilities, because trying to create new consumer behaviors is very hard, and because the cost to possibly find product market fit was greater than the cost I was willing to sink into the …”
Disclosure
Lieberman has spent $37,000 developing backyard game startup The Plunge
“And I've already spent 37,000 dollars developing this game, and I've really loved it.”
Disclosure
Lieberman spent $36k developing The Plunge with zero revenue so far
“Like, I've spent 36,000 dollars on this game. My guess is to truly take it to market. If we run the, we're working with the Kickstarter agency, we run like their paid ad plan that they want to run with us. It's probably gonna be another 20 K. That's 56,000 dol…”
Disclosure
Lieberman Spent $37K Building a Backyard Game Before Validating the Market
“I've spent 37,000 dollars on a product that doesn't yet have a proven audience, and I don't know if this thing is even gonna sell.”
Disclosure
Alex Lieberman aims for 4,000 one-dollar Kickstarter reservations for The Plunge
“Our goal is to raise 300,000 dollars on Kickstarter, which means we need 4000 people who have put down a dollar reservation by all measures relative to that.”
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Alex Lieberman admits his new game is missing early Kickstarter reservation targets
“We should on average be having a couple hundred dollar reservations every week, and we're not even close to that right now.”
Disclosure
Lieberman: The Plunge Needs 400 Weekly Reservations for $300K Kickstarter Goal
“The plunge is going live on Kickstarter in June. I know how many reservations we need in order to have, to raise 300,000 dollars on Kickstarter. It's like, basically, we need, ah, 400 reservations a week. Right now, for context, we're at 45.”
Disclosure
Lieberman spent $20,000 developing backyard game The Plunge
“So I've spent 20,000 dollars on the game so far. 12,000 of that is R&D. 8000 is an agency that's helping with me with my Kickstarter launch.”
Disclosure
Lieberman: Landed unit cost for The Plunge from China is $68
“As of right now, cost, if I wanted to get it to Jesse Poogee's house from China, so the whole process to get it to you is 68 dollars.”
Disclosure
Lieberman: Spent $12,000 developing The Plunge, with $11,500 on R&D
“I've spent 12,000 dollars on this game so far, and 11,500 was on R&D, and the remaining 500 was on, like, materials, like, stuff I got for the game from Home Depot”
Disclosure
Lieberman: Validating New Game 'The Plunge' Via Social-Driven Pre-Orders
“My goal is to launch this business for pre-orders in the next few weeks, and use short-form social content of people playing the game, put it on TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and any other short-form platform to drive demand for the product. If I hit enough pre-o…”
Disclosure
Alex Lieberman spent $37,000 developing his backyard game The Plunge
“I have spent 37,000 dollars of my own personal money on the game.”
Disclosure
Lieberman spent $27,000 on his new venture before finding product-market fit
“And so I've spent 27,000 dollars on this project so far.”
Disclosure
Lieberman pays an offshore video editor $30 per video
“I use monday.com for my content calendar. I use an offshore video editor who I pay 30 dollars a video.”