James Hirschfeld

10 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Oct 7, 2024 by James Hirschfeld · said 5 times in 2 episodes since 2026 · across every show →

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Oct 7, 2024 positive
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Hirschfeld: Professional and Wedding Event Hosts Have Higher LTV and Repeat Rates
“We noticed that, Two segments were kind of standing apart from the rest, professional events and wedding events, and we were thinking about the fact that these customers, these business customers, are really appealing. Like, they're great customers. They have …”
James Hirschfeld Oct 7, 2024 ▶ 58:07 Paperless Post: James and Alexa Hirschfeld
Oct 7, 2024
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James Hirschfeld: Paperless Post Bootstrapped Early Product With Boston Firm and Brown Students
“The first people we brought in were a design firm in Boston that kind of helped us create wireframes in a flow. And we paid for that with the savings that, you know, my sister and I had, which was a little bit of money that our grandparents had given us or had…”
James Hirschfeld Oct 7, 2024 ▶ 16:13 Paperless Post: James and Alexa Hirschfeld
Oct 7, 2024 negative
Insight
James Hirschfeld: Excess early capital often causes startups to fund wrong strategies
“The thing about having a lot of capital When you're a small company is that you can put it behind the wrong strategy and you don't, you lose touch with the practical reality of the business.”
James Hirschfeld Oct 7, 2024 ▶ 49:33 Paperless Post: James and Alexa Hirschfeld
Oct 7, 2024
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Paperless Post's physical stationery generated $500,000 in its first 10 weeks
“I think we did five, 500,000 dollars in sales in the first, like, 10 weeks of paper.”
James Hirschfeld Oct 7, 2024 ▶ 45:39 Paperless Post: James and Alexa Hirschfeld
Oct 7, 2024
What-if
Alexa Hirschfeld: Paperless Post should have charged consumers directly from the start
“I think I should have listened to James's instinct, which was always originally to actually charge for the product itself, but the truth is that Because we were able to see the value that the users were getting, it gave us this confidence that, you know what, …”
Alexa Hirschfeld Oct 7, 2024 ▶ 34:41 Paperless Post: James and Alexa Hirschfeld
Oct 7, 2024
Assertion Partly supported
Hirschfeld: Paperless Post's lead seed investor discovered startup via an invitation
“Our first investors came to us through the product. Our first, the lead investor of our seed financing round was This was a someone from a fund called Moose Partners and he received an invitation, and he just got it.”
James Hirschfeld Oct 7, 2024 ▶ 29:20 Paperless Post: James and Alexa Hirschfeld
Oct 7, 2024 neutral
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James Hirschfeld: In 2007, digital invites were socially unacceptable for formal events
“Back in 2007, if you can remember, there really was a limit to, there were certain types of events where you could not use an online product to communicate. It was not legitimate.”
James Hirschfeld Oct 7, 2024 ▶ 20:19 Paperless Post: James and Alexa Hirschfeld
Oct 7, 2024
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James Hirschfeld: Paperless Post did $100,000 in sales in December 2009
“I remember in December of 2009 that we did a 100,000 dollars in sales.”
James Hirschfeld Oct 7, 2024 ▶ 39:51 Paperless Post: James and Alexa Hirschfeld
Oct 7, 2024
Disclosure
Hirschfeld: Paperless Post never runs ads or sells user data
“We have no advertising ever, and we don't sell people's data.”
James Hirschfeld Oct 7, 2024 ▶ 51:41 Paperless Post: James and Alexa Hirschfeld
Oct 7, 2024 positive
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Paperless Post is now double its pre-COVID size and fully profitable
“We're around the size we were before COVID, but we're double the size we're profitable.”
James Hirschfeld Oct 7, 2024 ▶ 1:00:02 Paperless Post: James and Alexa Hirschfeld
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