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Colin McIntosh

18 statements across 2 episodes · 6 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 12, 2024 by Colin McIntosh · across every show →

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May 12, 2024 positive
Insight
McIntosh: Founders should design their business model before the product
“I think business model first Product second, or at least tweak your product to make sure it fits really well into the business model.”
Colin McIntosh May 12, 2024 ▶ 4:10 I Make $1M/Month From Bed
May 12, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
McIntosh: Sheets & Giggles reached $1.2M in monthly sales by November 2020
“I incorporated the company in October, 2017, shipped our first box in October, 2018, and then about 25 months later, in November, 20 20, we had our first million dollar month at about 1.2 million dollars in sales.”
Colin McIntosh May 12, 2024 ▶ 1:26 I Make $1M/Month From Bed
May 12, 2024
Insight
McIntosh: Brands should offend at least 20% of people
“If you're not pissing like at least 20% of people off, You're probably not doing it right.”
Colin McIntosh May 12, 2024 ▶ 9:37 I Make $1M/Month From Bed
May 12, 2024
Disclosure
McIntosh: Sheets & Giggles has an operational rule to never iron sheets
“One rule we have is we never iron the sheets.”
Colin McIntosh May 12, 2024 ▶ 9:42 I Make $1M/Month From Bed
May 12, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sheets & Giggles captured 11,000 pre-launch emails at a 46% conversion rate
“For us, we were selling a set for a hundred dollars, but if they signed up first, they get them for 69 bucks. And we ended up capturing 11,000 emails. 46% email capture.”
Colin McIntosh May 12, 2024 ▶ 6:01 I Make $1M/Month From Bed
May 12, 2024 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
McIntosh: American consumers will not buy from non-.com domains
“And rule number four is that if you're going to sell to Americans, you got to have a .com because Americans don't buy from anything that's not a .com.”
Colin McIntosh May 12, 2024 ▶ 10:18 I Make $1M/Month From Bed
May 12, 2024 positive
Insight
McIntosh: Founders should sponsor media and creators they personally consume
“If you are the founder of your company, and you love something, you love a radio station, you love a podcast, you love a YouTuber, odds are the people who also like them are like you. They're gonna resonate with your personality, and a lot of your personality …”
Colin McIntosh May 12, 2024 ▶ 8:32 I Make $1M/Month From Bed
May 12, 2024
Insight
McIntosh: Crowdfunding campaigns require 30% of their funding goal on day one
“If you want to do a 100,000 dollar campaign, for example, you need 30% of your total that you want, your goal, on day one. That's how the crowdfunding math works.”
Colin McIntosh May 12, 2024 ▶ 6:45 I Make $1M/Month From Bed
May 12, 2024 bullish
Assertion Supported
Sheets & Giggles generated $284,000 in total crowdfunding revenue
“What ended up happening is our email list converted at four and a half percent, we got 450 customers at a hundred dollar AOV, did 45,000 dollars on day one, and that snowballed into a 284,000 dollar campaign.”
Colin McIntosh May 12, 2024 ▶ 7:26 I Make $1M/Month From Bed
May 12, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
McIntosh: SiteGPT reduced Sheets and Giggles customer care tickets by 30%
“It's like 50 bucks a month, and it cut down our customer care tickets by like 30%.”
Colin McIntosh May 12, 2024 ▶ 11:28 I Make $1M/Month From Bed
May 12, 2024
Disclosure
McIntosh works from a river three days a week during the summer
“I sit right in the water up to my chest, and I put my laptop on a rock. I set up hotspot, and I just work from the river. And I do that probably like three days a week in the summer.”
Colin McIntosh May 12, 2024 ▶ 13:03 I Make $1M/Month From Bed
Jan 22, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
McIntosh: Reddit resume guide ranks first on Google for 'resume advice Reddit'
“I just sat down and I wrote out a whole long resume guide of do's and don'ts, and that post on Reddit blew up so much that it is now the first result on Google for resume advice Reddit.”
Colin McIntosh Jan 22, 2025 ▶ 4:45 How I Built It: $20K/Month AI App as a Non-Technical Founder
Jan 22, 2025
Disclosure
McIntosh spends at most 5 to 10 hours weekly on sheetsresume.com
“I probably spend five hours, 10 hours a week maximum on this project.”
Colin McIntosh Jan 22, 2025 ▶ 8:51 How I Built It: $20K/Month AI App as a Non-Technical Founder
Jan 22, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
McIntosh: SheetsResume Did $20K at Near 100% Margin in Month Two
“In our second month of business, we did 20,000 dollars of sales. That's nearly 100% margin as well.”
Colin McIntosh Jan 22, 2025 ▶ 1:34 How I Built It: $20K/Month AI App as a Non-Technical Founder
Jan 22, 2025 negative
Insight
McIntosh: Non-technical founders cannot recruit random engineers without substantial pay
“You're not going to ever convince some random software engineer to work on something with you that is like your idea without paying them a lot of money, nor should they.”
Colin McIntosh Jan 22, 2025 ▶ 8:13 How I Built It: $20K/Month AI App as a Non-Technical Founder
Jan 22, 2025 negative
Opinion
McIntosh: Monthly subscriptions for resume builders are predatory to job seekers
“We also don't want to do monthly subscriptions because I do find that predatory. And we want to make sure that we're not taking advantage of anyone during a, you know, a hard time in their life.”
Colin McIntosh Jan 22, 2025 ▶ 10:03 How I Built It: $20K/Month AI App as a Non-Technical Founder
Jan 22, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
McIntosh: Cheap OpenAI Credits Won't Last Forever
“Right now you can get open AI credits dirt cheap. And I don't think it'll be like that forever. They're just doing user acquisition right now on their end.”
Colin McIntosh Jan 22, 2025 ▶ 2:36 How I Built It: $20K/Month AI App as a Non-Technical Founder
Jan 22, 2025 negative
Opinion
Colin McIntosh: Founders should never use AI for early business planning
“And people should not use AI for any of this shit. Any of it. Should not do that.”
Colin McIntosh Jan 22, 2025 ▶ 7:56 How I Built It: $20K/Month AI App as a Non-Technical Founder
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