Salvatore Aiello

8 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 29, 2023 by Salvatore Aiello · across every show →

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Nov 29, 2023 neutral
Insight
Aiello: Founders estimating a product is 80% complete are actually 20% done
“I like to say that in the eighty-twenty rule, whatever side of the eighty-twenty rule in terms of timeline you think you're on the other side. So when you're building your product and you think you're 80% done, you're only 20% done. Whatever side of eighty-twe…”
Salvatore Aiello Nov 29, 2023 ▶ 12:53 Startup Acquisition Stories with Salvatore Aiello, Co-founder of DimeADozen
Nov 29, 2023
Disclosure
Aiello: DimeADozen was built and launched in three to four days
“So then we took three days, four days, wrapped up all the prompts we put together and all the research and launched the site.”
Salvatore Aiello Nov 29, 2023 ▶ 5:02 Startup Acquisition Stories with Salvatore Aiello, Co-founder of DimeADozen
Nov 29, 2023 positive
Insight
Aiello: Founders selling startups should build comprehensive data rooms early
“Build your data room early. Building out the data room and really getting those ducks in a row, because these people that submit the NDAs that want to see your company, they want to see your company. And I wasn't giving them much, man. I was giving them, you k…”
Salvatore Aiello Nov 29, 2023 ▶ 21:25 Startup Acquisition Stories with Salvatore Aiello, Co-founder of DimeADozen
Nov 29, 2023
Disclosure
Aiello: DimeADozen generated up to $40K in three months with broken MVP
“We launched it in four days. I hated that website and Lord knows she did too, as a designer and product designer. It was a disaster, and it was, we have no user authentication. Add 50 different fonts, 30 different margins. Our landing page looked terrible. Obv…”
Salvatore Aiello Nov 29, 2023 ▶ 13:16 Startup Acquisition Stories with Salvatore Aiello, Co-founder of DimeADozen
Nov 29, 2023 bullish
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Aiello: Unprompted viral influencer video drove $15K revenue in three days
“A influencer out of nowhere who had a lot of followers posted a video that went way beyond his user base. He ended up getting 1.2 million views, and we made, like, call it 15,000 dollars in, in three days.”
Salvatore Aiello Nov 29, 2023 ▶ 16:24 Startup Acquisition Stories with Salvatore Aiello, Co-founder of DimeADozen
Nov 29, 2023 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Aiello: DimeADozen refunds were virtually non-existent
“And, you know, I'll tell you, our refunds were near non-existent. Truly non-existent, because whatever you get out of it, even if you get one nugget out of it, when you love your baby, okay, all right, this seems okay, this seems interesting, and then you read…”
Salvatore Aiello Nov 29, 2023 ▶ 6:02 Startup Acquisition Stories with Salvatore Aiello, Co-founder of DimeADozen
Nov 29, 2023
Insight
Aiello: Test demand with $20 in ads on a 404 buy button
“Run, run a hundred dollars in ads or 20 dollars a day on ads to a landing page with a buy button four or fours and track how many people click on it. Because if you don't get any clicks, the rest of your problems don't matter.”
Salvatore Aiello Nov 29, 2023 ▶ 36:34 Startup Acquisition Stories with Salvatore Aiello, Co-founder of DimeADozen
Nov 29, 2023
Assertion Supported
Aiello: DimeADozen Co-Founders Met Through YC Co-Founder Match
“Dime a Dozen is really the first time that I did it not by myself, because I actually did it with a co-founder Monica Powers, that we hooked up through actually YC Co-Founder Match, And just noodled on ideas, and one of them happened to be dime a dozen.”
Salvatore Aiello Nov 29, 2023 ▶ 1:49 Startup Acquisition Stories with Salvatore Aiello, Co-founder of DimeADozen
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