Salvatore Aiello, co-founder of DimeADozen, discusses pricing and listing his AI business validation startup for acquisition on Acquire.com.
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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…”
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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…”
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Aiello: DimeADozen sold for $150,000
“The amount we sold for, right, it's, I think it's public at this .6 figures, 150,000.”
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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.”
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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.”
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Aiello: DimeADozen generated roughly 80,000 business reports
“I mean, we've generated, I don't know, I think they're up to 80,080 thousand business reports for these people, you know, a good percent of those paid, meaning they got the full forty-page report and not just the initial report.”