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Isaacson: Young founders should prioritize consumer mobile apps over B2B SaaS
“When you're young, you want to take a lot of swings and a lot of risks and a lot of like, you want to have a lot of at bats, a lot of tries. So I do think that building consumer mobile apps is like the best thing to be doing. If you're a young person”
Isaacson: Cal AI succeeded through packaging and onboarding, not proprietary tech
“You know, the reality is anyone can go and make a calorie tracking app, but they built an amazing funnel, right? So I think like the key lesson in a Cal AI is they packaged it really, really nicely and made it seem even more valuable than it is, which I think …”
Isaacson: Apps must nail single-player retention before adding multiplayer growth loops
“If you have, you know, you have a really good single player app, it's easy to then add like some kind of multiplayer experience or some kind of social experience where you're porting in contacts or you're connecting socials or they're sharing something to soci…”
Isaacson: Applying proven ideas to new channels beats inventing original concepts
“Looking for like, you know, existing ideas that could work in a new channel. I feel like that's a great way to just find good ideas because you don't have to come up with fully original, fully fleshed out thoughts.”
Isaacson: Using community slang in app names and copy builds instant user rapport
“By using slang, by using like, you know, words from a specific community, it can kind of set the vibe and the tone to be more like young and like comfortable and like colloquial and like, we're just friends talking and hanging. And that's why the app is called…”
Isaacson: Apps should use a single onboarding flow without branching paths
“You want to have one flow, right? Because if you have branching user journeys, then it gets also complicated, right? You want like everyone to go through the exact same flow. And then you can see, you know, was I successful in getting them to do this or was I …”
Isaacson: Embedding invite loops in core flows boosts app K-factor
“If you have some kind of loop in the app or some kind of way of inviting people, whatever it is, I would put that in the core experience because then if you just drop in a thousand people and 50% of them share. That's 500 people that have now shared your app o…”