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AppSumo's TidyCal generates $3,000 per day in profit on lifetime pricing
“So we launched tidycal.com maybe two years ago, and that's doing 3000 dollars in profit a day at 29 dollars for life.”
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AppSumo collects payments upfront and pays software partners 60 days later
“We don't have to hold any inventory on anything, and we promote a thing you created, someone else created, and some software creator. We get the money up front, and then we pay them 60 days later.”
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Kagan pre-sold $3,000 of a DocuSign alternative in 48 hours
“And so in 48 hours, I was able to sell 3000 dollars worth without using any social media or any of my email list. And in pre-sales to a DocuSign alternative for life, which will launch in 30 days on AppSumo.”
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Kagan: AppSumo uses Howdy.com to hire vetted South American developers
“We use howdy.com. Have you seen them? So they give you, they hire South American developers and employees, but they do all the vetting and they just make it stupid easy for you to have full-time dedicated staff in an area. So we're on our absolute originals pr…”
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Kagan reveals AppSumo's roster of fractional advisors from top tech companies
“Almost everyone in leadership gets a person. So Anna who runs people, we have Christine, who's the chief people officer from Duolingo. Moody Glasgow was the CMO of Zapier and Glassdoor. He does marketing. There's a guy named Colin Gardner. He does revenue. So …”
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Kagan spent $1M in cash promoting AppSumo's expanded product catalog
“And then I decided to also spend a million dollars cash to promote that we have all these new products on AppSumo.”
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Noah Kagan on his early career and Gambit's Facebook lawsuit
“Intel, 14 months, Facebook, nine months, mint, nine months, kickflip, 10 months, which was funded by Naval Ravikant, and then I did Gambit, which did really well, and then Facebook sued us, and we got banned by another company.”