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Competitor Zirtual sends its virtual assistants to train at Virtual Gurus Academy
“Because even some of our competitors have actually been sending people to do or go through our academy. So we've had actually Zurch will send a few.”
A Canadian government program plans to match Virtual Gurus' funding dollar-for-dollar
“Western Diversification were on the first mailing list to get that once they release it. And so they want to match the million for a million.”
Snapshift Grows 45% Month-Over-Month With 3x Industry Fulfillment Rate
“We're growing 45% month over month, and this is directly tied to our actual chart-topping fulfillment rate that is three times the staffing industry average.”
Snapshift Workers Earn 50% Above the National Industry Rate
“They're getting paid near instantly through us, earning on average over 50% more than the national industry rate.”
SnapShyft Achieved a 91% Shift Fulfillment Rate Across 2019
“I will say that there's competitors out there that do that today, and they're at 34% fulfillment rate, and we're at 91% for the entire year of 2019.”
Trenda: Good Talk SMS notifications achieve a 51% open rate
“The next time Brad Feld goes live, you're going to get a text, and you're going to open that at a rate of 51%.”
Daraby: The average mobile app is used under six minutes daily
“The average app is used for less than six minutes a day.”
Trenda: 90% of Good Talk users eventually download the mobile app
“We're an SMS first product, although 90% of the users do eventually download the app, but we just believe you have to show them the value before you get them to download an app.”
Israel says nicotine patch and gum success rates are 5% to 15%
“Like, if you look at the success rates for the patch of the gum, it's five to 15%. People try seven to eight times with those products on average to quit. They don't work.”
Israel says pre-2016 vape makers like Juul launched with zero FDA testing
“They haven't done any tests at all. It was like a pretty much a free for all pre-two 1016 where anybody could release a product and they were grandfathered in.”
Dufu: The Cru signed Morgan Stanley and Disney as founding corporate partners
“We've brought on Morgan Stanley and Disney as our founding partners. And we charge more for that experience. It's 1800 dollars.”
Dufu: 73% of Surveyed The Cru Members Say They Want to Renew
“So we've got a group of women who are about 10 months into their crew journey. We've already sent out a survey to ask them their Propensity to renew. Half of them have responded. 73% of them say, I want to renew my membership in the crew.”
Metapixel claims image theft costs creators $600 billion every day
“There are over 2.5 billion images stolen and six hundred billion in lost revenue daily.”
Snapshift claims a 90% fulfillment rate, triple the industry average
“And we have a 90% fulfillment rate that's three times the industry average.”
Muccio: Restaurant worker tenure averages under two months
“Like, most jobs, most positions, the average is less than two months that people stick around.”
Madho: 50% of US women are petite and 67% are plus-size
“I'm five feet tall, which means I'm petite, which is 50% of all American women. I'm also size 18, which means I'm 67% of all American women because I'm plus.”
Madho: Fashion brands typically use only one fit model
“Typical fashion is one fit model per brand.”
Madho: Lab 141 is negotiating LOIs with two well-funded DTC brands
“We're actually negotiating an LOI with two very well-funded direct-to-consumer brands already.”
Muccio: Female founders received only 2.2% of $130B in VC funding
“Only 2.2% of the hundred and thirty billion in venture dollars last year went to female founders.”
Lee: Rooted's Instagram CAC is $45 on Early Ad Spend
“I know right now our cost of acquisition on Instagram is 45 dollars after a couple thousand dollars of spend.”
Brown: Women of Color Use Three to Four Times More Hair Product
“For women of color who typically use three to four times the amount of product, this is perfect, because using a three and a half ounce bottle is just impossible to get enough for a trip that's more than a weekend.”
Brown: Target market is around 11 million frequent Black travelers
“The numbers are somewhere around eleven million in terms of our target market of folks that are actually traveling three to four times a year, at least two of those being international”
Brown: The Black Travel Box has an 18% repeat customer rate
“On average, we have about 18% return customer rate. People that are buying, they're buying two, three, and four times.”
Saxton: Tot Squad signed a contract with Walmart
“So I literally two days ago signed the Walmart contract, which is so exciting.”
Saxton: Amazon controls only about 20% of the market
“Amazon only controls about 20% of the market right now.”
Muccio: Investors stalled and Phil Nadel passed on Earbuds
“Charles, Michael, and Jillian, they still haven't actually given Jason any money. And Phil, well, he already told Jason he's out.”
Wang: US government has expanded leeway to deny incomplete applications
“The government now has far more leeway to both request more evidence from families who are applying for immigration, as well as deny applications that are incomplete or missing documents.”
Jindal: Four social events cover 80% to 90% of a man's weekly calendar
“What we've found Is that four social events cover 80 to 90% of an average man's calendar during a given week. Sunday, brunch. Thursday, happy hour. Friday, formal date. Saturday, a casual date. That's it.”
Isaacson: Dating app industry to reach $12B by end of next year
“In 2016, it was a three billion dollar industry. By the end of next year is expected to be a twelve billion dollar industry.”
Hudson: Every pet startup Precursor backed outperformed initial size expectations
“Everything we've done in pet has ended up being bigger than I thought going in.”
Galoi: US livestock herds face at least one epidemic every year
“We, the United States is one of the most advanced agricultural economies in the world. We still have at least one endemic or epidemic in, in the herd every year, and that grossly affects things to the GDP.”
Schmorak: Original Hostfully Product Has Zero Customer Churn
“Well, on the hostfully side, the churn is zero. The original hostfully, there are two companies, right? On the hostfully side, the churn is zero.”
Schmorak: Acquired Software Orbirental Experiences Roughly 30% Annual Churn
“It's probably 30% right now.”
Schmorak: Vacation rental software represents a $25B global market
“There are about a 100,000 of these companies in the world, and they spend about a quarter of a million dollars every year on software, so it's a twenty-five billion dollar market.”
Skisov: KickSense reduces karate tournament judges from five to one
“And for karate tournament organizers who want their tournaments to run smoothly and without tears, KickSense has automated competition scoring system that needs just one judge per ring instead of five that are needed today.”
Isaacson: Average dating app user uses three to four apps simultaneously
“You've got your average dating app user using three or four dating apps at a time. People are used to kind of having their main dating apps that they could swipe all day if they want to, and then dating apps that really cut to the chase in addition, kind of in…”
Skisov: 17,000 US karate dojos are interconnected through sensei lineage
“To a degree, the sport of karate is very hierarchical, meaning that every sensei traces its lineage to some other sensei who traces its lineage to some other sensei and so forth. So even though there is 17,000 dojos out there, they are all connected to each ot…”
Meng: Microsoft expects to recruit 100,000 people for user research
“Microsoft, they're expecting to bring in a 100,000 people over, you know, maybe not next year, but in a couple years down the line.”
Accomplice prices User Interviews' funding round at a $15M valuation
“An accomplice settled on a fifteen million dollar valuation for user interviews, which is smack dab in the middle of the range talked about on the show.”
Passett: Bloomberg terminals do not provide patent or product data
“So with the Bloomberg terminal, you can get financial data, but you're not necessarily going to get data about patents or the products”
Passett: Mapping one company's annual patents manually takes three weeks
“We talked to somebody at a major tech company a couple of weeks ago, and they were saying it takes them three weeks of one full-time person to map one company's patents for one year into industries. And then next year they have to redo the same thing. Three fu…”
Zahar: HBO spent two years trying and failing to build punch-tracking tech
“We know HBO worked for two years on a similar product, wasn't able to pull it off.”
Zahar: FightCamp brings in over $100K monthly subscription revenue
“So in subscription, we're making more than a 100,000 a month.”
Zahar: FightCamp generates over $300K per month in hardware sales
“And then in hardware, we make upward of 300,000.”
Samaritan's Seattle pilot helps 28 leave streets and generates $100K revenue
“We've launched a 500 beacon pilot in Seattle, and we've seen and helped over 28 beacon holders leave the street, saving our city half a million dollars per year and earning our first 100,000 dollars in licensing revenue.”
Samaritan active users receive $40-$50 monthly and show 30-40% program retention
“We see right now about 40 to 50 dollars per active beacon holder per month, which is so low, but what's amazing about that number is even with an amount as low as 40 to 50 dollars, we're seeing 30 to 40% of beacon holders keep their beacon and go through the p…”