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DevSlopes' CEO grew his Udemy student base to over 100,000

Evan Leong · 785: He Makes $500k+ From Udemy Helping You Code · Sep 17, 2017 · at 7:58

Evan Leong, VP of Product at DevSlopes, discusses the coding education startup's early traction and distribution on marketplace platforms like Udemy.

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“At the time when we started, when we decided to start, it was, he had 40,000 students on, on Udemy, and now that's, I think, a little north of a hundred, Thousand.”

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Disclosure
DevSlopes is transitioning from course sales to a SaaS subscription model
“We've been around for around a year, year and a half, and we have been selling our courses online and through our platform, and then more recently, like in the past month, we just coded our subscription model so we're starting to convert over to SaaS.”
Evan Leong Sep 17, 2017 ▶ 2:58 785: He Makes $500k+ From Udemy Helping You Code
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DevSlopes gained roughly 130 subscriptions upon launching its SaaS tier
“We so we launched last month, and out the gate we garnered around a 130 subscriptions.”
Evan Leong Sep 17, 2017 ▶ 3:20 785: He Makes $500k+ From Udemy Helping You Code
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DevSlopes raised roughly $300,000 from musician Redfoo
“We raised a, an additional 300,000 roughly from, it's really funny, from Redfu from LMFAO.”
Evan Leong Sep 17, 2017 ▶ 5:19 785: He Makes $500k+ From Udemy Helping You Code
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Udemy favors promoting comprehensive 30- to 60-hour coding courses
“They like to promote like full on, you know, full blown, 30 to 60 hour courses that take you from like knowing absolutely nothing to like getting you up and running.”
Evan Leong Sep 17, 2017 ▶ 10:25 785: He Makes $500k+ From Udemy Helping You Code
Disclosure
Leong: Udemy generates 90% of DevSlopes' marketplace revenue
“Udemy takes, like, I would say right now, like, 90% of it. And then the other 10% is, like, scattered across the Skillshare.”
Evan Leong Sep 17, 2017 ▶ 10:58 785: He Makes $500k+ From Udemy Helping You Code
Disclosure
Mac App Store feature boosted daily downloads from 50 to 400
“Luckily we just got featured in the in the Mac app store. So that number kind of jumped. We're doing 50 downloads a day roughly. And then now that's around like anywhere from like two to 400.”
Evan Leong Sep 17, 2017 ▶ 13:42 785: He Makes $500k+ From Udemy Helping You Code
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