Adam Stone, founder of Start Adam and Speedlancer, explains his strategy for merging communication SaaS with on-demand freelance services.
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“Although we're building a SAS now, our long-term vision is that we reintegrate services into it.”
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Stone: Speedlancer is first freelance marketplace to integrate into Trello
“Speedlancer already plugs into Trello now using StartAtom. And so you can set up a Trello board and send tasks to Speedlancer from Trello. And we're the first marketplace to do that.”
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“Right now, we're in the ramping down stage. So I think it's going to look like this for Speedlancer, like an arc where Speedlancer will come back once we own the distribution channel, because I don't really want to be paying for acquisition right now in such a…”
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Stone: Trello App Store randomizes listings in communication category
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Adam Stone: Speedlancer was likely the first verticalized freelance marketplace after Fiverr
“And in 2015, there was no verticalized freelancing marketplaces. We were probably the first one after Fiverr, I guess, if you count them as verticalized.”
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Disclosure
Adam Stone is winding down Speedlancer to focus on Start Adam SaaS
“It's operating, but to be honest, we're winding it down as we're focusing on the SAS.”
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