why aren't all 12 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
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Assertion Supported
Miles: The average lifespan of an email is 17 seconds
“So the average lifespan of an email is 17 seconds.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Miles: Closem lifetime deal users generate revenue via in-app purchases
“They do pay us because we have other, other product, other products. In, in app purchases that they buy.”
Insight
Miles: AppSumo launch provided rapid feedback that accelerated product iteration
“It was a good launch strategy for us because it gave us a lot of really good, very quick, hard feedback about, hey, it ought to do this and it ought to do this and it ought to do this. That really helped us iterate and get to the state that we're in today.”
Disclosure
Closem relies on Zapier and third-party tools for most software integrations
“That's via Zapier.
Connect to Zapier.
Yeah, or Connectly, or ConnectZit, or Pavly. So there's a whole bunch of folks who have been building integrations for our product and, you know, you can hook it up to anything.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Miles: Many users switch to Closem from HubSpot over cost and complexity
“A lot of our users come to us from HubSpot because it's too complicated and too expensive.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Miles: Closem soft launch generated $25k to $30k in sales
“I think we generated about I don't know somewhere around 25, 30,000 dollars in sales.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Miles: Closem has over 1,200 customers
“Over 1200.”
Disclosure
Miles: Closem offered unlimited lifetime deals without tiered upsell caps
“We offered it as with unlimited and we didn't have this sort of like tier that was like, yeah, here's this really great lifetime deal, but it really kind of sucks and you got to pay us more money to get it.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Miles: Closem is growing 227% year-over-year
“So we're about 227% ahead of last year.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Miles: Closem costs customers an average of $99 per month
“It's a 99 bucks a month.”
Disclosure
Closem has stopped selling lifetime deals on AppSumo
“We're not on that platform. We don't do lifetime deals anymore.”
Disclosure
Closem operates with five staff and two full-time engineers
“We have four or five, five and a half people.
Neither my partner or I are technical.
We have two, two great developers.
yeah, those are full time.”