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Migicovsky: Pebble sold around 1,500 watches before launching Kickstarter
“Most people don't know this, but when we launched our Kickstarter campaign, we had already made and sold around 1500 of our first watch.”
Migicovsky: Relativity Space's thesis was that 3D-printing eliminates integration testing costs
“Their thesis was it's not actually rocket assembly that costs a lot of money, it's the testing phase of integration, where if you have hundreds of different systems that have to work perfectly with each other, when you assemble and build the final rocket, you …”
Migicovsky: 9GAG bootstrapped early content by scraping memes from other sites
“A lot of the best user-generated content networks, like, Ninegag, which is now this, like, massive Meme, meme website was started by, like, scraping memes from other sites.”
Migicovsky: Autonomous trucking startup Embark began with a camera-rigged golf cart
“So, we've had companies that are now off building, like Embark, which builds, ah, self-driving trucks. Like, literally, they're running on the streets and the highways in Nevada. They started with a club car. I think, like, at demo day, they had a golf cart th…”
Migicovsky: WhatsApp first launched on the FlyerTalk travel forums in 2009
“You know where the WhatsApp guy posted his app first in back in 2009?
[2266] Adora Cheung: No.
[2266] Eric Migicovsky: He posted it on FlyerTalk.
[2268] Eric Migicovsky: Forums, which is, like, a whole bunch of, like, geeky business people who fly a lot.
[22…”
Migicovsky: Early scooter startups began by gluing modems onto Alibaba Xiaomi scooters
“A good example of this would be kind of the scooter companies. They took Xiaomi scooters, you know, nine-bought scooters, and they just glued on cell modems. That's it. That, that's how scooter sharing started. It's like cell modems in GPS plus scooter. They d…”
Migicovsky: Xiaomi managed inventory by only selling phones on Tuesday mornings
“Xiaomi, up until two or three years ago, sold their phones on Tuesday mornings. Like, they had a, once the, you couldn't go on the website and buy Xiaomi phones. You could only buy them, like, Tuesday mornings, and so it was like a thing. Everyone would be at …”