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How We Combined Our Skills and Passions to Build a Business
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Théophile Villard
November 10, 2018
How We Combined Our Skills and Passions to Build a Business
What I love in this story is that it completely overturns the approach "validate first - implement after" what all the pillars of startup development bring.
If the guys would follow this approach, they would find very quickly that getting customers is a very hard task and probably would decide not to try.
Fortunately, they followed their own heart and it's why they succeeded :)
I never thought of that! Interesting :)
Great job guys and an interesting read. Shame about the market size being limited. I suggest testing Bing and other ad channels if you haven't already. Given it's a marketplace, do you use Stripe Connect?
Thanks Alex 🙌
We tried Bing but it almost brought no traffic at all... We'll try other search engines this year since there's a trend to move away from Google etc
Regarding your question we do use Strip connect yes!
Could you expand to kayaking, white water rafting, scuba diving, fishing, mountain biking, etc? You could look into any outdoor activities
We tried that for 9 other mountain activities, but couldn't find enough demand (getting supply side was easier though) — we might relaunch it later once we have a stronger brand. The app is still there hidden in the internets :D https://en.booctin.com/mountain
Nice work Théophile! Best of luck as you grow ;)
Thank you Chris!