How a developer became a profitable founder (with no business experience) – with Jay Gibb

▤ Summary

So we had that realization that we weren’t going to have enough runway to realize the original vision so we said, “Let’s just stick a price tag on this thing and see if people want to buy it.” And it was really obvious what the distribution channel was going to be at that point because now, it’s become kind of more of a B2B and we were in these communities already with all these developers who were having the same problem. But I want to be absolutely sure because I remember, one of my interview coaches looked at my transcript and said, “Oh, but why are you suddenly talking about this program?” and he didn’t realize that it was a sponsorship. All you’ve got to do is give us the ID of the field and we’ll handle everything else.” So when you’re a small team and you’re so close to all the customers or all the people who are coming in, it’s really obvious when you hit something that removes a major friction point, right. “We picked CloudSponge because of the features they offered, coupled with their robust SDK and support and have found service very reliable.” I don’t love that that one as much as this one from Kiva. I know I said goodbye, but we’ve been talking afterward and Jay started telling me some of the numbers that he pulled from back when he was sponsoring Mixergy and I thought I’m really proud of this, I want the audience to hear.

▦ Linked Companies

CloudSponge

up to $1M