Category Archive For "Transparent Startup"
Up And To The Right – April 2018 Was A Cracker!
April was a fantastic month for Task Pigeon. In addition to the figures that I will detail below there are so many exciting things happening behind the scenes at the moment I can’t help but feel more excited than ever about the potential for Task Pigeon. But that is for another post. Today, I am …
New Sign Ups Increase Almost 200% In A Month
April has been a big month for Task Pigeon. And it’s not even finished yet! Our content marketing is starting to fire with a number of posts ranking well and bringing thousands of people to our site without any addition advertising or promotion. Not only that, and perhaps more importantly, we have hit on a …
Time Fly’s When You Are Having Fun – The February & March 2018 Monthly Reports
It’s crazy how fast time goes by. I can’t believe we are sitting in April 2018 already! For those who keep track of Task Pigeon, you know that I like to prepare a monthly report and share my traffic numbers, revenue, expenditure, etc. February came and went though, then so too March, and before I …
Looking At The Root Cause – The January 2018 Monthly Report
So it’s 2018 and Task Pigeon is coming up on one year since launch. In this monthly report I take some extra time to dissect the results and share more in-depth thoughts on where everything is currently at. Task Pigeon Website Traffic January 2018 No sugar coating this one. Website traffic took a big hit …
I Didn’t “Choose” To Be A Startup Founder – Are Entrepreneurs Born or Made
I didn’t “choose” to be a startup founder or entrepreneur. It is something I have always had (and wanted) to do. It may be hard for people who aren’t entrepreneurially inclined to understand but I have always known that being an entrepreneur was something within me. It wasn’t something I was taught. It wasn’t something …
Startup Founders Are Often Blind To What Competition Really Is
All startups face competition, but not all startup founders want to admit it. I’m not 100% sure why but lots of startup founders have a “funny” point of view when it comes to competition. They don’t believe it exists anywhere near to the extent that it actually does. I have been starting businesses for over …
Cutting Burn & Saying Goodbye To 2017 – The December Monthly Report
And 2017 comes to an end. It’s crazy how fast a year can go and despite the ups and downs I look back on 2017 with some good memories. Coming into 2017 I had never built or launched a software focused company or application. And despite all the nay-sayers who say non-tech people have no …
Our Top 10 Articles on 2017
Wow, it’s crazy how fast time flies. I can hardly believe that it is almost the end of another year already! The end of 2017 also brings to a close the first year of Task Pigeons existence, as well as more than a year of blogging on my part. To celebrate I have pulled together …
How I Think About Monthly Burn As A Startup Founder
In the past few weeks I have had more than one interesting conversation about the level of burn (or net cash outflow) I am experiencing at Task Pigeon on a monthly basis. None of these conversations have come with a malicious intent, or a desire to “put me down”. More so, they come from an …
The Fear of Failure & Our November 2017 Monthly Report
It’s crazy to think that 2017 is coming to an end! What a year! At Task Pigeon we managed to launch our Beta, got featured on Product Hunt (first page all day), secure our first paying customers and started generating recurring revenue. But it hasn’t all been easy! I have faced fears, struggled with some …