Category Archive For "Transparent Startup"
Sitting At The Foot Of The Mountain – The July Monthly Report
It has been a long, long, lllloooonnnnngggggg July! I have an absolutely AMAZING team working with me now, but amazing work takes time. We were behind on the release of the V2 of Task Pigeon, but it is finally here. In fact, by the time you read this it will have gone live and the …
Burning $7k A Month, Revenue Numbers & User Stats – June 2017 Report
It’s hard to believe another month has already passed since I released our May 2017 figures! After a tough couple of weeks though, where I have had to deal with switching development teams, Task Pigeon is well and truly back on track. In fact, today is the day I get my hands on the new …
Why I Opted Into Being A Solo Startup Founder
Opting to go it alone and be a solo startup founder is a hard, but not impossible, task. On the surface, everything seems to be going against you. Paul Graham from Y Combinator famously lists it as the Number One Mistake entrepreneurs make when deciding to launch a startup. And famed accelerators like 500 Startups …
Benefits of the SaaS Business Model – (Software-as-a-Service)
Adopting a Software-as-a-Service or SaaS Business model provides many benefits over traditional on-premise software installations. These benefits exist for both the software vendor, and customer, and will be the focus of this article. First, the definition of SaaS according to Gartner is: “Software that is owned, delivered, and managed remotely by one or more providers”. Furthermore, the …
Revenue, Traffic Numbers & Performance – May 2017
Last month I released our revenue, traffic figures and user statistics for the first time! We have now ticked over into another month, and therefore it’s time to do the same for May. If you read my recent post you would know it hasn’t all been smooth sailing. Building a startup is meant to be …
My Toughest Three Weeks As A Startup Founder – An Honest Account of Lessons Learnt
Choosing to be a startup founder is like deciding to ride a roller coaster without a seat belt. There are plenty of up’s and down’s, you have to be a little bit crazy and chances are you might just fall out. Over the last few weeks, I have certainly been on that roller-coaster. It’s been …
Setting A Short Term Goal For Task Pigeon
Time is the most precious commodity we all have. For Entrepreneurs and Startup Founders, whether you have raised money or not, the one thing we all have in common is that the time we spend on a project, is time we will never get back. Therefore it is important that you get the most out …
Task Pigeon Traffic, Stats & Revenue For April 2017
Six months ago I started a project to create a completely open and transparent startup. I was inspired by other SaaS based startups such as Buffer, Groove HQ and Baremetrics, and the concept of transparency also sat well with my belief in giving back to the startup community and helping others. Along the way I …
Five Lessons For The First Time You Pitch Your Startup
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to pitch my startup Task Pigeon, an online task management tool, at the Startup and Angels event at Haymarket HQ. If you didn’t catch it, the good news is that a 10 minute video of my presentation exists! While people pitching their startup is nothing new, I …
How A Two Year Old Blog Post Generated $1,000 in Revenue in 7 Days
In 2015 I wrote a blog post on a service I had used called “HeadTalker”. Little did I know that two years after hitting “publish” this post would lead to the first sales for Task Pigeon and over $1,000 in revenue being generated for us in seven days. Here’s how it all unfolded… I have …