100% ceo ego driving poor, unsophisticated, and non strategic decisions. This could have been handled so much better. Evidence that he is not the right leader to be ceo
RevZilla is a 5 year old technology driven retailer of motorcycle gear and accessories changing the way business is done in the 1.5bn Powersports parts, accessories & apparel market.
Yep, the hope is that our firm does not have to spend lots of time spinning their wheels getting up to speed on this just to give us some basic advice, but I fear they will need that.
If there was a firm specifically geared to dealing with IP patent trolling that would be ideal.
I love your idea, this is a personal pain point I have been trying to solve. I am a busy successful startup founder who eats crap takeout food constantly but would pay a premium for a quality personal chef service that could be easily managed and customized. I have worked with several chef services in the past but the lack of web based system to manage it made it too cumbersome.
Please continue forward and make this successful so I can be a customer.
I was rejected by YC once as well (round one in 05!). But moved forward and we have 'made it'.
Feel free to drop me a line if you want to chat as your idea is something I have spent some time thinking about (and I have some personal chef connections in Philadelphia who might be willing to pilot it!). Check my profile for contact info
$994,795 seems like a pitifully small number on the scale of Goldman Sachs & government donations - but I would think this is a drop in the bucket. I don't buy that ~1MM buys the administration. Wouldn't it be more likely this amount was donated simply by Goldman employees acting independently? If the amount was $100MM then yeah, I think you have a case for the conspiracy theory.
It is also tough for me to believe that $80,000 buys the chief of staff.
We are currently looking for a talented developer with Ruby / Rails experience to help with the roll-out of eCommerce related functionality for RevZilla.com
RevZilla.com is 4 years old. It was bootstrapped and profitable with 90 days. Founded by software developers, we lead with technology & customer experience. We strive to be the Zappos of the powersports (26 bn) market.
We post when we have relevant content, which typically is a mix of new products / sales (we are eCommerce) as well as 'interesting' on topic content (funny videos, blog posts, etc from across the web). We also run contents like 'caption this picture' which are very popular
We see a good amount of likes and comments back and forth amongst the customer base, and as mentioned before it drives traffic to our website as well and keeps our 'brand' top of mind.
If you are b2c you should definitely take a close look at facebook as a part of your marketing strategy. No, not for your friends / family but so you can pay for targeted facebooks ads to show to your potential customers to get them to like your page.
My startup now has over 35,000 'likes' on our facebook page, all in our target demo / market. This is huge. We now have a captive audience we can market to. I would put this just as high as building an email list and consistently marketing to that list.
YES it drives revenue, and more importantly awareness.
At $5 per fax I believe they have priced themselves out.
Not sure what this service buys me, typically the only time i have to send a fax is because I am sending a form that requires a signature and the company prefers to receive a fax. So regardless I have to either scan the document then upload it for faxfresh to send or I can just simply scan+fax in one step. Is this supposed to be for people that do not have a fax machine (or a printer that can print+fax)?
I'm looking at the blog (in chrome) and definitely am not seeing a link to the homepage. I came to the comment section to make the same suggestion jasonkester already made (I manually went to www.wakemates.com to find out what the heck it was)