Nathan speaks with Daniel Brusilovsky and Jason Stein, the co-founders of i-Moji.
Daniel Brusilovsky and Jason Stein are two of the cofounders at imoji, the largest sticker library in the world.
Time Stamped Show Notes:
01:08 – Nathan’s introduction
01:33 – Welcoming Daniel and Jason to the show
01:45 – Six founders of i-Moji
02:48 – Do what you’re passionate about
03:30 – Jason originally operated at Hotel Tonight
03:54 – How they’re making money?—They’re not
04:48 – Give users as fast and relevant experience no matter what
05:48 – A b2c product
06:05 – Left Shark example
07:01 – Proactively try to curate categories and put them in trending lists so people don’t have to search for them
07:36 – Where to experience i-moji
09:47 – The team is 7 people full time and they’ve raised $2M of seed in equity
10:27 – Advice on raising capital in the B2C space
11:01 – Understand how it becomes a massive business
12:35 – In the b2c space, you’ve got to have a following
13:08 – Impression goal is in the billions per month
13:75 – i-moji doesn’t track users
14:22 – Have a ROCK SOLID vision
15:56 – Jason@imojiapp.com
Famous 5
Favorite Book? – Delivering Happiness
What CEO do you follow?— Elon Musk
What is your favorite online tool?— Evernote
Do you get 8 hours of sleep?— No
If you could let your 20 year old self know one thing, what would it be?—Do what you love. Take Risk. Always trust your gut.
3 Key Points:
Life and success are rooted in passion—do what you love.
Have a ROCK SOLID vision if you want to your business to appeal to people, especially investors.
If you want to make it in the consumer space, you need massive following.
Resources Mentioned:
Edgar – Nathan uses Edgar instead of other scheduling tools for Twitter because Edgar cycles through content over and over (buffer/others you have to re-input content over and over – time consuming). In the last several months, Edgar has driven Nathan over 3728 clicks that he didn’t have to work or pay for.
Host Gator - Powerful web hosting made easy and affordable.
Evernote – The online tool Daniel and Jason can’t live without
Delivering Happiness – Daniel and Jason’s favorite business book
Elon Musk – The CEO Daniel and Jason closely follow
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