5/10/22 - Twos Guys + Jordan Walker
by Joe · 47 things on Twos
- Jordan Walker (YAC) questions
- I like his Twitter bio
- ✓ How were you able to get in touch with the investors that ultimately funded your round? What did the step by step process look like?
- ✓ What is y’all’s marketing/scalability strategy? Would you say you are a B2C company?
- “Give up meetings”
- ✓ Do you expect to stay in Florida for your remaining fundraising rounds?
- Do you have any ideas/suggestions about how we can make our fundraising initiatives as efficient as possible?
- ✓ I saw you ask the question about where people take notes on Twitter 5/2/22 - did anything come from it?
- Asynch work is an interesting market
- How do you all experiment with product market fit when your company can serve so many people?
- You gave a talk about how to raise funds out of a major tech city
- I saw you have a tweet that says YAC > Slack yet they participated in your round
- Sorry we missed you in Miami
- Is YacX y’all’s business enterprise platform?
- Did you go to the Miami GP?
- What was the most impactful thing you learned as an entrepreneur early on?
- Where did y'all start for gaining traction?
- What has been most helpful for gaining traction?
- B2B or B2C? B2B
- B2B is what helped them get their first traction
- Everyone likes to reduce cost and save money through technology
- They used the money they were saving people for their sales
- How does this tool integrate into their business immediately?
- Sell the benefits not the features
- What the customers tell you is what you should learn into
- Don't worry about the micro, move fast as possible until you figure out what is working
- Yac x works with Notion and Google Docs, one click export
- Build shit that goes viral and bring people back to Yac (first phase of the funnel)
- Where does the audience live that you are trying to attract? ProductHunt, Twitter. Where do those people that have our problem live?
- TikTok for brand visibility
- Search zoom fatigue and go hard in the paint in DM, memes, posting user testimonials
- Very small pre-seed $275k, seed $1.5M, and series A $7.5M
- Future of work
- Make a list of investors who invest in software for future of work. List of 50 investors. Didn't work as well
- Give their story and provide the deck after
- Deal isn't done until the money is in the bank
- Started dming investors on Twitter about stuff that they are interested in. Become their friend first. That worked well
- Focused on growth
- Florida investors are less about risk
- Business plan makes no sense at a seed stage - but they still ask for it
- Notion is too much and it documents things too cleanly and that the page needs to be set up a certain way
- Reach back out for Product Hunt advice
- ✓ Send paragraph
- Get loud on your personal accounts
- Respond and follow people that are saying that Notion sucks
- Archive, close meeting, and move summary to Notion
- Yac x used to be called not zoom