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310: How To Bootstrap Your Way To Success With Stefan Pretty
310: How To Bootstrap Your Way To Success With Stefan Pretty
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43 minutes
Released:
Nov 24, 2017
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Podcast episode
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Today's episode is with Stefan Pretty. He is an internet tech entrepreneur from Scotland with specialities in strategy, online inbound marketing, product, business development, UI design, backend development and subscription ecommerce. He made his first website at 12 years old and continued to develop those skills and teach himself design and coding. While he attended University of Glasgow to study Civil Engineering, he had side projects including:Unleashed: Student Pub Crawls for local students.YoudGetIt.com: An anonymous dating website which gained 200,000 visits in less than 2 weeks without any marketing spend.SocialWhispers.com: Social referral marketing tool where users can swap Facebook and Twitter posts for free content.He left university to pursue Pretty Klicks (PK) full time, eventually moving to Edinburgh where he grew PK by 400% within 1 year. He now works on Subbly full time as the CEO. Subbly has been mentioned on Product Hunt, Entrepreneur.com, Wired.com, USA Today, NPR and more. We talk about:His background story as a Scotsman in the U.SBootstrapping - doing more with lessIdeas vs execution - ideas are cheap, execution is the key and expensive partThe perception of effort versus successHow to set up and run an amazing remote teamHow Subbly is revolutionizing the subscription businessThe realities of being a 20 something entrepreneurResources Mentioned In The EpisodeSubbly Website: http://www.subbly.co/Effort Vs. Success Blog: https://m.stefanpretty.com/the-perception-of-effort-vs-success-is-sickeningly-wrong-reality-check-time-9aaaf3bf83e5?source=linkShare-5bcc6c99e7d9-1509474134Guide To Starting A Subscription Business: http://www.subbly.co/blog/start-a-subscription-box-business/Personal Website: https://www.stefanpretty.com/
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Released:
Nov 24, 2017
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