Category Archives: Network Effect
How Amazon got its first users?
BrainiacUnicorn Warrior How Amazon got its first users? In 1994 Jeff Bezos came across statistics showing the web usage was growing at 2,300% a year. He didn’t just hop on the bandwagon. He took time to find a business plan that made sense in the context of that growthHe made a list of 20 different …
How Fiverr got its first users?
BrainiacUnicorn Warrior How Fiverr got its first users? Fiverr’s founder, Micha Kaufman, had a small but annoying task to do. He needed to copy a chart from MS Word to MS Excel. It was too small to make a contract with a freelancer but big enough to be time-consuming.The founder thought that there should be …
How Udemy got its first users?
BrainiacUnicorn Warrior How Udemy got its first users? Udemy started in 2007 as a software for a live virtual classroom. 3 years later Udemy was officialy launched. Udemy wasn’t too popular yet so there was courses on the platform. The founders decided to make their own one. Their course was called “Raising Capital for Startups.”Gagan …
How Etsy got its first users?
BrainiacUnicorn Warrior How Etsy got its first users? Rob Kalim had a woodworking talent. He crafted a PC encased in wood. There was no place for things like that. He thought he could create one. He called it Etsy because he wanted it to sound unique.It was supposed to be a marketplace for people like …
How LinkedIn got its first users?
BrainiacUnicorn Warrior How LinkedIn got its first users? LinkedIn started in late 2002 by Reid Hoffman, but the site was officially launched in 2003. He had been working at PayPal, and before that, he had Socialnet (online dating with interest-based search for people).Socialnet was a failure. LinkedIn was created because Hoffman thought about a place …
How UpWork got its first users?
Unicorn WarriorBrainiac How UpWork got its first users? In 2003, Odysseas Tsatalos and Stratis Karamanlakis, wanted to work together despite the distance between them (one in Greece, the other in the USA). They came up with oDesk.It was a platform that helped companies connect with potential contractors and workers. At first, it was a staffing …
How Snapchat got its first users?
BrainiacUnicorn Warrior How Snapchat got its first users? Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy had a vision to revolutionize the manner in which people communicated. They introduced an innovative app called Picaboo that promised sending disappearing messages – a concept that was novel at the time. Despite their efforts to generate buzz through outreach to journalists …
How OnlyFans got its first customers?
Unicorn WarriorBrainiac How OnlyFans got its first customers? OnlyFans is a website where people pay a subscription fee to get special content from their favorite celebrities and stars. The idea came from OnlyFans founder, Tim Stokely, who noticed people were looking for adult content on platforms like Reddit, Instagram, and Snapchat. But these performers were …
How Medium got its first customers?
Unicorn WarriorBrainiac How Medium got its first customers? When Evan Williams was founding Medium, there was no place where people could write longer posts. Previously, Evan had co-founded Twitter.He noticed the demand for longer writing as Twitter limited the length of posts to 140 characters. Medium was supposed to be something between Pinterest and Twitter. …
