
Douglas Lim
@hellodouglim
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Founder of Memberply, a Shopify app that creates an Amazon Prime-style membership subscription program
Perth, Western Australia
Joined March 2009
Wow itβs been about a year since Iβve been off social media! Got back to a tonne of messages. Thank you everyone π whatβs been your highlight for the past year? Fill me in π
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If happiness was the national currency, what kind of work would make you rich?
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3. B2C - much harder to sell higher ticket products and services, compared to B2B.
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2. B2B - business owners are busy. They simply want the end result of your product or service. If you can do that they will pay for it π°
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1. B2C - customers complain about the smallest amounts of money. When we had our ecom brand, we had one customer send 3 emails to haggle over $2 π€¦ββοΈ
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The best startup to build by far is a B2B one π¨π½βπ» Having built both a Business to Consumer (B2C) brand with thousands of customers and a Business to Business (B2B) startup, I would now always pick B2Bβ¦why? Here's a thread π
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This is better content than any MBA or college degree π₯ Thank you @Zero2Exit
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In 2016, Mike Volpe (original CMO at Hubspot) was putting together an event in Boston called "Growth camp". It was all about how a new wave of SAAS founders were finding growth. I don't even think...
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Now is one of the best times to build a #startup. 1. No code tools like Bubble to validate ideasπ‘ 2. Take payment from customers using Stripeπ§§ 3. Sell with CRMs like HubSpot or Pipedrive π 4. Build up an email list with Drip or Klaviyo π§ 5. Create a landing page with Webflow
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My wife bought me a couple of awesome t-shirts for Christmas so that I could actually wear something without a startup logo on it π Can't help it right π€·ββοΈ When you support other startups and become their customers and they send you swag, you gotta help them advertise π
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Developing a SaaS app is not all roses πΉ and cherries π This week has been really tough for my co-founder and myself....in fact, something very unexpected happened. We were slammed with hackers trying to bombard our servers with DDOS attacks! Thankfully, we've got great se
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It ain't over 'till it's over: there's still plenty of time before BFCM arrives to make sure your ecom game is strong.
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If you're in ecom, it's not too late to gear up for BFCM and Christmas...you've still got time!
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Just saw a TikTok video where junior software devs earn way more than the seed round for a bootstrapped startup
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Is it better to have one big monolithic app, or two separate frontend and backend?
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Developing an app as frontend and backend vs monolithic - thoughts?
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Money doesn't always equal success when you're a bootstrapped entrepreneur. Persistence does!
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