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Douglas Lim

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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
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8 months
Wow it’s been about a year since I’ve been off social media! Got back to a tonne of messages. Thank you everyone πŸ™ what’s been your highlight for the past year? Fill me in 😊
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2 years
If happiness was the national currency, what kind of work would make you rich?
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Douglas Lim
3 years
4. B2B - more forgiving with mistakes since they know what it’s like running a business πŸ™ Thoughts?πŸ‘‡ #business #startup #founders
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Douglas Lim
3 years
3. B2C - much harder to sell higher ticket products and services, compared to B2B.
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Douglas Lim
3 years
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 πŸ’°
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Douglas Lim
3 years
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 πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ
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Douglas Lim
3 years
The best startup to build by far is a B2B one πŸ‘¨πŸ½β€πŸ’» 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 B2B…why? Here's a thread πŸ‘‡
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Douglas Lim
3 years
Listening to @youyuxi talk about @vuejs in 2023. Thank you @vuejsnation #vuejsnation
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Douglas Lim
3 years
Now is one of the best times to build a #startup. 1. No code tools like Bubble to validate ideasπŸ’‘ 2. Take payment from customers using Stripe🧧 3. Sell with CRMs like HubSpot or Pipedrive πŸ™Œ 4. Build up an email list with Drip or Klaviyo πŸ“§ 5. Create a landing page with Webflow
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Douglas Lim
3 years
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 πŸ˜‚ Can't help it right πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ When you support other startups and become their customers and they send you swag, you gotta help them advertise πŸ™‚
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Douglas Lim
3 years
Developing a SaaS app is not all roses 🌹 and cherries πŸ’ 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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Douglas Lim
3 years
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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Douglas Lim
3 years
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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Douglas Lim
3 years
Just saw a TikTok video where junior software devs earn way more than the seed round for a bootstrapped startup
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Douglas Lim
3 years
So close to developing our Shopify app!
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Douglas Lim
3 years
Is it better to have one big monolithic app, or two separate frontend and backend?
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Douglas Lim
3 years
Developing an app as frontend and backend vs monolithic - thoughts?
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Douglas Lim
3 years
When life gives lemons, make lemonade...entrepreneur 101.
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Douglas Lim
3 years
Money doesn't always equal success when you're a bootstrapped entrepreneur. Persistence does!
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