In this episode, we learn about starting a company as a university student and how it can be one of the best ways to supplement your education. We also dig into how Amir was able to grow from 0 to 100k users within a few months and very little budgets. Finally, we look at social media platforms and how they have changed and will continue to change over the next few years.
Key Learnings and Topics:
- How did Amir come up with the idea of Timeweave (a scheduling application for university students that has over 100k users)
- Advice for student entrepreneurs who would like to start a company
- The reason why starting a company in university can actually just be an amazing way to improve your skillsets as opposed to actually making riches
- How university impacted our learning and growth both personally and academically. Did it help us in the workforce?
- Balancing user growth over revenue. Should you focus on growing your user base rapidly or create a sustainable revenue source?
- How did Timeweave actually grow from 0 to 100k users in such a quick timespan?
- Selling products or services using untraditional content marketing. How to create ads that are disguised and don’t come off as selling something to people.
- The saturation of Facebook ads/posts and how to stand out from the crowds.
- Our prediction of what is happening with Facebook and other social media platforms and how to make sure as business owners or marketers we can ensure we stay in the limelight.
- How to resolve conflicts with your team and ensure that you can make arguments into constructive growth periods.
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