If you haven’t heard, Referly is switching gears to avoid becoming a “Zombie Startup”, and we’ve already posted a high level summary of our metrics on the front page of our site. This post is part of my ongoing retrospective, which is helping me get some closure while we incubate Continue Reading
Full length music video COMING SOON! Gangnam Startup Style Teaser from Fawaz Al-Matrouk on Vimeo. View more pictures and video stills here Huge thank you to so many people for helping us make this drunken post Demo Day idea into a reality! From a couple beers and a night of Continue Reading
One of things that excites me most about building Referly is that I am able to take figuring out the best method for acquiring customers to a whole new scale. Â Instead of working as the head of marketing for a single company, I can now literally participate in the customer Continue Reading
I obsess over my startup’s metrics. I constantly have Google Analytics realtime running in my browser to monitor traffic on Referly, and throughout the day I check it to see how many people are concurrently visiting our website (scroll to bottom to watch video on how to use this tool). Continue Reading
When you launch a company suddenly everyone is a competitor, or so it feels. Then you realize everyone you thought was a competitor might also be a partner at best, and a distraction at worst. Next you realize your idea is changing so rapidly, fueled by customer feedback and sleepless Continue Reading
Its been two weeks since we launched Referly to the world, and I’m proud to report that I’ve earned $34.91 using the service to share products I own and love. I’ve tried to act like a (somewhat) normal person with Referly and only share things I’m proud to vouch for, Continue Reading
I love saying yes. I love helping people, and being generous with my time whenever I can. I love being a mentor. I love the brain dump, having my brain picked and picking others, coffee, chats, happy hour, walks around SOMA, lunch, drinks, late night drives and all the other Continue Reading
On Monday we launched Referly, and announced we will be participating in YCombinator this summer. While this is only my second full-time week as a founder, I thought it would be fun to rummage around in my email and Github to grab a timeline of how Referly went from idea Continue Reading