DAILY VIDEO BLOG
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Day Fourty Five
Long overdue update about our recent sales efforts and showing off the final packaging.
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Day Fourty
We sent out our application to Y Combinator as part of the Startup School Sprint.
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Day Twenty Eight
I visited a gym yesterday and the owner asked if our liquid chalk was easy to clean. Time for another kitchen experiment!
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Day Twenty Seven
Me hitting myself over the head asking what I got myself into. This week is going to be super busy!
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Day Twenty Six
Our marketing slowly seems to start to work. First time we visited a gym and saw some of our own stickers on the wall. Yay!
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Day Twenty Five
We received some more liquid chalk from the manufacturer, this time looks like it has the correct viscosity.
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Day Twenty Four
In this session I show you the hard truth about building a product like this: sometimes you fuck up in a major way. Turns out that we made a big mistake in one of our early batches. When I first received that batch I had a bad gut feeling about it and immediately did a viscosity adjustment. A couple weeks later, I can
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Day Twenty Three
Yesterday I got in touch with a bunch of climbers and retailers, one good photo opportunity and a much-needed correction to our pricing structure came out of it. Also received confirmation that our first batch of packaging is on track to be delivered on September 14, putting us on track for a September 20 launch.
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Day Twenty Two
There's been a bit of a hiatus in terms of video updates. Was on a trip / vacation but work on CHALK REBELS continued, albeit a little more slowly. Samples of all of our products are completely ready now and we're handing out goodie bags with samples like candy.
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Day Thirteen
Today we're going to show how our Repair Balm sample prototypes are made.
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