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A note from Jake Hare, Founder & CEO
Build an MVP.
Launch and hope people like it.
If they don't? Oh well, that's 'the game'.
It doesn't have to be this way, and my team has been working for 6 years to increase the success rates of non-technical founders.
Non-technical founders have unique constraints.
1. No tech skills means you have to give up massive equity to technical cofounders you hardly know... or pay a fortune to hire someone.
2. Paying a fortune to hire someone to build your app usually means you need to raise funding.
3. Investors will tell you they won't fund you without having an app built with traction.
Do you see the 'chicken and egg' problem there?
Without an app, you can get funded. Without funding, you can't build your app.
As a non-technical founder myself, I see the value in people with deep industry knowledge and experience in things other than tech. Tech is one small component of building a startup.
This might be an unpopular opinion, but I'd take a non-technical founder who has a high emotional intelligence combined with industry knowledge, over a technical founder any way, all other things being equal.
That's where we come in.
Launchpeer has been designed from the ground up for non-technical founders who are ready to turn their idea into a market changing product.
We mix your knowledge, grit, and drive with our designers, developers, marketers, and funding experts to help you achieve your goals.
Building a startup the right way isn't cheap, and you'll need experts to help you along the way. We give you our expertise and put our money on the line for ambitious non-technical founders who join Launchpeer.
Starting a startup isn't free, especially if you do it the right way. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying. In the past at a minimum you'd have to pay for...
Most entrepreneurs have to dig deep into their pockets to come up with the money necessary to do all this.
On top of that, you'd have to become an expert in hiring people you've never hired before.
Before you know it, you've likely spent tens of thousands of your own money with little to show.
We're 'investor-operators', which means we co-invest with you. Your $7.5K investment mixed with our $20K investment pays for our team to help you with all the legal, accounting, and any other needs your startup has to get off the ground.
Because we co-invest with you, we're 100% tied to your success long term, as our $20K investment doesn't get recouped unless you are successful.
Gone are the days of using an MVP to get to market. Consumers today are spoiled, and investors with them, and they expect something great. Our team will work with you to design a beautiful brand and interactive Prototype that shows off your vision, wows your prospects, and impresses investors.
Back in 2010, building an MVP (minimum viable product) became very popular after startups like Facebook, Uber, and AirBNB became famous for using one to get traction.
The problem? 10 years is a lifetime in the technology space. Consumers today are spoiled; if your app isn't GREAT from the minute they start using it, they'll delete it and move on (something they weren't able to do 10 years ago because there weren't as many options).
We've seen non-technical founders spend tens of thousands and months of time building and iterating on an MVP only to see all that time go to waste.
Investors also won't fund a startup with an MVP if users won't use it (which they probably won't; remember, consumers are spoiled, and that means investors are too).
Our team will build you a Prototype. An interactive design that shows your product vision, the IDEAL vision, not terrible looking MVP, allows you to gather feedback from potential users before anyone writes code, but also lets you sell an investor on your vision prior to dropping tons of your own money on development.
You'll save tens of thousands on development. You can utilize your Prototype for the same purposes you would have used the MVP for, but Prototypes are much less costly to make (and our team does it for you as part of the initial $25K investment).
Also, our customers have a 22X higher success rate raising follow-on funding (next step) only using their Prototype versus trying to squeak by with an MVP.
Once we've helped you set up your company, design your brand, and design & build your interactive Prototype, you'll need funding for things like app development, sales, marketing, and operational expenses. Our funding experts will help you raise $100K+.
Raising funding is hard, and most founders aren't able to do it. In the past founders would rely on advice like...
This stuff doesn't work.
That's why only 3% of all startups raise funding, and the ones who do it takes them over 14 months to get it. By then most startups are already dead in the water.
At it's core, raising funding is just a sales and marketing process.
The only difference between it and selling a $9/month subscription or a $1K product is that you're trying to sell someone on giving you a $25K+ check. That's it.
BUT most entrepreneurs don't know how to do high ticket sales. Prospecting, targeting, cold email and LinkedIn outreach, touch points, what to say, how to say it, how to negotiate, how to structure an offer, etc.
That's what we do for the founders we work with. Once you start treating your funding like a sales and marketing issue, it all comes down to a numbers game.
Our founders are able to consistently book investor meetings utilizing the outbound sales and marketing techniques we teach and help them implement.
Then raising funding becomes a numbers game.
Need to raise $1M instead? Double how many investors we do outreach to and we got it.
Finally the time comes to build your app. Using part of the funding we helped you raise, our development team (who you would have already been working with through the last few steps) will get to work and ship your product to market.
Remember how I mentioned building an MVP is not the right approach? It's not.
Consumers today are spoiled, and expect something great, and because it's 2020 there are literally thousands of options for them to choose from if they don't like that you have to offer.
Does this mean you shouldn't build something 'minimum'? No. But it does mean that something just 'viable' won't cut it in 2020.
When was the last time you gave a founder feedback on their MVP? A total stranger, not someone you were friends with...
Exactly. It doesn't happen that way anymore. So the MVP you build will likely collect dust while you scramble to determine what you can do to save it from obscurity.
Building an MLP. A 'Minimum Lovable Product'.
Something that's still minimum & lean, but that your users will love. It has to look great, the branding needs to be on point, and it has to do what's advertised.
The nice part is that once we've helped you raise $100K+ in funding, building your MLP will be simple.
The average startup takes 14 months to get to market. Our goal is to get you there within 6 months from your first day with us
Only 3% of all startups raise funding, while our startups see a 58% success rate in terms of raising a full round.
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