Saro Gunaseelan

I left my full-time job as a Product Manager, to start my own trip planning market place. Built a team, grew the revenue stream (positive) and had to recently close it down for a few reasons. My thoughts are - if I had to do it again, I would probably have stayed on at my full-time job while at least getting a MVP out and getting some level of product - validation done. In retrospect, I did...

How is your company setup currently? I am afraid this is a broad question with several areas to be looked at -a) company setup /owners b) what kind of equity to be given to the contributors c) what is your revenue model and who is in charge of making the decision - CEO/CPO among other things. Based on what you are saying - if you have managed to get contributors then there are folks that are...

Have you checked if your customers blocked your initial email? It's very possible that they opened the 1st email, they didn't like the content and decided to put it in the spam folder or decided to unsubscribe? Additionally, measuring "open rate" is a vanity metric and doesn't tell you much. I suggest you look for click rates or measure incoming traffic to your website (from email links) via...