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69: Design Agency, Business of Swag, and Bootstrapping | John Howard , Founder of Slingshot
Manage episode 356924919 series 3255747
John Howard is the founder of Slingshot. Slingshot is a swag company that leads to more sales calls, and more shout-outs on social media.
We discuss how John sold his design agency, built Slingshot, how it evolved over the years, executing Adobe's viral Twitter campaign, bootstrapping, and much more.
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OUTLINE
(0:00) How John sold his design agency
(9:00) How to hack the Dribbble algorithm
(15:15) What happened after John left the agency
(17:04) Built Slingshot
(23:28) Evolution
(26:33) Adobe's viral Twitter campaign
(35:22) Growth rate of Slingshot
(44:07) Most popular swag
(51:12) John’s sales experience
(01:08:28) Bootstrapping
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
97 afleveringen
Manage episode 356924919 series 3255747
John Howard is the founder of Slingshot. Slingshot is a swag company that leads to more sales calls, and more shout-outs on social media.
We discuss how John sold his design agency, built Slingshot, how it evolved over the years, executing Adobe's viral Twitter campaign, bootstrapping, and much more.
SPONSORS
BridgeUp: DM Prashant on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital
Listnr.fm: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/
OUTLINE
(0:00) How John sold his design agency
(9:00) How to hack the Dribbble algorithm
(15:15) What happened after John left the agency
(17:04) Built Slingshot
(23:28) Evolution
(26:33) Adobe's viral Twitter campaign
(35:22) Growth rate of Slingshot
(44:07) Most popular swag
(51:12) John’s sales experience
(01:08:28) Bootstrapping
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
97 afleveringen
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