Episodes
Monday Jun 14, 2021
Dashboards, coaches, and more experiments
Monday Jun 14, 2021
Monday Jun 14, 2021
An update on an upcoming dashboard launch and an experiment with a career coach network.
Wednesday May 26, 2021
We're back! December - May Update
Wednesday May 26, 2021
Wednesday May 26, 2021
Update on progress of Riveter (riveterworks.com) since our last episode in December 2020.
Thursday Dec 10, 2020
Ads might not be scalable enough. So what next?
Thursday Dec 10, 2020
Thursday Dec 10, 2020
An update from the past two months from the founder of riveterworks.com.
Growth is steady but not crazy, we might have had the wrong revenue stream even though it worked a little, and we didn't get into Y Combinator.
Monday Oct 12, 2020
Ads are working, growth is steady...what do we do next?
Monday Oct 12, 2020
Monday Oct 12, 2020
We (the founders of Riveter) talk about how advertising is going, how we are working on growth and engagement, and a product dilemma.
Wednesday Sep 16, 2020
Thursday Sep 10, 2020
The hard thing about hard things
Thursday Sep 10, 2020
Thursday Sep 10, 2020
We (the founders of riveterworks.com) talk about a brutal week. Had to let an employee go, uncertainty about the business. Every startup goes through it, I suppose. But it's not easy.
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Is this what they call traction?
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
We (the founders of riveterworks.com) talk about some traction we've had going Direct to Consumer (averaging 13% Week over Week growth!) and what challenges remain.
Saturday Sep 05, 2020
Our business model didn't work. Again.
Saturday Sep 05, 2020
Saturday Sep 05, 2020
I share how we (the founders of riveterworks.com) tried selling to outplacement companies as a complimentary product, why we thought it was a good idea, why it didn't work, and what we're doing about it.
Monday Jul 13, 2020
A user interview. Except that user is a NYT reporter.
Monday Jul 13, 2020
Monday Jul 13, 2020
Holly Epstein Ojalvo is a long time media leader, writing and editing for places like USA Today, Quartz, and the New York Times.
Unfortunately, she was let go in May, making Holly one of Riveter's potential users. She became an even better user to interview when she wrote her popular NYT Article, How To Manage the Emotional Impact of Getting Laid Off.
Enjoy this as a user interview, a pleasant conversation, or a set of advice about how to thrive in unemployment.
@heoj
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hollyepsteinojalvo/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/smarter-living/coronavirus-laid-off-career-advice.html
Thursday Jul 09, 2020
An interview with our first customer
Thursday Jul 09, 2020
Thursday Jul 09, 2020
You never know where your first customers come from. But when they find you, you hold on tight and take good care of them.
One of Riveter's early customers was True Talent Group, the Minneapolis - based recruiting firm. Enjoy this interview with True Talent Group CEO and Founder, Stacey Stratton.