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Now displaying: December, 2015

The Marketplace is a weekly podcast posted every Sunday and hosted by Priest Willis, Sr. The podcast is created with you in mind and talks with a variety of industry leaders in business, education, music, sports, comedy, entrepreneurship and more!

Dec 19, 2015

Yaakov Karda co-founder of now closed startup, GetWear and current CEO of chat software, Chatra, discusses how he came to grips with closing his business Getwear and what he found along the way.

Yaakov graduated with a Fashion Marketing degree from a design school in Milan, made tried to make it easy for users to create a fun customized pair of luxury jeans…a tactic he learned from Dell and customizing computers.  He also read the book, “What Is Web 2.0,” by Tim O’Reilly and was hit by an idea of bringing the concept to the world of “real” objects through mass customization.  He quickly found out it didn’t work as initially planned and he blogged about it in the Smashing Magazine.

We Cover;

  • The genesis of Getwear
  • Not have the “engine” of growth for his business
  • Assumptions he made when launching his startup
  • How hard was it to walk away from failure.
  • His future with chatra.io and much more….
Dec 12, 2015

 

I had a fun and eye opening (or mind opening) discussion with Nir Eyal who blogged often about psychology and marketing which eventually brought him to the path of marrying the two and published a book called: Hooked – How to Build Habit-Forming Products. Hooked is a guide with a very insightful and simple thought system to building habit-forming products. If you’re a marketer, designer, entrepreneur and more, this is for you.

We discuss;

  • What started his interest around the psychology around products.
  • The ‘Habit Zone’ that’s outlined in his book and the four habits in the thought system.
  • The key elements to consider when creating a product.
  • And much more…
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