#7 Tim Schmitz, COO of Jodel | Making It Real Podcast with Jan Brinckmann
Tim Schmitz is the COO of Jodel. Jodel is a very popular location-based communication app which enables its users to discover, follow and participate in the most relevant conversations with people nearby. Prior to creating Jodel, Tim studied at ESADE Business School. Tim Schmitz, COO of Jodel | Making It Real Podcast with Jan Brinckmann | Episode #7 00:00 Tim's personal story in the entrepreneurship domain 3:55 What gave you the confidence that Jodel could work? 6:00 MVPs in the consumer space and their KPIs 11:25 How your KPIs should develop 14:20 User acquisition for consumer apps 16:50 With how many people were you programming? 18:15 How long did it take you to launch the first version? 19:35 How did you launch it? 22:00 Were you strategic about which type of study, gender, university of Jodel's users? 24:17 Where does Jodel currently stand? 31:06 Validating Jodel with its users 32:30 What's next for Jodel? 34:06 Most exciting topic for Tim right now 36:30 Tim's advice for people thinking about making it real 39:15 Tim's advice for an entrepreneur's darker times Download the one-pager for curated top learnings of this episode → https://makingitreal.io/7