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by vishalkgupta 11y ago
For sure! The monetization points are endless. There is an endless task list of things to do for a wedding. There are differences in every type of wedding, that allows for people to get really creative here. It's definitely a rabbit ho
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by vishalkgupta 11y ago
Hey Cherie78! Happy to hear a comment here. Or better yet, can you use this service?
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by vishalkgupta 11y ago
It's a point well taken. From what we've seen here (NYC), even at the strictest venues allow independant vendors needed for our initial silos (cakes, flowers, photos, invites, music). Things like catering etc may be part of the ve
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by vishalkgupta 11y ago
Thanks! Yea, I'm not married yet either.. but I kept seeing the same issues being struggled with by my friends. As I started to model out how much time and money I would need in the future (for my eventual wedding), I was hoping to fin
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by vishalkgupta 11y ago
Thanks for the questions. How do we know people want such a service? I'm at that age where everyone is getting married. (My two sisters, my best friends,etc). I started asking more and more questions as I got closer to my own wedding-
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by vishalkgupta 11y ago
Thanks man! Any notes would be helpful. Like any startup, we're just trying to figure this out as we go. Agree, this is definitely not a homejoy type of business. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on how you think we should
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by vishalkgupta 11y ago
Agree here, the only real innovation we've seen in this space came with web 1.0 (theknot.com, etc). The way we look at WedWell is not to find you the cheapest vendor, but to provide the vendor that will allow for the best experience. T
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by vishalkgupta 11y ago
Definitely agree w/ danieltillett, a post mortem of some sort could help a lot of startups in the C2B space. Although, I know how painful it can be. Thanks again for the help you've already given us.
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by vishalkgupta 11y ago
Wow.. Thanks for the insight here. I'll definitely take you up on some more advice as we get going. Like you, we're finding that largely vendors need to be reached out manually through phone calls. Our first phase is to focus in o
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by vishalkgupta 11y ago
Thanks! Similar to Airbnb and host availability, we think we can offer an up to date calendar of when a vendor is available as we scale. It's really surprising how little of this information (availability in this case) is locked away,
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by vishalkgupta 11y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful comments. We're experimenting with on-boarding. We're doing "Wedding Consultations"- phone calls and walk through a clients ideas for each vendor. And also a wedding brief, which is that long li
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by vishalkgupta 11y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful questions! Let me go through them 1 by 1. Wording: Contest/Prize vs Auction, we're evolving our copy as we go. The initial idea was that through the iteration process, the best (not necessarily the cheape
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by vishalkgupta 11y ago
Thanks!! We intend to have a vendor discovery page where you can invite vendors to bid on your wedding. Hard to plan beyond the phase 1, but we'll see how it evolves! Love for you to sign up for a free consultation or fill out our wedd
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by vishalkgupta 11y ago
http://WedWell.co
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Apply HN: WedWell - Vendors bid for your wedding
43 points by vishalkgupta 11y ago|48 comments
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by vishalkgupta 15y ago
Carol never clearly defined her strategy as CEO. It wasn't clear to her employees and it wasn't clear for investors. She may have had some big picture plan that would taken many years to achieve, but it didn't look that way. It was clear th
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by vishalkgupta 15y ago
They we're right to hold off on this IPO given the market volatility. Wall st (professional traders) loves to wait for the inevitable initial run up (by initial professional investors and retail clients), to sell it quickly after the initia