- Startups - Gino Zahnd, CEO & Co-Founder of Cozy
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Gino Zahnd
http://www.twitter.com/cozyco
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http://www.cozy.co
1:30:00 With us today is Gino with Cozy. Check it out at Cozy.co.
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5:30:00 How did we meet?
6:15:00 How did you get Kevin Rose & what was your pitch?
7:30:00 What is Cozy?
8:30:00 How did you come up with this idea?
9:30:00 What happened to your credit score when your landlord ran it 6 times?
10:00:00 What was the first problem you decided to go after in this market?
11:00:00 What research & process did you do?
11:30:00 How important is this step in starting a product?
15:00:00 Let's look at Cozy
16:15:00 They fill this out one time as an applicant?
19:00:00 What about subleasers?
19:45:00 How does this work for the renter?
21:00:00 How does Cozy collect the rent money? How do you bundle it?
22:00:00 Why did you decide to focus on application and payments? Why not just application?
23:45:00 Thanks to ShareFile for supporting the show!
26:00:00 How do you make money?
30:45:00 How do you know when you're ready to go from private beta, to raising money, to opening to the public?
32:30:00 What was something you ran into in beta that you couldn't predict?
33:45:00 How did you know you were ready to launch?
34:30:00 Have you thought disruptive ideas like paying rent on a weekly basis or getting a discount for paying early?
36:00:00 What about co-working spaces?
38:00:00 What about a many bedroom house and treating each room like a complex?
38:30:00 Who have you received funding from?
39:45:00 How did you wind up with Social Capital?
41:45:00 What was the experience landing me as an investor?
43:45:00 Did having known Angels on board make it easier to land Social Capital?
45:00:00 How do you manage your investors and keep them involved?
46:30:00 How was your launch last week?
48:30:00 How do renters join?
49:00:00 Where do you think you need to be a year from now to be considered successful?
49:45:00 What concerns you?
51:00:00 How do you make Cozy's mission meaningful for developers?
53:00:00 How did you come up with the name Cozy?
down time
57:15:00 How do you know it's time to scale versus new features on the base offering?
58:45:00 Tips on how to approach great investors?
1:04:00 How well with this work on mobile?
1:08:30 Follow Gino at @gino, thanks for being with us today.
1:08:45 Thanks to our friends at ShareFile & GoToMeeting
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