Hi friend,
You'll probably not be surprised to hear that September has been practically all about one key thing: The crowdraise, and getting as many people to shout about Tutti as much as possible.
- The raise: https://www.seedrs.com/tutti-space
- I'm quite proud of the video we made on a very tight deadline
- We hit almost all the deadlines outlined last email except the public live (more details on that later)
- We hosted an awesome, albeit premature, crowdraise launch party in one of our spectacular venues
- Well timed PR:
- Recognition we've received:
- Chosen to join Founder Institutes' Select Portfolio - an honour reserved for the top 3% of all FI graduates https://fi.co/50-EMEA
- Podcasts I've been featured on:
- Gigging out:
- Inquisitive Pig:
- BizTalk:
- Product
- Traffic is growing now that we're pushing more and more high quality category pages aimed to capture actionable search intent
- Pushed our next major partner feature properly: CRM for creators, plus a number of marketplace bug fixes and tweaks
- Next: Building our first premium feature: an intelligent phone system
- Finally, I've been utterly blown away by the number of amazing founders, friends, investors, and colleagues who have shouted about Tutti (too many to list here), across LinkedIn, Facebook, Newsletters, and more. Thank you!!!
Photos from our premature crowdraise launch party at Gatsby's mansion by Venetia Jollands
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- I promise this is the last month it'll be so repetitive: please continue to shout about how awesome Tutti is, so that anyone who might be interested in our crowdraise might see. If you can think of a specific 1 or 2 people who'd be keen, please share the link with them directly. Link: https://www.seedrs.com/tutti-space
Follow ups to what we mentioned last time (lows and highs):
- Our pitches last month seemed to follow a trend - well received by the general audience, not of interest to the panel of judges. The pitches were somewhat targeted at the general audience because of the crowdraise, but it'd be good if the messages also landed with judges (I know this is highly subjective: lots are simply not interested in the creative industries, but it'd be good to be turning heads, regardless of the vertical). Clearly I need some practice in getting those messages to land. Post crowdraise, if you're excellent at getting pitch judges to notice you, I would love some tips.
- We experienced this result across Entrepreneurs Collective and the Pitch this month, and consistently at previous pitches.
- We didn't get accepted into the CultTech accelerator, because they have a specific theme for this batch which we didn't fit. They said they loved what we're building and want us for the next batch.
- Crowdraise is now around £200k (ish) thanks to some small tickets from friends and customers in private live
- 1 host has invested £1k to buy a lifetime subscription to our upcoming software - working to get more of these.