How a Startup Got Customers to Pay $6000 Each Before Launch – with Ruben Timmerman [063]

How a Startup Got Customers to Pay $6000 Each Before Launch

Ruben Timmerman is the founder and CEO of Springest, a comparison website that helps you find the right training program or course. Ruben launched the business as a side project in 2008. Today the site has a presence in 4 countries and helps you compare over 160,000 programs and courses. The company is based in the Netherlands.

Success Quote

• “CFO asks CEO: “What happens if we invest in developing our people & then they leave us?” CEO: ‘What happens if we don't, and they stay?”

Book Recommendation

• “Getting Teams Done” by Diederick Janse & Marco Bogers
• “Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World” by Brian J. Robertson – Amazon.com
• “Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant” by W.Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne – Amazon.com

Links, Resources & People Mentioned

• Springest – @Springest
• Holacracy
• Energized.org
• Asana
• Getting Thing Done (GTD)
• Zappos
• Medium
• Marco Bogers
• Productive transparency with GTD, Holacracy and Asana — a guide through my setup

Contact Information

• Ruben Timmerman – @rubzie
• Omer Khan – @omerkhan

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