Our numbers are down and I am gutted about it
Irrespective of the good work our team has done, we have performed very poorly over the last several months. Let’s take a look at reality vs spin. Volunteer Acquisition We achieved our 1st-year target of adding 1,000 volunteers with 24 hours to spare. We achieved our 2nd-year target of adding 10,000 Volunteers 7 days after […]
October 1st CEO Rant – Plan for this month
Whilst we have an amazing team at SkilledUp Life and I appreciate everything they do (except Mithun and me, all others are Volunteers), I am really annoyed at myself for the slow progress we have achieved. If SkilledUp Life is a venture-backed tech startup, I would most likely be fired by now as the CEO, as I have not […]
Having to do the impossible
At the start of the 2nd year (1st Aug 2021), we set a target of achieving 10x growth on the supply side of SkilledUp Life. In the first 12 months, we achieved our target of signing up 1,000 Volunteers with 24 hours to go. To 10x in the next 12 months, we had to continually up […]
8,000 Volunteers ready to help build your tech startup
Life is becoming tense as each day in July goes by as we march towards achieving the end of year target of 11,000 total Volunteers by end of this month (July 2022) We just went past the 8,000th Volunteer mark a few hours ago and are now at 8,029. Remember, it took us 176 days […]
SkilledUp Life Progress Update at end of Week 98
Here’s a quick progress update of SkilledUp Life at the end of Week 98, i.e. end of 19th June 2022: Volunteers: 6,861 (behind by 239 – need 775 this week to stay on target to get to 11,000 by end of Jul) Customers: 22 (behind by 3 – need 10 this week to get to […]
4,000 Volunteers to build the next wave of tech startups
After Mithun spoke to Homero Gheorghe on Linkedin, he signed up to gain further Experience and Skills by volunteering through SkilledUp Life. In the process, he became our 4,000th Volunteer. Thank you. I want to thank everyone who has supported us since we went live on 1st August 2020 and take a moment to reflect […]
Time to acquire 1,000 Volunteers
We managed to half the time to acquire 1,000 Volunteers from 109 days to 52 days, all thanks to my awesome team. # Volunteers Days took to reach 1000 volunteers Date Reached 1000 363 30/07/2021 2000 109 16/11/2021 3000 52 07/01/2022 Time to acquire 1,000 Volunteers We almost beat the time to acquire 100 Volunteers […]
SkilledUp Life Weekly Report 63
I’ve been mucking about tonight and used the information from the Weekly Report I submitted to Pioneer to create a progress update. We went live on 1st Aug 2020. We are now 63 weeks old. This is our first public report. I’m hoping to continue to share the building of SkilledUp Life publicly as much […]
400+ Volunteers are ready to help you
404 Volunteers from all walks of life and discipline are now ready to help early-stage tech startups. In terms of where they come from (32 countries): UK 42 India 24 Sri Lanka 19 USA 18 Nigeria 15 In terms of specialty (21 categories): Technology 52 Data and Insights 51 Consultancy 33 Project Management 30 Business Development and Sales 27 Tags (265 tags): Python 23 Developer 14 Javascript 13 PHP 12 […]
300 Volunteers ready to help bootstrapped tech startups
Yesterday we reached the pivotal point when the 300th Volunteer signed up to gain new experiences and skills through us. We started our service on 1st August 2020 and since then achieved the following milestones: 19th Jan 2021 – It took 176 days to sign up the 100th volunteer 23rd Feb 2021 – It took […]