SexTech Startup with Emilie Wiersma from Beyond Coding

SexTech Startup with Emilie Wiersma

52 minutes Posted Jan 4, 2023 at 3:00 pm.

Intro

Emilie has 3 mentors

Emilie's first business

Not working for a boss

Creating fantasies for people

Sex toys are unregulated

Etsy and censorship

Cheap materials

Onboarding sellers on Konfettie

Issues with products

How to set up a marketplace

Failing to deliver

Everything custom

People don't know what they want

Emilie was doing everything

Getting kicked off of social media

Sex toy collectors

Marketing that doesn't scale

Airbnb was funded with cereal boxes

Smut Slam

Finding a co-founder

Investment rounds

Different dynamics with a team

It's just a company

Listening to customer feedback

What is the end goal?

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Tailoring to a user group which hasn't traditionally been tailored much to, Emilie aims to create the biggest sex-positive marketplace in the world with Konfettie!

Like any other founder, she's had to overcome challenges, but not everyone deals with being slandered and banned from social media. The way she picks back up in the face of adversity is admirable and I'm really happy she's sharing her learnings along the way.

Enjoy! 🎙

Connect with Emilie Wiersma:

https://nl.linkedin.com/in/emiliewiersma

https://twitter.com/sextechsavvy

Full episode on YouTube ▶️

https://youtu.be/Pz3xe4Y10cA

New episodes every Wednesday with our host 🎙Patrick Akil!

Big shoutout to Xebia for making this episode possible!

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