I hustle and #getthingsdone at Instaply

with Instaply since May 2013

#MyStartupStory

It all started ... like this:

Numerous projects I led now behind me, I needed to find a “real job”.

My criteria:

Awesome Team Product I want to tell

everyone about

Hey, did you know that Instaply is hiring?

...and then I met this amazing guy...

Fabien Degaugue, Instaply Founder and CEO

......who made me realize how much we’ve progressed in building tools for faster, more

efficient personal communications

...and just how archaic our solutions for business

communications are today...

I most often don’t feel like talking on the phone, too.

On average 2.5 days to get a

response to an email!?

Business Texting!

Say What?

He had a perfect solution:

Remember this? Product I want to tell everyone about

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Then asked me to fill out the thinking style test to see how I fit into the team.

Can this get any more perfect? This guy actually cares about that!?

Awesome Team

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That guaranteed:

Wait, was I just hired as the only non-technical person on the team!?

Now let’s get to work!

Get out of the building!

Let’s build the first community of business texting professionals

Let’s get feedback

Iterate Get some coffee Test again

We are ready!!

Let’s Launch!

Party? I’m in!

This epic event was...well, epic! Blue,

blue, happy blue. Blue drinks (lots of

them) and about 300 people in (mostly)

blue attires.

Can you tell I love making sure those little details are in

place?

And so we launched, and had 250 businesses and their employees register in the USA in under a month, and over 2000 messages exchanged.

How about our countries!??

On 08.28.13. @ 00:00, France and Belgium were launched

...and my inbox looked like this when I woke up

Hey, how about Croatia?? We have to talk about that!

Get out of the building Get Feedback Iterate

During this past month, we continued the process...

And still didn’t hire a designer, but made ourselves a little bit prettier.

Twitter? Watch out, this little bird holds no secrets.

LinkedIn? Don’t talk to me, I’m here to look good!

We understood even better why we are unique

And as I am writing this...

We are putting final touches to our updated apps(And Michael totally caught me...)

The better you hustle, the faster you learn.

I hope this little story inspired you in one way or another. Find me on Instaply if you’d like to get in

touch!Cheers to making progress!

Martina Culjak