Just Go Grind #189: Sam Caucci, Founder & CEO of 1Huddle, a Competitive Game Platform for Onboarding and Upskilling Employees
Sam Caucci is the Founder & CEO of 1Huddle. He has a firm belief that everybody that works hard deserves access to a job that prepares them and skills them up for work.
His product is helping companies across the globe to make training more fun, effective and accessible for their entire workforce.
1Huddle is a workforce training platform that's getting people ready to work using quick-burst games. Leading the charge to help organizations, across the globe, better prepare their people for the workforce. Clients across multiple sectors including professional sports teams, politics/government, hospitality, retail, automotive, college/universities, and more.
Featured on CNN, Fox News, CNBC, SKY News, Yahoo! Finance, The Huffington Post, Bloomberg, and The Wall Street Journal.
Clients include: vineyard vines, Loews Hotels, ESPN, Audible (an Amazon Company), Novartis, UEFA, Madison Square Garden, the City of Newark, and more.
They are proud to be supported by some of the world's best VC's and investors, including 500 Startups and Tribeca Venture Partners.
Connect with Sam Caucci and 1Huddle
Some of the Topics Covered by Sam Caucci in this Episode
- What 1Huddle is and how it started
- The customer discovery phase of 1Huddle and why Sam started with professional sports teams
- How Sam went about getting the tech talent to build his platform and why he started with an offshore dev team
- The business model of 1Huddle and how Sam grew the company through bootstrapping initially
- What the initial version of 1Huddle looked like
- How Sam adapts the platform to each company that uses it
- Why Sam decided to go through the 500 Startups accelerator and what he learned from the experience
- Raising a seed round within 4 months of completing 500 Startups
- When Sam decided to bring the technical talent in-house
- Sam's experience as a solo founder
- Customer acquisition strategy
- The land and expand strategy Sam uses on the sales front
- Setting up a sales team for 1Huddle
- Building a hiring pipeline with local universities
- How Sam figured out his ideal customer profile
- The biggest challenges Sam is thinking about today
- How Sam invests in himself as a founder and why he's read 70 books in the last year
- Sam's book suggestions
- Understanding what your own personal mission statement and values are
Links from the Episode
- Monumental sports
- 500 Startups
- Y Combinator
- Techstars
- Goodmylk
- Crossing the Chasm
- Iman Abuzeid
- 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
- The Art of War
- Long Walk to Freedom
- His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
- Malcolm X
- Hardcore History
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