If sex sells, why is it so difficult to make money? Well today we are going to find out! I speak to Shakun Sethi  founder of Tickle.life - The world's first community based discovery platform for sexual wellbeing and sexuality.She talks about her desire to build this. She goes in depth about building not one but two MVP and spending a year visiting over 100 sex toy shops for research. She talks about getting user feedback, using the sprint model. What metrics they use and the design issues faced. She talks about what really matters when building a community from scratch. She talks about the Indian market. And finally she talks about how to improve your EQ.

In this episode we talk about:

• What are the users needs
• getting 5k people to download the app with marketing.
• Indian customers being ready but still having reservations
• What she learned from her first startup
• Having a therapist
• why she gets DM's but no RT's! 
• Failure is ok!
• Building a discovery platform not a social network
• Her leadership style
• Idea V Execution
• What she googled before telling her parents!

Links

https://www.tickle.life/

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