Hello all,
Thank you for your awesome forum.
Please help review my application for endorsement.
I’m applying as an Exceptional Promise.
What Pros & Cons does my application have?
Background:
I have a B.Sc. in Computer science and an M.Sc. in Entrepreneurship.
In the last 5 years, I worked as a product manager/growth hacker in 3 startups. One in the gaming marketplace, second in insurtech, and the third one in the c2c English learning platform.
In these startups, I manage both technical and marketing teams to first create the product and then make them grow.
We start from almost zero and now the gaming one has more than 40K customers, 60K active installations on the play store, and about 1K orders daily. We start with 3 people, and now we are 15.
In insurtech one, I joined in the middle of the journey, I changed the whole product, we implement API for insurances and customers now can directly buy 5 types of insurance from more than 27 insurance companies. For now, we are working on making claim process management online. Also, on the marketing side, we reach about 30K daily visitors and more than 400 leads per day. I managed PPC & email marketing programs and hire a new content creator team to focus on SEO.
Recommendation Letters:
1- Cofounder of the gaming marketplace startup
2- Owner of the insurtech company
3- CEO of the English learning platform
Mandatory Requirements:
1- You led the marketing or business development at a product-led digital technology company, demonstrably enabling substantial revenue and/or customer growth or major commercial success, as evidenced by reference letter(s) from leading industry expert(s) describing your work, senior global commercial executives inside the company and/or at company partners/customers, or similar evidence.
I can show all the growth data like Google Analytics, Google Ads campaigns (more than 100K$ under my management), growth in the number of customers from zero to 40K, Number of daily orders, etc.
2- You have received nationally or internationally recognized prizes or awards for excellence specifically in the digital technology sector, as evidenced by the award itself, reference letter(s) from leading industry expert(s) describing your achievement, or as evidenced by news clippings or similar evidence.
We placed 3rd rank on LG Global Challenger Awards, Our project was finding a solution to increase the number of successful startups in accelerator programs in my country, Iran. Our project was selected among more than 2K projects, and we had 15 days trip to the UK and visited accelerators like Founders Factory, O2 Wayra, Oxford innovation center, Google campus, etc. to find out how we could achieve our goal.
Optional Criteria:
1—How do I demonstrate that I have been recognized for my work outside my immediate occupation that contributed to the advancement of the sector?
I was teaching 4 different courses in MBA/DBA/Masters in university.
1- digital marketing management
2- introduction to python for data analysis
3- data-driven marketing
4- new product development
2- How do I demonstrate that I have made significant technical, commercial, or entrepreneurial contributions to the field as a founder, senior executive, board member, or employee of a product-led digital technology company?
Having led or played a key role in the growth of a product-led digital technology company, such as influencing investment and strategy or delivering major products or releases.
Documents detailing your significant contribution towards commercial success (such as evidence of sales pipeline built and delivered, growth generated, leads generated, processes developed and implemented).
The work I have done for the insurtech company, both on the tech side and marketing side.
Thank you,