Justin Real, Founder - Realplay After COVID
Angel Invest Boston
English - May 04, 2022 05:30 - 48 minutes - 111 MB - ★★★★★ - 181 ratingsEntrepreneurship Business Careers angelinvesting boston founders angelinvestor bostonstartups business earlystagecompanies seedcapital seedfunding Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Founder Justin Real tells us how Realplay Sports survived the COVID pause and set itself up to serve booming customer demand in 2022 and 2023. In the 2-year hiatus, Realplay expanded the type customers it can address and brought in partners to enrich its product offering. An inspiring chat with a compelling founder.
Sponsored by Purdue University entrepreneuship and Peter Fasse, patent attorney at Fish & Richardson.
Highlights:
Sal Daher Welcomes Back Justin Real, Founder of Portfolio Company Realplay Sports Justin Real Diplomatically Notices That There’s a Lot Less Sal “...Realplay is a technology company with a goal of solving a problem for the amateur sports ecosystem.” Realplay Serves Mainly the 14 to 18-year-old Players Being Recruited. Younger Players Who Aspire to Be Recruited Also Forms a Significant Clientele “When they're watching the kid playing in the tournament venue, they can just enjoy the game instead of being there with the camera, taking a video...” The Impact of the Angel Invest Boston Podcast in Connecting Justin Real and Launchpad Erik Bullen Was an Early Believer in Realplay Sports 2020 Was Supposed to Be a Big Growth Year for Realplay, Then COVID Hit The Big March 13th Event in Arizona that Never Happened Potential Partners Began to Reach Out During COVID to Explore Collaborations Connections Made During COVID Led to a Much Richer and Diverse Product Offering that Made Realplay More Compelling to Users How Realplay Stayed Alive in 2020 Rapsodo Now Provides Pitch and Ball Tracking on Realplay In 2021, Realplay Still Managed to Grow Despite All the Uncertainties Realplay Expects 2022 to Set a Record for Growth in Revenues Jason Real Makes the Point that Zoom Lowers the Cost of Taking a Meeting with Someone and thus Makes People More Willing to Take Meetings Realplay’s Current Challenge Is Stepping Up to the Expected Tripling of Business in 2023 Peter Thiel’s Advice on Follow-On Investments Parting Thoughts from Justin Real, Founder of Realplay Sports: Gratitude + Watch Out for That CurveballTopics: product, raising money, partnerships with strategics, COVID