Building a mentorship platform to $1m GMV - Dominic Monn, MentorCruise

Dominic Monn is the founder of MentorCruise, a marketplace that connect mentors and mentees in Tech, which is currently doing $15k in monthly revenue and processed over $1m through the platform. Previously, Domm was a Machine Learning engineer at Doist, a job that he left in Feb '22 to pursue MentorCruise full time.

What we covered in this episode:

Why Dom left his full-time job at DoistHow going full-time has impacted MentorCruiseWhat Dom’s day-to-day looks likeNot feeling guilty about unproductive hobbiesHow Dom’s discovered mentorship through UdacityTaking 5 months to build an MVPWhy validation wouldn’t work for MentorCruiseHow it took 3 months to get his first paying customerWhy he decided to push through regardlessHow persistence pays offWhy building a business is like building a muscleHow programmatic SEO works

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