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Hey guys, I'm Vladimir. I've made a long journey from being a designer to entrepreneur. A few years ago I co-founded Designmodo and built a few successful projects like Flat UI, Slides, Startup Framework with my partners.

I started to develop a course for designers that teaches how to build a digital product and sell it. I'd love to share all my experience on building a business with the people who had no past experience in entrepreneurship.

Here is the course program: • Setting business goals • Brainstorm business ideas • Defining target audience • Build a landing page to describe your product • Get first subscribers • Make Facebook Ads to generate traffic • Acquiring first customers • Find freelancers to build a product • Delegate tasks to freelancers • Build your digital product • Marketing hacks and tactics • Run automated email campaigns • Make an affiliate program • Find leads and scale a business

I just want to ask a few questions and clarify the course program and what kind of topics do you want to learn. • What are your fears when you think about an idea to start a business? • Any suggestions to the course program? What you'd like to learn?

Thanks in advance!

«There was a time when we left our jobs and decided to go for a venture. If you do a startup, you never know when you’ll get your first paycheck. We bootstrapped our living, counted money and felt ourself cheap. But we were craving for the good things, though.

I’ve started looking for a good free stuff, like concerts, exhibitions, hike, restaurant grand openings and other. Quickly I've realized that there is a lot of things are being given away by really nice brands, and there is a reason for that. My personal collection of these goodies and service referrals has been shared many times among friends.

The idea of giving your stuff for trial is way more powerful than any other type of advertising. Imagine all marketing $$ being spent on something valuable for everyone, like free foods, clothes, software, services, etc. This is the ideal picture of the future, though. But anyways, we decided to create FocFoc and start facilitating this idea.

FocFoc will leverage the power of free stuff given to people. We encourage all brands to reconsider their marketing budget towards freebie model.»

it's transparent ;)

haha )