Julie Novack is the CEO and a Co-Founder of PartySlate, a startup building a two-sided platform that allows event professionals to share their work and party hosts to gain inspiration from it.
PartySlate has raised $2.6 million from investors including Hyde Park Venture Partners, Hyde Park Angels and InvestHER Ventures.
In This Episode You Will Learn:
- Julie's motivation for starting PartySlate
- The importance of throwing a great party for fundraisers
- The wildest party someone has thrown using PartySlate
- How to use content marketing and promotional events to drive traffic
- Why you have to "super-please" one side of the market to start a two-sided marketplace
- How PartySlate decides where to focus their content marketing efforts
- The biggest benefits of going through Techstars
- What Julie would like to see Chicago tech improve on
- How we get more women involved in tech
- The importance of role models for women in tech
- The hardest thing about selling
- The 3 most critical elements to being a high performing salesperson
- What made her leave a large company for the startup world
- The value of dreaming outloud about your idea
- The fallacy of being protective about your idea
- How Julie decided to expand geographically before proving out the business model in one geography
- What their process looks like for expanding in to new geographies
- The importance of owning and managing technology
- Advice for planning a great wedding
Selected Links From The Episode:
Favorite Books:
- Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
- Bossypants by Tina Fey
- Tune In: The Beatles: All These Years by Mark Lewisohn
- Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
- Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight
Sponsored By:
- Bevy: a Chicago startup delivering everything you need, but don’t want to own, for amazing experiences. Own Less. Live More.