jedcal

@jedcaluag

youtuber & software engineer

New York, NY

Joined February 2022

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jedcal@jedcaluag · Jul 20

Excited to announce that I sold my startup for $100,000 4 years ago, I built a review website called RateMyDorm - it’s like RateMyProfessors, but for dorms Early in my YouTube career, I decided to build it in public, documenting everything from writing the first lines of code…

jedcaluag's tweet image. Excited to announce that I sold my startup for $100,000

4 years ago, I built a review website called RateMyDorm - it’s like RateMyProfessors, but for dorms

Early in my YouTube career, I decided to build it in public, documenting everything from writing the first lines of code…

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jedcal@jedcaluag · Jul 20

Garry gets it 🙌

GGarry Tan@garrytan · Jul 20

Justin Kan and Emmett Shear sold their first startup Kiko for 6 figures on eBay and it’s what attracted Kyle Vogt to join them and Michael Seibel to start Twitch So sometimes these things are just stepping stones

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jedcal@jedcaluag · Jul 20

RateMyDorm 🤝 Jenni

DDavid Park@Davidjpark96 · Jul 20

We've just acquired RateMyDorm by jedcal 🎉 With this partnership, we can help students on day 1, right after they arrive at their dorm Jed will be joining the Jenni team and helping us with our UGC efforts! Super excited about joining forces with this talented founder! 🤠

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jedcal@jedcaluag · Jul 22

why I sold my website ratemydorm for 100K

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jedcal@jedcaluag · Jul 21

Details of the acquisition For those wondering why RMD wasn't monetized: Even with 500K unique visitors a year, I had Google AdSense turned off. Adsense would only give me a few hundred a month for that traffic & it just makes the site slower and uglier

DDavid Park@Davidjpark96 · Jul 21

Here’s the exact details of the acquisition and why it made sense for both parties (revenue multiple, amount paid, structure, etc) Jenni paid: - $20k cash upfront - $30k in Jenni stock - $30k in deferred cash - $30k in deferred jenni stock Acquired startup had: ~500,000…

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jedcal@jedcaluag · Jul 6

I grew a new page to 100K+ followers this year in a random niche i posted 1-2x taekwondo videos a week, and after a few months, it got me doing an ad for karate kid & walking the red carpet as a (primarily) long-form creator on youtube, I held off on this idea of making…