{"id":4701,"date":"2015-07-27T14:39:47","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T21:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinkapps.com\/blog\/?p=4701"},"modified":"2015-07-27T15:10:48","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T22:10:48","slug":"startup-trends-outlive-buzz-yerdle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinkapps.com\/blog\/entrepreneurship\/startup-trends-outlive-buzz-yerdle\/","title":{"rendered":"Startup Trends: How to Ensure Your Company Outlives the Buzz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Founders naturally want to capitalize on the extra momentum startup trends can provide. But we all know eventually the trend will end. So how do you make sure your company outlasts the buzz?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s nothing like Black Friday (or even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/ryanmac\/2015\/07\/15\/amazon-gets-defensive-as-customers-criticize-prime-day\/\" target=\"_blank\">Prime Day<\/a>) to make you abandon all of your morals and standards because you want to buy <i>all the things<\/i>. But don\u2019t feel too bad because retail marketing is designed\u00a0to convince you that you really do need that high tech, electronic pepper grinder. And why not at such a great price?<\/p>\n<p>As a Senior Executive at Walmart for 10 years, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pub\/andy-ruben\/2\/255\/197\" target=\"_blank\">Andy Ruben<\/a> is well-versed on the deceitful ways of retail therapy. On Black Friday of 2012, he and ecological activist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adam_Werbach\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Werbach<\/a> (former CEO and Head of Sustainability at Saatchi &amp; Saatchi) launched <a href=\"https:\/\/yerdle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yerdle<\/a> as a way to promote #reuse and shake up our\u00a0relationship with our precious stuff.<\/p>\n<p>The concept of Yerdle is really straightforward. Everything you buy\/sell is free with the exception of shipping costs. To give something away (tools, appliances, books, clothes, etc), you post a picture of the item and give it a price in Yerdle dollars. When someone \u201cbuys\u201d that item, you get those Yerdle dollars to use on anything in the app. The more you give, the more you can get.<\/p>\n<h3>Yerdle is all about #reuse, one of today&#8217;s most popular startup trends, and we talked to Ruben about how his team plans to outlast\u00a0the trend and create a whole new lifestyle for their users.<\/h3>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/27100408\/yerdleapp-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"652\" height=\"572\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4708 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/27100408\/yerdleapp-1.jpg\" alt=\"Startup Trends - Yerdle image 1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/27100408\/yerdleapp-1.jpg 652w, https:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/27100408\/yerdleapp-1.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2>Look for Startup Trends, But Don&#8217;t Live by Them<\/h2>\n<p>From the hit song \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QK8mJJJvaes\" target=\"_blank\">Thrift Shop<\/a>,\u201d to Marie Kondo\u2019s best-selling book <a href=\"http:\/\/tidyingup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThe Life-Changing Art of Tidying Up,\u201d<\/a> it seems that getting rid of what you don\u2019t need and buying items secondhand is not only an easier, cheaper way to live\u00a0\u2014\u00a0it\u2019s fashionable.<\/p>\n<p>Ruben attributes the macro trend of reuse to many factors: sustainability, affordability, and accessibility.<\/p>\n<p>So was Yerdle born out of this macro trend or was it one of the movement&#8217;s pioneers? Given the timing of their launch, it seems to be the latter. But Ruben isn\u2019t tooting his own horn.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s really hard to separate any small thing in the market and what it contributed to a trend versus a part of it. I think they&#8217;re always intimately tied.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ruben said that most companies are created from the opportunity of larger trends. But, to avoid getting too caught up in distractions, he offers this advice:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cFocus on serving people\u00a0\u2014\u00a0at first more than the business model, and certainly more than vanity metrics.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Make a Lasting Impression<\/h2>\n<p>Ruben said you have to first realize that companies don\u2019t make trends. They\u2019re created to fulfill a niche within them. But at some point,\u00a0you have to look beyond that niche.<\/p>\n<p>To prove their value, Yerdle is not just changing how people get rid of the stuff they <em>don\u2019t<\/em> want\u2014 they\u2019re changing how to get the stuff we <em>do<\/em> want. When you pay $6 for a barely used coffee machine, it\u2019ll be hard to go back to Target or Amazon Prime. And that\u2019s a change that sticks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"652\" height=\"572\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4707 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/27100406\/yerdle-2.jpg\" alt=\"Startup Trends - Yerdle Image 2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/27100406\/yerdle-2.jpg 652w, https:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/27100406\/yerdle-2.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Make It\u00a0Easy for Your Users<\/h3>\n<p>Posting on Yerdle takes a minute or less, and they plan to make it even easier. Ruben said, &#8220;We&#8217;re going to get to the point where all you have to do is take pictures of things you aren&#8217;t using, and put them on the app.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But no matter how easy it is to post, many people just aren\u2019t in to secondhand stuff.\u00a0To convince those folks, Ruben said that name brands are a major driving force, and so is our reliance on storage units.<\/p>\n<p>Self storage is up 1000% in the last 20 years. Let\u2019s say your kid has a Patagonia jacket. They will probably outgrow that jacket while it\u2019s in storage (taking up space) all summer.<\/p>\n<p>So Yerdle gives someone else that jacket\u00a0while giving you\u00a0more space in your house, and in exchange,\u00a0you get Yerdle dollars to spend on something else you may need.<\/p>\n<p>Ruben said, &#8220;Twenty-five percent of the things that we ultimately get or need can be found from existing closets and garages as opposed to retail shelves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Even if you\u2019re adverse to secondhand goods, it\u2019s hard to ignore free money, and before you know it, you\u2019re hooked. <strong>Creating a win-win for your users is a win-win for you. It&#8217;ll lead to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkapps.com\/blog\/entrepreneurship\/4-lessons-learned-on-the-journey-to-over-10-million-users\/\" target=\"_blank\">more users<\/a> who stick around longer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"557\" height=\"557\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4703 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/27100212\/yerdle1.jpg\" alt=\"Startup Trends - Yerdle image 3\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/27100212\/yerdle1.jpg 557w, https:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/27100212\/yerdle1.jpg 150w, https:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/27100212\/yerdle1.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Listen to What Your Users are Saying\u00a0<em>and\u00a0<\/em>Doing<\/h3>\n<p>When they first started out as web-only, Yerdle users were very concerned with trust. They seemed to want to give\/get only within their network of Facebook friends and friends of friends.<\/p>\n<p>Ruben and his team had a theory, though, that maybe people just wanted what they were looking for, no matter who it was from. They tried expanding the users&#8217;\u00a0networks to everyone using the app, and it paid off.<\/p>\n<p>Yerdle\u2019s popular #Unshopping campaign came directly from one of their users. For one year, a women ditched retail stores and only Yerdled for the stuff she needed (with the exception of things like food, soap, etc.)<\/p>\n<p>This inspired a monthly, company-promoted #Unshopping campaign, urging people to shop Yerdle-only for one month. By doing this, Yerdle took a movement that they saw happening in their community and shined a spotlight on it, <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkapps.com\/blog\/entrepreneurship\/customer-service-tips-chatbooks\/\" target=\"_blank\">bringing in even more users<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the app\u2019s most unique features is one that users didn\u2019t even ask for. Fifty percent of new items we get go unused for the first 12 months and David Merkoski, Head of UX, noticed that this was also true for the items people got on Yerdle.<\/p>\n<p>He found that users were re-posting items that they&#8217;d gotten on Yerdle but were no longer using and to do this, they had to create a whole new post for the item. In an effort to simplify that process and extend the Yerdle ethos, they created the \u201cMake A Wish\u201d feature which lets you re-post an item with one tap.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/27100520\/yerdlefeature.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"557\" height=\"557\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4709 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/27100520\/yerdlefeature.jpg\" alt=\"Startup Trends - Yerdle image 4\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/27100520\/yerdlefeature.jpg 557w, https:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/27100520\/yerdlefeature.jpg 150w, https:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/27100520\/yerdlefeature.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Keep People Engaged<\/h3>\n<p>It may seem obvious, but the best way to create a continued, lasting impression on your users\u2019 lives is to keep them coming back. For Yerdle, their Make a Wish feature was a big part of that.<\/p>\n<p>With this feature, items never truly go away \u2014 they\u2019re either marked as \u201cavailable\u201d or \u201cin use.\u201d If someone \u201cpurchases\u201d your kid\u2019s Patagonia jacket, it\u2019s then marked as \u201cin use\u201d until the buyer decides to repost it. While an item is in use, anyone can tap \u201cMake a Wish\u201d to be notified when it (or something similar) becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>This means that items are always in play, and\u00a0user engagement doesn&#8217;t end with\u00a0the sale of an item.\u00a0Right now, there are half a million items (both available and in use) on Yerdle, and by the end of next year, they predict that they\u2019ll have more items than Walmart.com.<\/p>\n<p>Ruben said that this cyclical process &#8220;allows us to move into an economy of moving items between us as opposed to continuing to buy them new and &#8230; putting them on a shelf &#8230; never using them again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Instead of just <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkapps.com\/blog\/development\/how-to-create-an-online-marketplace\/\" target=\"_blank\">replacing retail<\/a>, Yerdle is creating a community that\u2019s becoming a part of it, and encouraging a philosophy that\u2019s not only benefiting their business, but supporting the sustainable movement.<\/p>\n<p><b>When you make a deep-rooted, permanent change in people\u2019s way of life, you can survive a startup trend.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"559\" height=\"559\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4706 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/27100219\/yerdle4.png\" alt=\"Startup Trends - Yerdle image 5\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/27100219\/yerdle4.png 559w, https:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/27100219\/yerdle4.png 150w, https:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/27100219\/yerdle4.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Run Your Office the Way You Run Your Brand<\/h2>\n<p>Yerdle\u2019s startup philosophy is not unlike their retail philosophy of getting only what you need and passing on what you don&#8217;t. They scale only when absolutely necessary and don&#8217;t &#8220;overbuild for things that haven&#8217;t become problems yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s actually a great way to build a company,&#8221; Ruben said. You put a temporary patch on a problem until you determine it warrants the time and focus to create a long-term solution. That way, &#8220;You don&#8217;t fix the things that never become problems,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n<p>They take the same minimal approach to <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkapps.com\/blog\/post-launch\/how-start-startup-hiring-culture\/\" target=\"_blank\">hiring<\/a>. &#8220;If you don&#8217;t fight every hire, you can risk not building a business in the right way.&#8221; As their needs have changed, they&#8217;ve gone from many employees who were generalists to ones who are experts in focused areas. You need the people who are right\u00a0for the stage that you&#8217;re in.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A growing company is a different company every 3-6 months,&#8221; Ruben said. In each of these stages, you&#8217;ll have a whole new set of problems. So you can&#8217;t hold onto any of them, but instead you have to become an expert in solving them and then letting them go.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>As an entrepreneur, are there startup trends you&#8217;ve spotted and want to capitalize on? How can you incorporate or adapt Yerdle&#8217;s approach\u00a0to help you make the most of the trend while also positioning you to outlive\u00a0it?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Images via <a href=\"https:\/\/yerdle.com\/postings\">Yerdle<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When startup trends pop up, a fleet of new companies emerges in an attempt to capitalize on the buzz. 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