May 4, 2022
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Founder Justin Real tells us how Realplay Sports survived the COVID pause and set itself up to serve booming customer demand in 2022 and 2023. In the 2-year hiatus, Realplay expanded the type customers it can address and brought in partners to enrich its product offering. An inspiring chat with a compelling founder.
Sponsored by Purdue University entrepreneuship and Peter Fasse, patent attorney at Fish & Richardson.
Highlights:
- Sal Daher Welcomes Back Justin Real, Founder of Portfolio Company Realplay Sports
- Justin Real Diplomatically Notices That There’s a Lot Less Sal
- “...Realplay is a technology company with a goal of solving a problem for the amateur sports ecosystem.”
- Realplay Serves Mainly the 14 to 18-year-old Players Being Recruited. Younger Players Who Aspire to Be Recruited Also Forms a Significant Clientele
- “When they're watching the kid playing in the tournament venue, they can just enjoy the game instead of being there with the camera, taking a video...”
- The Impact of the Angel Invest Boston Podcast in Connecting Justin Real and Launchpad
- Erik Bullen Was an Early Believer in Realplay Sports
- 2020 Was Supposed to Be a Big Growth Year for Realplay, Then COVID Hit
- The Big March 13th Event in Arizona that Never Happened
- Potential Partners Began to Reach Out During COVID to Explore Collaborations
- Connections Made During COVID Led to a Much Richer and Diverse Product Offering that Made Realplay More Compelling to Users
- How Realplay Stayed Alive in 2020
- Rapsodo Now Provides Pitch and Ball Tracking on Realplay
- In 2021, Realplay Still Managed to Grow Despite All the Uncertainties
- Realplay Expects 2022 to Set a Record for Growth in Revenues
- Jason Real Makes the Point that Zoom Lowers the Cost of Taking a Meeting with Someone and thus Makes People More Willing to Take Meetings
- Realplay’s Current Challenge Is Stepping Up to the Expected Tripling of Business in 2023
- Peter Thiel’s Advice on Follow-On Investments
- Parting Thoughts from Justin Real, Founder of Realplay Sports: Gratitude + Watch Out for That Curveball
Topics: product, raising money, partnerships with strategics, COVID