99designs Startups

Sport Draftr was a Daily Fantasy Sports platform in the UK offering leagues in the English Premier League and UEFA Champions League. The product achieved strong product-market fit with engaged users and grew to 1,000 users with 50% playing weekly, but failed due to unfavorable gambling legislation changes that scared off investors and made scaling impossible without significant capital.

Blockworks is a crypto-native media and information company founded in December 2017 by Jason and co-founder Mike. Starting from cold LinkedIn outreach (300 messages/day), they bootstrapped to $25M+ revenue by building a media platform with podcasts, newsletters, conferences, and eventually a subscription research platform (Blockworks Research). The company scaled profitably from day one, with major conferences like Permissionless generating over $10M in revenue.