BIGR 2023 Recap

Hey everyone! Welcome to the first episode of our monthly upkeep journal for BIGR Social.

2023 was a huge year of progress, in January, BIGR wasn’t even conceptualised and by December we finished our pre-seed round and began our full build.

A lot of learnings. A lot of planning. A lot of fun. A lot of partnerships.

• 2023 in review
• Our achievements
• 2023 LinkedIn review
• 2024 & next steps

Here’s a recap: 👇

2023 Recap

365 days of exponential growth. Here is the recap with some highlights:

• 🌟 January: The idea for BIGR was born (after 40+ others)
• 💻 February: Pre-MVP built on an old laptop & validated our first customer!
• 🔍 March: Interviewed 30+ developers to build our vision, couldn’t find the right one
• 🌱 April: Started our raise, our network responded well
• 🗣️ May: Spoke about AI to the International Association of Business Communicators
• 🤝 June: Secured our first advisor & investor
• 🎓 July: Held a lecture on Thought Leadership @ Melbourne Uni & met our future developer for the first time
• 🏆 August: Won a $15K AI Hackathon event
• 🌉 September: Secured $6-figure grant from a tech giant (info soon).
• 🚀 October: Pitched Brisbane Angels (who are joining the cap table!)
• 📣 November: Announced BIGR, hit 40,000 LinkedIn followers & sent BIGR’s shareholder agreement out for signing!
• 🎉 December: Hit 6,000,000 LinkedIn impressions for the year, accepted our first investor funds & finished tech discovery
• 👋 January 2024: We hired employee #1! Welcome, Ethan Vella.

What lies in 2024:

1. Build & Launch: We’re well into full build mode with BIGR and will launch in early April. Our pre-seed has locked and we hired our first employee to assist.
2. It’s MOU season: We’re in discussions with a bunch of B2B contacts to help distribute us to their clients on launch. These are companies that range from online food ordering to point of sale. Shall I mention that they have access to over 100,000 of our target audience between them?
3. Next Round & Travel: As a startup, we’re of course always raising. We have some interested parties in our seed round already – Keep in touch as we lock in our lead & see our venture capital friends in Dubai, California, Miami & NYC.

2023 LinkedIn Wrap-up:

We hit 40,000 followers in 2023 and enjoyed multiple viral posts.

Here’s how we did….📈

▶️ 6,028,848 post impressions (+835% on 2022)

▶️ 54,911 post engagements (+759% on 2022)

My best post had 4,249 engagements and reached 416,065 impressions! We achieved this with a $0 advertising spend.

What's Coming Up?

🏎️ Keen to drive a supercar? We’re hosting a private network & drive day with Dream Prestige Drive (Vic) in Feb/March. Join us in the $700k Lambo Huracan & Lotus Emira.

🧑💼We’re consulting for a Melbourne conference in April, all about the business behind esports & video games. BIGR Investor Andrew Walton is hosting a panel on disability & gaming. Join us at this link.

P.S We just hosted our own BIGR VIP Table for a meet & greet with Tom Brady. If you want to be invited to future events, stay in touch!

See you in a month!