SharkTank Proofing Betswaps.com

Ben Longstaff
The Startup
Published in
5 min readMay 30, 2016

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Like any good startup www.betswaps.com hacked together a prototype of their vision to test out their assumptions. A few developers later they launched the product and validated the demand for their service. To get working capital to accelerate growth Michael went on Shark Tank Australia, the only catch with being on Shark Tank is that it comes with a spike of traffic, all of which hits in the space of about a minute. We were told to prepare for a spike of up to 10,000 users in the first minute of being live.

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Ben Longstaff
The Startup

Playing at the intersection of privacy and personalisation. Fascinated by the state of trust in a world with leaky data.