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Alex Fischkenhoff

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
156 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS Bootstrapper Hits $3m Revenue with genius niche product

There's billing, payments, scheduling, network management.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS Bootstrapper Hits $3m Revenue with genius niche product

Plenty of things that all the areas actually of internet provider that we just bring it in one place.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS Bootstrapper Hits $3m Revenue with genius niche product

And that really increases a lot efficiency of the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS Bootstrapper Hits $3m Revenue with genius niche product

So this small company then is able to work well and to compete and get the market, sell their services.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS Bootstrapper Hits $3m Revenue with genius niche product

Yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS Bootstrapper Hits $3m Revenue with genius niche product

I started as a network architect or a network engineer, but also I was working as a project manager, product manager for some online companies in Czech Republic.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS Bootstrapper Hits $3m Revenue with genius niche product

And then in 2014, I was invited to South Africa to work as a network architect there to help

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS Bootstrapper Hits $3m Revenue with genius niche product

to one local company to build quite a large network.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS Bootstrapper Hits $3m Revenue with genius niche product

So I was helping them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS Bootstrapper Hits $3m Revenue with genius niche product

And meanwhile, I found out that the market is emerging and there are many new players coming there in South Africa and in all other African countries as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS Bootstrapper Hits $3m Revenue with genius niche product

And when I came back, when my contract ended, so I came back in 2016 and we decided to write a software that will start helping these companies to operate efficiently.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS Bootstrapper Hits $3m Revenue with genius niche product

So that's how it started all.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS Bootstrapper Hits $3m Revenue with genius niche product

We have 50 members at the moment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS Bootstrapper Hits $3m Revenue with genius niche product

Five, zero.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS Bootstrapper Hits $3m Revenue with genius niche product

At least three, five, 25.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS Bootstrapper Hits $3m Revenue with genius niche product

Very well, very well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS Bootstrapper Hits $3m Revenue with genius niche product

So I can tell you that if we gain 15 customers per month, we lose maybe two customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS Bootstrapper Hits $3m Revenue with genius niche product

But mainly it's new companies that were not able to onboard, for example.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS Bootstrapper Hits $3m Revenue with genius niche product

So we made some mistake or they had no time to onboard.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS Bootstrapper Hits $3m Revenue with genius niche product

So usually if a company signs up, they do not leave it because the whole operations of their company is just linked or is completely connected to our software.