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Bart Jan Yates

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
99 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
23 year old launches SaaS for hotels, hits $250k revenue in under 12 months

This is like least least that we should have.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
23 year old launches SaaS for hotels, hits $250k revenue in under 12 months

That's something like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
23 year old launches SaaS for hotels, hits $250k revenue in under 12 months

July 2021 as a student.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
23 year old launches SaaS for hotels, hits $250k revenue in under 12 months

I graduated a couple of months later and now I have a full-time team who is building the company with me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
23 year old launches SaaS for hotels, hits $250k revenue in under 12 months

We are bootstrapped.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
23 year old launches SaaS for hotels, hits $250k revenue in under 12 months

Raising capital is still on the plans, but it's something we have to decide.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
23 year old launches SaaS for hotels, hits $250k revenue in under 12 months

Exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
23 year old launches SaaS for hotels, hits $250k revenue in under 12 months

That's the thing we need to decide if we are going the way we are because we are already obtaining wonderful results.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
23 year old launches SaaS for hotels, hits $250k revenue in under 12 months

Or are we going to raise capital?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
23 year old launches SaaS for hotels, hits $250k revenue in under 12 months

This is still a question that's on the table and we hope like in the soon future to make a decision about it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
23 year old launches SaaS for hotels, hits $250k revenue in under 12 months

Yes, but I have luckily a wonderful team who is assisting me with the big questions.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
23 year old launches SaaS for hotels, hits $250k revenue in under 12 months

Because for us, of course, it's a very good sales perspective.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
23 year old launches SaaS for hotels, hits $250k revenue in under 12 months

We say we are certain our algorithm works.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
23 year old launches SaaS for hotels, hits $250k revenue in under 12 months

It sounds a bit arrogant, but

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
23 year old launches SaaS for hotels, hits $250k revenue in under 12 months

we are certain that it works um and that's why we just take a cut of everything we earn more so in the worst case a hotel that uses and we don't work we don't earn extra money for them they don't need to pay us so like a hotel by this by this pricing whether has nothing to do by working with us and also it didn't incentivize us to like make the most money for the hotel

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
23 year old launches SaaS for hotels, hits $250k revenue in under 12 months

Exactly, exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
23 year old launches SaaS for hotels, hits $250k revenue in under 12 months

But luckily, hotel software is pretty advanced in this kind of things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
23 year old launches SaaS for hotels, hits $250k revenue in under 12 months

That's also an option that's on the table.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
23 year old launches SaaS for hotels, hits $250k revenue in under 12 months

For us, of course, with this pricing model, we are bound to seasonality.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
23 year old launches SaaS for hotels, hits $250k revenue in under 12 months

So if hospitality is doing bad, our business will be doing bad as well.