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Ben Cantey

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
187 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
642: ParkEvergreen $100/mo Per Airport Parking Space to Help You Park Faster with CEO Ben Cantey

During that time, we were making a couple thousand dollars a month, and this was on a single pilot.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
642: ParkEvergreen $100/mo Per Airport Parking Space to Help You Park Faster with CEO Ben Cantey

Our biggest cost was user acquisition.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
642: ParkEvergreen $100/mo Per Airport Parking Space to Help You Park Faster with CEO Ben Cantey

So we were doing direct sales to office managers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
642: ParkEvergreen $100/mo Per Airport Parking Space to Help You Park Faster with CEO Ben Cantey

We were trying a monthly parking option for employees in downtown urban areas.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
642: ParkEvergreen $100/mo Per Airport Parking Space to Help You Park Faster with CEO Ben Cantey

And that was, that was kind of our strategy for getting past the user acquisition hurdle for kind of your hourly parkers, people coming out at night and such.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
642: ParkEvergreen $100/mo Per Airport Parking Space to Help You Park Faster with CEO Ben Cantey

We were like, okay, let's establish a baseline, get monthly parkers to fill our spaces during the day, reoccurring revenue count on it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
642: ParkEvergreen $100/mo Per Airport Parking Space to Help You Park Faster with CEO Ben Cantey

And then we can have a little more relaxation around getting those hourly users.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
642: ParkEvergreen $100/mo Per Airport Parking Space to Help You Park Faster with CEO Ben Cantey

It's just a, it's a tough market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
642: ParkEvergreen $100/mo Per Airport Parking Space to Help You Park Faster with CEO Ben Cantey

People are used to their options and it was something that investors particularly and why we really pivoted is that investors are kind of tired of the mobile app parking solution.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
642: ParkEvergreen $100/mo Per Airport Parking Space to Help You Park Faster with CEO Ben Cantey

A lot of people in the space, some people being successful with anybody that's invested in spot hero and parkways are the two biggest ones.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
642: ParkEvergreen $100/mo Per Airport Parking Space to Help You Park Faster with CEO Ben Cantey

So far, 150K from 500 startups.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
642: ParkEvergreen $100/mo Per Airport Parking Space to Help You Park Faster with CEO Ben Cantey

So far, bootstrapped until then.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
642: ParkEvergreen $100/mo Per Airport Parking Space to Help You Park Faster with CEO Ben Cantey

And what's your team size now?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
642: ParkEvergreen $100/mo Per Airport Parking Space to Help You Park Faster with CEO Ben Cantey

We've got a team of eight.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
642: ParkEvergreen $100/mo Per Airport Parking Space to Help You Park Faster with CEO Ben Cantey

So co-founders, there's five of us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
642: ParkEvergreen $100/mo Per Airport Parking Space to Help You Park Faster with CEO Ben Cantey

So it's a pretty stacked team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
642: ParkEvergreen $100/mo Per Airport Parking Space to Help You Park Faster with CEO Ben Cantey

Five co-founders?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
642: ParkEvergreen $100/mo Per Airport Parking Space to Help You Park Faster with CEO Ben Cantey

Yep.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
642: ParkEvergreen $100/mo Per Airport Parking Space to Help You Park Faster with CEO Ben Cantey

Yeah, it's awesome.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
642: ParkEvergreen $100/mo Per Airport Parking Space to Help You Park Faster with CEO Ben Cantey

It's already happened.