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Bill Lyons

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
140 total appearances

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 469: SharkTank Sunk Him, Then He Won Big With $1.4M with Revestor CEO Bill Lyons

And now you're seeing more and more tech, which is cool.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 469: SharkTank Sunk Him, Then He Won Big With $1.4M with Revestor CEO Bill Lyons

In, in July of 2012, I believe.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 469: SharkTank Sunk Him, Then He Won Big With $1.4M with Revestor CEO Bill Lyons

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 469: SharkTank Sunk Him, Then He Won Big With $1.4M with Revestor CEO Bill Lyons

And then we aired November of 2012.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 469: SharkTank Sunk Him, Then He Won Big With $1.4M with Revestor CEO Bill Lyons

So, you know, the business didn't do too well after that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 469: SharkTank Sunk Him, Then He Won Big With $1.4M with Revestor CEO Bill Lyons

It kind of floundered.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 469: SharkTank Sunk Him, Then He Won Big With $1.4M with Revestor CEO Bill Lyons

Um, we built it up to about 15,000 users.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 469: SharkTank Sunk Him, Then He Won Big With $1.4M with Revestor CEO Bill Lyons

Um, we never got over a thousand paid users and it just kind of sat there for a while.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 469: SharkTank Sunk Him, Then He Won Big With $1.4M with Revestor CEO Bill Lyons

So I couldn't raise money afterwards.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 469: SharkTank Sunk Him, Then He Won Big With $1.4M with Revestor CEO Bill Lyons

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 469: SharkTank Sunk Him, Then He Won Big With $1.4M with Revestor CEO Bill Lyons

I mean, you literally had people like writing checks and then thinking, well, Mark Cuban didn't do it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 469: SharkTank Sunk Him, Then He Won Big With $1.4M with Revestor CEO Bill Lyons

Like, shit, maybe I shouldn't write a check.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 469: SharkTank Sunk Him, Then He Won Big With $1.4M with Revestor CEO Bill Lyons

So it was tough.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 469: SharkTank Sunk Him, Then He Won Big With $1.4M with Revestor CEO Bill Lyons

So, you know, raising money was new and it was tough for me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 469: SharkTank Sunk Him, Then He Won Big With $1.4M with Revestor CEO Bill Lyons

So I'm like, you know what?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 469: SharkTank Sunk Him, Then He Won Big With $1.4M with Revestor CEO Bill Lyons

I'm just going to go back to what I know and I'm going to start a mortgage company again.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 469: SharkTank Sunk Him, Then He Won Big With $1.4M with Revestor CEO Bill Lyons

So in 2013, I started a mortgage company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 469: SharkTank Sunk Him, Then He Won Big With $1.4M with Revestor CEO Bill Lyons

At the end of 2013 and in 2014, we did 500K in revenue, 2015, 1.7.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 469: SharkTank Sunk Him, Then He Won Big With $1.4M with Revestor CEO Bill Lyons

And in 2016, we're going to do 5.5 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 469: SharkTank Sunk Him, Then He Won Big With $1.4M with Revestor CEO Bill Lyons

That's my separate mortgage company.