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Bill Lyons

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
140 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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

And so I grew that company this year 220%.

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

And I said, now's a chance where I can really get the real data that I need to make Rivester successful.

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

And so over the past few months, couple years, I've been investing a ton of money in Rivester.

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

in this flip platform.

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

And I really kind of built it for myself to invest in now because at the time in 2012, I was so desperate.

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

So what we did was is we, we got a few hundred customers.

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

Our main customers are realtors paying for ad space, right?

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 also pay for subscriptions for people who want premium content, premium data.

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

So we weren't getting the traffic and the leads, the realtors.

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

So we just canceled all their subscriptions, gave them their money back and said, guys, we're going to build a better platform.

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

And so I built this platform kind of for me and all my EO buddies to invest in Airbnb.

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 we're relaunching it November 1st.

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

So we're pretty excited about that.

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

Are you on the temp.revester.com?

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

So go to temp.revester.com.

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

Okay, so click the middle one.

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

And do me a favor, do San Diego because that one has actual Airbnb data of what a daily cities are you in?

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

No, it's nationwide, but this is the beta site.

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

It won't be out until November 1st.

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

So if you go to San Diego, you'll see a real daily rent data that we bring in.