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Brad Parker

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
211 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$225k in MRR with $50k/mo in profits. How this non-tech founder built a bootstrapped SaaS selling to furniture stores.

It's too many applications.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$225k in MRR with $50k/mo in profits. How this non-tech founder built a bootstrapped SaaS selling to furniture stores.

So what we did is we built the solution to aggregate that all of those lenders into one app to really streamline the process.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$225k in MRR with $50k/mo in profits. How this non-tech founder built a bootstrapped SaaS selling to furniture stores.

So now as we sell financing to our retailers, you see them immediately using the product because it just goes right into their ecosystem.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$225k in MRR with $50k/mo in profits. How this non-tech founder built a bootstrapped SaaS selling to furniture stores.

Yep.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$225k in MRR with $50k/mo in profits. How this non-tech founder built a bootstrapped SaaS selling to furniture stores.

Monthly, I'd say right now about probably 15 million that we track that we actually represent.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$225k in MRR with $50k/mo in profits. How this non-tech founder built a bootstrapped SaaS selling to furniture stores.

And then in my system, if you're a retailer and you're using lenders already, you can plug your own lenders into my system and still use the system.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$225k in MRR with $50k/mo in profits. How this non-tech founder built a bootstrapped SaaS selling to furniture stores.

And we don't actually track that revenue or get paid for that revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$225k in MRR with $50k/mo in profits. How this non-tech founder built a bootstrapped SaaS selling to furniture stores.

So the last time we had talked, we were doing about $100 million in revenue that we represented.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$225k in MRR with $50k/mo in profits. How this non-tech founder built a bootstrapped SaaS selling to furniture stores.

So I was kind of playing with those numbers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$225k in MRR with $50k/mo in profits. How this non-tech founder built a bootstrapped SaaS selling to furniture stores.

Now we're close to about $150 million in revenue through the lenders we represent, but we're probably running about $300 to $350 million in transactions through FormPiper or our retailers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$225k in MRR with $50k/mo in profits. How this non-tech founder built a bootstrapped SaaS selling to furniture stores.

Yeah, it's on average about 1.5%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$225k in MRR with $50k/mo in profits. How this non-tech founder built a bootstrapped SaaS selling to furniture stores.

Okay, 1.5%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$225k in MRR with $50k/mo in profits. How this non-tech founder built a bootstrapped SaaS selling to furniture stores.

It's close to that, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$225k in MRR with $50k/mo in profits. How this non-tech founder built a bootstrapped SaaS selling to furniture stores.

No, we still sell the SaaS products.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$225k in MRR with $50k/mo in profits. How this non-tech founder built a bootstrapped SaaS selling to furniture stores.

So our initial plan when we work with the retailer is to educate them on our SaaS product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$225k in MRR with $50k/mo in profits. How this non-tech founder built a bootstrapped SaaS selling to furniture stores.

And that's going to range anywhere from $1,500 to $3,000 a year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$225k in MRR with $50k/mo in profits. How this non-tech founder built a bootstrapped SaaS selling to furniture stores.

Right now, our average customer is paying us about $225 a month for the software.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$225k in MRR with $50k/mo in profits. How this non-tech founder built a bootstrapped SaaS selling to furniture stores.

So once they have our software, we plug all of their lenders into the platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$225k in MRR with $50k/mo in profits. How this non-tech founder built a bootstrapped SaaS selling to furniture stores.

And what we do is we identify their lender lineup and look for gaps.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$225k in MRR with $50k/mo in profits. How this non-tech founder built a bootstrapped SaaS selling to furniture stores.

So if they don't have a near prime option or if they don't have a good subprime option, we'll introduce them to the people that we use.