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Brendan Candon

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
252 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 359: Hit $2m Revenue Buy/Sell Other Athelets Gear On Cheap with Brendan Candon of SidelineSwap.com

In most cases, we have a messaging platform, and we see kids ask those types of questions, like, hey, how many times did you use this?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 359: Hit $2m Revenue Buy/Sell Other Athelets Gear On Cheap with Brendan Candon of SidelineSwap.com

Is it clean?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 359: Hit $2m Revenue Buy/Sell Other Athelets Gear On Cheap with Brendan Candon of SidelineSwap.com

Like, how beat up is it?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 359: Hit $2m Revenue Buy/Sell Other Athelets Gear On Cheap with Brendan Candon of SidelineSwap.com

Does it smell?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 359: Hit $2m Revenue Buy/Sell Other Athelets Gear On Cheap with Brendan Candon of SidelineSwap.com

Like, those are real conversations that take place, but our users are accustomed to it and are...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 359: Hit $2m Revenue Buy/Sell Other Athelets Gear On Cheap with Brendan Candon of SidelineSwap.com

They clean their gear, they take care of it, and they're happy to get... The big thing is the savings, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 359: Hit $2m Revenue Buy/Sell Other Athelets Gear On Cheap with Brendan Candon of SidelineSwap.com

So the average set of hockey equipment could cost you $500 to $1,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 359: Hit $2m Revenue Buy/Sell Other Athelets Gear On Cheap with Brendan Candon of SidelineSwap.com

And so a kid who wants a top-end piece of gear, but parents won't buy it for them, this is a way for them to get it at like 50% off.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 359: Hit $2m Revenue Buy/Sell Other Athelets Gear On Cheap with Brendan Candon of SidelineSwap.com

And if it's used a couple times, they're fine with that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 359: Hit $2m Revenue Buy/Sell Other Athelets Gear On Cheap with Brendan Candon of SidelineSwap.com

Yeah, so it's not... The memorabilia piece isn't as big as you think.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 359: Hit $2m Revenue Buy/Sell Other Athelets Gear On Cheap with Brendan Candon of SidelineSwap.com

It really is more of like...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 359: Hit $2m Revenue Buy/Sell Other Athelets Gear On Cheap with Brendan Candon of SidelineSwap.com

just usable gear, kind of a play-it-against-sports, which is like a big offline franchise with secondhand sports gear of that type of model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 359: Hit $2m Revenue Buy/Sell Other Athelets Gear On Cheap with Brendan Candon of SidelineSwap.com

And we market it to high school and college athletes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 359: Hit $2m Revenue Buy/Sell Other Athelets Gear On Cheap with Brendan Candon of SidelineSwap.com

One thing that we do do is like a lot of college athletes, after they're done, you know, most athletes don't go pro.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 359: Hit $2m Revenue Buy/Sell Other Athelets Gear On Cheap with Brendan Candon of SidelineSwap.com

And so when they're done, they'll come on at the end of the season and unload their gear once they're done with their NCAA career.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 359: Hit $2m Revenue Buy/Sell Other Athelets Gear On Cheap with Brendan Candon of SidelineSwap.com

And so there is this like aspirational element where last week we had,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 359: Hit $2m Revenue Buy/Sell Other Athelets Gear On Cheap with Brendan Candon of SidelineSwap.com

A kid named Miles Jones is a two-time player of the year in lacrosse for his position.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 359: Hit $2m Revenue Buy/Sell Other Athelets Gear On Cheap with Brendan Candon of SidelineSwap.com

And he came on and auctioned off his Duke Cross gear for charity.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 359: Hit $2m Revenue Buy/Sell Other Athelets Gear On Cheap with Brendan Candon of SidelineSwap.com

And so you could get that type of stuff.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 359: Hit $2m Revenue Buy/Sell Other Athelets Gear On Cheap with Brendan Candon of SidelineSwap.com

And then we pushed that heavy on social media.