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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

And if you look through our feed, that's what a lot of this is.

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 they tag their friends and that's how we grow our follow.

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 just to get into the nuts and bolts a little bit, I think you have to...

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

get a base and like however you get your first couple thousand there's a lot of tricks for that but once you do it it shifts into this quality game of you can only do tricks for so long and then you have to build like a really solid content funnel in order to continue to scale what you're doing yep so brendan what's the walk me through kind of the goal here are you going to raise capital are you looking to sell the thing what's your goal

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 we're in 500 startups now.

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

We're in the process of closing like three seed rounds.

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

For how much, 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

We're raising about $1.5 million on a note.

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

No, it's just on a traditional convertible boat.

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 the goal, I mean, we look at companies like Poshmark in the women's fashion space, which is the marketplace, Reverb in the music space, and the verticalization of eBay and Craigslist of how people have cut out these big verticals and built these really strong community marketplaces.

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

No one's done it in sports, and that's our goal is to be the marketplace for 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

I think it's a $60 billion industry, and there's a ton of potential for what we could do here.

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 in terms of an eventual exit, there's a bunch of ways we could go.

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

But right now, our goal is to just build the biggest marketplace possible.

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

Folks, breaking news, we've added two capuchin monkeys that can sit at a computer, write a cold email and close a deal better than most of your salespeople.

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

Number two, is there a CEO you're following or studying right now?

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

I spend a lot of time like networking and talking to CEOs, especially like who are series B or A, like a little bit ahead of me.

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

But in terms of like big picture, who I kind of follow, Kevin Plank at Under Armour.

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

Yep.

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 our team is distributed.