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Brian Howard

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
195 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
897 His Mobile App Was Downloaded 8m Times, Now Builds for Others Doing $9m+ This Year

And it just, the timing's wrong in the market or you have the wrong idea, any number of things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
897 His Mobile App Was Downloaded 8m Times, Now Builds for Others Doing $9m+ This Year

So it's capital intensive.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
897 His Mobile App Was Downloaded 8m Times, Now Builds for Others Doing $9m+ This Year

You take a big risk on things and sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
897 His Mobile App Was Downloaded 8m Times, Now Builds for Others Doing $9m+ This Year

Sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
897 His Mobile App Was Downloaded 8m Times, Now Builds for Others Doing $9m+ This Year

So we put a lot of money eventually into a much bigger title, a much more ambitious title, and it didn't really work out the way we wanted.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
897 His Mobile App Was Downloaded 8m Times, Now Builds for Others Doing $9m+ This Year

Somewhere...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
897 His Mobile App Was Downloaded 8m Times, Now Builds for Others Doing $9m+ This Year

Well, probably just under seven figures.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
897 His Mobile App Was Downloaded 8m Times, Now Builds for Others Doing $9m+ This Year

I would like to know myself.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
897 His Mobile App Was Downloaded 8m Times, Now Builds for Others Doing $9m+ This Year

Probably just a combination of timing and we put most of our effort into finishing the game and didn't have the budget I think we should have had for the marketing promotion.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
897 His Mobile App Was Downloaded 8m Times, Now Builds for Others Doing $9m+ This Year

And that kind of cost us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
897 His Mobile App Was Downloaded 8m Times, Now Builds for Others Doing $9m+ This Year

So about that time, we made the pivot away from building games and kind of going from that product business into more of a services business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
897 His Mobile App Was Downloaded 8m Times, Now Builds for Others Doing $9m+ This Year

What time, what year was that?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
897 His Mobile App Was Downloaded 8m Times, Now Builds for Others Doing $9m+ This Year

This was the probably 2013, kind of the last part of 2013 going into 2014.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
897 His Mobile App Was Downloaded 8m Times, Now Builds for Others Doing $9m+ This Year

So we made that conscious decision to make the pivot in the business and focus a little bit more on

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
897 His Mobile App Was Downloaded 8m Times, Now Builds for Others Doing $9m+ This Year

stuff that's a little more repeatable and a little more predictable.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
897 His Mobile App Was Downloaded 8m Times, Now Builds for Others Doing $9m+ This Year

And it's worked out pretty well for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
897 His Mobile App Was Downloaded 8m Times, Now Builds for Others Doing $9m+ This Year

So today, most of our revenue comes from basically, really, we kind of follow that agency model by and large, but with a few, I think, key differentiators.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
897 His Mobile App Was Downloaded 8m Times, Now Builds for Others Doing $9m+ This Year

Basically, we try to take our expertise and knowledge and what we did for others and replicate that for them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
897 His Mobile App Was Downloaded 8m Times, Now Builds for Others Doing $9m+ This Year

So a lot of business-to-business stuff.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
897 His Mobile App Was Downloaded 8m Times, Now Builds for Others Doing $9m+ This Year

We do a lot of work these days in education.