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Byron Darlison

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
105 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1486 Digital Signage Management Passes $4.2M in ARR, Bootstrapped

Well, actually, no, um, it's post-secondary that started the whole trading labs, but what's really interesting because of the financial literacy programs in the U S high schools are now putting in trading labs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1486 Digital Signage Management Passes $4.2M in ARR, Bootstrapped

So this started in the last couple of years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1486 Digital Signage Management Passes $4.2M in ARR, Bootstrapped

Uh, well, we're a freemium model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1486 Digital Signage Management Passes $4.2M in ARR, Bootstrapped

So, uh, we've got just a paying customer, about 6,000 customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1486 Digital Signage Management Passes $4.2M in ARR, Bootstrapped

Uh, I think we're about, actually, I don't know.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1486 Digital Signage Management Passes $4.2M in ARR, Bootstrapped

You, you can do this math far faster than I can.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1486 Digital Signage Management Passes $4.2M in ARR, Bootstrapped

54% pay us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1486 Digital Signage Management Passes $4.2M in ARR, Bootstrapped

So whatever that number is, that's the active base.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1486 Digital Signage Management Passes $4.2M in ARR, Bootstrapped

Yeah, I think it's closer to three 50, three 50.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1486 Digital Signage Management Passes $4.2M in ARR, Bootstrapped

Um, we track our moving annual average growth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1486 Digital Signage Management Passes $4.2M in ARR, Bootstrapped

So it's on a, on that basis, it's 25%, 24 point something.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1486 Digital Signage Management Passes $4.2M in ARR, Bootstrapped

Something like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1486 Digital Signage Management Passes $4.2M in ARR, Bootstrapped

I know we're just bootstrapped.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1486 Digital Signage Management Passes $4.2M in ARR, Bootstrapped

I personally think it's a fantastic thing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1486 Digital Signage Management Passes $4.2M in ARR, Bootstrapped

I think if you have the ability and a strategy and you can see a return on it, why not go for it?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1486 Digital Signage Management Passes $4.2M in ARR, Bootstrapped

For us, and you and I have talked about this before, we're at a crossroads where we've got some really interesting things coming up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1486 Digital Signage Management Passes $4.2M in ARR, Bootstrapped

we we may look at to more expansion through debt financing stuff like that which is based on the exact same formula that any other entrepreneur should be using to evaluate that but i not just debt by the way like entrepreneurs should use that formula for even venture the big difference is venture is dilutive and debt is non-dilutive however there's an interest rate typically

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1486 Digital Signage Management Passes $4.2M in ARR, Bootstrapped

My preference is the debt side, just because I'm a firm believer in the upside of controlling your destiny.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1486 Digital Signage Management Passes $4.2M in ARR, Bootstrapped

Not what we want it to be.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1486 Digital Signage Management Passes $4.2M in ARR, Bootstrapped

So our gross churn, or well, our logo churn is about 1.33% monthly.