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Charlie Mulligan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
114 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Sells Craft Beer On Demand, $250k in 2015, $2m in 2016, EP 259: Charlie Mulligan

I see.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Sells Craft Beer On Demand, $250k in 2015, $2m in 2016, EP 259: Charlie Mulligan

Than, say, a Portland, which is a little counterintuitive.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Sells Craft Beer On Demand, $250k in 2015, $2m in 2016, EP 259: Charlie Mulligan

I see.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Sells Craft Beer On Demand, $250k in 2015, $2m in 2016, EP 259: Charlie Mulligan

But what I was going to say real quickly is that we can look, once we've established that our target demographics are where we want them to be, we can sort of be very opportunistic.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Sells Craft Beer On Demand, $250k in 2015, $2m in 2016, EP 259: Charlie Mulligan

And so if we've got a bunch of B2B clients who are clamoring for us in a new market, we move there first.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Sells Craft Beer On Demand, $250k in 2015, $2m in 2016, EP 259: Charlie Mulligan

We set that up, and then all of a sudden, we've got operating revenue sometimes before we've even established ourselves, or at least commitments for operating revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Sells Craft Beer On Demand, $250k in 2015, $2m in 2016, EP 259: Charlie Mulligan

So that's the way that we're able to move lean and fast.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Sells Craft Beer On Demand, $250k in 2015, $2m in 2016, EP 259: Charlie Mulligan

Yeah, we have.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Sells Craft Beer On Demand, $250k in 2015, $2m in 2016, EP 259: Charlie Mulligan

We bootstrapped for the first six months of the business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Sells Craft Beer On Demand, $250k in 2015, $2m in 2016, EP 259: Charlie Mulligan

Then we've had kind of an age-old seed round.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Sells Craft Beer On Demand, $250k in 2015, $2m in 2016, EP 259: Charlie Mulligan

We've raised a total of half a million in the last six months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Sells Craft Beer On Demand, $250k in 2015, $2m in 2016, EP 259: Charlie Mulligan

No, we've really done.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Sells Craft Beer On Demand, $250k in 2015, $2m in 2016, EP 259: Charlie Mulligan

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Sells Craft Beer On Demand, $250k in 2015, $2m in 2016, EP 259: Charlie Mulligan

Friends and family to this point, we've got, we do have a seat open and just on a convertible note.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Sells Craft Beer On Demand, $250k in 2015, $2m in 2016, EP 259: Charlie Mulligan

And we'll be looking for series a sort of, you know, probably in the 12 month range from now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Sells Craft Beer On Demand, $250k in 2015, $2m in 2016, EP 259: Charlie Mulligan

Yeah, so Nathan, I mean, I view this as a really awesome business opportunity first.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Sells Craft Beer On Demand, $250k in 2015, $2m in 2016, EP 259: Charlie Mulligan

I do love craft beer and I love the fact that we're helping artisans get their products into the hands of everybody.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Sells Craft Beer On Demand, $250k in 2015, $2m in 2016, EP 259: Charlie Mulligan

But what I saw is a $25 billion market that just 10 years ago was only 7 billion.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Sells Craft Beer On Demand, $250k in 2015, $2m in 2016, EP 259: Charlie Mulligan

And the retail channels for craft beer are, or beer in, you know, really any alcohol, but craft beer specifically are just not developed.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Sells Craft Beer On Demand, $250k in 2015, $2m in 2016, EP 259: Charlie Mulligan

So I look at craft beer, I think if you can use the Amazon analogy, the same way that Amazon looked at books,