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Christian Geissendoerfer

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
130 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
826: AdTech: Bootstrapped to $1m-$10m With 20% EBIDTA Margin

Sorry, let me just add on there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
826: AdTech: Bootstrapped to $1m-$10m With 20% EBIDTA Margin

So it's mainly CPM as of today, but of course also in that environment goes more and more towards performance.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
826: AdTech: Bootstrapped to $1m-$10m With 20% EBIDTA Margin

So CPC or there's a lot of requests also for even cost per action, but that's with display advertising and not really easy to do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
826: AdTech: Bootstrapped to $1m-$10m With 20% EBIDTA Margin

So yeah, the main model is CPM.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
826: AdTech: Bootstrapped to $1m-$10m With 20% EBIDTA Margin

Sorry, which?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
826: AdTech: Bootstrapped to $1m-$10m With 20% EBIDTA Margin

Yes, sorry.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
826: AdTech: Bootstrapped to $1m-$10m With 20% EBIDTA Margin

I launched in 2008 out of Berlin, actually, for two years and moved to Singapore in 2010.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
826: AdTech: Bootstrapped to $1m-$10m With 20% EBIDTA Margin

Moved the complete company because initially also we were doing a location-based couponing self-service platform, which technically worked, but from a business model point of view, it's very hard to scale.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
826: AdTech: Bootstrapped to $1m-$10m With 20% EBIDTA Margin

It's very hard to work with small retailers in a self-service environment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
826: AdTech: Bootstrapped to $1m-$10m With 20% EBIDTA Margin

So then in about 2011, 2012, it changed to the display advertising model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
826: AdTech: Bootstrapped to $1m-$10m With 20% EBIDTA Margin

We moved from small businesses to media agencies and brands.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
826: AdTech: Bootstrapped to $1m-$10m With 20% EBIDTA Margin

And from there, we were basically building it up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
826: AdTech: Bootstrapped to $1m-$10m With 20% EBIDTA Margin

in 2016 well revenues is in a million digit figure um we have a team of 15 um the majority of the team is based out of vietnam and um probably important there to know also to anticipate also your question it's a bootstrap business uh so we didn't go for a venture funding round um yeah have you listened to the show you're anticipating my questions of course do you enjoy it

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
826: AdTech: Bootstrapped to $1m-$10m With 20% EBIDTA Margin

Today, it's a pure CPM or a pure arbitrage model, where...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
826: AdTech: Bootstrapped to $1m-$10m With 20% EBIDTA Margin

working on a platform to be, and that's not necessarily SaaS, but it's all about audiences, profiles, and actually attribution.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
826: AdTech: Bootstrapped to $1m-$10m With 20% EBIDTA Margin

So where you can, I mean, look at location like the physical world cookie, so that

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
826: AdTech: Bootstrapped to $1m-$10m With 20% EBIDTA Margin

We could then, well, we can today already retarget people who have been really in a store.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
826: AdTech: Bootstrapped to $1m-$10m With 20% EBIDTA Margin

You have been at an airport based on your advertising ID inside your mobile applications.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
826: AdTech: Bootstrapped to $1m-$10m With 20% EBIDTA Margin

Or the other way around, if a retailer wants to attribute ad spending to store visits, we can do that as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
826: AdTech: Bootstrapped to $1m-$10m With 20% EBIDTA Margin

So that we can really say, okay, out of the $100,000 budget you spent, you have generated that many store visits of individual people in the seven days following the campaign.