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Collin Holmes

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
121 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1077 We Bootstrapped Our Way to $2m in ARR, Now $10m ARR

Where do I need to maybe fire the store manager, for example.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1077 We Bootstrapped Our Way to $2m in ARR, Now $10m ARR

We're enabling the corporate office to respond to reviews in which there's a lot of communications going on between.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1077 We Bootstrapped Our Way to $2m in ARR, Now $10m ARR

The corporate office and the local office figuring out what happened will require you to kind of track and manage all of that, almost like a mini CRM, if you will.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1077 We Bootstrapped Our Way to $2m in ARR, Now $10m ARR

We're certainly not a CRM company, but that concept of being able to understand the customer experience, know what happened.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1077 We Bootstrapped Our Way to $2m in ARR, Now $10m ARR

You need tools really to be able to do that when you're someone that has 200 stores across

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1077 We Bootstrapped Our Way to $2m in ARR, Now $10m ARR

uh you know multiple review sites you're talking about thousands and thousands of pages so we aggregate all that information allow you to see where you need to focus your efforts and provide you with the tools to be able to do that effectively and bootstrapped have you raised capital mostly i'm calling mostly bootstrapped so come on colin no you're either you either get the bootstrap credit or you're not you've gone to the dark side and you're funded which one is it

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1077 We Bootstrapped Our Way to $2m in ARR, Now $10m ARR

Well, we definitely, I can tell you because I was dead broke for multiple years that we were bootstrapped for quite a while.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1077 We Bootstrapped Our Way to $2m in ARR, Now $10m ARR

So the first four or five years was bootstrapped.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1077 We Bootstrapped Our Way to $2m in ARR, Now $10m ARR

We basically built, I would say, about a $2 million AR business on less than $100,000 in funding.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1077 We Bootstrapped Our Way to $2m in ARR, Now $10m ARR

Well, technically, yeah, that was our first real kind of angel rounds right around 2013, 2014.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1077 We Bootstrapped Our Way to $2m in ARR, Now $10m ARR

Which were pretty small.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1077 We Bootstrapped Our Way to $2m in ARR, Now $10m ARR

And then in 2016, so give you a little history there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1077 We Bootstrapped Our Way to $2m in ARR, Now $10m ARR

So we raised a little capital really to kind of focus on pivoting toward the enterprise.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1077 We Bootstrapped Our Way to $2m in ARR, Now $10m ARR

It was like 100,000 that year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1077 We Bootstrapped Our Way to $2m in ARR, Now $10m ARR

That allowed me to find my current CTO as well as my head of sales.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1077 We Bootstrapped Our Way to $2m in ARR, Now $10m ARR

And total team size today is what?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1077 We Bootstrapped Our Way to $2m in ARR, Now $10m ARR

So team size now is up to, we're just approaching 60 people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1077 We Bootstrapped Our Way to $2m in ARR, Now $10m ARR

Yep.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1077 We Bootstrapped Our Way to $2m in ARR, Now $10m ARR

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1077 We Bootstrapped Our Way to $2m in ARR, Now $10m ARR

So we rebuilt the platform.