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Dan La Savita

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
197 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?

We're, you know, getting our SOC 2, you know, certification going because we, you know, we're running into those conversations with companies where we've got a few designers inside of a company using it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?

And then you go down and you start talking to IT and legal and, you know, are you SOC 2 compliant?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?

And so kind of getting, you know, those processes so we can at least begin to, you know, sell up into the enterprise where we're ready.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?

We're about 30 days in, but to date there, the system is... The person who's doing it on our end has done this before and is like, dude, this is...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?

amazing compared to the nightmare that you have to do this when it's on your own.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?

So the dashboard that they provide has been really useful just in terms of tracking everything you need to do and giving you suggestions.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?

So it's been pretty seamless so far.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?

It's not terribly expensive.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?

I mean, I think we benchmarked a couple other companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?

They were all in relatively in the same range, but quite honestly, I think if you're going to, I mean, look, you need to save every dollar, but also if you're going to save $2,000, but it's going to cost you another $10,000 of manpower, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?

Of people power to actually do the work.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?

I'd rather pay the two grand and have those hours back from my engineer so they can get on building with the product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?

So-

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?

I think, yeah, I think for the first year you budget, budget around 20 grand, you know, inclusive of the, of the auditor fees too.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?

They kind of bundle everything together.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?

That makes a ton of sense.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?

So depth of usage and retention, I would say, are our two primary focuses.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?

So we just put the app in the app store at the end of last year, in Q3 of last year.