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David Abakhnikov

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
152 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Bootstrapper Made $6m Last year Using New Self-Funding Method

And part of that budget goes towards promoting the campaign itself, and part of it goes toward a scholarship that goes to the students.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Bootstrapper Made $6m Last year Using New Self-Funding Method

So kind of that is split.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Bootstrapper Made $6m Last year Using New Self-Funding Method

And we take care of the whole process of running the scholarship.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Bootstrapper Made $6m Last year Using New Self-Funding Method

Like we have our own kind of 5123 entity that helps make it tax deductible.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Bootstrapper Made $6m Last year Using New Self-Funding Method

I mean, when was the last time you heard of a marketing campaign that actually gives you tax benefits?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Bootstrapper Made $6m Last year Using New Self-Funding Method

So on a monthly basis, we're talking about 50 brands, but on a yearly basis, it goes to 400 because some of them are seasonal, some of them are two-hour the whole year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Bootstrapper Made $6m Last year Using New Self-Funding Method

It depends on the goals that the brand is trying to achieve.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Bootstrapper Made $6m Last year Using New Self-Funding Method

Well, it doesn't change that much.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Bootstrapper Made $6m Last year Using New Self-Funding Method

I mean, at the end of the day, we still have a pretty stable ARR and we have two revenue sources.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Bootstrapper Made $6m Last year Using New Self-Funding Method

We have the premium tools for the students, like a subscription business on one side.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Bootstrapper Made $6m Last year Using New Self-Funding Method

And the other side, we have the B2B side, which generates revenue from the brands and the companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Bootstrapper Made $6m Last year Using New Self-Funding Method

um it's uh today more more of it comes from the consumers but it's quickly catching up like evening out and what do students pay to use your subscription tools so on the on the consumer side on the student side we basically often many tools that help them um

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Bootstrapper Made $6m Last year Using New Self-Funding Method

kind of highlight where the highest chance of winning a scholarship is, like optimizing the application process, adding a bunch of transparency into that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Bootstrapper Made $6m Last year Using New Self-Funding Method

They pay $15 a month for the usage of our premium features.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Bootstrapper Made $6m Last year Using New Self-Funding Method

So things like they know an applicant count.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Bootstrapper Made $6m Last year Using New Self-Funding Method

They know exactly how many other people apply to a specific scholarship.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Bootstrapper Made $6m Last year Using New Self-Funding Method

So they know to invest the time where they have the highest chance of winning.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Bootstrapper Made $6m Last year Using New Self-Funding Method

We give them a lot more kind of tracking over the application process itself so they know that the brand on the other side actually reviewed the application and actually accepted it or who is the winner.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Bootstrapper Made $6m Last year Using New Self-Funding Method

We make sure they know that there is a winner, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Bootstrapper Made $6m Last year Using New Self-Funding Method

Like in the scholarship space, there's quite a bit of scams and lack of transparency and all of that.