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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

So our premium product takes away all of that.

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

You know exactly what happens.

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

What are your chances?

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

You have predictable...

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

We make the whole process predictable and transparent.

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

Exactly.

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

But more than that, we actually optimize the application process itself.

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

So one of our features on the consumer side, we call it kind of like the Netflix of scholarships.

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

When you apply to a specific scholarship, some scholarships require quite a lot of different application process, maybe an essay, maybe like a social media post, maybe like a video submission.

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

So we analyze all of that, and we find other scholarships that you can apply very quickly and easily to as well.

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

And then we can batch them together and apply you to many different scholarships at the same time.

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

And basically, we triple the time that it takes you to apply.

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

pump the efficiency like two, three times more, right?

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

Like the same, you invest the same time.

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

So not only we kind of find all the scholarships that you can apply to that are perfectly matched to you, and that's where AI comes in, right?

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

We use a lot of matching, a lot of algorithms to extract a lot of this data.

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

No, it's 150 students, not 150 applications.

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

So I think it's about...

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

I don't have the exact number, but it's in the millions.

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

So it is seasonal.