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David Naffziger

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
281 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1324 How He Bootstrapped to $6m in ARR

And over some back and forth, we realized that our team sitting in Seattle saw a really different set of ads than she saw sitting in San Francisco.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1324 How He Bootstrapped to $6m in ARR

And it turns out the affiliates were doing what we call reverse geotargeting, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1324 How He Bootstrapped to $6m in ARR

So they're running their ads everywhere.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1324 How He Bootstrapped to $6m in ARR

And so this was the sort of first sign that there's sort of a problem here that's not well solved.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1324 How He Bootstrapped to $6m in ARR

So we wound down Judy's book.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1324 How He Bootstrapped to $6m in ARR

And as I was thinking about what to do next, I flew down to Affiliate Summit, which is sort of the largest affiliate conference.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1324 How He Bootstrapped to $6m in ARR

And kind of walked around and talked to folks.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1324 How He Bootstrapped to $6m in ARR

Is this a problem you have?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1324 How He Bootstrapped to $6m in ARR

And there were a lot of yeses.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1324 How He Bootstrapped to $6m in ARR

And is this, how do you solve it today?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1324 How He Bootstrapped to $6m in ARR

And not a lot of good answers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1324 How He Bootstrapped to $6m in ARR

And would you pay money for a solution that did that?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1324 How He Bootstrapped to $6m in ARR

And sort of got enough of an interest to feel like it was worthwhile to build sort of a V1 or an alpha product.