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Deepak Balakrishnan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
142 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

And there was an open need there that I wanted to address.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

So that's what got me into this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

Got it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

And so what year was that?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

When did you launch?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

So we launched, so that was initially about 2016.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

By the time we figured out what we were doing, it was 2017.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

We literally launched about four, five months ago now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

And it's exciting and scary at the same time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

So bootstrapped with some angel and friends and family.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

We haven't raised from any VCs yet.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

Almost all stateside.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

Oh, great.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

We are a US registered firm.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

And again, given that I was there for all of my life until a couple of years ago, that's where I have all my contacts and that's what I utilized.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

So we have about eight customers, eight paying customers, about similar size number of trials going on as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

So the first four of them were essentially my contacts.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

So I just reached out to them.