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Dmitriy Pavlov

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
361 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1727 He Spent $100k on MVP, Can He Scale During Virus?

We have about half, a little less than half of the team is full-time at this point, and the rest is part-time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1727 He Spent $100k on MVP, Can He Scale During Virus?

The full-time folks are taking still a discounted salary, basically.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1727 He Spent $100k on MVP, Can He Scale During Virus?

We started a very small trickle of pay at the beginning of this past year for our executive team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1727 He Spent $100k on MVP, Can He Scale During Virus?

And basically, the idea is we're building this in order to get it commercial ready by the end of this year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1727 He Spent $100k on MVP, Can He Scale During Virus?

When we reach essentially Series A readiness, we're all going to come on board and start really

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1727 He Spent $100k on MVP, Can He Scale During Virus?

No, absolutely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1727 He Spent $100k on MVP, Can He Scale During Virus?

And this is this is such a crazy time right now where, you know, lots of uncertainty drives a lot of.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1727 He Spent $100k on MVP, Can He Scale During Virus?

a lot of behavior that wouldn't have been otherwise.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1727 He Spent $100k on MVP, Can He Scale During Virus?

What I'm seeing right now is, again, kind of this divide between folks that have a little bit of a buffer and are using this time

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1727 He Spent $100k on MVP, Can He Scale During Virus?

to meditate and to grow and to kind of focus on things and folks that don't have a buffer that didn't have the luxury of, of having resources like this all around them that are, are jumping to, okay, what do we need to do?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1727 He Spent $100k on MVP, Can He Scale During Virus?

The folks that we have on, on, on my team, we are, we do have the luxury of having a buffer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1727 He Spent $100k on MVP, Can He Scale During Virus?

So right now is actually a very productive time for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1727 He Spent $100k on MVP, Can He Scale During Virus?

We have brought on board a new big customer in the last actually, um, kind of about a few weeks, um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1727 He Spent $100k on MVP, Can He Scale During Virus?

The idea being that this is a way to actually work within the system.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1727 He Spent $100k on MVP, Can He Scale During Virus?

Our company, the idea of our company is to be able to capture the general emotion and sentiment that people are trying to convey to brands to improve the products and services.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1727 He Spent $100k on MVP, Can He Scale During Virus?

But you know what?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1727 He Spent $100k on MVP, Can He Scale During Virus?

So, yeah, but you can do that and you can ask a few customers, how are you feeling right now?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1727 He Spent $100k on MVP, Can He Scale During Virus?

But what you want is you want to be able to really have a baseline measure of how are people, how are competitor customers feeling against my customers?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1727 He Spent $100k on MVP, Can He Scale During Virus?

What's making my customers really anxious and upset?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1727 He Spent $100k on MVP, Can He Scale During Virus?

What's really driving this?