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Douglas Lusted

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
106 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 363: Google AdSense for Physical BillBoards Does $250k with Douglas Lusted

No, we've raised two seed rounds.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 363: Google AdSense for Physical BillBoards Does $250k with Douglas Lusted

In total, we've raised about a million dollars.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 363: Google AdSense for Physical BillBoards Does $250k with Douglas Lusted

Well, Canadian, which is about 50 cents US these days, but no, we've raised capital.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 363: Google AdSense for Physical BillBoards Does $250k with Douglas Lusted

No.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 363: Google AdSense for Physical BillBoards Does $250k with Douglas Lusted

So the first one was actually an equity deal.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 363: Google AdSense for Physical BillBoards Does $250k with Douglas Lusted

Oh, okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 363: Google AdSense for Physical BillBoards Does $250k with Douglas Lusted

And then the second one was off of 500 startups convertible deal, which is pretty attractive.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 363: Google AdSense for Physical BillBoards Does $250k with Douglas Lusted

um so we actually raised uh sorry equity i'm in equity yeah so um we hadn't raised that much we raised an additional amount of capital from outside investors this round off of 500 startups no oh okay we had raised about six six hundred fifty thousand uh

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 363: Google AdSense for Physical BillBoards Does $250k with Douglas Lusted

And we raised it from XDL Capital, which is a local VC in Toronto.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 363: Google AdSense for Physical BillBoards Does $250k with Douglas Lusted

That's where you are now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 363: Google AdSense for Physical BillBoards Does $250k with Douglas Lusted

As well as BDC, which is kind of like a government VC out in Canada.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 363: Google AdSense for Physical BillBoards Does $250k with Douglas Lusted

Douglas, is Toronto where you are now?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 363: Google AdSense for Physical BillBoards Does $250k with Douglas Lusted

We're at about six people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 363: Google AdSense for Physical BillBoards Does $250k with Douglas Lusted

It is.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 363: Google AdSense for Physical BillBoards Does $250k with Douglas Lusted

Especially if you can get into profitable, you can kind of make your own rules, which is sleep at night.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 363: Google AdSense for Physical BillBoards Does $250k with Douglas Lusted

Well, 2015 total revenue was about $250,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 363: Google AdSense for Physical BillBoards Does $250k with Douglas Lusted

This year, we're on pace to do just under a million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 363: Google AdSense for Physical BillBoards Does $250k with Douglas Lusted

That's correct.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 363: Google AdSense for Physical BillBoards Does $250k with Douglas Lusted

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 363: Google AdSense for Physical BillBoards Does $250k with Douglas Lusted

Getting in is the tough part.