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Ethan Keiser

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
162 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1638 How He Makes Universities More Money By Keeping Students From Flunking

So in the first term, okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1638 How He Makes Universities More Money By Keeping Students From Flunking

So yeah, for if you have 70, uh, maybe you probably have somewhere in the range of, you know, 20,000 students.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1638 How He Makes Universities More Money By Keeping Students From Flunking

So we launched the company in 2016.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1638 How He Makes Universities More Money By Keeping Students From Flunking

Our first product, we pivoted away from, and we started working on this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1638 How He Makes Universities More Money By Keeping Students From Flunking

Our business model completely changed.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1638 How He Makes Universities More Money By Keeping Students From Flunking

So 2016 is when we started.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1638 How He Makes Universities More Money By Keeping Students From Flunking

2017, we got our first customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1638 How He Makes Universities More Money By Keeping Students From Flunking

And then now, 2018, we're growing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1638 How He Makes Universities More Money By Keeping Students From Flunking

You know, we don't really share that information often.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1638 How He Makes Universities More Money By Keeping Students From Flunking

We have more than a few, so more than five universities, but it's between five and 20, I would say somewhere in the middle there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1638 How He Makes Universities More Money By Keeping Students From Flunking

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1638 How He Makes Universities More Money By Keeping Students From Flunking

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1638 How He Makes Universities More Money By Keeping Students From Flunking

Close to.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1638 How He Makes Universities More Money By Keeping Students From Flunking

Zero, 18 months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1638 How He Makes Universities More Money By Keeping Students From Flunking

Uh, I mean about a year ago we had our first few contracts, so probably 10, 10, uh, probably less than 10,000, uh, MMR.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1638 How He Makes Universities More Money By Keeping Students From Flunking

Uh, I had to, well, I was not in academia, so I didn't have any ways of getting into these universities.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1638 How He Makes Universities More Money By Keeping Students From Flunking

So I just kind of cold called and sent a lot of cold emails and went to a lot of conferences and just really hustled to get this happening.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1638 How He Makes Universities More Money By Keeping Students From Flunking

Uh, that's a good question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1638 How He Makes Universities More Money By Keeping Students From Flunking

Actually.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1638 How He Makes Universities More Money By Keeping Students From Flunking

I met with their, uh, VP of enrollment.