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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 2016 I found a new team.

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

Uh, my friend, my co-founder is a buddy of mine from high school and then we just brought on some more people and then we've been growing since.

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

Uh, about six.

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

Uh, we strapped, we raised about $35,000.

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

Um, and then we got to revenue.

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

And we haven't opened up a venture round just yet, just because we have really good white papers.

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

We have a good traction.

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

I just presented at a conference in San Francisco two days ago, and we have like 10 universities reaching out.

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

Like we've had this really good sales structure in place now.

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

So I think we'll go into like a late seed or early series A in the next like three months.

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

Uh, we are making enough money to survive.

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

So cashflow positive.

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

Um, so we have some overseas and then, um, the rest of them are in Philadelphia or New York.

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

So I originally was in Philadelphia and I just moved to New York cause we're starting the fundraising process.

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

So I wanted to get like a few months early and start building these relationships.

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

So then I opened the round.

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

It can move quickly.

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

Any turn to date or no?

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

Uh, we have one customer churn.

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

So they didn't actually churn just delaying the launch for another month or a year.