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Ethan Keiser

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
162 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

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

It's really hard to describe a CAC and enterprise model.

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

Um, it's really, I mean, it's challenging because our deal sizes are very large and they take a long time.

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

So I couldn't really give you an estimate.

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

Like I always get asked this question, like what's our CAC?

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

Uh, I would say it's,

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

It's really hard to describe what our cap is.

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

It's cutting it now, but I think you asked me how much am I looking to raise?

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

So I actually did a predictive model where, I mean, a model where we raised 750,000 and it gets us to two and a half, 3 million in revenue in the next 18 months.

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

And I thought that was pretty, that's a very honest prediction just because I've been integrated in these conferences and this kind of these circles.

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

Higher education is kind of like healthcare.

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

Once you break in and you have impressive white papers and can prove product efficacy, they grow pretty quickly and universities don't really compete against each other and they share best practice.

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

So if you become a best practice, you can grow at a relatively fast rate.

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

Just getting in is so challenging.

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

Yeah, I mean, I think we could do this.

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

You know, you can do valuation or you can do like a convertible note.

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

I was thinking doing a convertible note at a $6 million cap with a 15 to 20% discount.

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

I think it's very fair given everything we've done so far.

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

You know, I think convertible note is something I'm more familiar with.