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Greg Raiz

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
166 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 447: $0 to $13M Agency Revenue in 10 Years with RaizLabs CEO Greg Raiz

And so they came to us with a challenge of micro navigation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 447: $0 to $13M Agency Revenue in 10 Years with RaizLabs CEO Greg Raiz

So people who are visually impaired, they can use GPS to navigate themselves to a bus stop.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 447: $0 to $13M Agency Revenue in 10 Years with RaizLabs CEO Greg Raiz

But they have they can only get within 30 or 50 feet of that bus stop.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 447: $0 to $13M Agency Revenue in 10 Years with RaizLabs CEO Greg Raiz

And so if you're standing within 30 feet of a bus stop, the bus will blow right by you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 447: $0 to $13M Agency Revenue in 10 Years with RaizLabs CEO Greg Raiz

And so the challenge that came to us with is how do you get people exactly to a bus stop?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 447: $0 to $13M Agency Revenue in 10 Years with RaizLabs CEO Greg Raiz

And so we spent a lot of time thinking through the problem.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 447: $0 to $13M Agency Revenue in 10 Years with RaizLabs CEO Greg Raiz

studying users, doing usability, testing products and prototypes, building the backend systems, and then working with them hand in hand to make sure that the product is a successful launch.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 447: $0 to $13M Agency Revenue in 10 Years with RaizLabs CEO Greg Raiz

So we launched it in the city of Boston just earlier this week, and they're looking at how they can replicate the system and apply it to other cities and municipalities as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 447: $0 to $13M Agency Revenue in 10 Years with RaizLabs CEO Greg Raiz

Sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 447: $0 to $13M Agency Revenue in 10 Years with RaizLabs CEO Greg Raiz

RunKeeper was a great story.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 447: $0 to $13M Agency Revenue in 10 Years with RaizLabs CEO Greg Raiz

So they actually, the founder came to us really at the infancy of this company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 447: $0 to $13M Agency Revenue in 10 Years with RaizLabs CEO Greg Raiz

You know, he had this idea of building fitness mapping.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 447: $0 to $13M Agency Revenue in 10 Years with RaizLabs CEO Greg Raiz

And it wasn't necessarily even an iPhone app.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 447: $0 to $13M Agency Revenue in 10 Years with RaizLabs CEO Greg Raiz

It was, hey, I want my runs and my fitness tracked on a website.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 447: $0 to $13M Agency Revenue in 10 Years with RaizLabs CEO Greg Raiz

And this was right around the time that the iPhone... He wanted it for himself.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 447: $0 to $13M Agency Revenue in 10 Years with RaizLabs CEO Greg Raiz

Well, he's an avid runner.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 447: $0 to $13M Agency Revenue in 10 Years with RaizLabs CEO Greg Raiz

He'd seen some competitive products that had it as web products.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 447: $0 to $13M Agency Revenue in 10 Years with RaizLabs CEO Greg Raiz

And so he thought he could do a better job in the web because he was more knowledgeable about running.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 447: $0 to $13M Agency Revenue in 10 Years with RaizLabs CEO Greg Raiz

And so we looked at it and we actually said, hey, there may be a timing opportunity because we think that the iPhone will have a GPS.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 447: $0 to $13M Agency Revenue in 10 Years with RaizLabs CEO Greg Raiz

That was kind of what the Mac rumor boards were saying.