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Hamza Amir

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
100 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 394: Create SnapChat Stories Like Featured Brands, 20k Views Each Snap

And everyone keeps complaining about the same problem to me over and over again.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 394: Create SnapChat Stories Like Featured Brands, 20k Views Each Snap

I thought, you know, might as well make a solution for this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 394: Create SnapChat Stories Like Featured Brands, 20k Views Each Snap

And that's how we came up with Blurpist.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 394: Create SnapChat Stories Like Featured Brands, 20k Views Each Snap

You know, we're in the middle of fundraising right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 394: Create SnapChat Stories Like Featured Brands, 20k Views Each Snap

We're expecting to wrap up a $2 million round by the end of this month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 394: Create SnapChat Stories Like Featured Brands, 20k Views Each Snap

Well, we're just finishing up the terms with them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 394: Create SnapChat Stories Like Featured Brands, 20k Views Each Snap

So once everything is signed and done, deal out to you guys.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 394: Create SnapChat Stories Like Featured Brands, 20k Views Each Snap

You know...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 394: Create SnapChat Stories Like Featured Brands, 20k Views Each Snap

The place where funding has changed is more towards the angel around seed funding.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 394: Create SnapChat Stories Like Featured Brands, 20k Views Each Snap

It's traditionally the same.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 394: Create SnapChat Stories Like Featured Brands, 20k Views Each Snap

But if you were to go out and raise angel funding, one thing you'll start noticing is that if your company, let's say, goes down for any reason or did not work out,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 394: Create SnapChat Stories Like Featured Brands, 20k Views Each Snap

these angel investors have a clause in there that gets them at a minimum three times return.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 394: Create SnapChat Stories Like Featured Brands, 20k Views Each Snap

So whatever you liquidate, whatever assets, whatever goes out, these investors are still going to make their money back.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 394: Create SnapChat Stories Like Featured Brands, 20k Views Each Snap

This is the most interesting new clause I've seen, but it's particularly for angel investors.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 394: Create SnapChat Stories Like Featured Brands, 20k Views Each Snap

Yeah, so there's convertible notes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 394: Create SnapChat Stories Like Featured Brands, 20k Views Each Snap

This is how we reserve funding as well in the beginning.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 394: Create SnapChat Stories Like Featured Brands, 20k Views Each Snap

And it's, you don't only, there's only discount, there's also an interest rate, but those are all traditional things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 394: Create SnapChat Stories Like Featured Brands, 20k Views Each Snap

There's 15%, you know, and then there's interest on top, then there's cap, there's a... You had a 15% interest rate?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 394: Create SnapChat Stories Like Featured Brands, 20k Views Each Snap

No, no, no.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 394: Create SnapChat Stories Like Featured Brands, 20k Views Each Snap

I'm talking about for the... No, not the interest rate, I'm talking about once you cap it off, once you cap off your...