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Harshal Khatre

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
192 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ProfitBooks Hit $1m Revenue 2019, COVID Keeps Them Flat This Year

Okay, it was I think around September or October when we launched it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ProfitBooks Hit $1m Revenue 2019, COVID Keeps Them Flat This Year

Okay, and we got our first customer almost in November and December of 2012.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ProfitBooks Hit $1m Revenue 2019, COVID Keeps Them Flat This Year

And then, um, we participated in a lot of, uh, business expos.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ProfitBooks Hit $1m Revenue 2019, COVID Keeps Them Flat This Year

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ProfitBooks Hit $1m Revenue 2019, COVID Keeps Them Flat This Year

And can you name one?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ProfitBooks Hit $1m Revenue 2019, COVID Keeps Them Flat This Year

Uh, there was an expo called Maha Tech.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ProfitBooks Hit $1m Revenue 2019, COVID Keeps Them Flat This Year

Maharashtra is a state where I, uh, where our company is based out of.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ProfitBooks Hit $1m Revenue 2019, COVID Keeps Them Flat This Year

So it's called Maha Tech.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ProfitBooks Hit $1m Revenue 2019, COVID Keeps Them Flat This Year

So it's an industrial expo where all the, uh, industrialists, uh, people who are in manufacturing, trading, they kind of, you know, participate in this expo.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ProfitBooks Hit $1m Revenue 2019, COVID Keeps Them Flat This Year

So it's a five-day expo, and we got a very good traction from there for the first time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ProfitBooks Hit $1m Revenue 2019, COVID Keeps Them Flat This Year

And we acquired our first, I would say, 50 to 70 customers from that expo itself.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ProfitBooks Hit $1m Revenue 2019, COVID Keeps Them Flat This Year

And then we got covered by a lot of publications like yourstory.com and a lot of other publications.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ProfitBooks Hit $1m Revenue 2019, COVID Keeps Them Flat This Year

They started covering us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ProfitBooks Hit $1m Revenue 2019, COVID Keeps Them Flat This Year

So through that, we got our first bunch of 100 customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ProfitBooks Hit $1m Revenue 2019, COVID Keeps Them Flat This Year

Right now, we have just crossed 75,000 customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ProfitBooks Hit $1m Revenue 2019, COVID Keeps Them Flat This Year

These are companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ProfitBooks Hit $1m Revenue 2019, COVID Keeps Them Flat This Year

The actual count of users is much larger.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ProfitBooks Hit $1m Revenue 2019, COVID Keeps Them Flat This Year

These are actually the companies, 75,000 companies that are using the application right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ProfitBooks Hit $1m Revenue 2019, COVID Keeps Them Flat This Year

It's a mix of both free and paid.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ProfitBooks Hit $1m Revenue 2019, COVID Keeps Them Flat This Year

We also have a free edition right now.