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John Brakey

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
120 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Patiently Bootstrapped To $4.5m in Revenue In Legacy Space

Our customers range from the low side, about 10 users, and the high side, about 150 as an average.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Patiently Bootstrapped To $4.5m in Revenue In Legacy Space

but what they do, and they're in sectors.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Patiently Bootstrapped To $4.5m in Revenue In Legacy Space

So we have people that are in the IT integration business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Patiently Bootstrapped To $4.5m in Revenue In Legacy Space

We have people that are pure MSPs or managed service providers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Patiently Bootstrapped To $4.5m in Revenue In Legacy Space

We also have a group of physical security and fire suppression and fire security and fire alarm system companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Patiently Bootstrapped To $4.5m in Revenue In Legacy Space

They all have the same common problem.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Patiently Bootstrapped To $4.5m in Revenue In Legacy Space

They sell equipment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Patiently Bootstrapped To $4.5m in Revenue In Legacy Space

They need to quote the equipment and the labor.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Patiently Bootstrapped To $4.5m in Revenue In Legacy Space

They have to deliver the equipment and the labor, and then they want to do post-implementation support.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Patiently Bootstrapped To $4.5m in Revenue In Legacy Space

And that's really the sweet spot for our stuff.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Patiently Bootstrapped To $4.5m in Revenue In Legacy Space

That's about right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Patiently Bootstrapped To $4.5m in Revenue In Legacy Space

Yep.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Patiently Bootstrapped To $4.5m in Revenue In Legacy Space

Most of our customers have been around for five plus years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Patiently Bootstrapped To $4.5m in Revenue In Legacy Space

In that case, some of the larger ones have been around for almost 10 years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Patiently Bootstrapped To $4.5m in Revenue In Legacy Space

And where we lose customers is actually sometimes they get bought or they go out of business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Patiently Bootstrapped To $4.5m in Revenue In Legacy Space

Usually the smaller ones.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Patiently Bootstrapped To $4.5m in Revenue In Legacy Space

So we both have, I guess, approximately about 150, 200.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Patiently Bootstrapped To $4.5m in Revenue In Legacy Space

No, no, no, no.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Patiently Bootstrapped To $4.5m in Revenue In Legacy Space

That's the salespeople are three people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Patiently Bootstrapped To $4.5m in Revenue In Legacy Space

The total team is 15 plus some other five that are subcontract.