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John Frye

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
133 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 98: "Did ABC Reality Show Kill Your Startup?" w/ John Frye

The show was great, amazing experience, but now it's time to hunker down.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 98: "Did ABC Reality Show Kill Your Startup?" w/ John Frye

The biggest reason why I went to Draper University was to launch my startup, which is what I've done now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 98: "Did ABC Reality Show Kill Your Startup?" w/ John Frye

Right now, we just finished our prototype yesterday, actually, and we're partnering with foundations to get a close-up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 98: "Did ABC Reality Show Kill Your Startup?" w/ John Frye

That's absolutely my focus.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 98: "Did ABC Reality Show Kill Your Startup?" w/ John Frye

No.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 98: "Did ABC Reality Show Kill Your Startup?" w/ John Frye

So the whole thing with that was, you know, I stepped...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 98: "Did ABC Reality Show Kill Your Startup?" w/ John Frye

And I had a little bit of validation for the idea from outside of Draper.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 98: "Did ABC Reality Show Kill Your Startup?" w/ John Frye

But, you know, the staff really grilled me and they said, like, do you want, you know, is this going to work?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 98: "Did ABC Reality Show Kill Your Startup?" w/ John Frye

How exactly logistically is this going to play out?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 98: "Did ABC Reality Show Kill Your Startup?" w/ John Frye

And then Tim Draper actually said to me, John, where do you see yourself?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 98: "Did ABC Reality Show Kill Your Startup?" w/ John Frye

Like, what do you want to be in 20?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 98: "Did ABC Reality Show Kill Your Startup?" w/ John Frye

years and i was thinking and i said do i want to have something that like empowers massive change or do i want to help lazy college students right and so the the decision was obvious after that i need to go with this other idea so i just dropped study better and pivoted so what so quickly before we get into my favorite part of the show what is granted yes so granted is like netflix for fun

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 98: "Did ABC Reality Show Kill Your Startup?" w/ John Frye

Yeah, it's like the Netflix for finding nonprofit grants.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 98: "Did ABC Reality Show Kill Your Startup?" w/ John Frye

So you go in, you fill out a quick profile, and what we do is we have a ranked list of grants for nonprofits.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 98: "Did ABC Reality Show Kill Your Startup?" w/ John Frye

Nonprofits can go in, and this totally cuts out all the research that they have to do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 98: "Did ABC Reality Show Kill Your Startup?" w/ John Frye

We do that in our back end, and they can just click and apply.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 98: "Did ABC Reality Show Kill Your Startup?" w/ John Frye

So we actually have not started charging it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 98: "Did ABC Reality Show Kill Your Startup?" w/ John Frye

Right now, we're just busy on perfecting the product, and we have users for free.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 98: "Did ABC Reality Show Kill Your Startup?" w/ John Frye

I can't say that right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 98: "Did ABC Reality Show Kill Your Startup?" w/ John Frye

Soon, though.