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Jose Cayasso

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
106 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
745: At $1.5m Revenue, Is This The New PowerPoint?

Yeah, so our lifetime value is actually around over $1,000 with our newcomers, and our churn started reducing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
745: At $1.5m Revenue, Is This The New PowerPoint?

That's new, with our more recent progress in churn, but through most of the lifetime of the company, we've acquired customers for $100 to $150, and we have a lifetime value of $500 to $700.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
745: At $1.5m Revenue, Is This The New PowerPoint?

That's right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
745: At $1.5m Revenue, Is This The New PowerPoint?

Just based on that chart, it's around 18 months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
745: At $1.5m Revenue, Is This The New PowerPoint?

So total marketing, and I actually include the team costs here, the marketing team costs in that map, is around $25,000 to $35,000, depending on the month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
745: At $1.5m Revenue, Is This The New PowerPoint?

We try to scale that by 10%, 15% each month, always assuming that the existing month was profitable and we got the correct economics.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
745: At $1.5m Revenue, Is This The New PowerPoint?

If we get the correct economics, then we scale 10%, 15%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
745: At $1.5m Revenue, Is This The New PowerPoint?

Yeah, that's right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
745: At $1.5m Revenue, Is This The New PowerPoint?

That includes our marketing team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
745: At $1.5m Revenue, Is This The New PowerPoint?

Um, it's actually, it's actually a little bit lower than that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
745: At $1.5m Revenue, Is This The New PowerPoint?

We're on the 75 to 80% range, mainly because we have, we have a large wholesales and design team, you know, just to, you know, to provide this premium service that we advertise.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
745: At $1.5m Revenue, Is This The New PowerPoint?

Um, so for example, again, customers have access to our design team to help them with, you know, particular presentations or with, uh, with specific things that they maybe couldn't solve that they need special assistance on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
745: At $1.5m Revenue, Is This The New PowerPoint?

Um, so that, you know, that increases our cost a little bit of serving a customer, but it's still well within our comfortable range.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
745: At $1.5m Revenue, Is This The New PowerPoint?

So we're absolutely expecting to get to $2 million in ARR.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
745: At $1.5m Revenue, Is This The New PowerPoint?

Again, since we have this bootstrap operation, we don't really need to raise money as urgently.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
745: At $1.5m Revenue, Is This The New PowerPoint?

So we're stretching and trying to speed up our growth as much as possible until we get to $2 to $3 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
745: At $1.5m Revenue, Is This The New PowerPoint?

And then we believe that that would be a great opportunity to start approaching investors.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
745: At $1.5m Revenue, Is This The New PowerPoint?

That's right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
745: At $1.5m Revenue, Is This The New PowerPoint?

So 2016 was kind of like the big spike in our organic traffic.