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Josh Merriman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
238 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

There's no route in which they can do that, which for us...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

We just piggyback off QuickBooks.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

So when you text to pay, it's just plugged into your accounting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

We're not creating extra work when it comes to year-end financial balance sheets and all that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

It's almost like an invoicing to like FreshBooks right on desktop, but you're doing that just for text messaging, text invoicing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

Yeah, exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

Interesting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

Makes a lot of sense to me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

Talk to me about funding.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

Have you guys stayed bootstrapped or raised?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

So we raised a pre-seed round.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

We've done just over half a million dollars in funding to date.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

We were bootstrapped up until mid-2020.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

So pre-seed, 500 grand raised.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

And do you have any idea, was that on a note or priced or maybe not?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

It was a convertible note round.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

A convertible note.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

Okay, very cool.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

Do you know the cap that was on it?