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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

Um, I do not know.

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

Okay, cool.

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

Any plans to raise more capital to keep fooling growth or no?

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

Yeah.

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

I mean, we're looking to do our seed round sometime at the end of this year, 2020 or early 2020 or not 2020, geez, 2022, early 2022, probably more realistically.

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

Um, you know, for us, we're growing consistently, you know, about a thousand dollars in new MRR each month.

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

So a new round is really just money in the bank.

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

We can start competing with our competitors at the advertising level and really try and jump our conversion rates at that first initial touch point from 15% of people that search to get into like 45, 50%.

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

So that's really where that money would go.

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

So for us, it's not an absolute need to grow.

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

It's just a matter of can we grow faster with the cash on hand?

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

How much cash is on hand?

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

Right now we have probably just over...

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

hundred thousand dollars in cash on hand.

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

Does that make you guys nervous?

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

Um, not really because we're making, you know, about 15 K a month and we have a really low burn rate.

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

You know, most of our staff, you know, honestly, most of our staff are college interns that are either working as, you know, for free because only working a less than like 20 hours a week.

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

Our paid staff, there's only two or three people that are really paid.

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

And then our co-founders all aren't taking any money right now.

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

So it's like seven people total, but that are full-time and really three are paid.