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Kate Toews

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
201 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 370: $120k 2015 Revenue, Private Chefs for Elderly with Kate Toews of Chefs for Seniors

We've got two go-to-market models.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 370: $120k 2015 Revenue, Private Chefs for Elderly with Kate Toews of Chefs for Seniors

One is direct-to-consumer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 370: $120k 2015 Revenue, Private Chefs for Elderly with Kate Toews of Chefs for Seniors

That's online.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 370: $120k 2015 Revenue, Private Chefs for Elderly with Kate Toews of Chefs for Seniors

That's basically folks finding us because they're looking for their mom's help with mom's meals or whatever.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 370: $120k 2015 Revenue, Private Chefs for Elderly with Kate Toews of Chefs for Seniors

The other is actually via partners and that has a slightly different profitability perspective for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 370: $120k 2015 Revenue, Private Chefs for Elderly with Kate Toews of Chefs for Seniors

So we work with right now Home Instead, which is the biggest in-home care company in the country.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 370: $120k 2015 Revenue, Private Chefs for Elderly with Kate Toews of Chefs for Seniors

They have a thousand franchises respectively.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 370: $120k 2015 Revenue, Private Chefs for Elderly with Kate Toews of Chefs for Seniors

We just executed a partnership with them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 370: $120k 2015 Revenue, Private Chefs for Elderly with Kate Toews of Chefs for Seniors

We're talking with a bunch of other folks, including some big healthcare systems and some other in-home care companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 370: $120k 2015 Revenue, Private Chefs for Elderly with Kate Toews of Chefs for Seniors

And that does take some out of our profitability.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 370: $120k 2015 Revenue, Private Chefs for Elderly with Kate Toews of Chefs for Seniors

And are you guys self-funded to date or have you raised capital?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 370: $120k 2015 Revenue, Private Chefs for Elderly with Kate Toews of Chefs for Seniors

self-funded to date.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 370: $120k 2015 Revenue, Private Chefs for Elderly with Kate Toews of Chefs for Seniors

Um, we, uh, about four weeks ago, we're accepted into 500 startups.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 370: $120k 2015 Revenue, Private Chefs for Elderly with Kate Toews of Chefs for Seniors

So it took our first outside capital.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 370: $120k 2015 Revenue, Private Chefs for Elderly with Kate Toews of Chefs for Seniors

Yeah, I know.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 370: $120k 2015 Revenue, Private Chefs for Elderly with Kate Toews of Chefs for Seniors

It's a great thing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 370: $120k 2015 Revenue, Private Chefs for Elderly with Kate Toews of Chefs for Seniors

It's a great thing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 370: $120k 2015 Revenue, Private Chefs for Elderly with Kate Toews of Chefs for Seniors

They've been incredibly helpful, super, super good guys.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 370: $120k 2015 Revenue, Private Chefs for Elderly with Kate Toews of Chefs for Seniors

Yep.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 370: $120k 2015 Revenue, Private Chefs for Elderly with Kate Toews of Chefs for Seniors

That's a great question.