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Kevin Davis

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
220 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor

No, that was the total.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor

So, I mean, the very short story is just,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor

It took us a year and a couple of months to get the product out, which was way too long.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor

If I could tell my 20 year old self, you know, just

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor

don't try to build a perfect system, try to get something out early, quick, use lean methodology, get customers to see it and then try to iterate outwards.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor

But, you know, we took, you know, like I said, a year and a couple of months just to get a product out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor

And then we were this kind of bidding model where, you know, we had a decent amount of people come in and try to sign up, but almost none of them would actually convert to selecting a gig.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor

They just kind of move on to the next result on Google.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor

So I mean, literally.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor

Uh, 2010, uh, I was 20, uh, 28, 27.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor

So, I mean, um, I had, my, my dad actually had passed away before a couple of years before where I didn't have a lot of money, but I have, I had enough that if I moved back home, um, you know, uh,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor

It wasn't easy trying to date, for example, just doing that with no job.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor

And I had relatives saying, get a real job.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor

But yeah, I mean, I had something where at least for about six months that I could do something that just focused on coding a site.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor

I got my co-founder in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor

But yeah, I mean, we didn't have a lot of money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor

My co-founder had a little bit more.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor

So at least he could help in terms of just bare bones bootstrapping in that way.