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Kevin Dawidowicz

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
172 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
CoachMePlus raising $2m on $10m post money right now

I'll tell you, uh, we get to, you get to these periods where you're, you're looking at it and you're, you're looking at the, um, the, the drop dead date and it's always like around 24 months out and then it starts getting closer and closer and then you're like at 12 and then you extend it back out again.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
CoachMePlus raising $2m on $10m post money right now

And it's like, okay, like we're, we're going to survive these.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
CoachMePlus raising $2m on $10m post money right now

I think the closest we got was to about like a 12 month, you know, period where we're sitting there going, okay, like we've got to figure out like the growth, the growth again.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
CoachMePlus raising $2m on $10m post money right now

But we've never been, we've never been shorter than that out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
CoachMePlus raising $2m on $10m post money right now

And we've never been longer than 24 months out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
CoachMePlus raising $2m on $10m post money right now

So we've always had like that weird accordion kind of period happening.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
CoachMePlus raising $2m on $10m post money right now

It's not that big.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
CoachMePlus raising $2m on $10m post money right now

We've only got 12 people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
CoachMePlus raising $2m on $10m post money right now

We run a very lean organization.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
CoachMePlus raising $2m on $10m post money right now

How many engineers?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
CoachMePlus raising $2m on $10m post money right now

Four.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
CoachMePlus raising $2m on $10m post money right now

So all the co-founders, we're all engineers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
CoachMePlus raising $2m on $10m post money right now

I'm a front-end engineer by trade.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
CoachMePlus raising $2m on $10m post money right now

My brother and co-founder is a full-stack developer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
CoachMePlus raising $2m on $10m post money right now

Steven Ostro, who's also a co-founder, is more of our integrations kind of guy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
CoachMePlus raising $2m on $10m post money right now

And then we've got two other hardcore engineers, one who's a hosting infrastructure engineer and the other one who is our front-end developer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
CoachMePlus raising $2m on $10m post money right now

So I haven't been able to touch code in months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
CoachMePlus raising $2m on $10m post money right now

now unfortunately but uh or maybe fortunately but uh you know the development team has been together for quite some time um everybody who's worked together has this is our third startup together uh the other two were when did you launch this one uh 2013 23 and you've done this you haven't bootstrapped you've raised some capital how much have you raised we raised 1. uh 1.85 million

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
CoachMePlus raising $2m on $10m post money right now

Yeah, it was enterprise software.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
CoachMePlus raising $2m on $10m post money right now

I mean, at the time, we were at five or six customers on the enterprise level.