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Kevin Lavelle

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
102 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Smart Way To Quit Your Corporate Job with Kevin Lavelle Ep 7

And so get out there and start selling in any capacity.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Smart Way To Quit Your Corporate Job with Kevin Lavelle Ep 7

Can you sell 10 of them to your friends and family?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Smart Way To Quit Your Corporate Job with Kevin Lavelle Ep 7

Because if you can't sell 10 to your friends and family, you might not be on to something.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Smart Way To Quit Your Corporate Job with Kevin Lavelle Ep 7

And so get out there and see if you can get your friends and family to support you because if they like it, they'll tell their friends and so on and so forth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Smart Way To Quit Your Corporate Job with Kevin Lavelle Ep 7

Yeah, so I mean, we're talking probably less, and again, I hate to be coy, but less than the cost of a car.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Smart Way To Quit Your Corporate Job with Kevin Lavelle Ep 7

And I know that that's a wide range, but let's just say less than the cost of a car was what we did in those first few months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Smart Way To Quit Your Corporate Job with Kevin Lavelle Ep 7

And that was...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Smart Way To Quit Your Corporate Job with Kevin Lavelle Ep 7

both exhilarating because I couldn't imagine that I was getting, you know, tens of thousands of dollars coming in the door.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Smart Way To Quit Your Corporate Job with Kevin Lavelle Ep 7

But at the same time, I really thought that things were going to happen a lot quicker.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Smart Way To Quit Your Corporate Job with Kevin Lavelle Ep 7

I thought that, you know, we were just going to be featured on every site and everyone is going to want to buy it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Smart Way To Quit Your Corporate Job with Kevin Lavelle Ep 7

And we were going to sell out in like two months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Smart Way To Quit Your Corporate Job with Kevin Lavelle Ep 7

And I never sold those final shirts.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Smart Way To Quit Your Corporate Job with Kevin Lavelle Ep 7

I mean, I, as we have dramatically improved the product along the way, I have retired some of the shirts because they've gotten so much better.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Smart Way To Quit Your Corporate Job with Kevin Lavelle Ep 7

And I don't want to put

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Smart Way To Quit Your Corporate Job with Kevin Lavelle Ep 7

I don't want to continue to sell the previous product and we don't ever put things on sale.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Smart Way To Quit Your Corporate Job with Kevin Lavelle Ep 7

And so that was something that I had expected things to just absolutely blow up right away and they definitely did not.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Smart Way To Quit Your Corporate Job with Kevin Lavelle Ep 7

It's taken realistically about three years for that to happen.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Smart Way To Quit Your Corporate Job with Kevin Lavelle Ep 7

Yeah, so again, I hate to be coy and difficult.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Smart Way To Quit Your Corporate Job with Kevin Lavelle Ep 7

I try and give concrete where possible.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Smart Way To Quit Your Corporate Job with Kevin Lavelle Ep 7

What I can say is the cost of a dress shirt for Brooks Brothers is going to be, and I don't know their actual numbers, but from doing a lot of industry research, they're between $5 and $10 a shirt.