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Konark Sharma

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
138 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Invests $20k Personally, Now $36k MRR, 6 CPG Brand Customers Using for Sampling

Currently, we have about six active customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Invests $20k Personally, Now $36k MRR, 6 CPG Brand Customers Using for Sampling

In FMCG, our model is not a traditional SaaS model in that sense.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Invests $20k Personally, Now $36k MRR, 6 CPG Brand Customers Using for Sampling

It's more of an enterprise SaaS model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Invests $20k Personally, Now $36k MRR, 6 CPG Brand Customers Using for Sampling

The churn essentially happened because a lot of the brands that we started out with were D2C brands.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Invests $20k Personally, Now $36k MRR, 6 CPG Brand Customers Using for Sampling

So let's say vendor sampling takes place, like product sampling takes place when you launch a new product, or let's say expanding a geography from one state to another.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Invests $20k Personally, Now $36k MRR, 6 CPG Brand Customers Using for Sampling

If you want to distribute new samples, understand how the audiences are doing, behaving for your offering.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Invests $20k Personally, Now $36k MRR, 6 CPG Brand Customers Using for Sampling

So it's against certain actions.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Invests $20k Personally, Now $36k MRR, 6 CPG Brand Customers Using for Sampling

Smaller brands don't expand so quickly, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Invests $20k Personally, Now $36k MRR, 6 CPG Brand Customers Using for Sampling

Geographically speaking, they enter into geography.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Invests $20k Personally, Now $36k MRR, 6 CPG Brand Customers Using for Sampling

No, it's slightly different that way because in the DTC space, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Invests $20k Personally, Now $36k MRR, 6 CPG Brand Customers Using for Sampling

So there is a CAC threshold, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Invests $20k Personally, Now $36k MRR, 6 CPG Brand Customers Using for Sampling

That makes sense and does not make sense, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Invests $20k Personally, Now $36k MRR, 6 CPG Brand Customers Using for Sampling

So when you do digital sampling, it's slightly more expensive than most other types of marketing that a brand can be executing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Invests $20k Personally, Now $36k MRR, 6 CPG Brand Customers Using for Sampling

So let's say if you do display ads, let's say you're getting, you know,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Invests $20k Personally, Now $36k MRR, 6 CPG Brand Customers Using for Sampling

a return over ad spend of you know close to let's say three four right uh and whatnot so it there is a there's an equation where like it stops making sense to do sampling for a lot of d2c brands smaller size brands right so uh that's so we we went to a lot of d2c brands in this year right uh to kind of build the platform because they were a lot more easier to build with

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Invests $20k Personally, Now $36k MRR, 6 CPG Brand Customers Using for Sampling

iterate through it and whatnot, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Invests $20k Personally, Now $36k MRR, 6 CPG Brand Customers Using for Sampling

And to ultimately land to enterprises because the demand is really there with enterprises, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Invests $20k Personally, Now $36k MRR, 6 CPG Brand Customers Using for Sampling

Enterprises turn out to be a larger customer because, let's say, think of a large size enterprise company, they're launching about 60 to 70 new products on an annual basis.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Invests $20k Personally, Now $36k MRR, 6 CPG Brand Customers Using for Sampling

Understood.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Invests $20k Personally, Now $36k MRR, 6 CPG Brand Customers Using for Sampling

So our recurring usage comes on the basis of the new products launched, not, you know, on an annual basis.