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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

Uh, we are raising more capital now, uh, since we've been able to see a lot more traction.

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

I think the industry has grown like, uh, the demand for digital product sampling, which is COVID essentially, uh, was able to like physical sampling got really hard.

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

Like brands are now not, not willing to distribute the product samples within a store in an open setting.

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

So how much are you looking to raise?

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

Uh, I guess we're, we're, we're raising, uh, I feel finalizing that number.

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

So we're planning out, uh, next race, uh, the number we're like still working.

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

So we're on the edge of like, you know, planning out our next fun days.

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

So we're like chalking out what does it, how much do you think you're going to be raising?

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

I think it's going to be, uh, between, uh, you know, one to three, one to 5 million is where we are, uh, essentially.

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

And, uh, to go from here, like, and we are primarily what we're looking to do is we were, uh,

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

B2B SaaS, we are looking to change, we're looking to expand our business model from being B2B SaaS to being a SaaS-enabled marketplace for product sampling, because that's where we see a lot more, like, you know, I mean, we discovered this business model and we understood, like, what our market really needs.

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

SMC brands have diverse demands when it comes to product sampling.

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

We are 11 people right now.

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

How many engineers?

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

Almost eight.

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

Wait, almost nine.

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

No, essentially.

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

So even the people who are in business team right now are also engineers, right?

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

So we got people in business.

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

Eight engineers.