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Kurt Averall

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349 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation

So I would say, yeah, a hundred percent, we've got pretty strong product market fit.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation

We've actually had more of an issue keeping up with demand on the buy side and being able to get the inventory, which is always a good problem to have in a startup.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation

I'd say it's pretty standard.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation

So we're just shy of 30 people right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation

On the engineering side, that makes up roughly five.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation

So it's interesting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation

Yeah, five of the 30.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation

You know, there's a couple things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation

One is, you know, it's a fairly capital intensive business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation

Obviously, we got to go out and acquire the property in the first instance and then sell the property.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation

So there's reasons to have a lot of cash on the balance sheet so that you can take that cash and leverage it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation

I also think that there's going to be a couple big

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation

players in this space.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation

And we're kind of starting to see those players form.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation

And, you know, the way we view this kind of five, 10 years out is this is a, you know, a nationwide marketplace and also a worldwide marketplace where people are buying and selling and are buying and selling shares.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation

And I think speed to market is really critical for marketplaces.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation

If you get out there and kind of establish the name, that's what gets you in kind of a, in a, in a, you know, first or second position.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation

And so we're, we're going to be a pretty aggressive marketplace.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation

And to be aggressive, it's helpful to have the insight and backing of venture capitalists