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Lev Yakupov

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
123 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1511 Moscow Based Video Conference Software Hits $5m in Revenue, Bootstrapped, 170 employees

So we try to pursue the companies who don't have enough money or trained personnel to set up solutions from Cisco, Microsoft.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1511 Moscow Based Video Conference Software Hits $5m in Revenue, Bootstrapped, 170 employees

So this is our niche.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1511 Moscow Based Video Conference Software Hits $5m in Revenue, Bootstrapped, 170 employees

It's not a plan, it's just a license.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1511 Moscow Based Video Conference Software Hits $5m in Revenue, Bootstrapped, 170 employees

So yeah, our customers download the software, install it in their network, and we have a free version.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1511 Moscow Based Video Conference Software Hits $5m in Revenue, Bootstrapped, 170 employees

That's the core idea of our business is a freemium model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1511 Moscow Based Video Conference Software Hits $5m in Revenue, Bootstrapped, 170 employees

So we do something, we give away something for free.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1511 Moscow Based Video Conference Software Hits $5m in Revenue, Bootstrapped, 170 employees

We do this for many years, and this is proof to be very efficient.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1511 Moscow Based Video Conference Software Hits $5m in Revenue, Bootstrapped, 170 employees

So when our customer is quite familiar with the solution and decides to switch to the paid version with more features, he just goes to our website and buys the full license, which he can use forever.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1511 Moscow Based Video Conference Software Hits $5m in Revenue, Bootstrapped, 170 employees

However, we require to pay us a small fee to update to the new versions.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1511 Moscow Based Video Conference Software Hits $5m in Revenue, Bootstrapped, 170 employees

It depends on the size of the license.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1511 Moscow Based Video Conference Software Hits $5m in Revenue, Bootstrapped, 170 employees

So let's think about 5%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1511 Moscow Based Video Conference Software Hits $5m in Revenue, Bootstrapped, 170 employees

of the price of the initial license we require to pay to get the updates for the new version for a new version so annually it's probably around five percent but let's think about this way so uh the average price for our product average is approximately five thousand uh five thousand usd so uh yeah for lifetime license it depends on the size so it's just an average uh so if

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1511 Moscow Based Video Conference Software Hits $5m in Revenue, Bootstrapped, 170 employees

will be probably not a big money, like 250 bucks per year to continue to receive updates.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1511 Moscow Based Video Conference Software Hits $5m in Revenue, Bootstrapped, 170 employees

We have to divide our customers into the two groups because we have a free product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1511 Moscow Based Video Conference Software Hits $5m in Revenue, Bootstrapped, 170 employees

We have thousands of companies who runs the free solution.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1511 Moscow Based Video Conference Software Hits $5m in Revenue, Bootstrapped, 170 employees

Yeah, but they become customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1511 Moscow Based Video Conference Software Hits $5m in Revenue, Bootstrapped, 170 employees

So if we took the number of customers who paid our solution,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1511 Moscow Based Video Conference Software Hits $5m in Revenue, Bootstrapped, 170 employees

And we don't know exactly, are they continue to use this product or not?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1511 Moscow Based Video Conference Software Hits $5m in Revenue, Bootstrapped, 170 employees

Because if the company don't buy the updates, it doesn't mean they stop to use the product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1511 Moscow Based Video Conference Software Hits $5m in Revenue, Bootstrapped, 170 employees

Because the product is usually located in the private network.