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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

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

We don't know their usage statistics.

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

So I don't know how many of them are still active.

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

But we had many deals based on our account.

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

We sold our product more than 5,000 times during the last five years.

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

So we usually have the conversion rate from the free version to the paid version approximately 8%.

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

But this conversion might happen anytime.

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

It could be next day or it could be next year.

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

So for small companies, our free version is modern enough.

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

But for large organizations, we have to gain in their eyes some credibility.

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

They have to see our product quality.

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

on a big expo show, so they have to speak with us many times just to be sure that they can pay us for the product because we're located in Russia, and for many countries that arises a lot of questions.

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

Yeah, that means that I made a mistake with the number of deals.

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

So I don't have the exact figures.

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

Let me open the calculator.

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

No problem.

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

So if we take the $5,000, the average price for the product, and multiply by 5,000 deals, we'll have $25 million.

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

That's not 60x.

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

Uh, we do more deals.

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

We do more deals because some deals, uh, has involved some customization.