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Mahir Iskender

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
152 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS

I had different age, range age of employees starting using all Asana, the Klaviyo, all the Shopify, all the applications we had.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS

They had better clarity.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS

No, we launched it actually 2021 July.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS

That's when we wrote the first code, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS

So we worked on it until March.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS

That's when we started the planning.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS

I got the team together.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS

Got it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS

Yes, the whole planning.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS

First customer we got in June 2022.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS

Yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS

So we officially launched it at Collision Toronto.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS

And that's it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS

I have 45 companies using it at the moment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS

Does that mean they're paying customers, 45 customers?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS

Not all of them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS

We have trials, obviously.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS

How many are paying?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS

We have approximately 15 paying customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS

So initially when we started, obviously we launched it, we sent it to all our friends, partners, everyone that we know, right?