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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

Yes.

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

So we have about 10 people right now.

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

It's because of my perfectionism, honestly.

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

I've been trying to make it better and better every month, every day.

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

And I delayed the marketing launch, let's put it that way, very long.

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

So until I was very comfortable and I said, I told my team, we're going, we're going and let's do it.

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

Not that I'm from outside.

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

I own 90% and my partner in life and in the business, my wife, she owns 10%.

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

How much?

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

100%.

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

I know you were coming to that.

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

We put initially 120,000.

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

We started with 9,000 and then we had to add more.

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

And obviously, so that's how we ended up spending.

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

The first dollars went to the development, really, like the ideation.

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

So we first started to do everything ourselves.

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

We created the MVP.

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

I hired like two people from Turkey, developers who helped me just put my idea together so I can see this is doable, this is possible.

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

after i realized that it's really going well and it's working for my team i'm talking about the retail team i decided to hire like full stack um team um outsource them basically i outsourced them uh from from uh from different countries how did you find them

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

Actually, they found me.