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Manuel Opitz

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
129 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

How can we monetize it?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

And then we built a team around it together.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

And by this, I think we found a reasonable agreement among all of us, like the operative guys taking more risk, giving up their jobs entirely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

Of course, they get more shares.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

And that was strategic in the background.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

It was on the one side was Felix, like our software lead and our product lead, product designer, Yanis.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

We were the first three operative ones, but now our CFO, he's operative on board as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

And the other two, they invest mostly their free time or maybe one day a week.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

But we just hired three more people as of January 1st, and we also have two or three student workers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

All in all, we are 11 people now in the office, which gets rather crowded.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

Officially, we incorporated only in 2016, end of May.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

So it's pretty recent.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

But I mean, the projects, this is based on the research projects.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

They are like up to 10 years old, starting in 2017.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

The other second project we are based on started in 2014.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

But I only committed myself in end of 2015.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

And from there, we took it and built up the founders team and incorporated then in May 2017.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

when we had some serious talks with investors.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

um in 2017 we want to sell the products we want to show it works and then heading for a series a to go international and to go big in sales end of this year we also will go international in some time we have already some serious talks with the big corporations already out there

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

selling prosthetics who want to use our software platform our brain inside their own companies is that kind of how architects use kind of cad you have a software platform they can use to design parts to 3d print