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Michael Cooney

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
395 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
You won't believe the profits this $10m revenue bootstrapper makes

It was like going to take three hours of work.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
You won't believe the profits this $10m revenue bootstrapper makes

I was fed up and I said to Jeremy, you know what?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
You won't believe the profits this $10m revenue bootstrapper makes

This lead tracking and reporting issue has been going on too long and we need a solution.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
You won't believe the profits this $10m revenue bootstrapper makes

So I said, if you can help us, if we can track all phone calls and forms being filled in and chat back to the marketing responsible, store all that and report it, I think we can build a really strong company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
You won't believe the profits this $10m revenue bootstrapper makes

And so he went away and the first thing he started was like, how can we track every form on any website across the world

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
You won't believe the profits this $10m revenue bootstrapper makes

without requiring them to change the form.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
You won't believe the profits this $10m revenue bootstrapper makes

So he went and worked on that for a week, came back, says, I got it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
You won't believe the profits this $10m revenue bootstrapper makes

We got it organized.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
You won't believe the profits this $10m revenue bootstrapper makes

And that's how we started the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
You won't believe the profits this $10m revenue bootstrapper makes

So we went and played a round of golf.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
You won't believe the profits this $10m revenue bootstrapper makes

And at the end of the round of golf, Jeremy and I, we had a discussion.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
You won't believe the profits this $10m revenue bootstrapper makes

We said, look, how are we going to set this up?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
You won't believe the profits this $10m revenue bootstrapper makes

We said, let's do 50-50.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
You won't believe the profits this $10m revenue bootstrapper makes

He'll develop the product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
You won't believe the profits this $10m revenue bootstrapper makes

And I will go ahead and do the sales and marketing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
You won't believe the profits this $10m revenue bootstrapper makes

So we wanted to do bootstrap.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
You won't believe the profits this $10m revenue bootstrapper makes

And through our journey, this is the growth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
You won't believe the profits this $10m revenue bootstrapper makes

You can see in the first year, we started in March 2015, and we grew almost to $100,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
You won't believe the profits this $10m revenue bootstrapper makes

And I've got little labels there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
You won't believe the profits this $10m revenue bootstrapper makes

So the first million, it took us four years to get to the first million, because we're still working in the agency while we're building the product.