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Naeem Zafar

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
231 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1753 "IoT AgTech Device Hits $1m Software Run Rate and $1.2m in Hardware Sales. Can He Get $60m Valuation? "

What is the churn rate?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1753 "IoT AgTech Device Hits $1m Software Run Rate and $1.2m in Hardware Sales. Can He Get $60m Valuation? "

And churn rate in this case is extremely slow.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1753 "IoT AgTech Device Hits $1m Software Run Rate and $1.2m in Hardware Sales. Can He Get $60m Valuation? "

And two or three people who churn, they either sold the business, got out of it, or

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1753 "IoT AgTech Device Hits $1m Software Run Rate and $1.2m in Hardware Sales. Can He Get $60m Valuation? "

nobody has abandoned a product or got anybody else's because nobody else does what we do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1753 "IoT AgTech Device Hits $1m Software Run Rate and $1.2m in Hardware Sales. Can He Get $60m Valuation? "

So we watch the churn rate and you're absolutely right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1753 "IoT AgTech Device Hits $1m Software Run Rate and $1.2m in Hardware Sales. Can He Get $60m Valuation? "

That's the metric to watch.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1753 "IoT AgTech Device Hits $1m Software Run Rate and $1.2m in Hardware Sales. Can He Get $60m Valuation? "

Absolutely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1753 "IoT AgTech Device Hits $1m Software Run Rate and $1.2m in Hardware Sales. Can He Get $60m Valuation? "

So, you know, we are testing doing some, some of these experiment with barge and that wells that we already have expanded that to multiple barges and

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1753 "IoT AgTech Device Hits $1m Software Run Rate and $1.2m in Hardware Sales. Can He Get $60m Valuation? "

Ideas to go to the hundreds of barges.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1753 "IoT AgTech Device Hits $1m Software Run Rate and $1.2m in Hardware Sales. Can He Get $60m Valuation? "

Same thing in Haymarket.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1753 "IoT AgTech Device Hits $1m Software Run Rate and $1.2m in Hardware Sales. Can He Get $60m Valuation? "

We started with one example.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1753 "IoT AgTech Device Hits $1m Software Run Rate and $1.2m in Hardware Sales. Can He Get $60m Valuation? "

Now they have placed the order for several hundred units.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1753 "IoT AgTech Device Hits $1m Software Run Rate and $1.2m in Hardware Sales. Can He Get $60m Valuation? "

We did not even know rice was a problem.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1753 "IoT AgTech Device Hits $1m Software Run Rate and $1.2m in Hardware Sales. Can He Get $60m Valuation? "

We did experiment with a pilot with one company and now they're just expanding to like 46 locations.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1753 "IoT AgTech Device Hits $1m Software Run Rate and $1.2m in Hardware Sales. Can He Get $60m Valuation? "

So yes, absolutely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1753 "IoT AgTech Device Hits $1m Software Run Rate and $1.2m in Hardware Sales. Can He Get $60m Valuation? "

So this is the story which I'm telling the investor that this thing is, there's a need for it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1753 "IoT AgTech Device Hits $1m Software Run Rate and $1.2m in Hardware Sales. Can He Get $60m Valuation? "

You started with pilots that are proliferating into multiple deployments.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1753 "IoT AgTech Device Hits $1m Software Run Rate and $1.2m in Hardware Sales. Can He Get $60m Valuation? "

That's why you should

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1753 "IoT AgTech Device Hits $1m Software Run Rate and $1.2m in Hardware Sales. Can He Get $60m Valuation? "

attention to this company what are you spending to get these new customers so what's your fully weighted cac look like so again we don't have enough data to compute a cac right now because initially we're going after direct sales model what's your best idea though you have a you have an idea some idea yeah so i think currently if i have to compute you know how much i'm paying my five guys and how many sales are they bringing in so that i can compute a cac

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1753 "IoT AgTech Device Hits $1m Software Run Rate and $1.2m in Hardware Sales. Can He Get $60m Valuation? "

It's probably going to be $5,000 to $10,000 per large customer, which is probably higher than we wanted.