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Neil Parak

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
241 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

Bootstrapped from day one.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

And the great part about the business model is like, it is pretty lean, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

You get a job, you do the marketing at the beginning, but it's highly recurring revenues, especially when you get that client in, you keep them happy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

You don't have to keep spending money in marketing to sell someone over and over and over.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

So we're bootstrapped since day one, never raised capital and just growing from there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

Exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

Yeah, quick math.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

And look, many of them have other jobs, other clients that they take care of.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

And the beauty of working with us is we give them the clients who let them know when the turnovers are.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

They can fill in their slots with anything they want after that as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

How do they value the marketplace model?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

So we would be valued at a local service model, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

Because it is local service.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

So let's talk about marketplaces though.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

A marketplace would be valued simply based off of comps because it's so tough to value it based off of any actual metrics, especially what's going on right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

So you'd simply look at the closest comps to the marketplace.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

And you can take a look at the business model in terms of like,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

what is the revenue what is the profit margins but the reality with the marketplace model that's not going to be as relevant so i think comps is for sure number one is what you look at right now

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

For us, it would be, honestly, another franchise cleaning company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

Franchise cleaning companies trade at anywhere between, typically, in normal times, six to eight times EBITDA.