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Nevin Shetty

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
115 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 621:BluePrintRegistry Raises $1.7M, Passes 2500 Postings and $10M in Transaction Volume with CEO Nevin Shetty

We were there for a year and a half, and then we subsequently moved to Seattle.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 621:BluePrintRegistry Raises $1.7M, Passes 2500 Postings and $10M in Transaction Volume with CEO Nevin Shetty

So we're now in Seattle.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 621:BluePrintRegistry Raises $1.7M, Passes 2500 Postings and $10M in Transaction Volume with CEO Nevin Shetty

So the Techstars program was actually in Minneapolis.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 621:BluePrintRegistry Raises $1.7M, Passes 2500 Postings and $10M in Transaction Volume with CEO Nevin Shetty

It was a Techstars target accelerator program.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 621:BluePrintRegistry Raises $1.7M, Passes 2500 Postings and $10M in Transaction Volume with CEO Nevin Shetty

But Seattle is a great consumer web culture, and Lizzie and I are actually originally from here.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 621:BluePrintRegistry Raises $1.7M, Passes 2500 Postings and $10M in Transaction Volume with CEO Nevin Shetty

So funny enough, we met in New York, became friends in New York, started a business in New York, but then moved back to Seattle.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 621:BluePrintRegistry Raises $1.7M, Passes 2500 Postings and $10M in Transaction Volume with CEO Nevin Shetty

Because when you're bootstrapping the company earlier on,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 621:BluePrintRegistry Raises $1.7M, Passes 2500 Postings and $10M in Transaction Volume with CEO Nevin Shetty

New York is an expensive place.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 621:BluePrintRegistry Raises $1.7M, Passes 2500 Postings and $10M in Transaction Volume with CEO Nevin Shetty

Seattle's not far behind.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 621:BluePrintRegistry Raises $1.7M, Passes 2500 Postings and $10M in Transaction Volume with CEO Nevin Shetty

Yeah, so there's big competitors in space.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 621:BluePrintRegistry Raises $1.7M, Passes 2500 Postings and $10M in Transaction Volume with CEO Nevin Shetty

In the wedding space, Zola is one of our biggest ones.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 621:BluePrintRegistry Raises $1.7M, Passes 2500 Postings and $10M in Transaction Volume with CEO Nevin Shetty

In the baby space, BabyList is a big one.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 621:BluePrintRegistry Raises $1.7M, Passes 2500 Postings and $10M in Transaction Volume with CEO Nevin Shetty

There's a lot of niche spaces out there because if you look at the wedding registry market, it's a stagnant market dominated by three big box retailers and hasn't changed a lot.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 621:BluePrintRegistry Raises $1.7M, Passes 2500 Postings and $10M in Transaction Volume with CEO Nevin Shetty

So there's a lot of now companies out there who are trying to

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 621:BluePrintRegistry Raises $1.7M, Passes 2500 Postings and $10M in Transaction Volume with CEO Nevin Shetty

make a way so you've got zolo my registry honey fund um and so those are just a couple but i think we have a very strong differentiating factor in terms of you can shop multiple retailers from our platform you can have a honeymoon a down payment fund and we have the lowest fees on the web anywhere uh for credit card processing among what is the what's the theme

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 621:BluePrintRegistry Raises $1.7M, Passes 2500 Postings and $10M in Transaction Volume with CEO Nevin Shetty

So for only cash gifts, it's a 2.5% credit card transaction fee.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 621:BluePrintRegistry Raises $1.7M, Passes 2500 Postings and $10M in Transaction Volume with CEO Nevin Shetty

So every single website charges this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 621:BluePrintRegistry Raises $1.7M, Passes 2500 Postings and $10M in Transaction Volume with CEO Nevin Shetty

GoFundMe charges this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 621:BluePrintRegistry Raises $1.7M, Passes 2500 Postings and $10M in Transaction Volume with CEO Nevin Shetty

Kickstarter charges this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 621:BluePrintRegistry Raises $1.7M, Passes 2500 Postings and $10M in Transaction Volume with CEO Nevin Shetty

Zola charges this.