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Nikhil Aitharaju

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134 total appearances

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

It's not a bad deal.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

So yeah, that's why we want to continue doing this and chugging along.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

Number two, but maybe a couple of them on team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

No, right now we're investing back in the growth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

I mean, equity.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

Oh, equity.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

Yes, correct.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

Yeah, so I think SEM is something that Google SEM, Google Ads is something that we're investing money in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

We're actually trying to kick off our content program.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

Content is going to be a long-term play, but we at least want to lay the seeds right now and see what happens in a year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

But I think those are two channels that we're investing money in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

I think, yeah, that's pretty much where we're investing currently.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

We're looking into other channels to create the predictable revenue flow.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

We don't have that yet, to be honest.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

It's terrible.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

It's right now we're paying $500 per customer on Google ads.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

And yeah, it's not a great channel at the moment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

Terrible because of the way we've implemented it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

We haven't really optimized it or been watching it really well closely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

So we've been bidding on keywords that were not really bad and that resulted in that high cost.