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Noah Reschetta

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
150 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Get a Deal With Walmart Using These Strategies

Uh, and that's when it clicked and I realized, you know, this is our go-to camera.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Get a Deal With Walmart Using These Strategies

Now we needed to have a way to use these as cameras.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Get a Deal With Walmart Using These Strategies

So I developed our smartphone tripod adapter.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Get a Deal With Walmart Using These Strategies

This was the first universal smartphone adapter, um, at the time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Get a Deal With Walmart Using These Strategies

And that's what allowed me to start using my phone more effectively to put it on a tripod or on the flexible legs at the park and get these really fun, creative shots to be able to send to my family and start capturing all of these important moments in his life.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Get a Deal With Walmart Using These Strategies

So that first product is just the smartphone adapter.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Get a Deal With Walmart Using These Strategies

It's spring-loaded, so it holds the phone with any case and any phone.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Get a Deal With Walmart Using These Strategies

And after doing some work on prototyping, we were able to get the cost down to about $1 per unit, and they retail for $19.95.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Get a Deal With Walmart Using These Strategies

Yes, they are.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Get a Deal With Walmart Using These Strategies

You know, it's funny because the intention when I started was to just do this on the side, have a website, just do this on the side as supplemental income.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Get a Deal With Walmart Using These Strategies

So my focus was entirely to sell a product online.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Get a Deal With Walmart Using These Strategies

But as of today and early on in the process, the website only accounted for about

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Get a Deal With Walmart Using These Strategies

25% of our revenue, 75% of our revenue comes from big box retail and general retail outlets.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Get a Deal With Walmart Using These Strategies

Because what happened once the website was online and people were buying it, stores started contacting us and we've had our products placed in Walmart and AT&T Wireless and another big box retail store.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Get a Deal With Walmart Using These Strategies

So the vast majority of our revenue comes from that now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Get a Deal With Walmart Using These Strategies

Before that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Get a Deal With Walmart Using These Strategies

So that was early on in the process.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Get a Deal With Walmart Using These Strategies

In the first year, I think we did $60,000 to $70,000 in sales, which is really small.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Get a Deal With Walmart Using These Strategies

This is website-only stuff.