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Olin Hyde

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
170 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
799: SaaS: How He Grew To $200k MRR, $2m Raised at $7m Cap

And we see that growth continuing for a while.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
799: SaaS: How He Grew To $200k MRR, $2m Raised at $7m Cap

We bootstrapped it initially until we ran out of money, and then we started raising capital.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
799: SaaS: How He Grew To $200k MRR, $2m Raised at $7m Cap

We've raised about $2 million to date.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
799: SaaS: How He Grew To $200k MRR, $2m Raised at $7m Cap

All convertible.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
799: SaaS: How He Grew To $200k MRR, $2m Raised at $7m Cap

No priced rounds yet.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
799: SaaS: How He Grew To $200k MRR, $2m Raised at $7m Cap

Yeah, we paid a little bit more in interest, 7%, but pretty much run of the mill.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
799: SaaS: How He Grew To $200k MRR, $2m Raised at $7m Cap

It's the same convertible note that you get from DLA for 99% of the companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
799: SaaS: How He Grew To $200k MRR, $2m Raised at $7m Cap

There's nothing exotic about our financing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
799: SaaS: How He Grew To $200k MRR, $2m Raised at $7m Cap

We kept the cap low.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
799: SaaS: How He Grew To $200k MRR, $2m Raised at $7m Cap

We kept the cap at $6 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
799: SaaS: How He Grew To $200k MRR, $2m Raised at $7m Cap

Why did you do that?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
799: SaaS: How He Grew To $200k MRR, $2m Raised at $7m Cap

Because we didn't know what it was worth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
799: SaaS: How He Grew To $200k MRR, $2m Raised at $7m Cap

And if our zero day was in September, by the time we got our notes out, we were already in hyper growth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
799: SaaS: How He Grew To $200k MRR, $2m Raised at $7m Cap

And I think that it's more important to get the right investors than to get the right price early on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
799: SaaS: How He Grew To $200k MRR, $2m Raised at $7m Cap

And we are fortunate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
799: SaaS: How He Grew To $200k MRR, $2m Raised at $7m Cap

Our investors have collectively more than $20 billion left.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
799: SaaS: How He Grew To $200k MRR, $2m Raised at $7m Cap

in exits from 36 companies where they've been seed investors.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
799: SaaS: How He Grew To $200k MRR, $2m Raised at $7m Cap

And that's not including Tesla, where one of our investors was the general counsel for Tesla.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
799: SaaS: How He Grew To $200k MRR, $2m Raised at $7m Cap

So we've been fortunate to attract some phenomenal early stage angel investors that have experience with big exits.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
799: SaaS: How He Grew To $200k MRR, $2m Raised at $7m Cap

And we really are trying to build the company