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Pavel Ershav

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
79 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Directual Used $1k/mo Russian Talent to Build Low Code Tool MVP, Now 50 Customers, $1m Raised

So we decided to pivot to purely SaaS model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Directual Used $1k/mo Russian Talent to Build Low Code Tool MVP, Now 50 Customers, $1m Raised

And what is SaaS revenue per month today?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Directual Used $1k/mo Russian Talent to Build Low Code Tool MVP, Now 50 Customers, $1m Raised

Today is about 2K monthly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Directual Used $1k/mo Russian Talent to Build Low Code Tool MVP, Now 50 Customers, $1m Raised

And we are going to reach at least 10 or 15K MRR by the end of this year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Directual Used $1k/mo Russian Talent to Build Low Code Tool MVP, Now 50 Customers, $1m Raised

uh we have uh no no we have more um revenue from services so we still have revenue from services from our enterprise clients and nowadays we have about 2k per month uh sas revenue i see got it so you you have about then what how many customers do you have on the on the sas platform 70 80 90

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Directual Used $1k/mo Russian Talent to Build Low Code Tool MVP, Now 50 Customers, $1m Raised

So the decision was really tough because we had been developing this enterprise business model for years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Directual Used $1k/mo Russian Talent to Build Low Code Tool MVP, Now 50 Customers, $1m Raised

And

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Directual Used $1k/mo Russian Talent to Build Low Code Tool MVP, Now 50 Customers, $1m Raised

Moreover, we attracted some funding from one of our enterprise clients.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Directual Used $1k/mo Russian Talent to Build Low Code Tool MVP, Now 50 Customers, $1m Raised

He invested in that model, but it turned out that the selling period, the pre-sale processes, all the pilots were too significant and we needed too many people for the projects and the profits were not enough.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Directual Used $1k/mo Russian Talent to Build Low Code Tool MVP, Now 50 Customers, $1m Raised

So the turnover in 2019 was about half a million dollars.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Directual Used $1k/mo Russian Talent to Build Low Code Tool MVP, Now 50 Customers, $1m Raised

But at the same time, the costs were about half a million dollars.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Directual Used $1k/mo Russian Talent to Build Low Code Tool MVP, Now 50 Customers, $1m Raised

The costs for people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Directual Used $1k/mo Russian Talent to Build Low Code Tool MVP, Now 50 Customers, $1m Raised

And that is why we had to decide to pivot to Purely SaaS.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Directual Used $1k/mo Russian Talent to Build Low Code Tool MVP, Now 50 Customers, $1m Raised

We dismissed our project services teams.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Directual Used $1k/mo Russian Talent to Build Low Code Tool MVP, Now 50 Customers, $1m Raised

we kept only engineers and we almost started from scratch.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Directual Used $1k/mo Russian Talent to Build Low Code Tool MVP, Now 50 Customers, $1m Raised

But thanks to that significant history with enterprises, we had a technology, very good technology, but on the other hand, that was not simple enough to provide the technology on the SaaS model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Directual Used $1k/mo Russian Talent to Build Low Code Tool MVP, Now 50 Customers, $1m Raised

So now we are working hard on making it simpler

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Directual Used $1k/mo Russian Talent to Build Low Code Tool MVP, Now 50 Customers, $1m Raised

So our early adopters is providing us with a lot of information about places where they got stuck.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Directual Used $1k/mo Russian Talent to Build Low Code Tool MVP, Now 50 Customers, $1m Raised

Uh, I could not disclosure that, uh, so I'm with the NDA sign, but that is about 1 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Directual Used $1k/mo Russian Talent to Build Low Code Tool MVP, Now 50 Customers, $1m Raised

Yes.