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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

All the, all the engineers, there were about 40 people in the service company.

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 dismissed all of them.

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

We are in Russia.

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

The salaries in Russia are lower than in US, much lower.

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

I want to move to Russia.

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

So that is why we have kept our headquarters in Russia.

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 our engineers in Russia, but nowadays we are working worldwide.

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

We have clients from all over the world, the US, Europe.

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

It did, but we made a decision.

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

We came up with the decision with our investor.

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

So he saw the situation with our enterprise business model and he approved our decision to pivot.

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

So he still is a shareholder in our company.

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 company is supporting our way towards

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

sas model very good how how did you get these 70 customers on the sas platform so that is a great question because we tried to buy some facebook ads and that uh worked worked not so well as we expected and there are two channels that really worked out turned out to be the first

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

is their posts on media, for example, on Hackernoon, on dev.to.

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

So they're just their blog posts with how to create something on the actual.

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

And the second channel is communities.

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

There are a lot of no code and zero code communities.

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

You've mentioned that the topic is very hot.

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

And those communities appear each and every week, new community.