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Phil Liu

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320 total appearances

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

So I'd say right now, so we crossed like the 1 million error like two months ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

We got to grow faster.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

Minimum is 100% over the past several years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

Hello everyone, my guest today is Phil Liu.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

He's building a great tool called missabout.com with a shared inbox and chat SaaS tool.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

Are you ready to take us to the top?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

Sorry.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

Are you ready to take us to the top?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

Yes, of course.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

Very good.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

Hey, welcome to the show.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

Tell us a little bit.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

So Missive App playing in a competitive space, shared inbox and team chat.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

When did you launch the business?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

We actually started working on the project in 2014, but it was mostly like a tool for itself, building another previous startup we had started.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

And we launched it in 2015 as a free product, mostly just to test the ground.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

And then a year later in 2016, we launched a first paid version.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

And so how did you, you know, the starting years for any founder paying yourself is difficult.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

So what did you do between 2015, the first line of code or 2014 and the paid launch in 2016?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

How'd you pay yourself?

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