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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

Okay, and how did you get your first 10 customers?

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

Do you remember?

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

Early tech, so we post like to product on and kind of cold reach like people we admire that we thought like could have a use for the product.

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

Like the Stripe people, I'd kind of write a paper about how they collaborate around email and how they were full transparent around their own internal communication.

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

And that was kind of one of the idea, but I miss it is the ability to share the

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

emailed easily with the people in your company.

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

So we reached out to people at Twitter, over on Twitter and launched on Producton.

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

And those were the earlier user

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

Most of those earlier users were excited by the product but not really willing to pay for it because it was really early stage and we were missing a lot of the things now that our customer kind of are willing to pay for.

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

And fast forward to today, those are your first 10, 20 customers.

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

How many customers are you serving today?

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

I think we're around like 2,000 businesses using this, 2,000, yeah.

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

That's right.

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

And help us understand how you decide to price this.

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

Again, very competitive space.

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

What's the average price look like?

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

So right now, so you pay per seat.

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

So if you're a company of 10, you're going to pay 10 seat.

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

And right now it's 15 bucks per seat, US dollars for a seat.

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

And that's full featured.