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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

Yeah.

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

Where were you?

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

If you just if you cross that, you know, a month, two months ago, where were you a year ago in terms of monthly recurring revenue?

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

say half of that.

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

So healthy growth, where's all this growth coming from?

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

Is it, it's still not, is it so product launches or where's the growth coming from?

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

I mean, like we're the anti-story of, of like startups.

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

We'd never really invest our time in marketing.

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

We're like, we just like to build a product and, and like,

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

email with our customers that's really much like the only thing we do like everything like people say don't do we only do right uh so like the paid customer most of them right now i would say are either they find us through google like alternative to well-known funded product they will find us or it's word of mouth so a lot of like um

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

Realtor is going to use missive.

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

So like one say to another one, hey, I use that product with my TV.

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

You should try it.

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

And then so wireless mail is also a big factor in that growth.

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

And have you bootstrapped or raised?

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

It's Bootstrap.

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

But the long introduction to that thing is that it's actually Bootstrap from another product that we launched earlier called Conference Badge, right?

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

That we were running and that we start Missive.

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

Actually, we start building the product Missive to help us with the communication in the support at Conference Badge.

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

So is it a blessing or a curse that you didn't get into YC a couple of years ago?