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Pieter Boekhoff

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
88 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 448: "Day of Glass" Comes To Life, $1.8M Raised, $1.2M Revenue with Nobal CEL Pieter Boekhoff

Noble Technologies is a software company based out of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 448: "Day of Glass" Comes To Life, $1.8M Raised, $1.2M Revenue with Nobal CEL Pieter Boekhoff

And we build and sell interactive mirrors called the iMirror.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 448: "Day of Glass" Comes To Life, $1.8M Raised, $1.2M Revenue with Nobal CEL Pieter Boekhoff

Yeah, so the iMirror is an interactive mirror for retail and hospitality.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 448: "Day of Glass" Comes To Life, $1.8M Raised, $1.2M Revenue with Nobal CEL Pieter Boekhoff

We sell them anywhere between $2,500 to $15,000 US, depending on the size and configuration.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 448: "Day of Glass" Comes To Life, $1.8M Raised, $1.2M Revenue with Nobal CEL Pieter Boekhoff

And we also do software as a service, so a monthly fee for use of the mirror.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 448: "Day of Glass" Comes To Life, $1.8M Raised, $1.2M Revenue with Nobal CEL Pieter Boekhoff

Currently, it's about 70%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 448: "Day of Glass" Comes To Life, $1.8M Raised, $1.2M Revenue with Nobal CEL Pieter Boekhoff

As we deploy more units, that's going to flip as we have more software services, more units are out there in the field.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 448: "Day of Glass" Comes To Life, $1.8M Raised, $1.2M Revenue with Nobal CEL Pieter Boekhoff

But right now, we're hitting about 70-30.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 448: "Day of Glass" Comes To Life, $1.8M Raised, $1.2M Revenue with Nobal CEL Pieter Boekhoff

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 448: "Day of Glass" Comes To Life, $1.8M Raised, $1.2M Revenue with Nobal CEL Pieter Boekhoff

We launched about two and a half years ago when we started focusing on the iMirror itself and changed our name to Noble Technologies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 448: "Day of Glass" Comes To Life, $1.8M Raised, $1.2M Revenue with Nobal CEL Pieter Boekhoff

Back in the day 2011, there was a conceptual video made by Corning called A Day Made of Glass.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 448: "Day of Glass" Comes To Life, $1.8M Raised, $1.2M Revenue with Nobal CEL Pieter Boekhoff

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 448: "Day of Glass" Comes To Life, $1.8M Raised, $1.2M Revenue with Nobal CEL Pieter Boekhoff

So a conceptual video of what the future would be like.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 448: "Day of Glass" Comes To Life, $1.8M Raised, $1.2M Revenue with Nobal CEL Pieter Boekhoff

And they had CGI versions of a bunch of cool stuff.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 448: "Day of Glass" Comes To Life, $1.8M Raised, $1.2M Revenue with Nobal CEL Pieter Boekhoff

But one of them that caught my eye was the interactive mirror.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 448: "Day of Glass" Comes To Life, $1.8M Raised, $1.2M Revenue with Nobal CEL Pieter Boekhoff

in the bathroom.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 448: "Day of Glass" Comes To Life, $1.8M Raised, $1.2M Revenue with Nobal CEL Pieter Boekhoff

And so we set out to try and build a prototype and we, we did that and then put it on the back burner for a couple of years and then started going full force.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 448: "Day of Glass" Comes To Life, $1.8M Raised, $1.2M Revenue with Nobal CEL Pieter Boekhoff

Once we had some interest from clients and could figure out the pricing model and all that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 448: "Day of Glass" Comes To Life, $1.8M Raised, $1.2M Revenue with Nobal CEL Pieter Boekhoff

Probably about 75,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 448: "Day of Glass" Comes To Life, $1.8M Raised, $1.2M Revenue with Nobal CEL Pieter Boekhoff

And they were very one-off kind of projects that took a lot more time than they... They weren't very profitable, I'll say that.

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