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Rafa Kayi

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
118 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Startup Hits $3k MRR by selling through podcasts. $2.5m Valuation on $255k Pre-Seed too expensive?

Yeah, so I was actually facing the issue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Startup Hits $3k MRR by selling through podcasts. $2.5m Valuation on $255k Pre-Seed too expensive?

I was working as digital marketing manager for one of the leading real estate companies in Spain.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Startup Hits $3k MRR by selling through podcasts. $2.5m Valuation on $255k Pre-Seed too expensive?

And I was burning a lot of money spent on Google ads, Facebook ads, and it was very expensive to acquire property owners online.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Startup Hits $3k MRR by selling through podcasts. $2.5m Valuation on $255k Pre-Seed too expensive?

So I asked my real estate agents just to share content online in order to get those clients.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Startup Hits $3k MRR by selling through podcasts. $2.5m Valuation on $255k Pre-Seed too expensive?

But they were telling me, Rafa, I don't want to share boring content.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Startup Hits $3k MRR by selling through podcasts. $2.5m Valuation on $255k Pre-Seed too expensive?

If you share specific content and personalized content, then I will do it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Startup Hits $3k MRR by selling through podcasts. $2.5m Valuation on $255k Pre-Seed too expensive?

So I ran a pilot and I asked my team to write manually this content for them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Startup Hits $3k MRR by selling through podcasts. $2.5m Valuation on $255k Pre-Seed too expensive?

It was kind of a hustle because it was written manually.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Startup Hits $3k MRR by selling through podcasts. $2.5m Valuation on $255k Pre-Seed too expensive?

So it was not scalable.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Startup Hits $3k MRR by selling through podcasts. $2.5m Valuation on $255k Pre-Seed too expensive?

But we did it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Startup Hits $3k MRR by selling through podcasts. $2.5m Valuation on $255k Pre-Seed too expensive?

And we selected some of our real estate agents and it really worked.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Startup Hits $3k MRR by selling through podcasts. $2.5m Valuation on $255k Pre-Seed too expensive?

It worked really well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Startup Hits $3k MRR by selling through podcasts. $2.5m Valuation on $255k Pre-Seed too expensive?

So we wrote the very first line of code back in 2022.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Startup Hits $3k MRR by selling through podcasts. $2.5m Valuation on $255k Pre-Seed too expensive?

It was like in May.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Startup Hits $3k MRR by selling through podcasts. $2.5m Valuation on $255k Pre-Seed too expensive?

It was a pretty, pretty lean time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Startup Hits $3k MRR by selling through podcasts. $2.5m Valuation on $255k Pre-Seed too expensive?

Let us say it was like our MVP was May last year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Startup Hits $3k MRR by selling through podcasts. $2.5m Valuation on $255k Pre-Seed too expensive?

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Startup Hits $3k MRR by selling through podcasts. $2.5m Valuation on $255k Pre-Seed too expensive?

It was when we officially launched the product was October last year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Startup Hits $3k MRR by selling through podcasts. $2.5m Valuation on $255k Pre-Seed too expensive?

And the very first month we got the first paying client, which was really cool.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Startup Hits $3k MRR by selling through podcasts. $2.5m Valuation on $255k Pre-Seed too expensive?

Before that, we were just running pilots.