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Roy Man

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
175 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 404: $360k June 2016 MRR, $4M ARR, 5000 customers paying $72/mo on average with DaPulse founder Roy Man

Like the last one.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 404: $360k June 2016 MRR, $4M ARR, 5000 customers paying $72/mo on average with DaPulse founder Roy Man

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 404: $360k June 2016 MRR, $4M ARR, 5000 customers paying $72/mo on average with DaPulse founder Roy Man

Like a really good one.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 404: $360k June 2016 MRR, $4M ARR, 5000 customers paying $72/mo on average with DaPulse founder Roy Man

So they were like initially we started the product with them as first customer and from their problem of scaling a company and really having that startup mentality stay there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 404: $360k June 2016 MRR, $4M ARR, 5000 customers paying $72/mo on average with DaPulse founder Roy Man

within a company as you scale.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 404: $360k June 2016 MRR, $4M ARR, 5000 customers paying $72/mo on average with DaPulse founder Roy Man

So that was our initial intent.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 404: $360k June 2016 MRR, $4M ARR, 5000 customers paying $72/mo on average with DaPulse founder Roy Man

So we raised 1.5 million and then afterwards, you know, it took us, yeah, you know, from going from a solution that you have that works to a product market fit took us like a year point two, I think.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 404: $360k June 2016 MRR, $4M ARR, 5000 customers paying $72/mo on average with DaPulse founder Roy Man

No, it was like before 2014.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 404: $360k June 2016 MRR, $4M ARR, 5000 customers paying $72/mo on average with DaPulse founder Roy Man

Like 2014, we launched the online, the first product you can actually pay for.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 404: $360k June 2016 MRR, $4M ARR, 5000 customers paying $72/mo on average with DaPulse founder Roy Man

No, it was actually around.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 404: $360k June 2016 MRR, $4M ARR, 5000 customers paying $72/mo on average with DaPulse founder Roy Man

A priced round?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 404: $360k June 2016 MRR, $4M ARR, 5000 customers paying $72/mo on average with DaPulse founder Roy Man

Yeah, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 404: $360k June 2016 MRR, $4M ARR, 5000 customers paying $72/mo on average with DaPulse founder Roy Man

So it was a 3.53 and a four point, well, like almost five posts.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 404: $360k June 2016 MRR, $4M ARR, 5000 customers paying $72/mo on average with DaPulse founder Roy Man

Well, we had Wix as a customer and I was working with Wix for a long time on this product and it was a very solid one.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 404: $360k June 2016 MRR, $4M ARR, 5000 customers paying $72/mo on average with DaPulse founder Roy Man

So there was a very good market validation for the problem and the product and we went with that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 404: $360k June 2016 MRR, $4M ARR, 5000 customers paying $72/mo on average with DaPulse founder Roy Man

It wasn't out of thin air.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 404: $360k June 2016 MRR, $4M ARR, 5000 customers paying $72/mo on average with DaPulse founder Roy Man

It was with a lot of work.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 404: $360k June 2016 MRR, $4M ARR, 5000 customers paying $72/mo on average with DaPulse founder Roy Man

Then we had like a year or something of product market fit, which included a lot of going to a lot of customers and looking what they're doing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 404: $360k June 2016 MRR, $4M ARR, 5000 customers paying $72/mo on average with DaPulse founder Roy Man

And essentially what we figured is that people use Excel to manage stuff at the end.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 404: $360k June 2016 MRR, $4M ARR, 5000 customers paying $72/mo on average with DaPulse founder Roy Man

So it wasn't like...