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Sagar Kogakar

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
152 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
BillBooks Invoicing Tool Hits 5,000 Paying Customers, Bootstrapped

I can give you a range anywhere between 50 and 100,000, so it wouldn't go anywhere beyond that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
BillBooks Invoicing Tool Hits 5,000 Paying Customers, Bootstrapped

So Billbooks has an aim basically to simplify invoicing because everyone, I started...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
BillBooks Invoicing Tool Hits 5,000 Paying Customers, Bootstrapped

freelancing and started my own company at the age of 19 in the year 2000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
BillBooks Invoicing Tool Hits 5,000 Paying Customers, Bootstrapped

What I felt was in 2005 until 2005, 2006, we're all creating invoices with Excel sheets and Word and PowerPoint and stuff like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
BillBooks Invoicing Tool Hits 5,000 Paying Customers, Bootstrapped

It used to be a pain to send invoices to customers and then follow up for payments.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
BillBooks Invoicing Tool Hits 5,000 Paying Customers, Bootstrapped

So I started looking for solutions online and that's when bill books came into my mind.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
BillBooks Invoicing Tool Hits 5,000 Paying Customers, Bootstrapped

There has to be an easy cloud solution to send invoices, book expenses, send estimates, and track them easily.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
BillBooks Invoicing Tool Hits 5,000 Paying Customers, Bootstrapped

So that's when Billbooks came into my mind in 2008, really.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
BillBooks Invoicing Tool Hits 5,000 Paying Customers, Bootstrapped

It took me about a couple years to get the way I wanted the product to be built.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
BillBooks Invoicing Tool Hits 5,000 Paying Customers, Bootstrapped

2011, but I started working on it since 2008.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
BillBooks Invoicing Tool Hits 5,000 Paying Customers, Bootstrapped

I was doing freelancing and I had a company, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
BillBooks Invoicing Tool Hits 5,000 Paying Customers, Bootstrapped

So I had a digital agency which was internally funding this product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
BillBooks Invoicing Tool Hits 5,000 Paying Customers, Bootstrapped

So I had it all going.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
BillBooks Invoicing Tool Hits 5,000 Paying Customers, Bootstrapped

And even now, we have our cash flow very tight and very sleek.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
BillBooks Invoicing Tool Hits 5,000 Paying Customers, Bootstrapped

We have very few people on board.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
BillBooks Invoicing Tool Hits 5,000 Paying Customers, Bootstrapped

How many people are on the team?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
BillBooks Invoicing Tool Hits 5,000 Paying Customers, Bootstrapped

We're just five.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
BillBooks Invoicing Tool Hits 5,000 Paying Customers, Bootstrapped

We're three engineers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
BillBooks Invoicing Tool Hits 5,000 Paying Customers, Bootstrapped

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
BillBooks Invoicing Tool Hits 5,000 Paying Customers, Bootstrapped

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