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Sam Saltis

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
149 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
978 Why Sole Founder is OK Burning $40k Cash and Bootstrapping

So we have customers like Nintendo, Stanley, Tivoli,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
978 Why Sole Founder is OK Burning $40k Cash and Bootstrapping

No.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
978 Why Sole Founder is OK Burning $40k Cash and Bootstrapping

Let me clarify that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
978 Why Sole Founder is OK Burning $40k Cash and Bootstrapping

I'd accumulated already SaaS clients in Australia through the agency, but they were directly with the agency.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
978 Why Sole Founder is OK Burning $40k Cash and Bootstrapping

My B-wide customers were still paying me subscription revenue each month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
978 Why Sole Founder is OK Burning $40k Cash and Bootstrapping

Then what I did is I spun the product out completely here on its own, but with no agency involvement directly to agencies as my partners.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
978 Why Sole Founder is OK Burning $40k Cash and Bootstrapping

So think of BeWired as your agency, my primary agency, or my demo agency.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
978 Why Sole Founder is OK Burning $40k Cash and Bootstrapping

And think of the agencies that I'm picking up here as the ones that are really treating it pure SaaS and not doing it services.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
978 Why Sole Founder is OK Burning $40k Cash and Bootstrapping

Yeah, that's right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
978 Why Sole Founder is OK Burning $40k Cash and Bootstrapping

And the rest of it is services.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
978 Why Sole Founder is OK Burning $40k Cash and Bootstrapping

Right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
978 Why Sole Founder is OK Burning $40k Cash and Bootstrapping

So we've basically put on over half a million dollars in a year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
978 Why Sole Founder is OK Burning $40k Cash and Bootstrapping

From a zero base here in America.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
978 Why Sole Founder is OK Burning $40k Cash and Bootstrapping

In Australia, it stayed stable because- Well, hold on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
978 Why Sole Founder is OK Burning $40k Cash and Bootstrapping

We've added over half a million in a year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
978 Why Sole Founder is OK Burning $40k Cash and Bootstrapping

Yeah, that's right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
978 Why Sole Founder is OK Burning $40k Cash and Bootstrapping

That's right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
978 Why Sole Founder is OK Burning $40k Cash and Bootstrapping

Well, it's interesting because some of the stuff that really isn't evident in that is understanding the cultural differences, the business differences, no connections at all.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
978 Why Sole Founder is OK Burning $40k Cash and Bootstrapping

You know, being in a small office on your own for the first three months and really kind of understanding the American way, if that makes sense.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
978 Why Sole Founder is OK Burning $40k Cash and Bootstrapping

Yeah, so that's an interesting question.