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Saravana Kumar

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222 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products

It's not a problem.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products

But if you wanted to get the top five for you to execute and run the product, finding that particular talent will be difficult.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products

So even in our case, it's a mostly homegrown talent.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products

You can't magically find the best developer out there in the wild.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products

So what we do is, initially we struggled, but now we have people who are capable of building world-class SaaS products in the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products

So I think that finding the right talent will be difficult.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products

So to answer your question,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products

you know, it will take time for you to figure out exactly the right talent is suitable for you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products

You can get junior developers around $30,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products

It ranges from 10 to 12 lakhs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products

The conversion is about $20,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products

Let's say $20,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products

You can get a decent developer for a $20,000 market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products

I think it would be very difficult to convince on a equity basis because, you know, it's a paper money for them, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products

Like, I think it's, you will be better off paying them a good salary and maybe some kind of a bonus rather than explaining equity and probably they won't.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products

In our case, you know, we always kept it that way.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products

Like, you know, just a good salary and a bonus.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products

That's, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products

About 60 to 70.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products

Yeah, we have a quota carrying sales rep and it will be about 15 people, I'd say, yeah.