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Sushma Sharma

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
138 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma

We have raised capital.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma

I raised a seed down to $1.3 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma

When was that?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma

That completed in November.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma

Yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma

And in the very beginning, I basically funded it for a couple of months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma

But this May, I started the seed round, the funding round.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma

And it wasn't easy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma

It was a completely new world to me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma

And that was a lot of surprises.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma

But sometimes it's good to be ignorant.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma

Sometimes it's good to just go with all the confidence.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma

Yeah, it's convertible note slash safe.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma

Oh, what do you mean auto?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma

I mean the cost of the transaction?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma

Yeah, I think the average has become 30 for 30.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma

And it's probably are doing because we did a couple of events.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma

And one of the questionnaire was that, what would you teach or what would you share for $30 in 30 minutes?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma

And then when some people just automatically fill that in, and then everybody started following that path.