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Vladimir Polo

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
85 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1205 The Art of Your First $3k in ARR with Ukrainian CEO Vladimir Polo

It was my first startup.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1205 The Art of Your First $3k in ARR with Ukrainian CEO Vladimir Polo

I was learning how to do the things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1205 The Art of Your First $3k in ARR with Ukrainian CEO Vladimir Polo

And it wasn't really a successful one, but one of the best things we've developed was our own academy to teach our potential customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1205 The Art of Your First $3k in ARR with Ukrainian CEO Vladimir Polo

And when we found that more people want our academy than our main product, I decided to test demand on this kind of services.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1205 The Art of Your First $3k in ARR with Ukrainian CEO Vladimir Polo

That's what I haven't done with my first startup, unfortunately.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1205 The Art of Your First $3k in ARR with Ukrainian CEO Vladimir Polo

And I've just created a landing page that was mentioned like, hey, this is an Academy Ocean.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1205 The Art of Your First $3k in ARR with Ukrainian CEO Vladimir Polo

It will help you to teach your customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1205 The Art of Your First $3k in ARR with Ukrainian CEO Vladimir Polo

And I wrote several hundreds of cold emails that I've chosen from SaaS companies' founders.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1205 The Art of Your First $3k in ARR with Ukrainian CEO Vladimir Polo

And when I received a dozen of positive replies, like people told me, hey, we want to see your product, show us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1205 The Art of Your First $3k in ARR with Ukrainian CEO Vladimir Polo

We had the calls and I told them that there is no product yet, but we will build it soon.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1205 The Art of Your First $3k in ARR with Ukrainian CEO Vladimir Polo

And I was interviewing them to better understand their needs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1205 The Art of Your First $3k in ARR with Ukrainian CEO Vladimir Polo

Okay, is that an average though?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1205 The Art of Your First $3k in ARR with Ukrainian CEO Vladimir Polo

Is that what the average customer pays?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1205 The Art of Your First $3k in ARR with Ukrainian CEO Vladimir Polo

As we have not so many customers right now, we have 15 customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1205 The Art of Your First $3k in ARR with Ukrainian CEO Vladimir Polo

And our average is around $200 because when we started, we have given a few discounted accounts.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1205 The Art of Your First $3k in ARR with Ukrainian CEO Vladimir Polo

So they still affect an average.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1205 The Art of Your First $3k in ARR with Ukrainian CEO Vladimir Polo

Actually, we've got an investment from Netpeak.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1205 The Art of Your First $3k in ARR with Ukrainian CEO Vladimir Polo

It's one of the edges.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1205 The Art of Your First $3k in ARR with Ukrainian CEO Vladimir Polo

It was 100K for 10%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1205 The Art of Your First $3k in ARR with Ukrainian CEO Vladimir Polo

Okay, and that's all the money raised to date?