Episode 511 | Raising Prices & Re-writing Your Codebase
Startups For the Rest of Us
English - August 25, 2020 10:00 - 31 minutes - 29.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 675 ratingsCareers Business Technology business marketing entrepreneur entrepreneurship leadership finance entrepreneurs interview health fitness Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Show Notes
On today's episode, Rob chats with Mike Ritchie about how they got their first paying customer in 30 days of launch, listening to your customers, and doing a massive pricing revamp.
SeekWell is looking for a freelance SEO marketer to help grow the top of their funnel. If you have experience in analytics and B2B SaaS marketing, please email Mike at [email protected]
The topics we cover
2:35 How Mike Ritchie and his co-founder, Thabo Fisher of Seekwell discovered the need for their product
5:57 Deciding to not go down the venture capital path
8:08 Seekwell's typical customer profile
10:01 Getting the first paying customer within 30 days
14:26 Rewriting Seekwell's codebase and doubling down on what customer's love.
16:40 Applying for TinySeed
20:03 Raising prices and adjusting Seekwell's value metric
25:53 Examples of creative use cases for Seekwell
29:02 Since Seekwell launched, have there been any low points?
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