Candee: Bounce has 65 partner locations in NYC and San Francisco
“We have 65 store locations between New York City and San Francisco.”
Candee: Over half of Bounce users buy from partner stores
“Our customers, we estimate more than half of them buy from our small business partners.”
Candee: Bounce charges $6 per day, sharing half with store partners
“So basically we charge six dollars per bag per day with the current model. And we give three dollars now phasing that to two dollars per bag to the store partners.”
Candee: Bounce insures up to $2,500 per stored item
“We do offer an insurance policy, 2500 dollars per item stored and we're actually increasing this later this year.”
Candee: Bounce is growing 50% month-over-month since February launch
“We've been in product development mode, came out of that in February, and since then we've been growing 50% month over month.”
Candee: Bounce generated $8,500 in revenue last month
“So last month we did 8500 in revenue.”
Candee: Bounce personally vets every partner store location
“So we started out going into every single store. That's the process we use right now, just to make sure we can, someone can walk in and they know that if it's a bounce location, they'll feel safe and secure.”
Candee: Bounce will be incredibly well positioned to do delivery
“Yeah, so I think we're going to be incredibly well positioned to do delivery.”
Candee: Bounce is raising $1.5M at a $6M cap
“Yes, we're raising 1.5 million on a six million cap.”
Candee: 70% of Bounce traffic is organic; Google CAC is $12
“So on the consumer side, 70% of our traffic is organic search. We've also looked at Google AdWords. We could get customers for about 12 dollars there. The average transaction size is 15, and we share up to half of that with businesses.”
Candee: Bounce was profitable last month, storing over 1,000 items
“So in terms of the unit economics we basically were profitable last month. We're storing over a thousand items a month, and this is pre-mobile app.”
Candee: Bounce will expand to 10 cities in a year
“We have extremely low overhead, and I think that's the beauty of this model. We're able to scale this. We'll be in 10 cities in a year with very minimal costs. And so we could take this really big, really fast with not a ton of capital.”
Manus: Reverses her initial pass to invest $100,000 in Bounce
“I'm gonna reverse, because everything we've brought up, everything we've hit you with, you're, you've seen all these different issues, I'm gonna go in for a 100,000.”
Hyatt: Cody Candee has strong product instincts and counterintuitive thinking
“He's just quirky and strange enough To be onto something with his counterintuitive thinking. And his answers are very good. He's a product guy at heart.”
Hudson: Luggage delivery is an unnecessary complication for Bounce
“I just think moving the stuff around is an unnecessary complication too.”
Manus: Candee will abandon Bounce's delivery vision once storage scales
“I think that if he sees that there's a scalable business in just this first part of it, he's going to come to that place himself, but I'm also going to make that part of this conversation.”
Candee: Airbnb's General Counsel joins Bounce's funding round
“And, ah, one note there that I'm really excited about actually is Jillian put me in touch with
The general counsel of Airbnb.
he's actually joining our round, and he put me in touch with the head of insurance.”
Candee: Michael Hyatt invests $50,000 in Bounce after the pitch
“He put in 50.”
Candee: Jillian Manus committed $100K on air but wired $75K
“Jillian said she was in for a 100,000.
We did a close on Friday, and The Wire with her name came in for 75 K.”
Candee: Bounce plans launches in Washington D.C., Chicago, and Boston
“So we have an intern this summer who's launching DC for us.
That's coming in August.
In September, we're launching Chicago and Boston.”
Candee: Bounce has 65 store locations across NYC and San Francisco
“We have 65 store locations between New York City and San Francisco.”
Candee: Bounce grows 50% month-over-month and hit $8.5k monthly revenue
“Yeah, so basically we've been in product development mode, came out of that in February, and since then we've been growing 50% month over month. So last month we did 8500 in revenue.”
Candee: Kmart reached out to Bounce expressing interest in partnership
“Yeah, we actually had Kmart reach out to us and say, hey, we're interested.”
Manus commits to invest $100,000 in luggage storage startup Bounce
“I, I'm gonna go in for a 100,000.”
Bounce raised over $1M in seed funding by late 2018
“He invested 50 K on top of the hundred K from Jillian. And by the end of 2018, Cody and his co-founder Alex had raised over a million dollars.”
Candee: Bounce grew 6x in 2019, storing tens of thousands of bags monthly
“We grew six acts throughout the year, and then by the end of the year, we were all over the U.S. And were storing Five figure amounts of bags per month.”
Candee details how Bounce completely reset its early startup team
“Ultimately we basically reset the team. We let go of one person, another person quit, and then another person we moved to a contractor status with the idea to terminate a couple months later.”
Candee: Startups with 18-month runways cannot spend six months training employees
“We don't have six months to teach someone to get up to speed when an average fundraise gives you 18 months of runway to try to get to, you know, profitability.”
Fortune 500 partner signed to put Bounce in 5,000 retail stores
“This company would be putting Bounce in 5000 of its retail stores in the U.S.”
Candee: Bounce's volume collapsed from 10,000 bags monthly to 1 weekly
“We were doing, like, I don't know, maybe 10,000 bags in, in a month, so that would be, like, a couple thousand bags in a week, and then the next week maybe it would be, like, 100, and then the next week it was, like, one.”
Candee: Avoid conducting layoffs as long as possible before acting
“I feel like layoffs are something where you avoid them as long as you can, so it's really important to just kind of move forward as fast as possible until things seem more and more inevitable.”
Bounce secured PPP relief funding one day before planned furloughs
“We got the money on Thursday.”
Candee: Startups should use PPP to restructure, not just delay layoffs
“For us, it felt more important and more of the right thing to do to not just maintain the team during the PPP period and then Make cuts after that, but to really think about how this can be a lifeline into the future, and how we can have a team through the PPP…”