IdeaScale

“I spent zero dollars on Google ads or, and maybe like a thousand bucks on LinkedIn ads last month. My average competitor spends rough between 10 to 50 times what I do on a monthly basis.”

“We also have, even in the age of AI chat bots, we have a 24, seven, three 65 human customer support team. So if you knew, On Christmas Eve, you need, if you have a problem, whether it be a technical problem or just you need to know how to do something, look, y…”

“IdeaScale is the largest innovation software company on the planet.”

“Our inbounds when I joined was zero. We had zero inbound opportunities a month.”

“So today, I have probably three times just the quality assurance and bug engineers as all of my competitors. Not because, like, we're three times less efficient, but because I care a hell of a lot more about actually having a good product.”

“So I believe the market consolidation is coming. Almost every software market only has one or two players, right?”

“So we're in an interesting place because IdeaScale has been a hundred percent bootstrapped. It is owned by one guy who's a serial entrepreneur and he provided the initial capital and we've been profitable almost since day one.”

“If we were, we have the profit margins of large publicly listed companies on a percentage basis.”

“No idea scale tests for skills in whatever function, even quote unquote qualitative functions, whether it be Mark, whether you're a software engineer, whether you're a marketer, whether you are in HR, you get, or finance, you get skills-based testing that obje…”

“Almost all of my competitors are venture-backed loss-making companies that are anywhere between -20% EBITDA margins to zero percent EBITDA margins.”

“If you search the word innovation management, innovation, best practice, anything related to innovation or creativity, we're a top three Google results alongside. It's usually Harvard business school, McKinsey, Wikipedia, and us in some combination in any lang…”