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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 5 5.00
Q 500. Good. So take us kind of through the process. Uh, let's start at your time at Accenture. The moment you met Roger and Sean, how did you know? And I assume this is when you were making the investments on behalf of, uh, the, the fund there, Accenture Technology Ventures or no?
A Exactly. In 2000, uh, you know, during the height of the dot-com boom, Accenture Technology Ventures had had a successful exit out of Siebel for a billion dollars. We set up a venture fund where we invested in a number of companies, typically startup software companies. One of those companies was Inquira. I think Siri for the web back in the day, they're really exciting AI technology, NLP technology. Uh, we had invested in them. And, uh, uh, really helped them get started. And then I left the firm in 2005. Once inquirer really started getting traction in the market, they had survived the dot com bust and had begun to really find their market. I joined them to help accelerate and scale. And that's where I met my co-founders as well.
AI assessment note: “Exactly. In 2000, uh, you know, during the height of the dot-com boom”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q So how did you, a lot of folks listening right now are going, well, Nathan, how is he funding and supporting himself in the team for those two or three years before they had a new revenue? How would you answer that?
A Um, uh, bootstrapping, uh, and, uh, being very prudent, uh, Uh, with our dollars. Again, you know, having started the company right at the time, uh, that the economy was really just falling off the edge of the earth. Um, we, I actually thought we were going into a depression. I thought it would last a decade. Fortunately, just before, this is one of those great timing things. Just before we started the company, I had sold a lot of my, not a lot, but enough of my Accenture stock. I was a, I had founder's stock at the time. Oh, great. Did well there. Um, and, and sold some stock that funded our company for three years. Um, and we thought it would last a decade. Again, venture capital is hard to come by, uh, during that period too. And so we just needed to be really, really prudent with spend. And we were just, uh, you know, tight wads for a long time.
AI assessment note: “sold some stock that funded our company for three years”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q Got it. Okay. And then take us through to kind of where you are today. Um, maybe not from a revenue perspective, but maybe in terms of customers or users, how many customers does Maven Link serve?
A So we, we have a very, very broad customer base in over a hundred countries. Um, we serve customers from small services businesses that, you know, take a small marketing agency of 10 to 15, 20, you know, people, all the way up to very large public companies like Genpact, who's specifically in the services business, both outsourcing and consulting, who would have multi-thousands of users. Uh, and so it's a broad base, again, across a hundred countries. We would have well over, uh, 1500, uh, businesses or customers that are, are, uh, uh, using our premier offering. That's our, our top tier offering. Uh, and then we would have thousands of others that use our, uh, our, what we call our teams offering. It's a light lighter weight meant for smaller businesses.
AI assessment note: “We would have well over, uh, 1500, uh, businesses or customers”
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Q this cause you've seen way more than me. They get, they get way less creative cause the answer to everything is throw money at it. Um, what are some things that you're doing? You already mentioned the marketplace for organic growth. Are there any other organic channels you're doing? And if not, what are you, what is your CAC? What are you willing to spend to acquire a new customer?
A Sure. So, um, I agree with you that, uh, you know, the, the, the amount of money you have in your bank account really influences you and most people, most businesses. Uh, when we first started out, because of when we started out, we, we got really good at, uh, managing cash. And, um, I'm a big, you know, a philosophy, uh, uh, proponent that, um, you know, if you're rich, you don't have to balance your checkbook. And so, uh, we didn't start off Rich relative to others who had already raised significant venture capital. And so we, we had to look for creative ways of acquiring customers. I mentioned the Google apps marketplace. That was a big one for us. We do a lot of things related to, uh, content marketing. Uh, we do participate in events. Now those are paid. However, they're big returners. So event marketing, but content, uh, is a big component of our organic, uh, uh, traffic. To Maven Lake.
AI assessment note: “content, uh, is a big component of our organic, uh, uh, traffic.”
