Arun Kumar

Founder & CEO, Jugl · 1 appearance on the record.

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Arun Kumar is the founder and CEO of Jugl, a workforce management SaaS platform, and the founder and CEO of IT services firm CAP Digisoft Solutions. He is the author of Before You Build Anything and serves as Chair of the Dallas Chapter of the American Tamil Entrepreneurs Association.

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Disclosure

Kumar self-funded $800k into Juggle before acquiring a single customer

“If I can say close to 800,000 dollars.”

Arun Kumar Aug 22, 2023 ▶ 9:25 Zero to $1m in 12 Months, how he used personal brand to scale SaaS Fast

Opinion

Kumar: Owning a custom chat and task system for $800k is a no-brainer

“Owning a custom chat system with a task for 800 K, I think that is a brainer, no brainer for me personally.”

Arun Kumar Aug 22, 2023 ▶ 9:31 Zero to $1m in 12 Months, how he used personal brand to scale SaaS Fast

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Kumar predicts Juggle will leap from $1k to $1M revenue this year

“But we had under thousand last year, and this year we will be hitting one million.”

Arun Kumar Aug 22, 2023 ▶ 17:48 Zero to $1m in 12 Months, how he used personal brand to scale SaaS Fast

Insight

Kumar: Tech talent can only be evaluated through 30-to-40-day trial hires

“You know, you cannot judge by interview or you cannot judge by reading profile. You know, you have to hire them, take a risk of 30 days, 40 days, assign, see if they are compatible for your vision. That is the only way you can find the talent.”

Arun Kumar Aug 22, 2023 ▶ 20:03 Zero to $1m in 12 Months, how he used personal brand to scale SaaS Fast

Disclosure

Juggle is selling 20% equity for a $3M seed at $15M valuation

“I'm diluting 20 percentage of my company for the three million bucks.”

Arun Kumar Aug 22, 2023 ▶ 16:22 Zero to $1m in 12 Months, how he used personal brand to scale SaaS Fast

Opinion

Kumar: Products achieve 100x to 1,000x more impact than service businesses

“Through product, we can able to impact under times or a thousand times more than what you do through service industry.”

Arun Kumar Aug 22, 2023 ▶ 1:45 Zero to $1m in 12 Months, how he used personal brand to scale SaaS Fast

Disclosure

Kumar invests up to $250k yearly testing products; Juggle is attempt five

“Through CapDigiSoft, always I invest under two quarter million every year to find the product which can impact millions of businesses. And Juggle is my fifth try on those process.”

Arun Kumar Aug 22, 2023 ▶ 2:34 Zero to $1m in 12 Months, how he used personal brand to scale SaaS Fast

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Kumar: Juggle's Average Customer Has 200 Employees

“200 employees is my average. That is my average customer, customer size, employee size per organization.”

Arun Kumar Aug 22, 2023 ▶ 4:56 Zero to $1m in 12 Months, how he used personal brand to scale SaaS Fast

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Kumar's social media announcement drove 500 company sign-ups for Juggle immediately

“So as soon as I published, I have 500 companies who signed up.”

Arun Kumar Aug 22, 2023 ▶ 10:12 Zero to $1m in 12 Months, how he used personal brand to scale SaaS Fast

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Kumar: Juggle has 400 organizations using its platform

“So now we have 400 organizations using our app very successfully.”

Arun Kumar Aug 22, 2023 ▶ 10:24 Zero to $1m in 12 Months, how he used personal brand to scale SaaS Fast

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Kumar: About 240 organizations signed up for Juggle from one conference

“I think 240, I would say, but I don't have exact number, but 240 organization signed up on that particular conference.”

Arun Kumar Aug 22, 2023 ▶ 15:06 Zero to $1m in 12 Months, how he used personal brand to scale SaaS Fast

Disclosure

Kumar: Juggle has raised $2.3M toward a $3M seed round

“We raised 2.3 million so far, but my seed round is three million dollars and we'll be closing three million dollars in the next few months.”

Arun Kumar Aug 22, 2023 ▶ 15:26 Zero to $1m in 12 Months, how he used personal brand to scale SaaS Fast

Disclosure

Kumar: Juggle burned roughly $105,000 last month

“I would say close to a 100,000 dollars, sorry, under and 5000 dollars.”

Arun Kumar Aug 22, 2023 ▶ 20:31 Zero to $1m in 12 Months, how he used personal brand to scale SaaS Fast

Disclosure

Kumar: Juggle charges $3 to $5 per user monthly

“It is anywhere between three to five dollars per user per month.”

Arun Kumar Aug 22, 2023 ▶ 5:26 Zero to $1m in 12 Months, how he used personal brand to scale SaaS Fast

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Kumar: Juggle pivoted twice from dual personal and business focus

“We pivoted twice since we launched, you know, we launched as a personal productivity and also business productivity app.”

Arun Kumar Aug 22, 2023 ▶ 7:56 Zero to $1m in 12 Months, how he used personal brand to scale SaaS Fast

Disclosure

Kumar: Juggle gave three-month free trials after first customer

“We signed up the first customer, they're ready to pay, And we start focusing only on that one customer, what you want more. So we didn't onboard the second customer for a long time. And we didn't, and we gave three months free trial for every other customers.”

Arun Kumar Aug 22, 2023 ▶ 12:34 Zero to $1m in 12 Months, how he used personal brand to scale SaaS Fast

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
Zero to $1m in 12 Months, how he used personal brand to scale SaaS Fast	Aug 22, 2023	12m

Arun Kumar

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