Badis Khalfallah

PhD Candidate, HEC Lausanne · 1 appearance on the record.

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Badis Khalfallah founded LeadGuru.io, a B2B sales intelligence and cold-emailing platform, and co-founded the cohort learning platform Implement. He later transitioned to academia, conducting research in consumer behavior and digital marketing at HEC Lausanne.

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Disclosure
LeadGuru charges $40 base price per unique email click
“It's a cost per click model. So we only build per unique click on the campaign. And the cost there is 40 dollars. That's the base price per click.”
Badis Khalfallah Dec 24, 2017 ▶ 3:03 883 SaaS: What To Do When Your Lead Developer Quits
Disclosure
LeadGuru is migrating customer email delivery to Reply.io
“We used to have our own platform. Now we're transferring everything to reply. So yeah, we use reply.”
Badis Khalfallah Dec 24, 2017 ▶ 5:40 883 SaaS: What To Do When Your Lead Developer Quits
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LeadGuru claims all competitors require multi-month upfront commitments
“So I think a hundred percent of my competitors. They ask for like three months engagement beforehand before starting anything. So they ask you to pay three months, you know, in advance or six months or one year.”
Badis Khalfallah Dec 24, 2017 ▶ 11:48 883 SaaS: What To Do When Your Lead Developer Quits
Disclosure
LeadGuru CTO resigned over equity and compensation disputes
“Yeah, it was both. And we didn't agree on, on, you know, how to make it happen.”
Badis Khalfallah Dec 24, 2017 ▶ 16:06 883 SaaS: What To Do When Your Lead Developer Quits
Disclosure
LeadGuru abandoned its proprietary platform after CTO's sudden departure
“I used to work with a CTO who was working with me and, you know, he dropped out of the company. He left the company recently. So that was a change there and I need to take action. So I said, okay, let's let's cut for now the, all the emailing platform developm…”
Badis Khalfallah Dec 24, 2017 ▶ 6:22 883 SaaS: What To Do When Your Lead Developer Quits
Disclosure
LeadGuru clients pay an average of $800 per month
“On average it's a 800 dollars.”
Badis Khalfallah Dec 24, 2017 ▶ 2:48 883 SaaS: What To Do When Your Lead Developer Quits
Disclosure
LeadGuru requires clients to have at least $6,000 in CLV
“We actually work with companies that have, you know, an average basket or a CLV that is you know, more than six, 6000 dollars.”
Badis Khalfallah Dec 24, 2017 ▶ 3:45 883 SaaS: What To Do When Your Lead Developer Quits
Disclosure
LeadGuru currently has 24 paying customers
“24 customers.”
Badis Khalfallah Dec 24, 2017 ▶ 4:18 883 SaaS: What To Do When Your Lead Developer Quits
Assertion Not checkable as stated
LeadGuru built its initial MVP for $800 using a freelancer
“I paid for a sort of MVP was 800 dollars. Did it with a freelancer and yeah, that's it.”
Badis Khalfallah Dec 24, 2017 ▶ 7:48 883 SaaS: What To Do When Your Lead Developer Quits
Disclosure
LeadGuru has raised a total of €30,000 in funding
“Actually not much, 30, 30 K euros.”
Badis Khalfallah Dec 24, 2017 ▶ 8:36 883 SaaS: What To Do When Your Lead Developer Quits
Disclosure
LeadGuru generated approximately $45,000 in year-to-date revenue by August
“Probably around 45 K.”
Badis Khalfallah Dec 24, 2017 ▶ 11:12 883 SaaS: What To Do When Your Lead Developer Quits

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Statements about Badis Khalfallah, by other people (1)

Disclosure
Nathan Latka extends live $60,000 buyout offer for LeadGuru
“I will, I'll write you a 60,000 dollar check to buy the whole company. Assuming the numbers you've told me so far are accurate.”
Nathan Latka Dec 24, 2017 ▶ 17:28 883 SaaS: What To Do When Your Lead Developer Quits

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
883 SaaS: What To Do When Your Lead Developer Quits Dec 24, 2017 10m
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