Mahir Iskender

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

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Mahir Iskender is a serial entrepreneur who founded Digno, an employee performance and gamified reward platform, as well as KNDR.digital, a growth agency providing AI-driven fundraising strategies for nonprofits. He previously served as Executive Director of the United States–Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce and founded Take 5 Global.

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Prediction Not checkable as stated
Iskender: Digno aims to hit $82k monthly revenue by year-end
“We're aiming approximately 80, 82,000 dollars by the end of the year.”
Mahir Iskender Oct 2, 2022 ▶ 10:10 How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Iskender: Internal employee scoring prototype increased retail sales by 30%
“Within six months, 30% increase in sales. 40% increase in productivity.”
Mahir Iskender Oct 2, 2022 ▶ 5:02 How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Iskender: Digno has approximately 15 paying customers
“We have approximately 15 paying customers.”
Mahir Iskender Oct 2, 2022 ▶ 6:15 How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Iskender: 17 out of 20 pilot companies converted to paying customers
“And out of 20, we had approximately eight not 18, like 17 convert.”
Mahir Iskender Oct 2, 2022 ▶ 7:29 How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS
Disclosure
Iskender: Digno has taken no outside funding
“Not a dime from outside.”
Mahir Iskender Oct 2, 2022 ▶ 10:28 How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS
Disclosure
Iskender: Digno's equity is split 90% to Iskender, 10% to his wife
“I own 90% and my partner in life and in the business, my wife, she owns 10%.”
Mahir Iskender Oct 2, 2022 ▶ 10:33 How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS
Disclosure
Iskender: Digno charges $59 base plus $7 to $9 per employee
“It's 59 dollars for base subscription, but then there's a seven dollar to nine dollar per, per, per employee fee.”
Mahir Iskender Oct 2, 2022 ▶ 1:56 How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Iskender: Digno's average customer pays $3,000 to $5,000 per month
“Approximately it's the average is about three to 5000 dollars.”
Mahir Iskender Oct 2, 2022 ▶ 2:11 How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Iskender: Digno has 45 companies using its platform
“You know, I have 45 companies using it at the moment.”
Mahir Iskender Oct 2, 2022 ▶ 6:05 How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS
Disclosure
Iskender invested $120,000 of his personal funds to bootstrap Digno
“We put initially a 120,000 you know just to, we started with 9000 and then we had to add more and obviously so that's how, how we ended up spending.”
Mahir Iskender Oct 2, 2022 ▶ 10:48 How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS
Disclosure
Iskender: Digno relies exclusively on founder-led sales
“It's all me. I'm the salesperson, founder sales.”
Mahir Iskender Oct 2, 2022 ▶ 13:22 How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS
Disclosure
Iskender uses Seamless.AI, Salesflow, and Expandi for Digno's outbound sales
“I use multiple tools. You know, we have we use like seamless, seamless AI, you know, you all heard of I use sales flow and actually I just signed up expand you.”
Mahir Iskender Oct 2, 2022 ▶ 13:29 How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS Oct 2, 2022 8m
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