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Maria Seidman

CEO and Co-Founder, Yapp · 1 appearance on the record.

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Maria Seidman is the co-founder and CEO of Yapp, a platform enabling users to create mobile event applications. Previously, she served as Vice President of Digital Distribution at Warner Bros., overseeing mobile initiatives.

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1 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 3 not checkable as stated how the 5 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

5 assertions · 4 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 3 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Maria argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Seidman: National Pole Dancing Championship Uses Yapp for Tour Events
“Our customer, the National Pole Dancing Champion. Exactly. You know, they just had their national championships. They took it around the country, around the world, and they had a YAP app for each of those events.”
Maria Seidman Oct 6, 2017 ▶ 4:12 804: SaaS: Yapp Passes 80,000 Events Powered

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Assertion Partly supported
Seidman: There are 2 million conferences annually in the US alone
“There are two million different conferences in the U S alone.”
Maria Seidman Oct 6, 2017 ▶ 8:08 804: SaaS: Yapp Passes 80,000 Events Powered
Disclosure
Seidman: Yapp targets ARPU and enterprise expansion over app count
“We're not necessarily focused on the number of apps and that's how we count it, not necessarily events, but we are focused on increasing our average revenue per user, and we are focused on going further and further deeper into the enterprise.”
Maria Seidman Oct 6, 2017 ▶ 12:37 804: SaaS: Yapp Passes 80,000 Events Powered
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Seidman: Yapp has powered 85,000 published apps since launch
“So since we started, we've had 85,000 apps published on our platform, mostly around events and groups.”
Maria Seidman Oct 6, 2017 ▶ 2:29 804: SaaS: Yapp Passes 80,000 Events Powered
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Seidman: Real Conferences Do Not Use Facebook Events
“Real conferences and don't really use Facebook events for their events. As you know, use it for social things. Hey, we're getting together in the park, et cetera.”
Maria Seidman Oct 6, 2017 ▶ 3:30 804: SaaS: Yapp Passes 80,000 Events Powered
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Yapp reached SaaS profitability by bootstrapping after a seed round
“The current version of the business, which is a SaaS, you know, a SaaS business that's profitable so we continue to bootstrap.”
Maria Seidman Oct 6, 2017 ▶ 9:21 804: SaaS: Yapp Passes 80,000 Events Powered
Disclosure
Seidman acquired early customers by pitching in trade show bars
“Well, very, very early on in the business we couldn't afford to go to trade shows as an exhibitor, because, you know, that, like, can set you back six grand or more to have a booth, so I would just sneak in as an attendee, especially because a lot of times att…”
Maria Seidman Oct 6, 2017 ▶ 13:12 804: SaaS: Yapp Passes 80,000 Events Powered
Assertion Supported
Seidman: National Pole Dancing Championship Uses Yapp for Tour Events
“Our customer, the National Pole Dancing Champion. Exactly. You know, they just had their national championships. They took it around the country, around the world, and they had a YAP app for each of those events.”
Maria Seidman Oct 6, 2017 ▶ 4:12 804: SaaS: Yapp Passes 80,000 Events Powered
Disclosure
Seidman: Yapp's largest package to date is 50 apps
“Our largest package to date has been 50 apps.”
Maria Seidman Oct 6, 2017 ▶ 5:04 804: SaaS: Yapp Passes 80,000 Events Powered
Disclosure
Seidman: Yapp's smallest annual plan is $400 per app
“The smallest plan is 400 dollars per app per year.”
Maria Seidman Oct 6, 2017 ▶ 7:01 804: SaaS: Yapp Passes 80,000 Events Powered

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
804: SaaS: Yapp Passes 80,000 Events Powered Oct 6, 2017 8m
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