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Rami Shama

1 appearance on the record.

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1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 6 not checkable as stated how the 7 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

7 assertions · 1 insight · 6 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 6 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 Rami 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
Appointlet is entirely bootstrapped without outside capital
“We're bootstrapped.”
Rami Shama Feb 1, 2017 ▶ 16:50 EP 557: Appointlet Hits $35k MRR, Co-Founders Because of Reddit Helping 1100 Customers Schedule with Rami El Chamaa

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Everything Rami Shama said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Scheduling tools drive viral acquisition through product interactions with prospects
“This is how scheduling works. It's not the same for other software, because here you interact with your customers all the time with your prospects. So they see what you're doing and they think, oh, I want to, I want that as well.”
Rami Shama Feb 1, 2017 ▶ 12:15 EP 557: Appointlet Hits $35k MRR, Co-Founders Because of Reddit Helping 1100 Customers Schedule with Rami El Chamaa
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Appointlet has reached 1,100 to 1,200 paying customers
“Today we're in around a thousand thousand, a 100,200 paid customers.”
Rami Shama Feb 1, 2017 ▶ 8:27 EP 557: Appointlet Hits $35k MRR, Co-Founders Because of Reddit Helping 1100 Customers Schedule with Rami El Chamaa
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Appointlet generates approximately $37,000 in monthly recurring revenue
“It's around the 40, 3030, 37. Yeah. The price I gave you was actually the price per member, not per customer.”
Rami Shama Feb 1, 2017 ▶ 9:58 EP 557: Appointlet Hits $35k MRR, Co-Founders Because of Reddit Helping 1100 Customers Schedule with Rami El Chamaa
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Most of Appointlet's customers originate from referrals and booking links
“I would say so. Yeah. I would say if you take referrals all type of referrals. Yes. All type of referrals. So that's a word of mouth. That's a booking page signups. You look at the booking page and sign up. That's affiliate.”
Rami Shama Feb 1, 2017 ▶ 13:28 EP 557: Appointlet Hits $35k MRR, Co-Founders Because of Reddit Helping 1100 Customers Schedule with Rami El Chamaa
Assertion Supported
Appointlet is entirely bootstrapped without outside capital
“We're bootstrapped.”
Rami Shama Feb 1, 2017 ▶ 16:50 EP 557: Appointlet Hits $35k MRR, Co-Founders Because of Reddit Helping 1100 Customers Schedule with Rami El Chamaa
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Appointlet's average customer pays around $15 per month
“The average customers pays us around 15 dollars per month.”
Rami Shama Feb 1, 2017 ▶ 2:54 EP 557: Appointlet Hits $35k MRR, Co-Founders Because of Reddit Helping 1100 Customers Schedule with Rami El Chamaa
Disclosure
Appointlet is moving to per-member pricing model
“We are moving towards a new type of pricing that works on a per member basis. We found out that our customers I mean, this works much more for our customers because we would be able to provide them with plans that would grow with their team instead of right no…”
Rami Shama Feb 1, 2017 ▶ 3:28 EP 557: Appointlet Hits $35k MRR, Co-Founders Because of Reddit Helping 1100 Customers Schedule with Rami El Chamaa
Disclosure
Rami El Chamaa met Appointlet co-founder Jared Morris on Reddit
“So I'm from Lebanon and I met him through Reddit.”
Rami Shama Feb 1, 2017 ▶ 5:32 EP 557: Appointlet Hits $35k MRR, Co-Founders Because of Reddit Helping 1100 Customers Schedule with Rami El Chamaa
Disclosure
Appointlet co-founders had met in person only once before 2017
“We met once in person that was in September of last year.”
Rami Shama Feb 1, 2017 ▶ 5:37 EP 557: Appointlet Hits $35k MRR, Co-Founders Because of Reddit Helping 1100 Customers Schedule with Rami El Chamaa
Assertion Not checkable as stated
El Chamaa secured 25% Appointlet equity after doing pro bono SEO
“I did not ask for anything at the beginning. So I just I just, I was doing some SEO on the website and like at one point like I was doing some work and I thought, I mean, I should get compensated. So we said like what'd you say? I get 25% of the business.”
Rami Shama Feb 1, 2017 ▶ 7:46 EP 557: Appointlet Hits $35k MRR, Co-Founders Because of Reddit Helping 1100 Customers Schedule with Rami El Chamaa
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Appointlet had $200 MRR when Rami El Chamaa joined
“I joined in, it was 200 MRR.”
Rami Shama Feb 1, 2017 ▶ 9:21 EP 557: Appointlet Hits $35k MRR, Co-Founders Because of Reddit Helping 1100 Customers Schedule with Rami El Chamaa
Disclosure
Appointlet's monthly gross churn is around 5% to 6%
“We're around maybe five or six percent right now.”
Rami Shama Feb 1, 2017 ▶ 13:59 EP 557: Appointlet Hits $35k MRR, Co-Founders Because of Reddit Helping 1100 Customers Schedule with Rami El Chamaa
Disclosure
Appointlet spends $2,000 to $3,000 monthly on paid marketing
“I would say around not much, around maybe 2003 thousand.”
Rami Shama Feb 1, 2017 ▶ 14:38 EP 557: Appointlet Hits $35k MRR, Co-Founders Because of Reddit Helping 1100 Customers Schedule with Rami El Chamaa
Disclosure
Appointlet projects customer lifetime value at $400 to $500
“Around the 405 hundred dollars.”
Rami Shama Feb 1, 2017 ▶ 15:07 EP 557: Appointlet Hits $35k MRR, Co-Founders Because of Reddit Helping 1100 Customers Schedule with Rami El Chamaa

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
EP 557: Appointlet Hits $35k MRR, Co-Founders Because of Reddit Helping 1100 Customers Sch Feb 1, 2017 10m
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