Shafik Bawas

Co-Founder & CEO, Brainboard · 1 appearance on the record.

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Chafik Belhaoues is the co-founder and CEO of Brainboard, a platform for visually designing and managing cloud infrastructure. He previously worked over 15 years in infrastructure engineering, including serving as Chief Technology Officer at Scaleway.

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Opinion

Bawas: European startups have higher success rates by doing YC

“They know that if you do YC, it's like you have more chance to succeed in the business. Then when you do it alone and in, in Europe.”

Shafik Bawas Mar 7, 2022 ▶ 15:46 How to Sell $50k Contracts on Day 1 of your Startup

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Bawas: Brainboard founders bootstrapped using French salary benefits for two years

“You know, we got a, we were based in France and we got a system in France, you know, when you work for more than six years, you can take like two years off and you got all 60%, something like that of your salary. So we took advantage of that. We used it to fen…”

Shafik Bawas Mar 7, 2022 ▶ 4:52 How to Sell $50k Contracts on Day 1 of your Startup

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Brainboard's pre-seed investors supported the company joining Y Combinator

“They're comfortable with it. I mean, the investors we have, they already know the systems like you know, our context is we are in France. It's a French company and a lot of companies from France move to the U S and do YC.”

Shafik Bawas Mar 7, 2022 ▶ 15:28 How to Sell $50k Contracts on Day 1 of your Startup

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Bawas: Brainboard customers pay $12,000 to $15,000 per month on average

“The average company is between 12 and 15 K a month.”

Shafik Bawas Mar 7, 2022 ▶ 2:24 How to Sell $50k Contracts on Day 1 of your Startup

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Bawas: Brainboard raised over $1.2M in 2021 pre-seed round

“We raised more than one dot two million USD.”

Shafik Bawas Mar 7, 2022 ▶ 3:34 How to Sell $50k Contracts on Day 1 of your Startup

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Bawas: Brainboard raised pre-seed round at over $4M pre-money valuation

“And we, yeah, the valuation it's more than four million.”

Shafik Bawas Mar 7, 2022 ▶ 4:06 How to Sell $50k Contracts on Day 1 of your Startup

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Bawas: Brainboard trades 15-25% discounts for annual commitments or feedback

“So what we usually do, we apply between 15 and 25%. And yeah, but in return, we take either an engagement for a year or they accept to give us a regular feedback.”

Shafik Bawas Mar 7, 2022 ▶ 7:09 How to Sell $50k Contracts on Day 1 of your Startup

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Bawas: Brainboard made around $200 a month one year ago

“A year ago. A year ago, we were like, a hundred of bucks. We were like, 200 a month.”

Shafik Bawas Mar 7, 2022 ▶ 8:04 How to Sell $50k Contracts on Day 1 of your Startup

Disclosure

Bawas: LinkedIn is Brainboard's most effective customer acquisition channel

“LinkedIn is working a lot for us. I mean, actually, because, you know, we are talking to experts, cloud architects and managers, and these people are present in LinkedIn because they work with LinkedIn. You know, when you are looking for a job, you put it on L…”

Shafik Bawas Mar 7, 2022 ▶ 8:41 How to Sell $50k Contracts on Day 1 of your Startup

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Bawas: Brainboard ran over 100 free POCs in six months

“Well, we have done like more than a hundred.”

Shafik Bawas Mar 7, 2022 ▶ 13:28 How to Sell $50k Contracts on Day 1 of your Startup

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Bawas: Brainboard has over 10 paying customers

“So we have like more than 10 customers.”

Shafik Bawas Mar 7, 2022 ▶ 5:29 How to Sell $50k Contracts on Day 1 of your Startup

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
How to Sell $50k Contracts on Day 1 of your Startup	Mar 7, 2022	9m

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