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Maheshwari: Slow growth over three years makes raising VC nearly impossible
“I would not consider it at the moment because we are at a place that it's very, very, it's going to be very tough, right? If I go to an investor right now and say I've been alive for more than three and a half years, and now I would raise funds, they're going …”
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Around.io founder Natwar Maheshwari currently takes zero salary
“I do not pay myself right now. I was paying myself last year, and then I realized if I want to grow this, I really have to take myself Stuff out.”
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Maheshwari: Around.io took eight months to reach 30 customers at $20 pricing
“It took us, like eight months to get to 30 customers, and at that time, we priced the tool twice as All the, so the buffer was 10 dollars at the time, and we were pricing it at 20 dollars, just because you want to build something for a niche, and we wanted to …”
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Around.io monthly gross logo churn is between 3.5% and 4%
“Gross logo churn is around three point, Five percent right now 3.5 and four.”
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Around.io previously suffered from 9% to 10% monthly logo churn
“I have been to like nine percent and 10% lower churn, and that was not a good place.”
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Maheshwari: Around.io is 100% remote with its entire team in India
“So a hundred percent virtual meaning a lot of them are in India. Actually all of them are in India at the moment because I was there.”
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Maheshwari: Around.io generates over $7,500 in MRR
“We were doing like 5005 1200 MRR at the time. We are doing a little more than 7500 right now.”
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Maheshwari: Founder personally manages 95% of Around.io's customer support
“I still handle like 95% of the customer service right now because it's very, very, very important for us to make sure our customers Understand that we take this shit very, very, very seriously.”
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Around.io charges $30 monthly on Shopify with a 20% platform fee
“We have a app on Shopify platform. So it's like 30 dollars a month. So people, when people use our app, that's what they pay us. I mean, of course, Shopify keeps that cut off 20%, but we get the rest.”