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Latka: Modest early revenue hurts VC-backed startups more than zero revenue
“It's almost a problem that you have revenue because then people want to harp on you about how low the revenue is when really you should just eliminate the revenue and just focus on user and engagement growth”
Ng: Solo bootstrappers should avoid freemium models to limit support overhead
“That was the bootstrapped model, and I think that makes a lot of sense for bootstrappers, especially if you're a solo bootstrapper, because, you know, do you want to support a large number of customers that are on free Plans. Or do you want to support a smalle…”
Latka: Raising venture capital leaves founders with minimal optionality outside aggressive growth
“The second you raise, you go on an accelerator, and you go on the VC path, I mean, it is on. It is growth at all costs. It's like, you've got to hit it, and if you don't, your optionality is like nil. It's very small.”
Latka: Startups cannot reach $100M revenue selling $5/month student plans
“If you're going to go build a hundred million dollar revenue business, it's not going to be probably from selling today, five dollar per month plans to students in India.”
Llama Life raised pre-seed at a $2.75M pre-money valuation
“So it was a pre-seed round. So it was 2.75 million pre pre money.”
Marie Ng raised no funding directly from LAUNCH demo day
“So with demo day actually didn't raise any money from demo day, but it gave me some momentum.”
Ng: Llama Life reached 950 paying customers and $1,800 MRR
“So we're at 950 paying customers. So it's not that far off from where the 700 was. And the MRR is at 18, about 1800. MRR US dollars, but we only started charging subscriptions about a year ago”
Marie Ng: Llama Life monthly MRR churn rose to 8%
“Monthly MRR churn, four to six percent. That said, this month has been a little higher, so we're now around eight percent, and I actually tweeted about this a couple of days back.”
Ng: India's recurring payment regulations increased Llama Life's churn
“And then we have, we've had a lot of problems with payments in India, because as you know, like recent regulation in India has really cracked down on subscriptions. So that's been hitting us quite fast. Badly this month”
Ng raised $690K for Llama Life post-LAUNCH accelerator
“So I ended up raising money after the accelerator program closed around very, very, no, actually not long ago, like two months ago. So we're in, I raised 690 K USD.”
Ng: Llama Life grows gross monthly recurring revenue by 20% month-over-month
“Growth rate wise, we are growing to 20% month on month gross MRR.”