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Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bizness Apps claims over 500,000 paying end-customers globally
“Those are paying customers.”
Assertion Supported
App builder competitor BuildFire started as a Bizness Apps partner
“Build fire for one used to be a partner of ours.”
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Competitor AppInstitute originally launched as a Bizness Apps reseller
“App Institute used to be a reseller.”
Insight
Software resellers fail without dedicated sales training and enablement
“And if you sign up a partner and you're really hands off and you don't teach them how to sell the product, you don't provide them with materials that they need to sell the product. You aren't checking in with them to see if they have any issues. They're simply…”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bizness Apps customers pay an average of $500 per month
“It would be in the range of probably 500 a month. I would say.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bizness Apps has published 100,000 iOS and 300,000 Android apps
“We have close to a 100,000 in the iOS store. We have probably about 300,000 in the Android app store.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bizness Apps operates with approximately 3,000 global reseller partners
“Right now we have around 3000 partners around the globe and then underneath them, they have their own customers.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bizness Apps reached $65,000 MRR before relocating to the Bay Area
“Before we left then over to the Bay Area, I believe we were at, like 65,000 in monthly recurring revenue.”
Disclosure
Bizness Apps bootstrapped to scale on just $110,000 in outside capital
“We've actually bootstrapped. We've only raised 110,000 and that was 2010.”
Disclosure
Bizness Apps generated $5.8M in 2014 and $7.2M in 2015 revenue
“I believe it was 5.8 million. And then it was 7.2 in 2015.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bizness Apps maintains an end-customer monthly churn rate below 2%
“If an agency creates an app, and then they have a customer cancel within our software, they can basically deactivate the app, and what we actually see on that level is a churn number below two percent.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bizness Apps spends less than $50,000 monthly on paid acquisition
“Less than.”
Disclosure
Half of the Bizness Apps customer base is international
“Half our business is international.”