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Cam Sloan: SaaS onboarding tools moved upmarket to $300-$500 monthly
“All these other solutions have gone so far up market that they're really inaccessible to the majority of people who are trying to get their startups up and running. So the pricing in a lot of these tools will start at like 300 dollars a month, 500 dollars a mo…”
Cam Sloan: Quiet launches and manual onboarding yield better launch data
“I really like the strategy of kind of launching quietly or like doing all this in the background and onboarding customers manually to start with, because then I can have this like data and this information to know how I should go about it when I put it up.”
Sloan: Freelancing is one of the best transitions into tech entrepreneurship
“If you're a developer, if you're a designer and you're looking to go become an entrepreneur anyway, then like, Probably one of the best ways to start is to go and find some freelance clients. It's going to get you comfortable talking with people doing sales an…”
Cam Sloan: Hopscotch has three paying customers and several pilot testers
“I have three paying customers and I have, you know, a handful more that are kind of piloting it out”
Cam Sloan: Hopscotch charges early customers between $20 and $99 monthly
“I have someone paying 20 bucks a month. I have another paying 99 per month. And then someone in between.”
Cam Sloan: Twitter build-in-public updates drove initial customer referrals
“Honestly, most of the work that I've been doing, I share publicly on Twitter. And so Twitter has been really helpful, even though most of the people who follow me are not like great customer fit, they will often like refer other people who are asking about it …”
Cam Sloan had $40K to $60K CAD in runway after 2019 layoff
“I don't remember exactly because like between investments and such, but let's say like, I don't know, between 40 and 60 grand Canadian.”
Cam Sloan: Six months of freelancing surpassed prior full-time salary
“And working about half the year on my contracting freelance stuff was able to surpass my revenue at my Full-time job.”
Cam Sloan: Prior full-time tech salary was $100K to $125K CAD
“So it was just over a hundred K Canadian, probably like one 25 or so.”