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Insight
Carruthers: Video feedback yields 6 to 8 times more info than written
“And what we found is that people tell you about six to eight times more just by talking, you know, they find it far easier to articulate themselves verbally than they do in a kind of written form.”
Dave Carruthers Feb 18, 2019 ▶ 4:47 1304 Raising $10m on $30m Pre Right Now for Video Feedback Platform, $5m ARR
Opinion
Carruthers: US venture is 'go big or go home' compared to UK
“Clearly there's the UK and US venture markets are slightly different in terms of their approach. Kind of the US more of a kind of go big or go home approach, whereas the UK may be a bit more conservative and smaller rounds and, you know, more wanting to see mo…”
Dave Carruthers Feb 18, 2019 ▶ 16:23 1304 Raising $10m on $30m Pre Right Now for Video Feedback Platform, $5m ARR
Disclosure
Voxpopme pays users $1 to $1.50 per video response
“We pay about a dollar to a dollar 50. For each response that people leave, and when they get to 15 dollars, they can cash out.”
Dave Carruthers Feb 18, 2019 ▶ 4:14 1304 Raising $10m on $30m Pre Right Now for Video Feedback Platform, $5m ARR
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Carruthers: Manchester City Soccer Club was Voxpopme's first client
“A lot of our first client was actually Manchester City Soccer Club.”
Dave Carruthers Feb 18, 2019 ▶ 5:57 1304 Raising $10m on $30m Pre Right Now for Video Feedback Platform, $5m ARR
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Carruthers: Voxpopme's average customer spends $40,000 to $50,000 annually
“Yeah, I mean, I would say probably our average customers are probably spending 40 to 50,000 dollars a year with us.”
Dave Carruthers Feb 18, 2019 ▶ 7:21 1304 Raising $10m on $30m Pre Right Now for Video Feedback Platform, $5m ARR
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Carruthers: Voxpopme's client base is 45% brands, 45% agencies, 10% partnerships
“Our clients really break down into three cohorts. The first being like major brands. So people like Microsoft, eBay, Verizon using this technology extensively. Then we power a lot of the market research agencies. So people like Kantar and Nielsen and the big r…”
Dave Carruthers Feb 18, 2019 ▶ 8:06 1304 Raising $10m on $30m Pre Right Now for Video Feedback Platform, $5m ARR
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Carruthers: Voxpopme generates approximately $400,000 in monthly recurring revenue
“So yeah, I would say yeah, a little bit, a bit lower than that, about 400,000 dollars a month.”
Dave Carruthers Feb 18, 2019 ▶ 9:31 1304 Raising $10m on $30m Pre Right Now for Video Feedback Platform, $5m ARR
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Carruthers: Voxpopme ARR is growing 25% to 30% quarter-over-quarter
“And yeah, I would say kind of, you know, we've got, you know, great churn metrics and kind of ARRs going up about kind of 25, 30% quarter on quarter.”
Dave Carruthers Feb 18, 2019 ▶ 9:47 1304 Raising $10m on $30m Pre Right Now for Video Feedback Platform, $5m ARR
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Carruthers: Voxpopme's US business grew from 5% to 70% after moving
“You know, when I first moved over here the US was just five percent of our business. It's now 70%.”
Dave Carruthers Feb 18, 2019 ▶ 10:03 1304 Raising $10m on $30m Pre Right Now for Video Feedback Platform, $5m ARR
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Carruthers: Voxpopme generated $250,000 in monthly revenue in July 2017
“July, 27, a year ago, we're probably doing two 50. And then a year before that, we were probably doing like 75.”
Dave Carruthers Feb 18, 2019 ▶ 11:47 1304 Raising $10m on $30m Pre Right Now for Video Feedback Platform, $5m ARR
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Carruthers: 85% of Voxpopme's ad-hoc clients are repeat customers
“So we've got about half our business that's on an ad hoc kind of As you go, but then of that cohort, 85% of repeat customers doing regular projects.”
Dave Carruthers Feb 18, 2019 ▶ 12:26 1304 Raising $10m on $30m Pre Right Now for Video Feedback Platform, $5m ARR
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Carruthers: Voxpopme's fully baked customer acquisition cost averages $6,000
“So from a CAC perspective where I would say typically over the last 12 months, it probably averages out to about 6000 dollars. Kind of fully baked.”
Dave Carruthers Feb 18, 2019 ▶ 13:42 1304 Raising $10m on $30m Pre Right Now for Video Feedback Platform, $5m ARR
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Carruthers: Voxpopme customer CAC payback period is under six months
“The payback, yeah, I mean, the payback period is usually less than six months.”
Dave Carruthers Feb 18, 2019 ▶ 13:59 1304 Raising $10m on $30m Pre Right Now for Video Feedback Platform, $5m ARR
Disclosure
Carruthers: Voxpopme targets $10M Series B following $2.5M Series A
“Yeah, so I'll probably raise ten million dollars which, you know, is a, Obviously modest in compared to some of today's Series B rounds, but I think, you know, given our A round was only two and a half million, it kind of you know, it's kind of relevant to whe…”
Dave Carruthers Feb 18, 2019 ▶ 15:02 1304 Raising $10m on $30m Pre Right Now for Video Feedback Platform, $5m ARR
Opinion
Carruthers: Prefers HubSpot over Salesforce despite reporting limitations
“HubSpot. Absolutely love it. I mean, it's an interesting battle because our CMO wants to move over to Salesforce and stuff. And there's this, you know, it's got this great integration of sales and marketing. The reporting is maybe not as good as it should be, …”
Dave Carruthers Feb 18, 2019 ▶ 19:04 1304 Raising $10m on $30m Pre Right Now for Video Feedback Platform, $5m ARR
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Carruthers: Voxpopme charges $35 per video for one-off projects
“And then we have an ad hoc model where if you just want to do a one off project, it's 35 bucks a video.”
Dave Carruthers Feb 18, 2019 ▶ 7:55 1304 Raising $10m on $30m Pre Right Now for Video Feedback Platform, $5m ARR
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Carruthers: Voxpopme currently has 204 active customers
“Right now we've got 204 active customers.”
Dave Carruthers Feb 18, 2019 ▶ 8:55 1304 Raising $10m on $30m Pre Right Now for Video Feedback Platform, $5m ARR
Assertion Partly supported
Carruthers: Voxpopme has raised $5 million in total funding
“Total we raised five million dollars.”
Dave Carruthers Feb 18, 2019 ▶ 9:10 1304 Raising $10m on $30m Pre Right Now for Video Feedback Platform, $5m ARR
Disclosure
Carruthers: Voxpopme targets $150k to $200k average customer lifetime value
“Probably a 150 to 200 K lifetime value as an average is where we want to be getting to.”
Dave Carruthers Feb 18, 2019 ▶ 17:32 1304 Raising $10m on $30m Pre Right Now for Video Feedback Platform, $5m ARR
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Carruthers: Founder was earning $40,000 per month at age 20
“When I was 20, I was making around 40,000 dollars a month.”
Dave Carruthers Feb 18, 2019 ▶ 20:41 1304 Raising $10m on $30m Pre Right Now for Video Feedback Platform, $5m ARR
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