why aren't all 10 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
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Assertion Not checkable as stated
Perhac: DelphiNet built and iterated SegMetrics three times in four weeks
“So we took our internal team, no contractors, no nothing. Everyone It works at DelphiNet. We said, this is the problem we're going to solve. We're jumping in this whole hog. We built the entire thing, did three iterations in four weeks.”
Insight
Perhac: Functional SaaS companies never lose 30% of customers in one month
“You're at no point, unless your SaaS app explodes in a fiery fireball, you're never going to have 30% of your client, of your customers leave in one month.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Perhac: SegMetrics generated $20K to $30K revenue in year one
“So segmetrics was actually pretty low. I think we were doing around 20, 30 K. MR the first year. Sorry, annual first year.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Perhac: Consulting agency generates about $1 million in annual revenue
“The consulting business is about a million dollars.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Perhac: SegMetrics shows a 9% monthly customer churn rate
“So our customer churn is, and of course, as soon as I start looking at it, it's a, it says nine percent, but we had a couple people drop a couple days ago, but normally it's not that high.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Perhac: SegMetrics will eventually need 30% affiliate commissions
“I think eventually we're going to need to get up to 30%.”
Assertion Supported
Drip doubled affiliate commissions to 30% after acquisition by Leadpages
“They had 15% commission until Clay purchased them, and then they upped that to 30.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Perhac: SegMetrics generated around $5K MRR in August 2016
“I think it was around five K.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Perhac: SegMetrics average customer pays around $97 to $100 per month
“Average customer is paying us around 10, a hundred bucks. I think it's like 97 or something around there.”
Disclosure
Perhac: SegMetrics is fully bootstrapped via consulting cash flow
“This is all bootstrapped based on my, mine and my co-founder's bank account and the consulting businesses that we both do.”