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Seidman: There are 2 million conferences annually in the US alone
“There are two million different conferences in the U S alone.”
Seidman: Yapp targets ARPU and enterprise expansion over app count
“We're not necessarily focused on the number of apps and that's how we count it, not necessarily events, but we are focused on increasing our average revenue per user, and we are focused on going further and further deeper into the enterprise.”
Seidman: Yapp has powered 85,000 published apps since launch
“So since we started, we've had 85,000 apps published on our platform, mostly around events and groups.”
Seidman: Real Conferences Do Not Use Facebook Events
“Real conferences and don't really use Facebook events for their events. As you know, use it for social things. Hey, we're getting together in the park, et cetera.”
Yapp reached SaaS profitability by bootstrapping after a seed round
“The current version of the business, which is a SaaS, you know, a SaaS business that's profitable so we continue to bootstrap.”
Seidman acquired early customers by pitching in trade show bars
“Well, very, very early on in the business we couldn't afford to go to trade shows as an exhibitor, because, you know, that, like, can set you back six grand or more to have a booth, so I would just sneak in as an attendee, especially because a lot of times att…”