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Taei: A single UI should handle all visual content creation
“So I don't care if you want to create a presentation, or a visual report, or a social graphic, or an infographic, which is becoming more popular there should really be one user interface One tool that gives you great things from start to end.”
Paymon Taei Apr 8, 2019 ▶ 6:05 1353 How To Bootstrap to $200k in MRR
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Taei: Visme has over 1M users and approaches 10,000 paying customers
“It's over a million registered users, and out of that it's really was around when it was 253 hundred users that we even rolled out The paid plan. so it's really in the range of approaching about 10,000.”
Paymon Taei Apr 8, 2019 ▶ 7:39 1353 How To Bootstrap to $200k in MRR
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Taei: Visme doubles revenue and users yearly with 90% to 100% growth
“We're pretty much doubling every year. user base and also revenue has been pretty much close to 9090 to a hundred percent rate the last couple of years.”
Paymon Taei Apr 8, 2019 ▶ 8:50 1353 How To Bootstrap to $200k in MRR
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Taei: Bootstrapped visual content platform Visme is profitable
“I mean, we are profitable and we're happy with it's about the product itself.”
Paymon Taei Apr 8, 2019 ▶ 9:45 1353 How To Bootstrap to $200k in MRR
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Taei: Visme's customer churn rate is around 7% to 7.5%
“The churn rate is in the, so it's around seven to seven and a half percent.”
Paymon Taei Apr 8, 2019 ▶ 10:14 1353 How To Bootstrap to $200k in MRR
Disclosure
Taei: Visme is fully bootstrapped with zero outside funding
“No, we have not raised. This has been fully bootstrapped. And so not a penny.”
Paymon Taei Apr 8, 2019 ▶ 13:11 1353 How To Bootstrap to $200k in MRR
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Taei: Visme's paid customer acquisition cost is under $75
“And in those areas, when I look at it, the CAC is under 75 dollars.”
Paymon Taei Apr 8, 2019 ▶ 20:12 1353 How To Bootstrap to $200k in MRR
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Taei: Visme estimates customer lifetime value at approximately $210
“The LTV currently we're measuring at around in the 200 area. So around two 10 is the last estimate that I did.”
Paymon Taei Apr 8, 2019 ▶ 20:57 1353 How To Bootstrap to $200k in MRR
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Taei: Visme's monthly recurring revenue is under $200k
“We are south of that.”
Paymon Taei Apr 8, 2019 ▶ 24:56 1353 How To Bootstrap to $200k in MRR
Disclosure
Taei: Visme employs no sales reps, relying on content marketing
“No sales reps, but it's more of people reading, you know, about it content marketing and so on.”
Paymon Taei Apr 8, 2019 ▶ 3:19 1353 How To Bootstrap to $200k in MRR
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Taei: Visme's average revenue per user is in the low twenties monthly
“Yeah, it's right in between. So if I was to pretty much give you a quick estimate, it would be take the average. So it's in the low twenties, actually. A lot of people go annual, so they get a nice discount, and that's what actually brings the per user cost do…”
Paymon Taei Apr 8, 2019 ▶ 4:44 1353 How To Bootstrap to $200k in MRR
Disclosure
Taei: Visme has been in beta since 2012 and will exit soon
“So we are still in beta. If you notice on the website, we're pretty much might be the SAS with the longest beta period ever, which will very, very soon going to be changing.”
Paymon Taei Apr 8, 2019 ▶ 5:03 1353 How To Bootstrap to $200k in MRR
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Taei: 25% to 30% of Visme users are in education
“About 25, 30% of our users are in the education market.”
Paymon Taei Apr 8, 2019 ▶ 10:26 1353 How To Bootstrap to $200k in MRR
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Taei: Visme headcount reaches 15 team members
“We are right now at you know, taking our ad, a couple people, we just came on board, we're like at 15 right now.”
Paymon Taei Apr 8, 2019 ▶ 14:34 1353 How To Bootstrap to $200k in MRR
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