How NOT to spend your first $250,000 round of funding
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How did Slidebean spend its first $250K?
We have a policy of sharing some of our finances and our lessons as part of our transparency marketing. We started doing this back in 2015, inspired by companies like Buffer and Baremetrics, whose own blog posts and materials were an inspiration for us.
We are taking a trip down memory lane to understand how Slidebean was formed, where the first money came from, and how we spent it.
#slidebean #startups #funding #startingabusiness
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0:00 - Introduction
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4:48 - Months 6-12: From beta to 1.0
7:41 - Months 12-16: Launch and first customers
10:31 - Months 16-20: Pivot and GROWTH!
12:47 - Months 20-24: Balancing Growth and Spend
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This videos works on so many levels.. Not only does it inform an audience of those who are simply curious on how start ups spend their funding but I’ve discovered in total, 4 different customer segments.
1. The lay audience such as myself who’s just curious on how startups works.
2. The upcoming entrepreneurs who are looking for guidance on how to get a start up running (likely to subscribe to your account and potentially buy in on the slide bean features down the line).
3. Actual start ups who are creating pitch decks (which you’ve roped in through your analysis of how other start ups fail) and need something like slide bean.
4. Potential investors giving them full transparency on your financials + your other activities within the startup to promote the business
aka it’s an educational video + pitch to your product at the same time. it’s genius
>> it’s an educational video + pitch to your product at the same time. it’s genius
This is quite literally the backbone of all our marketing. It's a thin line to avoid making the content too salesy.
I appreciate that you appreciated this!
Absolutely amazing. What a strategy!
Can I get your mail please?
@@rogermckay864 whose? Mine?
I am thinking about a new type of restaurants : eating-spots,
in eating-spots, food keeps changing, chefs also rotate.
this is opposed to current restaurants,
thanks to this rotation of food and chefs, eating-spots are way more powerful than restaurants,
along with that, there is an app,
people vote for the food that will be cooked in the next days.
menu is influenced by the live input of the people via an app
I'm a product manager in Silicon Valley, and this video was awesome. A combination of product + content marketing, but also in that it's incredibly personal and informative. You are a genius in this. So many enterprise companies need to learn from you. Great job Caya
Glad it was helpful! Thank you for sharing!
Hey man hope you are well, how has the start up ecosystem been changing in silicon valley in the past couple of years?
could you share please?
Its unbelievable how much deep the information (embedded with the ground reality) Caya shares in every video.
And getting all this experience with info for FREE ? What could be better !
🙌
Caya: "after they get Featured in company forensics"
Me:😄🤔
Noone:
Caya: "Today we will be talking about the 250k fail slidebean 😢😭"
South Africa is waiting Caya! and my team and I have learned a lot from you guys keep up the good work
If you are a white guy, don't hold your breath. We just went through a funding discussion with a local investor that wanted 45% for slightly more than we as founders had put in ourselves over the last 30 months. If you are 51% black-owned then you might get a better deal but in our case, it wasn't worth bringing in a partner that wouldn't be able to positively contribute to the business. Either way, you'll be better off (and receive more investor love) by registering your company outside South Africa.
All our love back to South Africa! Thank you for watching!
@@AuthGate so your assumption or reason for not getting a black partner is that if you do, they wouldn't positively contribute?
@@5995Jiol My one business partner is actually a black guy with a 10% shareholding, so no, the issue is not about race. It is about racist laws that excludes minority white guys like me from actively participating in the economy unless I hand over a large chunk of my business to a fat cat with government connections.
@@AuthGate don't let him bait you... Apartheid was condemned around the world, but now that the natives are doing the exact same thing while destroying the country at the same time, nobody thinks it is wrong. I have a few coworkers from S Africa who had to abandon family businesses, bank accounts, property, because it was being seized by natives and given to their cronies.
Another great video! It's rare to find a startup CEO that displays such transparency and candor when discussing these issues. Love your content and your style. Keep it up!
I can second a lot of that: A lot of startups invest huge amounts of resources (time and money) to attend conferences and raise at a very early stage instead of
getting more traction. We had this issue with the last company I was involved, where the CEO was 90 percent of the time not in the office and not working on the product, but
just in fundraising mode which cost us at least 8 months.
Thanks for sharing!
I’m ready, Caya! Thank you for all the work the Slidebean Team puts into these. I’ve learned more from these videos in the past 4 months, than it the year I’ve been researching this topic. Honest, detailed oriented and well thought out. Thanks again!
Absolutely brilliant video. One of the few channels anywhere where you always wonder which was better, the substance of the content or the style it was delivered. Thank you.
You spoke my mind.
I wish I knew this channel months ago. The amount of knowledge has been very relatable and applicable, probably the best financial decision i have made this year.
Never too late! Welcome aboard!
This video is incredible. Quality content delivered in a most digestable way possible. Thank you very much!
So I purchased an annual license last week as I was pitching for a bit of business and my old PPT looked dated!! I want to say we won the pitch!! obviously not down solely to the Slidebean deck (it did help in some areas we missed and looked a lot better) but for some reason Jose started to appear on my UA-cam feed. I would have scrolled passed, but I had just purchased Slidebeam so I thought I'd watch it. I love Jose's honesty and insightfulness, being a business owner I find his video's really useful. I may have become an evangelist Thanks Slidebeam & Jose.
Hi, Saybhan! This is AWESOME to read! We're happy we're able to help you in your entrepreneur journey. Please keep us updated!
love the transparency!
As a fellow founder who has raised $145k to-date and only properly controlled burn/the stage of spending for the last $35k, I can relate so much to this video. Haha
Thank you for watching!
Thanks man, Amazing, so honest, clever, so much info, all the best guys!
Amazing amazing amazing. Thanks so much for sharing!!
Absolutely Brilliant video, you've basically answered many of the questions i was looking for, and a couple i picked up along the way bravo guys!
Sir when I come here and see this title my blood pressure rises in excitement then I see premier in time I just ...it's like dream crashing 😭
This is the kind of comments that keep us going!
Congratulations on 100,000 subs.
Thank you 🙌
I listen this episode on repeat!!! Love it
Once again, immensely valuable and actionable content as always, easily my favourite channel on this platform
Thank yo so much!
This is gold mine. Thanks Caya.
🙌🙌
Absolutely powerful 👍
Dude u r a inspiration
Thanks for supporting us!
Super admirable Caya ! Keep it up slide bean and Caya... Amazing baby steps !!
Thank you!
I'm always excited to watch your videos. ✌️🙂
Thank you for supporting us, Jo!
This is what we love to hear from ALL bloggers!
Quality Reporting and hopefully unity!
Thank you
i love you guys!
Thank you for your support!
I’m here waiting from Africa
Thank you for your constant support!
Great content. its like have a startup mentor for free... thank you guys...
Thank you! Glad it's useful!
Great breakdown Caya, super helpful for any new founder!
Thanks, Godwin! Glad you enjoyed it!
That means at initial stage consulting helps the start up to survive
Información valiosa que usualmente no ves de los 'gurus del emprendimiento'. Gracias por compartir tu historia y brindar datos y experiencias reales. Acabo de encontrar tu canal y ya estoy enganchado. Un abrazo desde Bolivia! Éxito!!
Abrazos para vos, José. Gracias por el apoyo!
Your work is really impressive, My friend and I are working on a new startup in the education sector. Frankly speaking, your videos helped us a lot.
Glad to know we have helped. *Best of luck!*
Great job, Caya! I just shared this on LinkedIn and mentioned you
Awesome! Thank you!
Seriously, this content is outrageously useful. Make. A. Show, get bought by Netflix, go back to Santiago and live the dream life :D
Wow! Thank you!
Complete Goldmine For Free🔥🔥🔥🔥 Full Respect
How do you do user tests? Do you use a tool?
Waiting for a video on Mixer.
I actually wanted to ask what you think of consulting / building products for other companies to get cash in to build a product. we're building a product as well, we have 3 devs dedicated to the client work (most days of the week) and 1 on moving our tools features forward. I'm happy to see that it's a known thing to do. I thought i was wasting time, but we've been cashflow positive every month given my content is about building large client applications. This has helped me get enough contracts to sustain the entire team and work on the products. Awesome video! Thanks for sharing.
Good Q! Welcome to discuss with other founders or Caya on Discord slidebean.com/startup-cafe
@@slidebean Mmmmmm, should be paying more attention to the comment i think. But, thanks for at least replying. I'm saying that because i actually have no questions in my comment :D
this guy is kinda smart though he makes a youtube channel for hopeful entrepreneurs and lowkey sells his product to us, now i wanna create a slidebean account
Excellent video and brilliant transparent policy... Thumbs up.... You content is always super rich and information shared are goldmine.... Someone has to be journeyed CEO to get these infos.... Thank you for the amount of information shared .
Awesome to read, thank you!
Hi Caya, would love to have a video dedicated to this UA-cam channel- how much revenue does it bring in relative to what you make from slidebean? How much does it cost to run, operate and maintain? How long did it take to make a profit off running a UA-cam channel? Etc. Thought it'd be super interesting!! Especially with the rise of entrepreneurial UA-camrs who make the bulk of their monthly income through UA-cam ad revenue alone. (Eg, like Graham Stephen) Thanks for all that you do!
Hi! We've made a few videos that could help you answer some of these questions:
ua-cam.com/video/k2rpBhMY0ys/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/PA1R5Lao6-0/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/viyKWTfT-g4/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/_3_aAxneu2w/v-deo.html
I am thinking about a new type of restaurants : eating-spots,
in eating-spots, food keeps changing, chefs also rotate.
this is opposed to current restaurants,
thanks to this rotation of food and chefs, eating-spots are way more powerful than restaurants,
along with that, there is an app,
people vote for the food that will be cooked in the next days.
menu is influenced by the live input of the people via an app.
Good video :D. Could you do one about sotfware vs hardware startups? Thank You.
Noted, thanks!
Nice Caya.
8:45 The early company was paying the Costa Rica staff approximately $1000 per month to do $5000 per month of consulting work.
Could you have simply expanded this area of the business with a few more team members to make profits from consulting?
Nah.. that’s not exciting enough. Dream bigger!
Nice content
Thanks!
Hey caya when you make the videos, did you make it with script? or remember everything?
I have some mad teleprompter reading skills.
Would be interesting if the whole purpose of your slidebean adventure is to discover your calling of being a startup consulting company x)
LOL. I don't think is a calling as much as figuring out the market demands, and pivoting the company towards that.
Excellent! How do you track behavior via Facebook ads?
UTM tags
Team slidebean, have you guys seen prezi video?
It would be awesome of you guys had something like that for video presentations done automatically :)
The ads for this video is killing me!!!
Hey i have a question ,how many equity should i taken out to investor (the best percentage)? For early stage of startup is
Good Q! Welcome to discuss with other founders or Caya on Discord slidebean.com/startup-cafe
really informative video.......can you tell which software you use for editing your videos like this
Hi, Arjun! We use Final Cut Pro and Adobe After Effects!
I admire you caya. Can you do a video on how to spend the $250,000 the right way
I think this video included some of that :D
Can you make a business video about how companies buy other companies with cash and stock
Noted!
Hello Caya! Your content makes sense and encourages me because I am working on my start up on my own start up with a couple of friends! I was wondering what is the best way to get in contact with you so that I may have the questions that I have, answered? Thank you so much nonetheless!!
Glad to hear this stuff is useful! Some ways to get in touch with me: slidebean.com/caya
I do not believe you mention in any of your videos the percentage equity you had to exchange for the $250k. Would you be willing to share that info?
Hey Slidebean, when you came from Santiago to New York did you all have a citizenship?
I’d like to know this as well
Hi Jose. I share the same sentiment that for a B2B and SaaS business, it has to start generating income as soon as possible after the beta is launched. However, whether it breakeven, net profit or burning through funds raised, depends on the market and business model is another thing. By having people or companies willing to pay for the service, is a proof that the model is probably working. However, this can be a double edge sword. It may hindered taking risk to pivot to a much faster and longer growth but it may save the company from having sufficient cash flow to reach profitability. How do you find the balance? It depend on a lot of things but what are the key questions one should ask? When is exactly a good time to start looking for funding?
Good Q! Welcome to discuss with other founders or Caya on Discord slidebean.com/startup-cafe
Nice
When you say you moved from Chilli to New York, I consider that you had to rent an appartement studio right or chili government was offering you a studio?
*1st year* 105k
*2nd year* 125k
*3rd year* 250k
Did you get 500k in your 4th year?
Does this trend continue?
When does it stop?
Neveeer!!
So in the end did the heroes get the girls? Did anyone ride off into the sunset?
I predict 500k subscribers by the end of 2nd quarter 2021.
We want them sooner!
@@cayahere make a video on your YT subscriber forecasting model!!!
@@cayahere Prove me wrong and blow that number out of the water!
P.S. You guys are awesome, and an inspiration. I live in the States and I am Mexican American. Also, my uncle married a "Tica". "Pura Vida".
¡Pura vida! :)
I'm really curious how did you guys make your company & got fundraising in the U.S.? What kind of visa did u get for that? Can u do fundraising & work in your U.S. company with tourist visa?
Did a video on that: ua-cam.com/video/bAo8ZkJB1gM/v-deo.html
@@cayahere Thanks Caya for this golden channel I'm your big fan please never stop your great work
I checked on that video I saw it actually before many times but I didn't really get the answer of what specific kind of visa I should get me as a foreign founder who as u know an owner of the business. should I get visa B1/B2, H1B, E2 etc to stay in USA
Hi! Our Discord is a great way to continue the discussion with Caya and other founders. Go there at slidebean.com/startup-cafe
@@slidebean I am in now
Thanks guys really thanks please never stop you guys are gold for entrepreneurs
A comment and like for the UA-cam algorithm
Yessss
When you moved to chile had you incorporated in the US,and please can you sende the discord link to join the group
Hey there, we incorporated in the USA while being part of DreamIt program, right after Chile. Here's the link to our discord: slidebean.com/startup-cafe
No. We only incorporated in the US when we did Dreamit.
@@cayahere I really like about you one thing you help everybody that come for your help, I will do tell my friends about your company, just because you are a good person. Thanks l
Didn't start up chile demand some kind of legal company structure before you went through their accelerators and investment they made.
Waiting for your reply. Thanks
If only I as a kid can grow a beard like that. Good equality in your company.
Request: Why Skype sucks (Skype 8 vs classic)
Pretty sick 10 minute ad for your company
Is he (Caya) technical at all? Or is he more of the visionary/product person who also does marketing?
I did a year of coding in college, but hated it.
I still manage all our website/landing pages and am really involved with marketing- but nah, I didn’t code our product.
Caya - Thanks for getting back to me. First, I just want to say I think you did a great job with your product. It really lives up to a lot of what people are looking for. Second, I really enjoy your content. I discovered it about 3 months into my startup and it’s been great to hear about other stories.
Thanks, Alex!
Do you speak spanish? If so, what do you make videos in Spanish? Do you provide services for Spanish speaking companies?
IMO... there's a valuable but Somewhat overlooked lesson here? Price/value your product/services appropriately...? If I don't value my time/product/service professionally, why would the customer?? Perception of value starts @ the source...?
Great insight!
What is slidebean?
Find out here! slidebean.com :)
"Often, they end up featured in the company forensics"
BOOOOOM!!! Anyone selling Alo Vera? Some companies just got burned :D
"It's like highschool dating"
Caya! Listen to me now my freind! Build a software that helps people make videos like yours, and SlideBean will be a unicorn in two years. There is a gap in the market in this space. Look at iMovie! It's pathetic. Aim your AI at video.
you should do comma.ai like if you agree
Lol you can skip sections of the video just like pornhub