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Sramana Mitra: What did you price it at? Hugh Massie: There are three pricing levels. The bottom one is $1,500 a year. The top one is $3,995 a year depending on what components of the system they buy. Sramana Mitra: What was the mix of customers? Were you still selling largely to the small individual advisors
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Sramana Mitra: How long did it take you to reach a million dollars in revenue? Hugh Massie: We were about two years into it before we got to that level. Sramana Mitra: That was still based on the product sales model, right? Hugh Massie: Yes. Sramana Mitra: What was the next major strategic thing that
Sramana Mitra: Whom are you selling to? Are you selling to financial advisors? Hugh Massie: We sell a subscription package to financial advisors. We have a SaaS revenue-based model. Sramana Mitra: Got it. What is the source of the data based on which you’re developing these models? Hugh Massie: We have built psychometric systems using
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