Sramana Mitra: You said it took you two years to get to $60,000 annual revenue. That’s 2010 then, right? Florin Cornianu: It took us all the way to 2014 to get to a million dollars in revenue. Sramana Mitra: Besides Google SEO for customer acquisition, was there anything else that you did for customer acquisition?
Sramana Mitra: What was the product that you got together? Florin Cornianu: It was a very small script that allowed you to build a contact form and put it on your website. Back then, there wasn’t any Google Forms. We thought about automating the creation of contact forms. It turned out to be a product.
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. You may have been reading our PaaS coverage, as well as Bootstrapping by Piggybacking posts. Well, Florin has built a $6M SaaS business using this methodology with just $1M in funding. What’s more, he has done it entirely from Romania and sells to largely a US