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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

1672 How This Lawyer Pivoted from IP Protection to CAD Editing with NASA

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

Ceo, Entrepreneurs, Founders, Software, Business, Entrepreneurship, Saas, Startups

4.6683 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Forbes 30 Under 30 winner. Successful serial entrepreneur in B2B technology development and SaaS companies. Law degree from University of Heidelberg in Germany. Member of National Small Business Association's Leadership Council

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0:00.0

FISNA launched 2015, making architects, engineers, anyone using CAD at their life simpler.

0:05.2

Started off trying to make sure and trying to prevent essentially copyright or fraud or, you know, IP protection essentially.

0:11.0

Now in a much different space, 15 enterprise customers doing about, you call it, push in a million bucks per month or per year, sorry, in revenue up from nothing a year ago.

0:18.7

They've just really pivoted to this space.

0:19.9

They are burning capital.

0:20.8

They've raised about $ million bucks to date, 15 people in Ohio as Paul

0:24.3

looks to scale the company. Hello, everybody. My guest today is Paul Powers. He's a Forbes 30

0:29.5

under 30 award winner, successful serial entrepreneur and B2B technology development and SaaS

0:33.6

companies. He's got a law degree from the University of Heidelberg in Germany and a member of the National Small Business Association's Leadership Council, now working on a company called

0:41.6

FISNA in the CAD search engine space. Paul, are you ready?

0:44.9

All right. Thank you. You bet. All right. What is a CAD search engine? What's that mean?

0:50.7

So Fisna has best thought of as like an auto fill for 3D design.

0:54.5

So if you're in the process of designing something,

0:56.5

Fisna will try to guess what you're designing and search through your database,

1:00.3

be it through CAD or PLM or whatever you use to see if you've designed something similar to that in the past

1:06.0

so that you don't design things from scratch.

1:08.0

Interesting.

1:08.6

This is kind of like when people use Gmail and Gmail auto completes your emails when you're

1:12.9

typing, kind of the same thing.

1:14.6

Absolutely.

1:15.6

Interesting.

1:16.6

Very interesting.

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