How he built 10k beta list, used it to raise $3m for new Calendar Tool

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

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

4.6 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Helpful Schedule Management Software

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0:00.0	Well, right now we're in a closed beta, so no one's paying anything.
0:02.8	All right.
0:03.3	It's a pre-revenue.
0:04.5	How many folks are on the beta list?
0:07.3	We've got, we've got tens of thousands.
0:09.7	I don't know if I'm ready to share the exact number yet, but we're...
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0:51.3	Hey folks, my guest today is Jeremy Bell.
0:53.3	He's the founder and CEO of Mayday.
0:55.2	Previous. He was the founder of Wadded.com and partner at Tion Plus Lacks, which is acquired by Facebook.
1:00.0	Also helped create the Facebook portal based up in Toronto. Jeremy, you ready to take to the top?
1:04.8	Yeah. I'll be here. Thanks for having me.
1:06.9	You bet, man. All right. What is Mayday? I believe you're competing in a very competitive space, I think.
1:17.1	Yeah. So, I mean, if you look at it from kind of the surface, it looks like we're building, you know, a calendar or a scheduling tool.
1:32.4	And there's definitely a lot of products like that in the space your priorities are in alignment. So it's more like an assistant than it is like a just a regular
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