Vlog #34: 55 Days Left In Techstars

We have a lot to do so that we can hit our goal of $25k in MRR by the end of Techstars.

Full Transcript:Ryan: Good morning guys! Welcome to the vlog. I want to update you there are 53 days left in TechStars okay. Today, this morning it's Thursday, it's August 3rd; yesterday you guys saw we're like really really focused on just like marketing stuff getting our tracking and all of that up to date. Couple things that we're going to do, we have our big rock meeting later today so we're going to update everyone on our metrics. We’re a little bit short going into today so we're going to be really hitting the ground running trying to get customers to close. We have a bunch of stuff in the pipeline but it's just not close yet. So we're focusing today on getting them across the finish line, getting customers to expand and upgrade so that we can hit that net new MRR added number. We're going for $1,000 a week, we're also going to just doing again a lot of demos and then we’re also going to be putting out the rest of the content onto the blog the, vlog onto the blog. If you guys are new here my name is Ryan Shank, this is our journey building phone wagon from the ground up; no outside funding completely bootstrapped. We're documenting everything we do seven days a week. I hope you guys are out there just working hard being Pioneers, being Wagoneers; welcome to the vlog. [??? 1:14][I don’t know, I’m really upset about it. I feel like it’s something personal.]Ryan: Like a little snippet then get the thumbnail - the thumbnails, the featured image then click vlog. See I like getting brown rice, steamed broccoli and steamed chicken. It's like healthy...watch me do this one and then I will do, I'll show you on the next one which we go from the top. Jon: ...of the market like if we…. Ryan: That’s what I was thinking I mean...was like-- KJ: Alright everyone, okay let’s  get going. I know you guys want to eat and drink and all that kind of stuff so let's get through this. How many of you guys are having a problem prioritizing tasks or focusing on what's most important? If you try to put too much little shit in your cube in your priorities, you're not getting any of the big stuff that actually matters done. So that's why it is called big -- you want gets over some stuff actually matters and don't do this little shit...and distracted because it doesn't matter; that’s why it’s called big-- [...last week was...we wanted to grow our...by - percent]Ryan:  Big Rock was at...in MRR and we did not hit it, we hit it at $469 in net...customers last week, this week we have nine new paying customers so our number of customers….So Big Rock next week is 1500 MRR added…. No-- [laughter] [??? 2:26] Ryan: As soon as we did the integration inside of phone wagon so we then hooked it up to…. Just got done, our big rock meeting. It is week I think five of TechStars, we came up short this week, I mean I'm not going to stay here and sugar-coat it. We came up short but we just had again the big rock meeting, there was a happy hour sponsored by Cooley which by the way Cooley was the law firm we used our last company. We're still going hard, we're really really focused 55 days left in TechStars that's not a lot; hit our goal of 25,000 in MRR by the end of TechStars. I'm really excited you guys are following along for the journey as we're doing this, we’re attempting to hit this goal in record time. Okay so if you guys are new here my name is Ryan Shank, this is our journey. We're building phone wagon from the ground up with no outside funding. We're going through TechStars, we're doing this seven days a week I'm glad you guys are out there working hard. I hope you're out there working hard being Pioneers, being Wagoneers, peace.