Published: Oct. 13, 2017, 9 a.m.
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Maksim Balashevich. He\\u2019s a former IBM software engineer and co-founder of a successful, hosting business in Belarus. He now manages the overall product and leads the Santiment team. He\\u2019s a veteran leader, having spent more than a decade trading successfully using Santiment and Elliot Wave as analysis. He\\u2019s also a guru in yoga and meditation.
Famous Five:
- Favorite Book? \\u2013 N/A
- What CEO do you follow? \\u2013 Nick Szabo
- Favorite online tool? \\u2014 Blockchain and Reddit
- How many hours of sleep do you get?\\u2014 6
- If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it be? \\u2013 Move faster to the same goal
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Time Stamped Show Notes:
- 01:53 \\u2013 Nathan introduces Maksim to the show
- 02:30 \\u2013 Santiment builds information for the emerging cryptocurrency token economy
- 03:30 \\u2013 When Santiment had their ICO, they\\u2019ve established a token for their platform
- 03:36 \\u2013 To get access to Santiment, you can buy the monthly subscription by paying in dollars or by depositing your tokens into the platform
- 04:12 \\u2013 There\\u2019s no revenue on the SaaS side yet
- 04:33 \\u2013 Santiment has raised $500K in July 2017
- 05:03 \\u2013 Santiment has sold 45K tokens
- 05:17 \\u2013 Santiment\\u2019s token name is San
- 05:44 \\u2013 Santiment got 720 participants on their token sale
- 06:14 \\u2013 Santiment has 8 full-time people and a few contractors
- 06:29 \\u2013 Santiment hasn\\u2019t liquidated their funds yet
- 06:43 \\u2013 Santiment got 12K ethereum from their presell, which they used to fund the development of the business
- 07:44 \\u2013 Maksim is hoping to start charging in 3 months, but it seems like it will take 6 months
- 08:10 \\u2013 From the community\\u2019s response, Maksim can\\u2019t charge for Santiment yet and people are asking for specific kinds of data
- 09:34 \\u2013 It\\u2019s not that they will not charge, but they can\\u2019t charge just yet
- 10:00 \\u2013 Maksim shares how Santiment works in the crypto economy
- 11:15 \\u2013 Prior to ICO, Santiment didn\\u2019t take additional capital and just used the presell
- 11:46 \\u2013 Maksim shares how they came up with the number of tokens to issue
- 11:49 \\u2013 For crowdsale participants, it is 54% of their outstanding
- 12:04 \\u2013 For presell participants, for every 12K ether contributed, Santiment will issue them 50M tokens
- 12:21 \\u2013 The rest will be part of the team\\u2019s tokens, which is currently locked
- 13:55 \\u2013 Maksim hasn\\u2019t seen any active competitors yet
- 14:34 \\u2013 Iconomi is one of Santiment\\u2019s partners and is also in the same space
- 16:16 \\u2013 Maksim\\u2019s prediction for the next blockchain that will do well
- 16:48 \\u2013 Maksim personally likes Polkadot which connects blockchains
- 17:10 \\u2013 There are also projects that introduce the token economy
- 17:24 \\u2013 There\\u2019s a growing number of blockchain companies providing decentralized storage solutions
- 18:17 \\u2013 Maksim shares the latest issue on hacking in cryptocurrency where $7M was stolen
- 21:00 \\u2013 The Famous Five
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3 Key Points:
- When to charge for your service isn\\u2019t an easy to decision to make\\u2014you have to consider the community and the value that they want to get from the company.
- In recent hacking events with ICO, security issues are being called into question.
- If possible, start working towards your goals as EARLY as possible.
Resources Mentioned:
- Simplero \\u2013 The easiest way to launch your own membership course like the big influencers do but at 1/10th the cost.
- The Top Inbox \\u2013 The site Nathan uses to schedule emails to be sent later, set reminders in inbox, track opens, and follow-up with email sequences
- GetLatka - Database of all B2B SaaS companies who have been on my show including their revenue, CAC, churn, ARPU and more
- Klipfolio \\u2013 Track your business performance across all departments for FREE
- Hotjar \\u2013 Nathan uses Hotjar to track what you\\u2019re doing on this site. He gets a video of each user visit like where they clicked and scrolled to make the site a better experience
- Acuity Scheduling \\u2013 Nathan uses Acuity to schedule his podcast interviews and appointments
- Host Gator\\u2013 The site Nathan uses to buy his domain names and hosting for the cheapest price possible
- Audible\\u2013 Nathan uses Audible when he\\u2019s driving from Austin to San Antonio (1.5-hour drive) to listen to audio books
- Show Notes provided by Mallard Creatives
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