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What merits a 50% premium in such short duration? Why arent we getting such similar terms?","author_name":"Sohin Shah","votes":2,"created_at":"2015-09-16T11:39:46Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/voiq2#question-2789","answers":[{"id":2792,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:2792","answer":"HI Sohin, the $4M Cap Convertible note round closed in January 2015 (not two weeks ago). The date that you are referring to is most likely the date when we updated our online company profile on AL, not the date in which we closed the round. Apologies for the confusion.","author_name":"Ricardo Garcia-Amaya","votes":0,"created_at":"2015-09-16T19:52:27Z"}]},{"id":3086,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:3086","question":"Happy New Year VOIQ. As an investor in VOIQ I'm interested in getting quarterly company milestones/updates as most startups provide. Can you tell me what your means of communication will be going forward for funding round participants?","author_name":"Paul Smith","votes":1,"created_at":"2016-01-03T14:19:11Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/voiq2#question-3086","answers":[]},{"id":2870,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:2870","question":"Ricardo, I know the funding round is over but can you please still answer the question I posted on Sep 28. Thanks.","author_name":"Girish Khera","votes":1,"created_at":"2015-10-15T08:11:35Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/voiq2#question-2870","answers":[]},{"id":2827,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:2827","question":"The projections for call volume growth with the Salesforce chart: are they your estimation or is that the actual understanding with Salesforce","author_name":"Girish Khera","votes":1,"created_at":"2015-09-28T13:03:45Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/voiq2#question-2827","answers":[{"id":2873,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:2873","answer":"Hi, sorry I missed this question; Estimation.","author_name":"Ricardo Garcia-Amaya","votes":0,"created_at":"2015-10-15T15:46:48Z"}]},{"id":2794,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:2794","question":"Does your platform handle Do Not Call compliance and incorporate anything to scrub numbers against the DNC databases? The model looks good, but I didn't see anything about that mentioned and would like to know if handled or if it's being left up to the businesses to pre-scrub the numbers being provided to you?","author_name":"Timothy Dick","votes":1,"created_at":"2015-09-16T22:18:29Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/voiq2#question-2794","answers":[{"id":2800,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:2800","answer":"Hi Tim, yes, we do scrub numbers against the DNC databases. We are also working on a feature that allows our clients to simply tell us who they want to reach (ie: dentists in the US) as opposed to having to build and upload the list themselves.","author_name":"Ricardo Garcia-Amaya","votes":0,"created_at":"2015-09-18T19:08:13Z"}]},{"id":2793,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:2793","question":"Can you give more specifics on the relationship you have with AirBNB?","author_name":"Antoine Tardif","votes":1,"created_at":"2015-09-16T22:05:50Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/voiq2#question-2793","answers":[{"id":2801,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:2801","answer":"Hi Antoine, yes. AirBnB completed the first run using VOIQ for sales lead qualification purposes (that is as much as I can share).","author_name":"Ricardo Garcia-Amaya","votes":0,"created_at":"2015-09-18T19:13:47Z"}]},{"id":2790,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:2790","question":"Same question as Sohin plus what is the difference/cost in raise here vs Angel?","author_name":"Sarit Rozycki","votes":1,"created_at":"2015-09-16T11:57:14Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/voiq2#question-2790","answers":[{"id":2808,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:2808","answer":"Hi Sarit, not sure if you saw the answer provided to Sohin: The $4M Cap Convertible note round closed in January 2015 (not two weeks ago). The date that you are referring to is most likely the date when we updated our online company profile on AL, not the date in which we closed the round. Apologies for the confusion.","author_name":"Ricardo Garcia-Amaya","votes":0,"created_at":"2015-09-22T05:10:22Z"}]},{"id":208929,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:208929","question":"The project seems promising! I believe that as an addon to the virtual call center on the basis of https://voiso.com/ our team will be able to build a really powerful support center for our clients.","author_name":"Clementine Mauricio","votes":0,"created_at":"2022-06-20T19:08:04Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/voiq2#question-208929","answers":[]},{"id":208924,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:208924","question":"Is it still in development?","author_name":"John Bishop","votes":0,"created_at":"2022-06-20T18:14:44Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/voiq2#question-208924","answers":[]},{"id":24456,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:24456","question":"Any mid year updates for investors?","author_name":"Dilraj Ghumman","votes":0,"created_at":"2018-07-19T13:31:15Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/voiq2#question-24456","answers":[]},{"id":14840,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:14840","question":"What happened to the update on 10/19/2017?","author_name":"Alex Soriano","votes":0,"created_at":"2017-10-22T00:16:07Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/voiq2#question-14840","answers":[]},{"id":7308,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:7308","question":"Hello, My name is miss laura, i saw your profile and it drew my attention to write to you. I would like you to communicate me through my e-mail address (sgt.lauraralph2@gmail.com) laura","author_name":"Neel Murthy","votes":0,"created_at":"2017-01-03T16:38:48Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/voiq2#question-7308","answers":[]},{"id":7276,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:7276","question":"Hello, My name is miss laura, i saw your profile and it drew my attention to write to you. I would like you to communicate me through my e-mail address (sgt.lauraralph2@gmail.com) laura","author_name":"Laura Ralph","votes":0,"created_at":"2017-01-02T00:04:02Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/voiq2#question-7276","answers":[]},{"id":6157,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:6157","question":"Hi Ricardo, it's crossed a year since this investment. Can you please send an update on the business and milestones ?","author_name":"Girish Khera","votes":0,"created_at":"2016-10-25T04:29:58Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/voiq2#question-6157","answers":[]},{"id":5371,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:5371","question":"Can we get some update about VOIQ (2016 Q2 Report) ?","author_name":"Romain Brabant","votes":0,"created_at":"2016-09-07T07:25:27Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/voiq2#question-5371","answers":[]},{"id":4508,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:4508","question":"Any progress updates?","author_name":"Dilraj Ghumman","votes":0,"created_at":"2016-07-17T13:12:51Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/voiq2#question-4508","answers":[]},{"id":3164,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:3164","question":"Hi Ricardo. Since funding in September, could you tell us how the call volume growth has been. Maybe, just update the projections chart with actuals through Jan. Would be helpful to know how the SalesForce relationship is coming along.","author_name":"Girish Khera","votes":0,"created_at":"2016-02-18T07:39:34Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/voiq2#question-3164","answers":[]},{"id":2835,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:2835","question":"Can you guys explain some of the reviews I'm reading on the app/product? I saw the iOS app and looks like people are having difficulty with the demo. Additionally, the Facebook page suggests people are having some trouble being on-boarded. Love the concept, considering investment, but what's in your product pipeline to improve this relationship?","author_name":"Ross Blankenship","votes":0,"created_at":"2015-10-01T18:08:36Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/voiq2#question-2835","answers":[{"id":2836,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:2836","answer":"Hi Ross, yes. Our facebook page is another channel to communicate with our call agents. There is an oversupply of professionals looking to become call agents in our platform and we are growing ever-more selective on our VOIQ call agent pool. We have a dedicated member of our team leading our call agent community and we are taking steps on how to deal with this oversupply and improving the application process so candidates who find us on their own can self-qualify (in or out of the process) before they take the demo. Currently we are only inviting agents with 3-5 years of outbound call center experience.","author_name":"Ricardo Garcia-Amaya","votes":0,"created_at":"2015-10-02T16:54:26Z"}]},{"id":2822,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:2822","question":"A couple of questions: (1) Is $50 (20 current + 30 untapped) billion the addressable market in US or worldwide? What proportion of that $20 billion is currently spent in your targeted segment of qualifying leads? (2) In your slidedeck you have a slide for the remainder of the year showing doubling call minutes each month. Is that due to integration with salesforce or is that pre-sales force? Notwithstanding, what concrete support do you have for those projects? What are your projections for 2016? (3) What are you going to spend this money on? When do you expect to need to raise more capital? (4) What is your market penetration success? Do companies often turn you down and if so, why? (5) If your projections are accurate, you've got an incredible run-rate for $6m valuation! Any reason to expect this to not work out as planned? What are some more likely roadbumps to VOIQ's success? Thank you!!","author_name":"James Nguyen","votes":0,"created_at":"2015-09-25T05:09:11Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/voiq2#question-2822","answers":[{"id":2825,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:2825","answer":"Hi James, 1) Worldwide. It’s estimated that over 70% of these calls are inside sales teams telemarketing. Lead qualification is one of several type of outbound call campaigns used in sales, upselling and customer success are among others, calls that our platform also carries out for our clients. 2) Salesforce integration and the fact that we are laying out a best-in-class sales \u0026amp; marketing strategy developed and executed by a SF-based marketing \u0026amp; sales firm (FullFunnel) that we just hired. As of now we have only run on outbound sales efforts and word of mouth. Our goal is to generate revenues of $1Million by Q3 2016. 3) We currently already have an 18 month runway. The focus of the raise is around Marketing and sales efforts and first steps in our international expansion plans. 4-A)We have ideal customer profiles that we are working with and will continue to refine as we grow. 4-B) There are large companies that already have operations in Manila. Since our call agents are US based we cannot beat the cost of a scaled operation in Manila, that is why over the next 4 weeks we will be recruiting 50-100 professional call agents in Manila for VOIQ. This way we will be able to offer a low-cost solution (half the current cost) to price sensitive customers who do not need US based agents. 5) The biggest priority to ensure success is rapid US market coverage, execute an international expansion and build the largest workforce of call agents in the world.","author_name":"Ricardo Garcia-Amaya","votes":0,"created_at":"2015-09-26T03:16:59Z"}]},{"id":2814,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:2814","question":"Are your callers considered employees? (e.g. the current question regarding Uber). If so does the $0.3 per minute you pay them also include all employee-related benefits etc?","author_name":"James Nguyen","votes":0,"created_at":"2015-09-24T01:53:19Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/voiq2#question-2814","answers":[{"id":2821,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:2821","answer":"Hi James, no, all of our call agents are 1099 (contractors); they work from their own smartphone, from their own internet connection, and on their own time. They work a maximum of 25 hours a week. Under the current model our gross profit margin is over 70% therefore, if we were to convert a select group of our best performers into employees (which do plan on doing) we will still retain a gross profit margin of 40% on that group.","author_name":"Ricardo Garcia-Amaya","votes":0,"created_at":"2015-09-25T01:14:08Z"}]},{"id":2812,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:2812","question":"a couple of questions actually. 1) What are the constrains of the distributed workforce model over FTE model?Which situations would not be suitable? 2) A usual BPO setup on-boarding process requires 2 weeks of specific client and product knowledge training. How is it emulated in VOIQ? How much training is required for any agent to get started with a campaign?","author_name":"Girish Khera","votes":0,"created_at":"2015-09-23T14:21:48Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/voiq2#question-2812","answers":[{"id":2820,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:2820","answer":"Hi Girish, 1) Our platform follows the same model of email sales automation SaaS platforms like PersystIQ or Outreach.io but we apply it to outbound calling. Outbound emails do not sell, they qualify prospects. Our call agents do not sell, they qualify prospects, therefore the campaigns that we take do not require our call agents to become experts in the product. They do have the function of \"hot transferring\" a call to a sales expert on the client side if that is what the client desires in order to close a sale. 2) Inbound calls (customer support) do require long training periods however we do not do inbound calls, we only do outbound calls and we do not sell, we qualify sales calls. All of our call agents have 3-5 years of experience working in outbound sales call campaigns. Our call agents learn about the client, the objective, the product and the script in less than 30 minutes through our app before they begin working on the campaign.","author_name":"Ricardo Garcia-Amaya","votes":0,"created_at":"2015-09-25T01:07:55Z"}]},{"id":2798,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:2798","question":"Uber is facing some difficulty with the \"contractor for hire\" model. How do you anticipate dealing with the potential problems if and when they arise? Do you have a high turnover for your professional callers? What measures have you taken to maintain loyalty? Thanks.","author_name":"Dilraj Ghumman","votes":0,"created_at":"2015-09-17T19:36:57Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/voiq2#question-2798","answers":[{"id":2807,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:2807","answer":"Hi Dilraj, the contractor model definitely has its limitations. However 1) We are one of the on-demand companies with the least amount of friction. Our call agents work from home, from their device; there are no high liabilities like physically interacting with customers (Uber), traveling to a job (rinse), handling physical elements (Handy), or traveling (Lux). 2) Furthermore, currently we have a gross profit margin exceeding 70%; we have plenty of room to convert our top performers from contractors to employees (which we do plan on doing). Our gross profit margin would decrease from 70% to 50% doing so.","author_name":"Ricardo Garcia-Amaya","votes":0,"created_at":"2015-09-22T05:08:47Z"}]},{"id":2795,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:2795","question":"Thanks for answering my previous question, I appreciate it. A couple more questions. 1) I understand that you are still trying to fine tune your services so wanted to understand how you would be able to address the concerns some initial users provided on the iOS app store via reviews. 2) Did you pivot the business model and rebrand from AngelPolitics/DonorTap? Please share experience and learnings on same. 3) August volume was 50,000 and revenue $12,000. Thats $0.24 per call assuming each call was only 1 minute. Please explain if there was some promo involved?","author_name":"Sohin Shah","votes":0,"created_at":"2015-09-16T23:58:29Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/voiq2#question-2795","answers":[{"id":2811,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:2811","answer":"HI Sohin, 1) the reviews are from our call agents. we underestimated the very large supply of professionals call agents that want to become VOIQ call agents. We still have many individuals that applied and we have not invited in. We also are selective in inviting only our top performers to our current campaigns. That leaves us with some unhappy call agents that want in or desire more work. We are working on addressing this by making our call agent mobile app less public. 2. Yes, my journey began developing a fundraising call app for individuals (Political fundraising), as soon as it shaped as a business opportunity I focused on selling the app to a larger market. I made it a fundraising call app targeting large organizations. At this point we had requests from our clients to have our app work for other type of outbound calls (beyond fundraising). We quickly realized we had been working on something too narrow; our app could support every type of outbound call. We also decided to solve the pain point of having to find call agents within the organization so we built our own call-agent workforce. That is how we arrived at the current multi-billion-dollar global market play building the largest workforce of call agents worldwide. 3. We have been increasing our price over the past 4 months from .45 cents/minute to .99 cents/minute. And we have grandfathered costs for some of our earlier clients. In four weeks we will be unveiling a new cost effective solution for our price-sensitive clients who do not need their call agents to be located in the US. We will be matching them with our VOIQ call agents working from Manila. We will be able to offer a solution at $.39 cents per minute (as opposed to $.99cents) A rule of thumb for estimating the cost of a campaign; Since not all the numbers will be answered, assume 60% of the total number of calls will be answered and calculate a mean of 1 minute in length.","author_name":"Ricardo Garcia-Amaya","votes":0,"created_at":"2015-09-23T01:11:16Z"}]},{"id":2788,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:2788","question":"Do you plan to partner with companies like LeadGenius and offer one solution to vet leads together?","author_name":"Ben Goldberg","votes":0,"created_at":"2015-09-16T01:10:28Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/voiq2#question-2788","answers":[{"id":2809,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:2809","answer":"Hi Ben, actually we are currently working on an integration with large data services that will allow our customers to simply choose their target and launch it directly from our platform (ie: dentists in CA or head of sales medium size business in industry X) without having to bring their own list.","author_name":"Ricardo Garcia-Amaya","votes":0,"created_at":"2015-09-22T05:14:59Z"}]},{"id":2787,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:2787","question":"How do you plan to use the money from this round?","author_name":"Will Shammas","votes":0,"created_at":"2015-09-16T01:07:22Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/voiq2#question-2787","answers":[{"id":2810,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:2810","answer":"We just partnered with one of the leading sales/marketing growth firms in the valley which designed a best-in-class inbound and outbound sales \u0026amp; marketing strategy for us. We will jointly execute this strategy as we also build a best-in-class inside/sales team. Short answer: growing sales.","author_name":"Ricardo Garcia-Amaya","votes":0,"created_at":"2015-09-22T05:23:41Z"}]}],"faq":[{"question":"How do you plan to use the money from this round?","answer":"We just partnered with one of the leading sales/marketing growth firms in the valley which designed a best-in-class inbound and outbound sales \u0026amp; marketing strategy for us. We will jointly execute this strategy as we also build a best-in-class inside/sales team. Short answer: growing sales."},{"question":"Do you plan to partner with companies like LeadGenius and offer one solution to vet leads together?","answer":"Hi Ben, actually we are currently working on an integration with large data services that will allow our customers to simply choose their target and launch it directly from our platform (ie: dentists in CA or head of sales medium size business in industry X) without having to bring their own list."},{"question":"The startup just raised a $4M cap convertible note two weeks ago (closed on 8/26). What merits a 50% premium in such short duration? Why arent we getting such similar terms?","answer":"HI Sohin, the $4M Cap Convertible note round closed in January 2015 (not two weeks ago). The date that you are referring to is most likely the date when we updated our online company profile on AL, not the date in which we closed the round. Apologies for the confusion."},{"question":"Same question as Sohin plus what is the difference/cost in raise here vs Angel?","answer":"Hi Sarit, not sure if you saw the answer provided to Sohin: The $4M Cap Convertible note round closed in January 2015 (not two weeks ago). The date that you are referring to is most likely the date when we updated our online company profile on AL, not the date in which we closed the round. Apologies for the confusion."},{"question":"Can you give more specifics on the relationship you have with AirBNB?","answer":"Hi Antoine, yes. AirBnB completed the first run using VOIQ for sales lead qualification purposes (that is as much as I can share)."}]}}}