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Aaron Fulkerson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
272 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+

So, you know, it's like, you see those formulas that people put out like Scott at matrix and others put out these formulas for lifetime customer value and it looks ridiculous.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+

A hundred million dollars.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+

Yeah, exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+

Right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+

And it's not something that we're that we, we actively track and focus on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+

The key thing that we're focused on is cost, like, hey, what's what's our return on investment for sales and market spend?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+

You know, those are the kinds of things that I do care about.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+

It's, it's way less.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+

We don't do that much advertising here.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+

Most of our, the way that we do it is like we close Whirlpool and then Electrolux is a customer and Fisher and PayCal is a customer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+

I mean, you look across the consumer white goods space and it's like a who's who, the appliance space, same thing with like business or exact target was a customer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+

Then, then it was, uh,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+

Silver Pop, ClickSquared, Emma.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+

They follow.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+

A lot of it, they follow because it becomes so disrupted to them in their category that somebody's deploying.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+

Zora's a customer, Aria's a customer, MetroTech's a customer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+

Yeah, well, let's take one that your audience would probably be more familiar with.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+

Let's say it's Zora, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+

So they do subscription billing.