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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+

They've been with us for four or five years so far.

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

And we power both their success center, but it also powers the experience inside the CRM on their web in their products.

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

So, I mean, Zora's going to be with us for life.

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

We deliver so much value around lowering the effort for the customer, which improves their ability to upsell, renew, but also to build analytics and informs other aspects of their business.

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

Oh, we're tiny, man.

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

We're 100 people here.

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

What I like to track is for every dollar we spend in sales and marketing should generate a new dollar in annual recurring revenue.

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

Okay, that's fair.

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

Which we have historically done until we took our investment.

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

We started burning some cash.

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

We just returned to cash flow positivity right now.

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

So we keep it right at break even, right?

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

But what I track is, hey, if we're spending a dollar, we get back a dollar and that dollar should yield an upsell potential of 15 to 20% annually.

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

Oh, my favorite is, oh man, gosh, I'm supposed to, this is supposed to be like a speed round.

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

Normally these are like speed rounds.

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

I will not.

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

Okay.

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

My favorite business book, Challenger Sale.

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

Okay.

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

No, excuse me.