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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+

We grew it to 7 million ARR.

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+

That's, that's highly, obviously that's really unusual.

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

I mean, I don't know if your audience understands how highly unusual that is.

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

When you look at this is, this is really interesting.

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

If you look at, so are you familiar with the JMP hot 100?

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

So there's a,

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

a banking firm called J&P.

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

They issue every single year the Hot 100, which are the best operated, most disruptive, privately held companies.

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

And it'll be like Dropbox and Box.

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

And they've been in it before.

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

Last year, MindTouch was in the Hot 100.

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

Now, yeah, it's a big deal.

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

It's a big deal.

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

So it's kind of a who's who of pretty much the unicorns.

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

Now, why that's relevant is when they started doing the Hot 100, which I think was 2008, the average amount raised by companies listed on the Hot 100 was, it was like, I might have my number slightly wrong.

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

It was like $38 million.

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

Okay, so this was 2000, maybe it was 2006.

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

I forget.

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

Anyway, it was $38 million.