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Anders Fredriksson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
155 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
"He Raised $900k And Sold For $1.8m... Why? "

We joined the Alchemist Accelerator, and we got in an extra, I think it was 150, 200, something like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
"He Raised $900k And Sold For $1.8m... Why? "

I can't remember exactly the exact numbers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
"He Raised $900k And Sold For $1.8m... Why? "

But we got into the Alchemist Accelerator, which is a prominent B2B accelerator, and that's what we...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
"He Raised $900k And Sold For $1.8m... Why? "

focused a lot of the development and we had a lot of good growth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
"He Raised $900k And Sold For $1.8m... Why? "

It was not, no, we didn't spend a lot of cash on that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
"He Raised $900k And Sold For $1.8m... Why? "

There was a lot of, a lot of the investment was made with, with the stock as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
"He Raised $900k And Sold For $1.8m... Why? "

I think it was, I don't know if that's a number is actually official though, but I would say maybe, maybe in the 25 to 50 range.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
"He Raised $900k And Sold For $1.8m... Why? "

But so I told you 500 then.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
"He Raised $900k And Sold For $1.8m... Why? "

So we had raised, we raised a total of 880 or 900 or so for, for total for probably.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
"He Raised $900k And Sold For $1.8m... Why? "

No, that worked well and we were building and growing quite well during the accelerator.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
"He Raised $900k And Sold For $1.8m... Why? "

At the same time as we were sort of going towards demo day for the accelerator, we were approached by Outbound Works.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
"He Raised $900k And Sold For $1.8m... Why? "

So during Dreamforce, I had a beer with Outbound Works founder, or one of their founders, Ben, and we were talking about our different strategies and goals for our companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
"He Raised $900k And Sold For $1.8m... Why? "

and realized that we were essentially trying to achieve the same thing, which is automating sales development.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
"He Raised $900k And Sold For $1.8m... Why? "

They had taken a slightly different approach from this, where they were attacking it from a services perspective, and we attacked it from a technology perspective.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
"He Raised $900k And Sold For $1.8m... Why? "

So there and then we decided that, okay, let's try and make an acquisition work, and then we... Are you talking about Ben McCarthy?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
"He Raised $900k And Sold For $1.8m... Why? "

No, Ben Sardella.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
"He Raised $900k And Sold For $1.8m... Why? "

Okay, got it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
"He Raised $900k And Sold For $1.8m... Why? "

So Ben Sardella, he's a big, he's, yeah, he's a big guy in the sales, uh, sales community.