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Brandon Bruce

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
224 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

Some of those, if you total all those up, it's probably over 55, but that's because that's a pretty flat number.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

organization, a scrappy startup, there's some folks that have... Mental hats.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

Which is great.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

We love that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

We try to move fast.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

And so folks are working with customers on all spectrums.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

Yeah, we're a bootstrap startup.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

We've benefited from the early support of friends and family.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

And then a few early customers and angels came in to provide some early capital.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

But otherwise, we consider ourselves bootstrap.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

We don't have any institutional backing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

So we launched it in 2011.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

We did a half million dollar note nine months later in the fall of 2012.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

And then the other notes have been just kind of as we go, we'd pick up notes for a couple hundred thousand dollars here and there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

It's a pretty scrappy town.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

We go after it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

We value, as Jeff Bezos would say, you can work hard, you can work long hours, you can work smart, but you can't choose two out of three.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

We try to live that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

We consider ourselves customer funded.