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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

So we try to stay really close to the customer and make sure we're providing value every day.

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

Yeah, we basically try to keep it at break even.

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

Um, that's essentially our goal.

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

So we reinvest everything in, in growth of the company.

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

You know, we believe in investing in the talent of the team.

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

That's our, that's our biggest market advantage are the folks that we've been able to bring aboard with us, both in Knoxville and in Irvine.

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

And we've got a few folks in Atlanta and New York, um,

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

But yeah, we try to keep it right about breakeven.

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

So as we onboard more customers, we try to increase the size of the team and be able to serve more going forward.

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

Yeah, exactly.

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

I mean, we're most comfortable if we're blowing way ahead of the line, right?

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

But if things were to flip, we take that really seriously.

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

We sort of analogize.

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

We're more like a state government than a federal government.

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

We can't print our own money.

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

So we got to keep a pretty balanced budget.

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

I mean, we've set our sights on doing, you know, about 16 million in bookings or so.

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

So oftentimes we'll look at top line bookings for the sales team.

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

So trying to get those deals in the door, some of them may be multi-year, but we love those all the same.

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

So yeah, if we can finish the year at a 15 to 20 million run rate, then that would be awesome.