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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

And in fact, Aaron Ross is an advisor for us.

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

So we certainly follow the predictable revenue model in many respects.

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

So we have a sales development team that we call the outbound team.

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

So they're reaching out to prospects and leads that we meet at events and that come to our website and to our app exchange listing.

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

And then we have our account executive 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 closing team that takes deals through from demo to close.

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

On the quota side, we're aiming on average.

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

So it varies based on tier, but on average, about 50K a month per account executive.

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

It'd be 50K in booking.

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

So if we were translated into MRR, it'd be a little over 4K.

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

Got it.

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

Yeah, that's MRR.

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

If we could do 50K in MRR per salesperson, then that would be awesome.

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

One that I read most recently that I really like is called Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rummel.

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

Okay.

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

I thought it was great.

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

Okay.

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

Great, deep discussion on strategy.

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

Just business strategy in general, how to think through issues and how to navigate the best path for your organization.