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Chi-Tung Leong

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
149 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EngageRocket Targets $3m Raise on $15m Valuation For HR Tech Platform

We really serve that nature of a market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EngageRocket Targets $3m Raise on $15m Valuation For HR Tech Platform

That's right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EngageRocket Targets $3m Raise on $15m Valuation For HR Tech Platform

So we launched the company way back in October 2016.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EngageRocket Targets $3m Raise on $15m Valuation For HR Tech Platform

We're coming up to our three-year anniversary already.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EngageRocket Targets $3m Raise on $15m Valuation For HR Tech Platform

And Qitong, how did you get the first customer?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EngageRocket Targets $3m Raise on $15m Valuation For HR Tech Platform

Do you remember?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EngageRocket Targets $3m Raise on $15m Valuation For HR Tech Platform

Oh, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EngageRocket Targets $3m Raise on $15m Valuation For HR Tech Platform

I challenged ourselves to publish a blog post, 1,500 words every week, SEO the hell out of it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EngageRocket Targets $3m Raise on $15m Valuation For HR Tech Platform

Every time a blog post came out, we were just hustling and pushing that content in front of everyone.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EngageRocket Targets $3m Raise on $15m Valuation For HR Tech Platform

And this was six months before the product actually went live.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EngageRocket Targets $3m Raise on $15m Valuation For HR Tech Platform

So we were heavily selling marketing content ahead of time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EngageRocket Targets $3m Raise on $15m Valuation For HR Tech Platform

And this got picked up by Forbes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EngageRocket Targets $3m Raise on $15m Valuation For HR Tech Platform

Which article specifically?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EngageRocket Targets $3m Raise on $15m Valuation For HR Tech Platform

Well, me as a writer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EngageRocket Targets $3m Raise on $15m Valuation For HR Tech Platform

We got picked up by Forbes Asia and we started publishing on Forbes as a platform as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EngageRocket Targets $3m Raise on $15m Valuation For HR Tech Platform

And that started getting us a lot of coverage.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EngageRocket Targets $3m Raise on $15m Valuation For HR Tech Platform

And that gave us the ability to...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EngageRocket Targets $3m Raise on $15m Valuation For HR Tech Platform

to start communities in Singapore, like locally, around our topic area.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EngageRocket Targets $3m Raise on $15m Valuation For HR Tech Platform

So HR analytics, people analytics.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EngageRocket Targets $3m Raise on $15m Valuation For HR Tech Platform

And from those communities, we actually got our first two customers.