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Conor Lee

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
133 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1322 How to Move from Service Business to Pure SaaS

So that includes data, and it also includes effectively services.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1322 How to Move from Service Business to Pure SaaS

So helping them to make their outbound email campaign or to make their other campaigns scale.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1322 How to Move from Service Business to Pure SaaS

Yeah, we've stayed at that level.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1322 How to Move from Service Business to Pure SaaS

We haven't raised.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1322 How to Move from Service Business to Pure SaaS

We're still bootstrapped, more or less, and stayed at that kind of level.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1322 How to Move from Service Business to Pure SaaS

Yeah, absolutely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1322 How to Move from Service Business to Pure SaaS

I mean, so, you know, we're in the process of moving from, you know, a services business into a pure SaaS company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1322 How to Move from Service Business to Pure SaaS

And, you know, and that's, and funding the growth of that while keeping both of those companies alive.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1322 How to Move from Service Business to Pure SaaS

So, you know, so it's sort of like,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1322 How to Move from Service Business to Pure SaaS

If it was just a pure SaaS play initially, if HipLead was, it would be a different conversation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1322 How to Move from Service Business to Pure SaaS

But what we've had to do is we'd have to effectively divide the company so that we have folks that are working on the services side, the HipLead side, and we have folks that are working on the product side.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1322 How to Move from Service Business to Pure SaaS

Uh, yeah, I mean, we, we might in the future.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1322 How to Move from Service Business to Pure SaaS

Um, that's definitely, that's definitely a possibility, but you know, as a, you know, as a bootstrap company, um, hip leads, hip leads, revenue is, is, is growing, is paying for development and all of that on their products.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1322 How to Move from Service Business to Pure SaaS

Yeah, it's a possibility.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1322 How to Move from Service Business to Pure SaaS

We built Sona basically because we had a lot of insights into how we worked with over, I

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1322 How to Move from Service Business to Pure SaaS

They're all SaaS companies, B2B SaaS companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1322 How to Move from Service Business to Pure SaaS

And so HipLead's given us insight into real problems that other people simply don't understand.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1322 How to Move from Service Business to Pure SaaS

very easily.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1322 How to Move from Service Business to Pure SaaS

We've worked with so many companies and we've seen the gamut of behaviors that what it's allowed us to do is build a really great product that I think very few people would have approached having not had the experience.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1322 How to Move from Service Business to Pure SaaS

We still think Hipli is a valuable company at minimum just to keep us in the loop of what everyone's doing.