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Dave Lee

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
259 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1746 Infusionsoft Employee #8 Launches New Venture, Passes $175k in MRR, 2500 SMB Customers

an add-on like ours are three times more valuable as a customer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1746 Infusionsoft Employee #8 Launches New Venture, Passes $175k in MRR, 2500 SMB Customers

So they are incented to work with us and us with them because we make their customers more valuable, more sticky.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1746 Infusionsoft Employee #8 Launches New Venture, Passes $175k in MRR, 2500 SMB Customers

We've been profitable since day one.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1746 Infusionsoft Employee #8 Launches New Venture, Passes $175k in MRR, 2500 SMB Customers

Prior experiences with other companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1746 Infusionsoft Employee #8 Launches New Venture, Passes $175k in MRR, 2500 SMB Customers

I've been through the race of raising capital and have seen what it can do to a company and to the culture and the product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1746 Infusionsoft Employee #8 Launches New Venture, Passes $175k in MRR, 2500 SMB Customers

And for my business partner and I, it was more of a lifestyle play.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1746 Infusionsoft Employee #8 Launches New Venture, Passes $175k in MRR, 2500 SMB Customers

We wanted to build something that was a really cool solution.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1746 Infusionsoft Employee #8 Launches New Venture, Passes $175k in MRR, 2500 SMB Customers

that would be very helpful to the world that we love, which is entrepreneurs and helping small businesses.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1746 Infusionsoft Employee #8 Launches New Venture, Passes $175k in MRR, 2500 SMB Customers

And we didn't want the unnecessary pressure of a board and of hitting insane numbers

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1746 Infusionsoft Employee #8 Launches New Venture, Passes $175k in MRR, 2500 SMB Customers

and growth numbers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1746 Infusionsoft Employee #8 Launches New Venture, Passes $175k in MRR, 2500 SMB Customers

I've done that in the past and it was fun and it was a challenge.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1746 Infusionsoft Employee #8 Launches New Venture, Passes $175k in MRR, 2500 SMB Customers

Which company did you do it with?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1746 Infusionsoft Employee #8 Launches New Venture, Passes $175k in MRR, 2500 SMB Customers

With Infusionsoft, with a company called Pro Business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1746 Infusionsoft Employee #8 Launches New Venture, Passes $175k in MRR, 2500 SMB Customers

Were you inside of Infusionsoft?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1746 Infusionsoft Employee #8 Launches New Venture, Passes $175k in MRR, 2500 SMB Customers

Yeah, I was employee number nine.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1746 Infusionsoft Employee #8 Launches New Venture, Passes $175k in MRR, 2500 SMB Customers

I was their first exec that was brought in to run marketing and sales.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1746 Infusionsoft Employee #8 Launches New Venture, Passes $175k in MRR, 2500 SMB Customers

Most people did, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1746 Infusionsoft Employee #8 Launches New Venture, Passes $175k in MRR, 2500 SMB Customers

Most people did.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1746 Infusionsoft Employee #8 Launches New Venture, Passes $175k in MRR, 2500 SMB Customers

And it was a huge blessing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1746 Infusionsoft Employee #8 Launches New Venture, Passes $175k in MRR, 2500 SMB Customers

It was amazing.