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Dharmesh Singh

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
150 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FullCast Hits $1.1m ARR, Pure SaaS From $1m Agency in Rev Ops Space

No, we have a dedicated salesperson.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FullCast Hits $1.1m ARR, Pure SaaS From $1m Agency in Rev Ops Space

We hired him as an SDR.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FullCast Hits $1.1m ARR, Pure SaaS From $1m Agency in Rev Ops Space

We learned the ropes, learned what the problems face.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FullCast Hits $1.1m ARR, Pure SaaS From $1m Agency in Rev Ops Space

And then he's graduated into a full cycle AE role.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FullCast Hits $1.1m ARR, Pure SaaS From $1m Agency in Rev Ops Space

With Quota?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FullCast Hits $1.1m ARR, Pure SaaS From $1m Agency in Rev Ops Space

I mean, too early for quota.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FullCast Hits $1.1m ARR, Pure SaaS From $1m Agency in Rev Ops Space

I mean, right now, you know, he, it's between him and us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FullCast Hits $1.1m ARR, Pure SaaS From $1m Agency in Rev Ops Space

The quota is, you know, whatever the company's number is 1.3.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FullCast Hits $1.1m ARR, Pure SaaS From $1m Agency in Rev Ops Space

I do help a good kid get involved in sales.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FullCast Hits $1.1m ARR, Pure SaaS From $1m Agency in Rev Ops Space

I help him with that, but we don't have any official quota.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FullCast Hits $1.1m ARR, Pure SaaS From $1m Agency in Rev Ops Space

We're raising at a 15 million cap.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FullCast Hits $1.1m ARR, Pure SaaS From $1m Agency in Rev Ops Space

No, that was an equity price round.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FullCast Hits $1.1m ARR, Pure SaaS From $1m Agency in Rev Ops Space

We're looking at the safe note more as a bridge financing because we don't want to rule through a Series A until we go past $2 million in ARR.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FullCast Hits $1.1m ARR, Pure SaaS From $1m Agency in Rev Ops Space

And so the thing we are trying to balance is we've got customers signing up and we need to hire in customer success.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FullCast Hits $1.1m ARR, Pure SaaS From $1m Agency in Rev Ops Space

We need to hire another additional SDR.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FullCast Hits $1.1m ARR, Pure SaaS From $1m Agency in Rev Ops Space

And you have two options.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FullCast Hits $1.1m ARR, Pure SaaS From $1m Agency in Rev Ops Space

Either you continue hiring just on demand, just in need kind of time based on the customer growth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FullCast Hits $1.1m ARR, Pure SaaS From $1m Agency in Rev Ops Space

or you invest a little ahead of time to plan for the growth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FullCast Hits $1.1m ARR, Pure SaaS From $1m Agency in Rev Ops Space

And so if you're going to invest a little ahead of time, more in finishing some of the engineering work that needs to get done, everything else, then you need a little money, not a whole lot.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FullCast Hits $1.1m ARR, Pure SaaS From $1m Agency in Rev Ops Space

And if you can get past $2 to $2.5 billion, you're better suited to do a much larger series at that point in time.