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Erin Berry

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
169 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Willco Breaks 10k Customers, $1m Revenue, $6m Valuation for End of Life Planning

And about 60% of adults don't have just the simple legal documents.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Willco Breaks 10k Customers, $1m Revenue, $6m Valuation for End of Life Planning

So there's a really big pool of potential customers, more of whom are turning to online tools because of COVID.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Willco Breaks 10k Customers, $1m Revenue, $6m Valuation for End of Life Planning

And in terms of how we actually create that predictability, it's through marketing around life moments.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Willco Breaks 10k Customers, $1m Revenue, $6m Valuation for End of Life Planning

We know that having a child and the death of a loved one are the two major life events that cause you to think about these things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Willco Breaks 10k Customers, $1m Revenue, $6m Valuation for End of Life Planning

And once we have you in the door, then we become a trusted source for other products in future.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Willco Breaks 10k Customers, $1m Revenue, $6m Valuation for End of Life Planning

Well, we launched in the end of October.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Willco Breaks 10k Customers, $1m Revenue, $6m Valuation for End of Life Planning

So I'm assuming a couple thousand dollars by the end of that calendar year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Willco Breaks 10k Customers, $1m Revenue, $6m Valuation for End of Life Planning

But really, my husband started it initially.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Willco Breaks 10k Customers, $1m Revenue, $6m Valuation for End of Life Planning

I was running a marketing agency at the time that worked with consumer tech companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Willco Breaks 10k Customers, $1m Revenue, $6m Valuation for End of Life Planning

So I joined full-time after about a year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Willco Breaks 10k Customers, $1m Revenue, $6m Valuation for End of Life Planning

And I think in the first year, we probably did a couple hundred thousand dollars of revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Willco Breaks 10k Customers, $1m Revenue, $6m Valuation for End of Life Planning

So we felt like we had some good product market fit in that there were people paying from day one.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Willco Breaks 10k Customers, $1m Revenue, $6m Valuation for End of Life Planning

But we didn't truly achieve some of that scale until I'd say the last 12 months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Willco Breaks 10k Customers, $1m Revenue, $6m Valuation for End of Life Planning

I'd have to look back at the numbers because our fiscal is June 30th.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Willco Breaks 10k Customers, $1m Revenue, $6m Valuation for End of Life Planning

So for us, I'm always thinking in fiscal.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Willco Breaks 10k Customers, $1m Revenue, $6m Valuation for End of Life Planning

Yeah, I mean, actually, it's funny because now it sounds like it was all planned out in the stars to join Willful.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Willco Breaks 10k Customers, $1m Revenue, $6m Valuation for End of Life Planning

But initially, I left the agency for other reasons.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Willco Breaks 10k Customers, $1m Revenue, $6m Valuation for End of Life Planning

I was just not feeling challenged, wanted to move on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Willco Breaks 10k Customers, $1m Revenue, $6m Valuation for End of Life Planning

And as I actually looked around at all of the options and what to do next, Willful just was the obvious choice to learn.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Willco Breaks 10k Customers, $1m Revenue, $6m Valuation for End of Life Planning

I'd never run a venture-backed company before.