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Francesco Putignano

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
120 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Mela.Work Raising $1-2m Right Now With $200k in Revenue, Fair Valuation?

We're going to open an office.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Mela.Work Raising $1-2m Right Now With $200k in Revenue, Fair Valuation?

That's the plan for this year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Mela.Work Raising $1-2m Right Now With $200k in Revenue, Fair Valuation?

Absolutely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Mela.Work Raising $1-2m Right Now With $200k in Revenue, Fair Valuation?

So I definitely expect a recession and probably sales cycle under enterprise side getting longer, for sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Mela.Work Raising $1-2m Right Now With $200k in Revenue, Fair Valuation?

And that's why I think that for us, having a very low cost base will be critical once we close this round to plan forward.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Mela.Work Raising $1-2m Right Now With $200k in Revenue, Fair Valuation?

We will be in this situation where we have a very low cost base and some cash that would have lasted us like 18, 24 months in any case, even investing heavily.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Mela.Work Raising $1-2m Right Now With $200k in Revenue, Fair Valuation?

But we will be in the situation where we don't have to make tough decision right away because we haven't, I mean, if we had closed around three, four months ago, now our cost base would have increased four or five fold.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Mela.Work Raising $1-2m Right Now With $200k in Revenue, Fair Valuation?

And all of a sudden we are in a situation where we might be, the economy might be slowing down.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Mela.Work Raising $1-2m Right Now With $200k in Revenue, Fair Valuation?

My opinion is that once we close this in the next few weeks, we'll be in a situation where we can weather the storm better.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Mela.Work Raising $1-2m Right Now With $200k in Revenue, Fair Valuation?

Net, we're burning less than 10K.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Mela.Work Raising $1-2m Right Now With $200k in Revenue, Fair Valuation?

So we're spending like about, yeah, 25K.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Mela.Work Raising $1-2m Right Now With $200k in Revenue, Fair Valuation?

Yeah, we increased the expense a little bit, but more or less, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Mela.Work Raising $1-2m Right Now With $200k in Revenue, Fair Valuation?

We lost one customer representing 0.02% of the revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Mela.Work Raising $1-2m Right Now With $200k in Revenue, Fair Valuation?

It was like really tight.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Mela.Work Raising $1-2m Right Now With $200k in Revenue, Fair Valuation?

It was like 50 bucks per month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Mela.Work Raising $1-2m Right Now With $200k in Revenue, Fair Valuation?

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Mela.Work Raising $1-2m Right Now With $200k in Revenue, Fair Valuation?

We are very flexible in terms of what we allow people to pay because we are a startup.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Mela.Work Raising $1-2m Right Now With $200k in Revenue, Fair Valuation?

We don't have like, we have fixed pricing in the strategy, but we're very flexible in terms of meeting the customer's willingness to pay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Mela.Work Raising $1-2m Right Now With $200k in Revenue, Fair Valuation?

So enterprise is different.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Mela.Work Raising $1-2m Right Now With $200k in Revenue, Fair Valuation?

But we are โ€“ it's hard to find two customers that pay exactly the same amount because we give them like slightly different services and functionalities.