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Franz Riedel

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
136 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1733 They're Raising $5m Right Now on $3.6m in ARR

content marketing, they needed to publish more content.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1733 They're Raising $5m Right Now on $3.6m in ARR

So we started out with a SaaS model mid-2014.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1733 They're Raising $5m Right Now on $3.6m in ARR

In the beginning, that was indeed the case, but at some point we saw this storytelling blogging thing is nice, but it's probably not mission critical enough.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1733 They're Raising $5m Right Now on $3.6m in ARR

We saw so much more potential for this automation of design, because why restrict it to one small portion of your website?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1733 They're Raising $5m Right Now on $3.6m in ARR

So the latest updates we've launched are to create landing pages.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1733 They're Raising $5m Right Now on $3.6m in ARR

Some clients use this to build their homepages or to inject existing content into these relatively static product grid views, you know.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1733 They're Raising $5m Right Now on $3.6m in ARR

So everybody wants to enhance the experience, but the tools out there, often the shop systems are a bit, well, let's say rigid in a way.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1733 They're Raising $5m Right Now on $3.6m in ARR

So they don't let you, especially if you don't have IT skills, change stuff.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1733 They're Raising $5m Right Now on $3.6m in ARR

fast and quick test things, throw it out, put something else in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1733 They're Raising $5m Right Now on $3.6m in ARR

However, in one aspect of WYSIWYG, because the same thing, well, what you see is not necessarily what you get.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1733 They're Raising $5m Right Now on $3.6m in ARR

Oh, definitely marketers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1733 They're Raising $5m Right Now on $3.6m in ARR

Definitely marketers, e-commerce, e-commerce.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1733 They're Raising $5m Right Now on $3.6m in ARR

Oh, no, no.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1733 They're Raising $5m Right Now on $3.6m in ARR

We have some old legacy plans.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1733 They're Raising $5m Right Now on $3.6m in ARR

Our first client paid probably $800 and they have a two-day cancellation or notice period.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1733 They're Raising $5m Right Now on $3.6m in ARR

And that was the first.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1733 They're Raising $5m Right Now on $3.6m in ARR

We had to get a foot in the door, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1733 They're Raising $5m Right Now on $3.6m in ARR

People needed to believe that the machine could take over parts of their website and do the layout for it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1733 They're Raising $5m Right Now on $3.6m in ARR

So, no, we started much, much slower than that.