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Gabriel Ciordas

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
159 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

We started bootstrapped.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

And we worked our way up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

And lately, we have been seeking some funding to accelerate our growth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

We had a good, very good period in the pandemics where people were spending a lot more time in front of the computer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

But then, you know, we had a slowdown and meanwhile, we have moved towards the enterprise world, which is a very, I would say, complicated and sophisticated world from several aspects.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

One of them being the time it takes from the initial contact to signing a deal, a contract.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

I don't, but that's a good question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

I will definitely look into that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

But it wasn't too long ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

We started off with a small team, and then we started to add more complexity to the product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

And it was an organic growth process.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

And, you know, we learned a lot and we like to believe that everything that we have learned from customer experience and customer needs, we have put in the product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

So today I'm quite proud to say that we're very close to meeting most of our customers' needs and we're very close of solving most of our customers' problems.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

So right now we have over 28,000 paying customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

We will reintroduce the freemium version.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

We took it out at some point in time and we now realize that we didn't do a very good job on that, but we all make mistakes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

But we're used by millions of people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

Probably 12.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

Are you happy with that growth rate?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

You know, entrepreneurs are never happy.