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James Kennedy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
189 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

What were they paying for?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

They bought for the year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

It was this typical thing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

I was pretty wet behind the ears.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

I would say, they said, hey, James, I really like your product, but the problem is we have 10 sites and you only support one site at a time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

And I was like, well, I guess you could buy 10 licenses.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

And they were like, yeah, sure, no problem.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

Let's do that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

I didn't even know that was possible.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

But they were like, sure, yeah, that's great.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

And

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

We demonstrated, you know, the part of what we do, what we do was good, did exactly what they needed.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

They liked the way we worked.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

They were willing to work with us on the early features and what we were missing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

And they gave us that first, you know, decent size check, if you like.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

And that really got us, so we're totally bootstrapped.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

So that helped us get along.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

We did a small round, 300,000K, 300,000 two years ago, I think.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

It was from angels, friends and family.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

We've about doubled in the last year.