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James Marks

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134 total appearances

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Build an 8 Figure Business Fast with James Marks of WhipLash

I'm like, I think they're full of shit.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Build an 8 Figure Business Fast with James Marks of WhipLash

And now that I'm in it, I'm like, no, we know what we're hiring for.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Build an 8 Figure Business Fast with James Marks of WhipLash

And we, you know, it would suck, obviously, to have to lose people and have to turn that off.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Build an 8 Figure Business Fast with James Marks of WhipLash

But you could save the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Build an 8 Figure Business Fast with James Marks of WhipLash

So we're hiring for sales.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Build an 8 Figure Business Fast with James Marks of WhipLash

We've never had a formal sales process.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Build an 8 Figure Business Fast with James Marks of WhipLash

Everything we've done, I mean, we're in the Shopify app store.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Build an 8 Figure Business Fast with James Marks of WhipLash

We get a lot of referrals from existing customers, but we've never gone out and hit the pavement and had a hit list and really defined the funnel.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Build an 8 Figure Business Fast with James Marks of WhipLash

And so that's what we're going through right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Build an 8 Figure Business Fast with James Marks of WhipLash

And so we're hiring for sales.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Build an 8 Figure Business Fast with James Marks of WhipLash

We're hiring for engineering because we know that new customers bring new requirements.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Build an 8 Figure Business Fast with James Marks of WhipLash

And as a company, we've been successful because

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Build an 8 Figure Business Fast with James Marks of WhipLash

we build what our customers want to see.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Build an 8 Figure Business Fast with James Marks of WhipLash

You know, we're listening very closely and trying to behave as agile and as nimble as possible to, you know, when we get an email 10 times, we say, okay, this is the customer problem.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Build an 8 Figure Business Fast with James Marks of WhipLash

Gotta solve this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Build an 8 Figure Business Fast with James Marks of WhipLash

Gotta solve it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Build an 8 Figure Business Fast with James Marks of WhipLash

Uh, we're getting ready to, we haven't officially begun that yet, but we expect to raise the next few months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Build an 8 Figure Business Fast with James Marks of WhipLash

You know, we think it'll be between eight and 10.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Build an 8 Figure Business Fast with James Marks of WhipLash

You know, we'll see.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Build an 8 Figure Business Fast with James Marks of WhipLash

We're willing to negotiate that.