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Jan Elman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
170 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

Our customer acquisition cost is about one year of new revenue that they bring in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

So in about 12 to 14 months, we recover from customers that are onboarding onto the platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

So it's a combination of online marketing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

It's a combination of shows that we do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

We partner with a couple of technology companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

One of them is Progress Software, a company based out of Boston, where we help their customers to modernize on top of their existing database and platform, and also increasingly in vertical markets.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

We have been quite active in healthcare.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

So we will then spend time and money on vertical healthcare shows to exhibit there, to visit there, to sponsor and speak those kind of conferences.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

But increasingly, we see it moving towards online spend.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

There are two scenarios that are possible for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

One would be to have a strategic partnership with one of the larger vendors who is not yet active in this space.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

As an example, and without being very specific, IBM and SAP and nearly all of those vendors, Dell,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

want to move into this market, into the space of low-code software development, but don't have a current or don't have an up-to-date offering.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

In terms of strategic partnerships, you'd more be looking at, for example, large ERP vendors.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

So one pretty cool thing that we're seeing our customers starting to do is they use our platform as their own platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

So imagine you're a software vendor, you've built an ERP, and now just like Salesforce, you want your own force.com.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

You want your customers to be able to build within those software applications.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

And that's how we designed our platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

We had this vision 10 years ago, we were too early, but now we are seeing our partners starting to do that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

And for us, that's an additional sales channel.