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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

We see a partner, an ERP vendor that has maybe a thousand end customers.

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

and they start to offer Servoy as a platform to their customers so those ERP users can build their own in-house custom applications.

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

Well, that's a good question.

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

In the past two years, I've been very focused on building a scalable and reproducible sales model and sales team here in the U.S.

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

market.

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

Before that, in the U.S., we were a little bit behind.

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

We're doing okay, so we don't have to be

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

crying about the revenues but it was not very reproducible so that's a key thing that we've put in place in the past two years and we're sort of in the finishing phases of proving that and having that ready so next year would not be unlikely for us to start looking at

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

either a strategic partner or classic venture capital to further accelerate the growth.

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

Well, in terms of growth, if we do any funding, we would like to see our ARR go back to 100% year-over-year growth compared to the 30% year-over-year that we're doing right now.

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

Well, so this year we're going to do a 30.

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

So for next year, we're happy if we're going to hit 40 with our existing cash flow without external funding.

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

And then we believe we're ready to make the next step.

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

That's right, yes.

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

Well, yes, the growth has been healthy.

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

But on the other hand, you have to keep in mind we've been doing this 17 years.

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

It's not like we started yesterday with $1 revenue.

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

Okay, thank you.

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

Well, that's a good question.

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

I haven't made a list actually in quite some time.