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Jeff McQueen

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
270 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical

so that anyone can afford to and benefit from it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical

We've raised $2 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical

We did that in the middle of 2015.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical

And we actually, as we record this, just about to announce a $9 million raise.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical

So that's what's interesting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical

So 11 all in?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical

11 all in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical

And what's interesting about the nine is we raised that in the same quarter we got to profitability.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical

And we've really been, you know, while that's 11 all in for most of the time, it's, you know, being off just that, you know, a little bit of angel money and then a seed round.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical

So we have followed probably more of the DNA and execution model of a bootstrapper rather than the Silicon Valley funded behemoth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical

Right now, we're at 60 people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical

One six or six zero?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical

Six zero.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical

About a third of those are in, sorry, half of those are in Australia.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical

And that's where we do our product engineering, design operations.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical

And then we've got the other half here in San Francisco, where we do marketing, sales and client success.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical

That's true.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical

That's true.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical

We've got a little bit of an advantage that the Australian team is not far outside of Sydney, but still outside.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical

Got it.