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Jesse Lempianen

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
149 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$720k in ARR SaaS Raising at $12m Valuation Right Now for App Install SaaS

And then like on that, based on that, like start the ongoing billing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$720k in ARR SaaS Raising at $12m Valuation Right Now for App Install SaaS

But now these days, the best solution we've found out is that we actually take three months retainer or so, and then get it from there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$720k in ARR SaaS Raising at $12m Valuation Right Now for App Install SaaS

And typically then those like transfer it to like ongoing monthly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$720k in ARR SaaS Raising at $12m Valuation Right Now for App Install SaaS

Right, so it was actually 2019 when we got the idea.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$720k in ARR SaaS Raising at $12m Valuation Right Now for App Install SaaS

I was still working at Rovio back at that time, and this was actually a problem that I had at Rovio.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$720k in ARR SaaS Raising at $12m Valuation Right Now for App Install SaaS

So I was trying to find a tool that would allow me to actually find out what would be the best app name for a new game that we were making.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$720k in ARR SaaS Raising at $12m Valuation Right Now for App Install SaaS

And I looked at the market, I saw one tool that didn't work and another one that costed like 60,000 bucks for this one test.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$720k in ARR SaaS Raising at $12m Valuation Right Now for App Install SaaS

And I was like, OK, there's got to be an easy way to do this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$720k in ARR SaaS Raising at $12m Valuation Right Now for App Install SaaS

Called my friend.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$720k in ARR SaaS Raising at $12m Valuation Right Now for App Install SaaS

I said, let's fix this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$720k in ARR SaaS Raising at $12m Valuation Right Now for App Install SaaS

He said, yeah, we need two other guys to help us actually build this tool.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$720k in ARR SaaS Raising at $12m Valuation Right Now for App Install SaaS

And then we got our founding team together in 2019 and got our first sort of MVP out in 2020, right in the midst of COVID actually.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$720k in ARR SaaS Raising at $12m Valuation Right Now for App Install SaaS

So another COVID.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$720k in ARR SaaS Raising at $12m Valuation Right Now for App Install SaaS

like spawn.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$720k in ARR SaaS Raising at $12m Valuation Right Now for App Install SaaS

We've done some shifts after that as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$720k in ARR SaaS Raising at $12m Valuation Right Now for App Install SaaS

So basically, we just looked at what everyone's doing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$720k in ARR SaaS Raising at $12m Valuation Right Now for App Install SaaS

So what are the responsibilities and how much time

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$720k in ARR SaaS Raising at $12m Valuation Right Now for App Install SaaS

Because we sort of split it between all the founders, jumped into it right away, full time and so on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$720k in ARR SaaS Raising at $12m Valuation Right Now for App Install SaaS

So that was kind of everything.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$720k in ARR SaaS Raising at $12m Valuation Right Now for App Install SaaS

Also part of our company culture from starting from as founders was like no bullshit.