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Joel Sullivan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
182 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Customers and $3m ARR, How this Drone Mapping Startup Landed Enterprise Deals

Because I, you know, I can sort of talk about some of my contracts.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Customers and $3m ARR, How this Drone Mapping Startup Landed Enterprise Deals

Um, and I can, I can go into some details on like the use cases that we've been doing in environmental monitoring.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Customers and $3m ARR, How this Drone Mapping Startup Landed Enterprise Deals

Um, so that maybe is a little bit easier to kind of get our arms around.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Customers and $3m ARR, How this Drone Mapping Startup Landed Enterprise Deals

Yeah, it's I mean, it's an issue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Customers and $3m ARR, How this Drone Mapping Startup Landed Enterprise Deals

It's a real problem.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Customers and $3m ARR, How this Drone Mapping Startup Landed Enterprise Deals

And the way we do that is by being very hands on and focused in a direct outbound kind of sales process.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Customers and $3m ARR, How this Drone Mapping Startup Landed Enterprise Deals

Right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Customers and $3m ARR, How this Drone Mapping Startup Landed Enterprise Deals

So I'm meeting with the customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Customers and $3m ARR, How this Drone Mapping Startup Landed Enterprise Deals

We have these this very high touch sales process for that customer segment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Customers and $3m ARR, How this Drone Mapping Startup Landed Enterprise Deals

And then at the same time, we have this like super low touch automated SaaS thing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Customers and $3m ARR, How this Drone Mapping Startup Landed Enterprise Deals

So it's been a weird growth trajectory to try to do both of those.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Customers and $3m ARR, How this Drone Mapping Startup Landed Enterprise Deals

And what we're finding is like sometimes we'll actually get that traction from the inbound and then go, wait a minute, I need to do this as like more of an outbound higher touch sales process.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Customers and $3m ARR, How this Drone Mapping Startup Landed Enterprise Deals

So we've been in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Customers and $3m ARR, How this Drone Mapping Startup Landed Enterprise Deals

Yeah, we went through some pretty serious pivots.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Customers and $3m ARR, How this Drone Mapping Startup Landed Enterprise Deals

I've always been interested in, you know, I've kind of like had that startup itch.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Customers and $3m ARR, How this Drone Mapping Startup Landed Enterprise Deals

And so in college, I actually started this notebook that I aspirationally titled 100 Startups.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Customers and $3m ARR, How this Drone Mapping Startup Landed Enterprise Deals

And I would just write down my ideas as I was going.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Customers and $3m ARR, How this Drone Mapping Startup Landed Enterprise Deals

And I'm now at 750 ideas.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Customers and $3m ARR, How this Drone Mapping Startup Landed Enterprise Deals

And I'm sure you probably get this a lot.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Customers and $3m ARR, How this Drone Mapping Startup Landed Enterprise Deals

Guys just like, hey, I got ideas.