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Jon Lee

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
181 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 397: ProsperWorks SaaS 40k Paying Customers, Announces New Funding Adding to $10M Already

according to Forrester of CRM implementations, ultimately lead to failure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 397: ProsperWorks SaaS 40k Paying Customers, Announces New Funding Adding to $10M Already

And the biggest reason for that is because there's bad data in the system.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 397: ProsperWorks SaaS 40k Paying Customers, Announces New Funding Adding to $10M Already

And so what our integration with Google Apps allows us to do is to be able to bring all those conversations from a sales context right into ProsperWorks.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 397: ProsperWorks SaaS 40k Paying Customers, Announces New Funding Adding to $10M Already

So that's your email, your phone, that's your calendar.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 397: ProsperWorks SaaS 40k Paying Customers, Announces New Funding Adding to $10M Already

So we basically take away 95% of the data entry that's typically required in CRM.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 397: ProsperWorks SaaS 40k Paying Customers, Announces New Funding Adding to $10M Already

And we automate all of that for you so that you get great data in your system so that you have a single source of truth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 397: ProsperWorks SaaS 40k Paying Customers, Announces New Funding Adding to $10M Already

So you can build an automated sales process that's repeatable so management can have ultimate visibility into their team and build the sales programs that actually ultimately help you be more successful.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 397: ProsperWorks SaaS 40k Paying Customers, Announces New Funding Adding to $10M Already

Yeah, so we're about to announce a round of funding, so I can't talk too much about that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 397: ProsperWorks SaaS 40k Paying Customers, Announces New Funding Adding to $10M Already

How much have you raised?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 397: ProsperWorks SaaS 40k Paying Customers, Announces New Funding Adding to $10M Already

We have raised in the multiple tens of millions of dollars.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 397: ProsperWorks SaaS 40k Paying Customers, Announces New Funding Adding to $10M Already

So Crunchbase says $10 million over two rounds.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 397: ProsperWorks SaaS 40k Paying Customers, Announces New Funding Adding to $10M Already

Um, yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 397: ProsperWorks SaaS 40k Paying Customers, Announces New Funding Adding to $10M Already

And we've got something that's cooking in the books and, um, you know, you're, you're listeners and you will be the first to know once we announced the official.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 397: ProsperWorks SaaS 40k Paying Customers, Announces New Funding Adding to $10M Already

Great.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 397: ProsperWorks SaaS 40k Paying Customers, Announces New Funding Adding to $10M Already

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 397: ProsperWorks SaaS 40k Paying Customers, Announces New Funding Adding to $10M Already

Yeah, so I can't go into too specifics on what our specific metrics are.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 397: ProsperWorks SaaS 40k Paying Customers, Announces New Funding Adding to $10M Already

I would say that we have a very profitable sales and marketing machine.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 397: ProsperWorks SaaS 40k Paying Customers, Announces New Funding Adding to $10M Already

Most of our leads are actually inbound, so it's people that are discovering us through the Google Apps Marketplace, through the web, through our content that we have online.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 397: ProsperWorks SaaS 40k Paying Customers, Announces New Funding Adding to $10M Already

They install a trial of the service.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 397: ProsperWorks SaaS 40k Paying Customers, Announces New Funding Adding to $10M Already

They get it for free for two weeks, and basically they need to upgrade in order to continue to use the service.