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Josh Merriman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
238 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

So there's a lot of ways to go.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

We're still very much in the research phase of that, of seeing where the market is, because we don't want to jump in and start competing with like intercom, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

Like that's not really ideal for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

So we're still in the very much like collecting feedback from users.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

Like, what do you need that would make you more money and you would be willing to pay more for?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

Very cool.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

And obviously, again, you're going to raise money to run for some of these experiments.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

How much do you think you might raise in Q4 this year or Q1 next year?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

Our goal is around $2 million in funding if we were to do it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

The amount of MRR we have going into that negotiation obviously determines how much money you can get, how much equity you're giving away at that point.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

So we're trying to get as much MRR right now before we even start that conversation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

That's really where we're at.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

What do you think you can get MRR to before the raise?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

We're confident we can get to 20K MRR.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

That's really our end goal for the year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

For us, Q4 is really where we see a lot of our high growth months because that's really when small businesses are evaluating their own tech stack and looking for new solutions.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

Yep.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

This all makes good sense, Josh.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

Any exciting products besides the chatbot coming up you want to talk about?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

So we just released last month payments automation with QuickBooks Online and Xero.