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Josh Weisberg

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
256 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk

So that money needs to produce โ€“

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk

drastic results for them for the model to work.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk

And I think what's important from the entrepreneur's perspective is to understand you're not in a portfolio.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk

You're not a portfolio of 10 companies or 100 companies like a VC has.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk

You have your company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk

And what we decided in 2016 is, first, we need to get profitable.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk

So we're the kind

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk

of business that can get profitable.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk

And so we kind of figured out what customer mix do we need?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk

What's our sales cycle?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk

We dialed some of those things in on the B2B kind of understanding the dynamics of our business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk

Um, what size customer do we need to close?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk

How long does it take to close them?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk

What are they doing without bound?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk

How big a team do we need to serve that customer base that will get us profitable and getting there, which we were able to do in 2016, um, just opened up so many options for us because we had the option to raise, to grow organically,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk

And so when Zendesk, which I think has a terrific corporate development function, which a lot of companies don't, so you'll end up having a lot of corporate development meetings and they don't go anywhere.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk

That's right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk

And I have to say, Ben Barclay, who we worked with here at Zendesk, when he was kind of poking around in our space, and the thing that immediately stood out to me was that here we were in this market that's super competitive.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk

It's a red ocean.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk

So I mentioned some of our competitors who were coming up, doing mobile engagement.