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Kevin Kruse

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
287 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1648 How He Spun $4m ARR Influencer Marketing SaaS Out of Agency

We bootstrapped everything until six months ago, where we actually raised, I think it was six, seven months ago, time flies, but we raised a first series A round of $4 million that will help us speed up the growth process.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1648 How He Spun $4m ARR Influencer Marketing SaaS Out of Agency

So we bootstrapped before that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1648 How He Spun $4m ARR Influencer Marketing SaaS Out of Agency

Painful years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1648 How He Spun $4m ARR Influencer Marketing SaaS Out of Agency

So actually, we were a cash flow positive company at the time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1648 How He Spun $4m ARR Influencer Marketing SaaS Out of Agency

We became a cash flow negative company after raising funds, like most companies do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1648 How He Spun $4m ARR Influencer Marketing SaaS Out of Agency

So right now, our burn rate is pretty much...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1648 How He Spun $4m ARR Influencer Marketing SaaS Out of Agency

Two to four years, depending on how we're doing, depending on the month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1648 How He Spun $4m ARR Influencer Marketing SaaS Out of Agency

But yeah, it's basically we burn between $100,000 and $200,000 a month, depending on really what we want to do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1648 How He Spun $4m ARR Influencer Marketing SaaS Out of Agency

That brings us to about two to four years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1648 How He Spun $4m ARR Influencer Marketing SaaS Out of Agency

Actually, this is really interesting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1648 How He Spun $4m ARR Influencer Marketing SaaS Out of Agency

So I told you the new customers we have, it's about $30,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1648 How He Spun $4m ARR Influencer Marketing SaaS Out of Agency

The customer acquisition cost is only about a fourth of that, which is actually... And it takes everything.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1648 How He Spun $4m ARR Influencer Marketing SaaS Out of Agency

So it's actually a really good model, the one we built.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1648 How He Spun $4m ARR Influencer Marketing SaaS Out of Agency

It's about $8,000 to get a customer to sign up of these values.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1648 How He Spun $4m ARR Influencer Marketing SaaS Out of Agency

The CAC is actually smaller for a smaller customer, the low AC people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1648 How He Spun $4m ARR Influencer Marketing SaaS Out of Agency

But we stay around that metric.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1648 How He Spun $4m ARR Influencer Marketing SaaS Out of Agency

So basically...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1648 How He Spun $4m ARR Influencer Marketing SaaS Out of Agency

After the fourth month, a client is bringing cash in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1648 How He Spun $4m ARR Influencer Marketing SaaS Out of Agency

Churn is between 2% and 3% a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1648 How He Spun $4m ARR Influencer Marketing SaaS Out of Agency

It's a little higher than most SaaS companies you would have.