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Kunal Bhatia

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
127 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can SlidesUp Actually Threaten CVent, Bizzabo?

So we started off with actually a different market with conference organizers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can SlidesUp Actually Threaten CVent, Bizzabo?

And, you know, I got the feedback then from Hiten Shah, you know, don't be in that uncanny valley of like, you know, there's the SMB market, then the uncanny valley and then enterprise, you know, mid market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can SlidesUp Actually Threaten CVent, Bizzabo?

So we were right in that that dead zone before.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can SlidesUp Actually Threaten CVent, Bizzabo?

We've since changed

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can SlidesUp Actually Threaten CVent, Bizzabo?

our average contract value is now up above 10K.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can SlidesUp Actually Threaten CVent, Bizzabo?

It was literally positioning.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can SlidesUp Actually Threaten CVent, Bizzabo?

And we've done that positioning change in the last two months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can SlidesUp Actually Threaten CVent, Bizzabo?

We've run two enterprise pilots recently with fabulous, you know, Fortune 500 customers of ours.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can SlidesUp Actually Threaten CVent, Bizzabo?

So we're right now in that...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can SlidesUp Actually Threaten CVent, Bizzabo?

middle positioning change and it's going well so far.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can SlidesUp Actually Threaten CVent, Bizzabo?

Much lower.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can SlidesUp Actually Threaten CVent, Bizzabo?

It was within that one to 5K range, which is, you know, not very supportive of either sales model, whether it's product led sales or, you know, having BDRs and the whole sales.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can SlidesUp Actually Threaten CVent, Bizzabo?

We launched about three years ago and then went through Y Combinator Startup School in 2017.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can SlidesUp Actually Threaten CVent, Bizzabo?

That sort of helped us accelerate our growth initially.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can SlidesUp Actually Threaten CVent, Bizzabo?

We actually shut down in the middle officially earlier this year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can SlidesUp Actually Threaten CVent, Bizzabo?

But a couple months ago, we got some people knocking on our doors to run enterprise contracts, enterprise pilots that we ran.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can SlidesUp Actually Threaten CVent, Bizzabo?

So we've got a handful in the new space with enterprise companies as well as mid-market companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can SlidesUp Actually Threaten CVent, Bizzabo?

Between 10 and 100.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can SlidesUp Actually Threaten CVent, Bizzabo?

Yeah, much higher now because of the new mix of customers with the enterprise pilots.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can SlidesUp Actually Threaten CVent, Bizzabo?

We closed them.