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Lionel Roux

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
149 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1632 How He Got 1000 Customers from 42,000 Free Users, $150k in MRR

About half of the, um, half of the company is, uh, has a technical background that includes the developers, the system administrator and this kind of stuff.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1632 How He Got 1000 Customers from 42,000 Free Users, $150k in MRR

Uh, the other half is, um, you know, marketing sales.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1632 How He Got 1000 Customers from 42,000 Free Users, $150k in MRR

Um, and, um, administration, this kind of stuff.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1632 How He Got 1000 Customers from 42,000 Free Users, $150k in MRR

Uh, mostly in Paris.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1632 How He Got 1000 Customers from 42,000 Free Users, $150k in MRR

Uh, actually we have two office.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1632 How He Got 1000 Customers from 42,000 Free Users, $150k in MRR

We have three offices.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1632 How He Got 1000 Customers from 42,000 Free Users, $150k in MRR

One in, um, the main one is in Paris.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1632 How He Got 1000 Customers from 42,000 Free Users, $150k in MRR

Another one is in Sofia, Antipolis, which is in the Southeast of France.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1632 How He Got 1000 Customers from 42,000 Free Users, $150k in MRR

And the third one where I try to go every other month is in San Francisco.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1632 How He Got 1000 Customers from 42,000 Free Users, $150k in MRR

uh, where we don't have a permanent staff, but we have people that can, um, you know, um, perform some, uh, do you have a U S subsidiary set up?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1632 How He Got 1000 Customers from 42,000 Free Users, $150k in MRR

No, we just have, um, you know, uh, you know, desk that, um, you know, I can, I can, I can sit on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1632 How He Got 1000 Customers from 42,000 Free Users, $150k in MRR

Well, it's kind of in between.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1632 How He Got 1000 Customers from 42,000 Free Users, $150k in MRR

Well, hold on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1632 How He Got 1000 Customers from 42,000 Free Users, $150k in MRR

We raised money small, but like a lot of times.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1632 How He Got 1000 Customers from 42,000 Free Users, $150k in MRR

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1632 How He Got 1000 Customers from 42,000 Free Users, $150k in MRR

I mean, pretty much what we did, our strategy was to raise small because we were confident in creating values.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1632 How He Got 1000 Customers from 42,000 Free Users, $150k in MRR

And instead of raising a lot of money early on, uh, we prefer to raise, you know, small, uh, small, uh, small amounts, but, uh, pretty much every year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1632 How He Got 1000 Customers from 42,000 Free Users, $150k in MRR

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1632 How He Got 1000 Customers from 42,000 Free Users, $150k in MRR

No, it's actually 5% right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1632 How He Got 1000 Customers from 42,000 Free Users, $150k in MRR

Okay, that's good.