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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

And, uh, we sort of built in, um, credibility, a brand.

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

That sort of makes us stand out in France.

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

That's kind of helped the recruitment of new customers.

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

Uh, that's, that's a very tough question.

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

And I'm going to have a boring answer.

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

Um, we don't know actually yet.

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

No, no, we measure it.

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

We spend some, you know, a pretty significant amount on, you know, AdWords, Facebook and all these things.

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

But the return on investment is kind of mediocre.

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

Yeah, it's about 12-month payback, yeah.

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

It's hard to, I don't, in France, we're not in a very mature market.

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

There are a lot of testers, you know, people just curious about,

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

And probably we have a product that can be sometimes too ambitious compared to the maturity of our leads.

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

So the...

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

So they check us out, they start a trial period and they drop it.

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

Which sort of deteriorates the return on investment.

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

Right now we are burning, I mean, we run rate is about 130,000 euros, which would be 140, 150.

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

Per month.

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

Um, let's see.

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

It's, uh, there are 17 users per account.