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Maeve Kneafsey

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
156 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1280 Will she be able to raise $1m on $3.5m Pre Money with This MRR?

And at that stage, we had absolutely nothing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1280 Will she be able to raise $1m on $3.5m Pre Money with This MRR?

We had an idea.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1280 Will she be able to raise $1m on $3.5m Pre Money with This MRR?

So that gives you a base.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1280 Will she be able to raise $1m on $3.5m Pre Money with This MRR?

Since then, we've got a product, the product works, it's got customers and they're paying for it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1280 Will she be able to raise $1m on $3.5m Pre Money with This MRR?

But on top of that, we have had some investment from the accelerators that we got part of.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1280 Will she be able to raise $1m on $3.5m Pre Money with This MRR?

Silicon Valley.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1280 Will she be able to raise $1m on $3.5m Pre Money with This MRR?

And that's valued the company at the price we're looking at today.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1280 Will she be able to raise $1m on $3.5m Pre Money with This MRR?

No, because a million bucks is this is a great opportunity, you know, so there's no way we're going to be selling at a million bucks.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1280 Will she be able to raise $1m on $3.5m Pre Money with This MRR?

We do think what's really going to happen is we're going to have a trade sale in about five years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1280 Will she be able to raise $1m on $3.5m Pre Money with This MRR?

And, you know, if we could go to IPO, we'd keep going.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1280 Will she be able to raise $1m on $3.5m Pre Money with This MRR?

But I think in reality, from what's happening in the market now, it's probably a trade sale.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1280 Will she be able to raise $1m on $3.5m Pre Money with This MRR?

What is that?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1280 Will she be able to raise $1m on $3.5m Pre Money with This MRR?

Sorry, that's probably a term that we use over here.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1280 Will she be able to raise $1m on $3.5m Pre Money with This MRR?

It means that we'll be bought by one of the companies that we integrate with or that we add value to.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1280 Will she be able to raise $1m on $3.5m Pre Money with This MRR?

Exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1280 Will she be able to raise $1m on $3.5m Pre Money with This MRR?

Strategic buyer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1280 Will she be able to raise $1m on $3.5m Pre Money with This MRR?

I thought I had managed to cross over that chasm spending two years in Silicon Valley, but you can't take the Irish out of me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1280 Will she be able to raise $1m on $3.5m Pre Money with This MRR?

Oh, it's got to be The Mom Test.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1280 Will she be able to raise $1m on $3.5m Pre Money with This MRR?

The Mom Test?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1280 Will she be able to raise $1m on $3.5m Pre Money with This MRR?

The Mom, M-O-M, Test, which is a book to how you convince people