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Mark Abbott

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
698 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used Community to Hit $7m Revenue, VC's chased him

That's all I got for you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used Community to Hit $7m Revenue, VC's chased him

It was all equity.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used Community to Hit $7m Revenue, VC's chased him

We've only had one.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used Community to Hit $7m Revenue, VC's chased him

So we rate all of our meetings.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used Community to Hit $7m Revenue, VC's chased him

It's what we teach, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used Community to Hit $7m Revenue, VC's chased him

So we rate our meetings on a scale of 1 to 10.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used Community to Hit $7m Revenue, VC's chased him

And so Chris and I, and then we've got another VC friend of ours who's also a coach, plus a friend of mine who runs the best Myers-Briggs teaching company in the world is on our board, and then we brought Insight, one person from Insight.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used Community to Hit $7m Revenue, VC's chased him

And everybody gave the meeting a nine or nine and a half, except for Insight, and they gave it an eight.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used Community to Hit $7m Revenue, VC's chased him

And they gave it an eight because we didn't give them all the numbers, the detailed numbers that they wanted to see.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used Community to Hit $7m Revenue, VC's chased him

And I'll tell you why.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used Community to Hit $7m Revenue, VC's chased him

It's because I thought the board meeting was the appropriate venue for them to hear our long-term vision because they'd never asked for it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used Community to Hit $7m Revenue, VC's chased him

And I want to make damn sure going forward they understand why we're doing all the things that we're doing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used Community to Hit $7m Revenue, VC's chased him

And so they gave us an eight.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1713 Is this a better way for schools to fundraise?

So basically, it's a marketplace and a service that allows anyone with a healthy product to make it available for school or group fundraising.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1713 Is this a better way for schools to fundraise?

So the purpose of FarmRaiser is to blow up the fundraising industry that usually sells pizza, cookie dough, gift wrapping paper, lots of

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1713 Is this a better way for schools to fundraise?

goods that are high the low value high cost with low profit for the causes so farm raisers trying to reinvent that model by directly connecting people with great products that we'd like to make them available for fundraisers in their community and folks needing to make money what do you mean by by fundraising so for example i mean i'm on your site now i'm in austin i see honeycomb by the austin honey company 28.29 suggested selling price so who is the person that's usually looking at this a local grocery store

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1713 Is this a better way for schools to fundraise?

No, actually it's going to be like the local PTA organizers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1713 Is this a better way for schools to fundraise?

So your school is going to do a fundraiser instead of asking for a cash donation, they're going to sell something.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1713 Is this a better way for schools to fundraise?

They would normally sell a really poor product, but we're going to have them sell something grown or made in your community.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1713 Is this a better way for schools to fundraise?

Oh, I see.