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Mark Douglas

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
230 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Do these 9 things to ensure your way to $50 Million ARR

And the first one being what we call Project Monarch.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Do these 9 things to ensure your way to $50 Million ARR

And that's what we, is a rewrite of one of our core software products, replatforming, because it needs it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Do these 9 things to ensure your way to $50 Million ARR

And that aligns with the product strategy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Do these 9 things to ensure your way to $50 Million ARR

under number two and number four salesforce and netsuite we had to do a major infrastructure upgrade to to move to our scaling we want to scale a lot faster and we had a lot of problems with salesforce and netsuite very i was in fact i was a number 700 customer for salesforce back in another business and i rolled that license over so i'm like a very early adopter of salesforce so we have to actually rewrite a lot a lot of that software

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Do these 9 things to ensure your way to $50 Million ARR

And that falls under scalable platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Do these 9 things to ensure your way to $50 Million ARR

And then we had a reporting backlog, a huge reporting backlog.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Do these 9 things to ensure your way to $50 Million ARR

So we put a big effort into fixing that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Do these 9 things to ensure your way to $50 Million ARR

And then also what we call CSO, which is our customer service offering, which is going to coincide with a whole digital marketplace offering our products that can be bought online a lot easier than we currently sell them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Do these 9 things to ensure your way to $50 Million ARR

So that's how it rolled out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Do these 9 things to ensure your way to $50 Million ARR

What we have each department do and each top objective, we get an owner for that and we get a senior executive owner and a manager who will own those projects.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Do these 9 things to ensure your way to $50 Million ARR

And we have them develop milestones and deliverables for the year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Do these 9 things to ensure your way to $50 Million ARR

And we manage this on a monthly basis.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Do these 9 things to ensure your way to $50 Million ARR

They come back to the whole team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Do these 9 things to ensure your way to $50 Million ARR

The whole management team gets to see, how are we doing on those objectives each month?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Do these 9 things to ensure your way to $50 Million ARR

It's an hour meeting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Do these 9 things to ensure your way to $50 Million ARR

Everybody does it in six, seven minutes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Do these 9 things to ensure your way to $50 Million ARR

But they report, how are they doing by milestone, by objective for what they're doing?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Do these 9 things to ensure your way to $50 Million ARR

And this is a great way to, hey, did we resource you properly to get your objectives done?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Do these 9 things to ensure your way to $50 Million ARR

Or are we behind?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Do these 9 things to ensure your way to $50 Million ARR

And so every month, and so we almost always deliver everything