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Marvin Russell

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
518 total appearances

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Checkli Launches Enterprise Plan To Get Past $5k in MRR

And here's why I was wrong.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Checkli Launches Enterprise Plan To Get Past $5k in MRR

And the same thing goes for Google or other companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Checkli Launches Enterprise Plan To Get Past $5k in MRR

The trick that I think of one of the biggest pieces to successful SaaS entrepreneurs is focus.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Checkli Launches Enterprise Plan To Get Past $5k in MRR

Google has a million things going on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Checkli Launches Enterprise Plan To Get Past $5k in MRR

They're trying to perfect a million businesses, a million apps, a million pieces of software.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Checkli Launches Enterprise Plan To Get Past $5k in MRR

We have one thing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Checkli Launches Enterprise Plan To Get Past $5k in MRR

Our blinders are on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Checkli Launches Enterprise Plan To Get Past $5k in MRR

We're now all in on process.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Checkli Launches Enterprise Plan To Get Past $5k in MRR

That's all we're thinking about.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Checkli Launches Enterprise Plan To Get Past $5k in MRR

That's all we're doing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Checkli Launches Enterprise Plan To Get Past $5k in MRR

And I think that that's our competitive advantage.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Checkli Launches Enterprise Plan To Get Past $5k in MRR

We bootstrapped at first, but then SureSwift gave us a little tiny...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Checkli Launches Enterprise Plan To Get Past $5k in MRR

uh, funding amount just to pay for our developer, which we were grateful for, but we already blew past that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Checkli Launches Enterprise Plan To Get Past $5k in MRR

So, so now how much, how much did you raise?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Checkli Launches Enterprise Plan To Get Past $5k in MRR

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Checkli Launches Enterprise Plan To Get Past $5k in MRR

So as you may remember, my first SaaS startup was my startup that was acquired by Source of Capital.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Checkli Launches Enterprise Plan To Get Past $5k in MRR

It was one of their early acquisitions.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Checkli Launches Enterprise Plan To Get Past $5k in MRR

They've acquired, I think, 36 companies right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Checkli Launches Enterprise Plan To Get Past $5k in MRR

And I was one of the first ones.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Checkli Launches Enterprise Plan To Get Past $5k in MRR

And about a year or so after that, I came back to consult, help them, give them some advice and some pointers and some consulting on how to grow different SaaS products in their portfolio.