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Nick Girard

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
267 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

They're long tail creators, small businesses that are used to using

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

products and services that look more consumer than anything else.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

And I think the companies that are crushing it in that area tend to be ones that do a really good job of marrying tech and culture, like strong software services tools with really well-developed brands.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

Yeah, exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

And the inspiration for that was Square.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

If you look at what they've done with their apparel line and their merch and just their development of their consumer brand, despite the fact that they're primarily building tools for SMBs, it's incredible.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

And I think those are the companies that are going to really win in this category over the next couple of years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

And as I said, we have never had a problem filling the top of our funnel.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

Over 4,000 that we're slowly working our way through.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

Got it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

We're getting better and better at qualifying people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

It's a bunch of different things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

I will say that...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

Actually, one of the questions I get sometimes is like, you know, how much does audience size play into it once people, you know, reach a certain audience size?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

So they kind of age out of your tools.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

And actually, it's not one of the big indicators for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

We have people on our platform who have millions of followers, and we have people on our platform who have 2500 followers, but it's like a super tightly knit, engaged community.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

That's not really the kind of primary metric that we look at.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

There are a bunch of other things that we look at.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

There are some defining characteristics of our customers.