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Nick Zekets

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142 total appearances

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Marketing Personalization Tool Gets First 8 Customers, $1m ARR Shortly

But the good news is the API itself is remarkably simple, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Marketing Personalization Tool Gets First 8 Customers, $1m ARR Shortly

And the integrations, you know, most everything now is OAuth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Marketing Personalization Tool Gets First 8 Customers, $1m ARR Shortly

And that really, that standard has made it a lot easier to kind of be able to connect to the stuff that people are using.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Marketing Personalization Tool Gets First 8 Customers, $1m ARR Shortly

So it really simplifies, you know, our go to market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Marketing Personalization Tool Gets First 8 Customers, $1m ARR Shortly

We were at a couple of million by the time all said and done in a handful of weird rounds.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Marketing Personalization Tool Gets First 8 Customers, $1m ARR Shortly

You know, the reality is you can get so much further along if you're really smart about product led growth and really smart about unique nuance use cases, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Marketing Personalization Tool Gets First 8 Customers, $1m ARR Shortly

It's like, could we do a million things?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Marketing Personalization Tool Gets First 8 Customers, $1m ARR Shortly

Sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Marketing Personalization Tool Gets First 8 Customers, $1m ARR Shortly

You know, do we have the ability to scale up and down?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Marketing Personalization Tool Gets First 8 Customers, $1m ARR Shortly

Sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Marketing Personalization Tool Gets First 8 Customers, $1m ARR Shortly

But do we know that B2B marketers who believe that inbound matters are feeling extreme pain?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Marketing Personalization Tool Gets First 8 Customers, $1m ARR Shortly

Absolutely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Marketing Personalization Tool Gets First 8 Customers, $1m ARR Shortly

So we're really focused on a particular subset of the market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Marketing Personalization Tool Gets First 8 Customers, $1m ARR Shortly

And doing that means that we can get to revenue pretty quickly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Marketing Personalization Tool Gets First 8 Customers, $1m ARR Shortly

And frankly, not being in higher ed anymore, higher ed is really averse to kind of paying for you to get to product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Marketing Personalization Tool Gets First 8 Customers, $1m ARR Shortly

Um, and the corporate space says, look, I could see the demo.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Marketing Personalization Tool Gets First 8 Customers, $1m ARR Shortly

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Marketing Personalization Tool Gets First 8 Customers, $1m ARR Shortly

So,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Marketing Personalization Tool Gets First 8 Customers, $1m ARR Shortly

You know, I think there's a couple of things that are at play there, and I think it's a really fair point.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Marketing Personalization Tool Gets First 8 Customers, $1m ARR Shortly

One, you know, I would actually argue that that puts a mandate on vendors like air traffic control to be exceedingly clear on what our value is, right?