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Paul Lappas

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
151 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility

And then we just sort of get lists of people that work in those companies with the right titles, get their phone numbers and just basically do cold outreach.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility

Um, so, um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility

A little bit.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility

We also used our network at that stage because Lars and I have been in the Valley for 20 years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility

So we know what time we are signing up early, early alpha users to a not fully baked product super early on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility

And so the first few customers were largely founders network.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility

That's great.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility

True, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility

We're investing in R&D.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility

Our biggest cost is engineering and software development.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility

And so our goal is to raise another round of funding about this time next year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility

We, we, um, we're not able to do that yet because, um, venture debt, the banks that we work with, um, only give you venture debt if you're after a series a, um, or what square one.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility

Yeah, exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility

Not yet.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility

We haven't had a need to, but, um, I think venture debt is a, is a great idea.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility

Um, and I'm going to look at seriously doing it, um, next year, just because it's another financing option without giving away equity.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility

Oh, totally, man.