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Pierce Eugene Walla

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
145 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1722 "How $2m+ Enterprise Email SaaS Tool Plans To Survive COVID "

an agnostic platform that can support you no matter where you're sending your communications out from.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1722 "How $2m+ Enterprise Email SaaS Tool Plans To Survive COVID "

We are still happy being bootstrapped.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1722 "How $2m+ Enterprise Email SaaS Tool Plans To Survive COVID "

I think Canada has actually some amazing programs to help fund startup companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1722 "How $2m+ Enterprise Email SaaS Tool Plans To Survive COVID "

IRAP is one of them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1722 "How $2m+ Enterprise Email SaaS Tool Plans To Survive COVID "

So

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1722 "How $2m+ Enterprise Email SaaS Tool Plans To Survive COVID "

we're able to access capital that way.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1722 "How $2m+ Enterprise Email SaaS Tool Plans To Survive COVID "

How do you spell that?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1722 "How $2m+ Enterprise Email SaaS Tool Plans To Survive COVID "

I-R-A-P.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1722 "How $2m+ Enterprise Email SaaS Tool Plans To Survive COVID "

Okay, is that the same as the Shred financing?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1722 "How $2m+ Enterprise Email SaaS Tool Plans To Survive COVID "

Similar.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1722 "How $2m+ Enterprise Email SaaS Tool Plans To Survive COVID "

So Shred is more about getting money back from your R&D spend, whereas IRAP, you can nominate specific projects that you're working on and they'll cover the development of those.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1722 "How $2m+ Enterprise Email SaaS Tool Plans To Survive COVID "

Yeah, it's similar to that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1722 "How $2m+ Enterprise Email SaaS Tool Plans To Survive COVID "

It's a much more streamlined process that's more of like a business focus with a specific business outcome that's come from it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1722 "How $2m+ Enterprise Email SaaS Tool Plans To Survive COVID "

Uh, so we, we actually just started taking advantage of these programs last year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1722 "How $2m+ Enterprise Email SaaS Tool Plans To Survive COVID "

So I think we've just scratched the, you know, the tip of the iceberg on what they can help us with, but it's an incredible program and I'd encourage other bootstrap companies in Canada to try and take, you know, leverage it to help them grow.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1722 "How $2m+ Enterprise Email SaaS Tool Plans To Survive COVID "

Yeah, I think, you know, I I've spoken with our team about what, if we want to move the target that we had set for ourselves at the end of the year and, you know, fully putting it to them, like, Hey, I understand if we need to adjust this based on everything that's happening.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1722 "How $2m+ Enterprise Email SaaS Tool Plans To Survive COVID "

But what we're seeing in our pipeline and how we're seeing our deals close, we're keeping that same number again.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1722 "How $2m+ Enterprise Email SaaS Tool Plans To Survive COVID "

And that's going to put us at, again, 100% year-over-year growth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1722 "How $2m+ Enterprise Email SaaS Tool Plans To Survive COVID "

Yeah, like one of the things that happened to us during this COVID was that, you know, the Adobe Summit is our biggest marketing event of the year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1722 "How $2m+ Enterprise Email SaaS Tool Plans To Survive COVID "

we put it, you know, that's our Super Bowl for us.