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Pietari Suvanto

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
131 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 580: Self Funded Vainu SaaS Hits $400K MRR, 1000 Customers To Serve Up Business Data with CEO Pietari Suvanto

We opened in Oslo.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 580: Self Funded Vainu SaaS Hits $400K MRR, 1000 Customers To Serve Up Business Data with CEO Pietari Suvanto

So Nordics and then in Amsterdam and now we have first people up in New York.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 580: Self Funded Vainu SaaS Hits $400K MRR, 1000 Customers To Serve Up Business Data with CEO Pietari Suvanto

So we launched our US operations a few months ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 580: Self Funded Vainu SaaS Hits $400K MRR, 1000 Customers To Serve Up Business Data with CEO Pietari Suvanto

I'm sorry, a few weeks ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 580: Self Funded Vainu SaaS Hits $400K MRR, 1000 Customers To Serve Up Business Data with CEO Pietari Suvanto

A thousand.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 580: Self Funded Vainu SaaS Hits $400K MRR, 1000 Customers To Serve Up Business Data with CEO Pietari Suvanto

Yeah, that's pretty, that's almost exactly that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 580: Self Funded Vainu SaaS Hits $400K MRR, 1000 Customers To Serve Up Business Data with CEO Pietari Suvanto

Total revenue, sorry, our ARR was 4.5 million, or 5 million USD, 4.5 million in euros.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 580: Self Funded Vainu SaaS Hits $400K MRR, 1000 Customers To Serve Up Business Data with CEO Pietari Suvanto

Yeah, exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 580: Self Funded Vainu SaaS Hits $400K MRR, 1000 Customers To Serve Up Business Data with CEO Pietari Suvanto

That is the, we recorded that amount of revenue in 2016.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 580: Self Funded Vainu SaaS Hits $400K MRR, 1000 Customers To Serve Up Business Data with CEO Pietari Suvanto

So it'll be close to a million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 580: Self Funded Vainu SaaS Hits $400K MRR, 1000 Customers To Serve Up Business Data with CEO Pietari Suvanto

Our goal is one million, and I think we have a realistic shot.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 580: Self Funded Vainu SaaS Hits $400K MRR, 1000 Customers To Serve Up Business Data with CEO Pietari Suvanto

We, of course, use our own software.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 580: Self Funded Vainu SaaS Hits $400K MRR, 1000 Customers To Serve Up Business Data with CEO Pietari Suvanto

That's the best possible way to understand which prospects convert the best.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 580: Self Funded Vainu SaaS Hits $400K MRR, 1000 Customers To Serve Up Business Data with CEO Pietari Suvanto

And then of course, I mean, we have clients on other countries where we don't have active operations.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 580: Self Funded Vainu SaaS Hits $400K MRR, 1000 Customers To Serve Up Business Data with CEO Pietari Suvanto

And so that's a traditional modern marketing content, content search and marketing, social media marketing, and this kind of channels as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 580: Self Funded Vainu SaaS Hits $400K MRR, 1000 Customers To Serve Up Business Data with CEO Pietari Suvanto

So lead generation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 580: Self Funded Vainu SaaS Hits $400K MRR, 1000 Customers To Serve Up Business Data with CEO Pietari Suvanto

So, I mean, for us, for example, we know staffing is a strong industry for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 580: Self Funded Vainu SaaS Hits $400K MRR, 1000 Customers To Serve Up Business Data with CEO Pietari Suvanto

Logistics is a strong industry for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 580: Self Funded Vainu SaaS Hits $400K MRR, 1000 Customers To Serve Up Business Data with CEO Pietari Suvanto

What I would do, I would look for staffing companies, of course.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 580: Self Funded Vainu SaaS Hits $400K MRR, 1000 Customers To Serve Up Business Data with CEO Pietari Suvanto

And then what I know also that as we've made an analysis, I know that