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Pietari Suvanto

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
131 total appearances

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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 I think the, uh, uh, you might ask that, uh, why is it good to start a company like this in the Nordics?

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

Uh, but I think that is one of the best assets we have because the, uh,

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

organizational data in Nordics is the best in the world because we need to be very open about, for example, the revenue figures and everybody needs to follow those.

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 what we have is we have a very good material, very good teaching set of 10 million companies, which we can use, as I said, as a teaching material to understand other companies around the world so we can acquire data

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 understand data that is not available publicly.

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 think that is a one, one big thing.

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 for example, we can predict fairly closely like revenue figures, uh, for example, in the, in the Dutch market where they are not very public.

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 those kinds of things is something that, uh, How do you get access to that data though?

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

Uh, to the, uh, when it comes to the Nordic data, that's, uh, that's something that is, uh,

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

It's something that you need to just make a deal with the local government officials because that is something that is required to file by every company, every organization, their public in the Nordic.

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 that is something that we get as a, you know, just by asking it more or less.

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

Private, every company, every single company that are in the registry, you need to do 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

In the Nordic?

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 every, in the Nordic, yeah, every single one.

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 that's a huge data set, a very, very good data set, along with other data parameters to understand other companies around the world.

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 mean, not get exact revenue figures, but you can get a pretty close, very close estimations.

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

For example, the Dutch organizations that don't have public information out there about their revenue figures.

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

My favorite business book.

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 think it's the it's from I don't know if it's a business book, but from the 20s, the Dale Garnett, how to how to win friends and influence people.

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 think that is one of the best ones.