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Rob Nelson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
280 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 491: $13M in Funding, Grow.com Hits $300k MRR, Helping 600 Customers w/ Better Dashboards with Rob Nelson CEO

I mean, you're learning and making mistakes and it's okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 491: $13M in Funding, Grow.com Hits $300k MRR, Helping 600 Customers w/ Better Dashboards with Rob Nelson CEO

I wanted to try, you know, just something new and have a new challenge.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 491: $13M in Funding, Grow.com Hits $300k MRR, Helping 600 Customers w/ Better Dashboards with Rob Nelson CEO

And

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 491: $13M in Funding, Grow.com Hits $300k MRR, Helping 600 Customers w/ Better Dashboards with Rob Nelson CEO

The plan was I was going to bootstrap this, and then I got into it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 491: $13M in Funding, Grow.com Hits $300k MRR, Helping 600 Customers w/ Better Dashboards with Rob Nelson CEO

I was like, holy cow.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 491: $13M in Funding, Grow.com Hits $300k MRR, Helping 600 Customers w/ Better Dashboards with Rob Nelson CEO

One, I can't bootstrap.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 491: $13M in Funding, Grow.com Hits $300k MRR, Helping 600 Customers w/ Better Dashboards with Rob Nelson CEO

This is going to take way more money than I'm able and willing to do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 491: $13M in Funding, Grow.com Hits $300k MRR, Helping 600 Customers w/ Better Dashboards with Rob Nelson CEO

And two, the opportunity is much larger than I thought.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 491: $13M in Funding, Grow.com Hits $300k MRR, Helping 600 Customers w/ Better Dashboards with Rob Nelson CEO

So, yeah, we decided to raise money on this, or I did.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 491: $13M in Funding, Grow.com Hits $300k MRR, Helping 600 Customers w/ Better Dashboards with Rob Nelson CEO

It's been a great experience.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 491: $13M in Funding, Grow.com Hits $300k MRR, Helping 600 Customers w/ Better Dashboards with Rob Nelson CEO

I mean, it's been a great experience.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 491: $13M in Funding, Grow.com Hits $300k MRR, Helping 600 Customers w/ Better Dashboards with Rob Nelson CEO

I've actually loved it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 491: $13M in Funding, Grow.com Hits $300k MRR, Helping 600 Customers w/ Better Dashboards with Rob Nelson CEO

It's really nice not to be constrained.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 491: $13M in Funding, Grow.com Hits $300k MRR, Helping 600 Customers w/ Better Dashboards with Rob Nelson CEO

by the profits of the company to do what you want to do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 491: $13M in Funding, Grow.com Hits $300k MRR, Helping 600 Customers w/ Better Dashboards with Rob Nelson CEO

Oh, she's like 80 bucks or something like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 491: $13M in Funding, Grow.com Hits $300k MRR, Helping 600 Customers w/ Better Dashboards with Rob Nelson CEO

We launched it like the very end of 2014 and then went through that trough of sorrow that's talked about.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 491: $13M in Funding, Grow.com Hits $300k MRR, Helping 600 Customers w/ Better Dashboards with Rob Nelson CEO

It's just brutal.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 491: $13M in Funding, Grow.com Hits $300k MRR, Helping 600 Customers w/ Better Dashboards with Rob Nelson CEO

And finding product market fit and the feedback and getting punched in the face repeatedly by customers saying, hey, it's just not there yet.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 491: $13M in Funding, Grow.com Hits $300k MRR, Helping 600 Customers w/ Better Dashboards with Rob Nelson CEO

2015 was probably...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 491: $13M in Funding, Grow.com Hits $300k MRR, Helping 600 Customers w/ Better Dashboards with Rob Nelson CEO

Maybe, I don't know, maybe 150 grand, maybe 200 grand.