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Ron Jacobson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
125 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
824: Brilliant Ad Tech Hedge: $8m Managed Services Firm RockerBox Adds $1k/mo SaaS Product

We raised just over a million dollars for rocker box.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
824: Brilliant Ad Tech Hedge: $8m Managed Services Firm RockerBox Adds $1k/mo SaaS Product

Uh, primarily, uh, angels, uh, have most of that money in the bank.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
824: Brilliant Ad Tech Hedge: $8m Managed Services Firm RockerBox Adds $1k/mo SaaS Product

Um, I think at the time it was almost, so we, when we actually started the company, we went through a startup accelerator.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
824: Brilliant Ad Tech Hedge: $8m Managed Services Firm RockerBox Adds $1k/mo SaaS Product

It was a great experience.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
824: Brilliant Ad Tech Hedge: $8m Managed Services Firm RockerBox Adds $1k/mo SaaS Product

Um, but I think almost the expectation there is that you raise funding.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
824: Brilliant Ad Tech Hedge: $8m Managed Services Firm RockerBox Adds $1k/mo SaaS Product

Um, so it was almost, I think, uh,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
824: Brilliant Ad Tech Hedge: $8m Managed Services Firm RockerBox Adds $1k/mo SaaS Product

I don't even know if it was the most concerted decision, but now that we made it, actually, I'm kind of happy that we did.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
824: Brilliant Ad Tech Hedge: $8m Managed Services Firm RockerBox Adds $1k/mo SaaS Product

Investors have been beyond helpful.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
824: Brilliant Ad Tech Hedge: $8m Managed Services Firm RockerBox Adds $1k/mo SaaS Product

So it was worth it for me just for that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
824: Brilliant Ad Tech Hedge: $8m Managed Services Firm RockerBox Adds $1k/mo SaaS Product

Uh, 13.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
824: Brilliant Ad Tech Hedge: $8m Managed Services Firm RockerBox Adds $1k/mo SaaS Product

Uh, yeah, uh, it's actually funny.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
824: Brilliant Ad Tech Hedge: $8m Managed Services Firm RockerBox Adds $1k/mo SaaS Product

It's probably half mixed between, uh, advertising folks and half mixed behind, uh, finance folks.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
824: Brilliant Ad Tech Hedge: $8m Managed Services Firm RockerBox Adds $1k/mo SaaS Product

A lot of people that were former hedge fund guys that kind of likened our approach to recency to sort of like flash trading.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
824: Brilliant Ad Tech Hedge: $8m Managed Services Firm RockerBox Adds $1k/mo SaaS Product

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
824: Brilliant Ad Tech Hedge: $8m Managed Services Firm RockerBox Adds $1k/mo SaaS Product

Oh, I mean, I've reached out to people I haven't spoken to in a decade.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
824: Brilliant Ad Tech Hedge: $8m Managed Services Firm RockerBox Adds $1k/mo SaaS Product

I have very little shame when it comes to anything to acquire a customer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
824: Brilliant Ad Tech Hedge: $8m Managed Services Firm RockerBox Adds $1k/mo SaaS Product

Hey, dot, dot, dot.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
824: Brilliant Ad Tech Hedge: $8m Managed Services Firm RockerBox Adds $1k/mo SaaS Product

Been a long time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
824: Brilliant Ad Tech Hedge: $8m Managed Services Firm RockerBox Adds $1k/mo SaaS Product

Hey, been a really long time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
824: Brilliant Ad Tech Hedge: $8m Managed Services Firm RockerBox Adds $1k/mo SaaS Product

How are things going?