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Ross Andrews

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
136 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1133 How to slowly quit corporate, code your platform and land your first customer

You know, hoping to eventually get to the point where we can start getting some customers, maybe some revenue and then eventually look into, you know, maybe closing a seed round.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1133 How to slowly quit corporate, code your platform and land your first customer

Yeah, most of us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1133 How to slowly quit corporate, code your platform and land your first customer

I mean, I'm full time on Proximate and then my side jobs are kind of part time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1133 How to slowly quit corporate, code your platform and land your first customer

The other three have full-time jobs and they work on proximate in their, their, you know, nights and weekends, I guess you could say is that, you know, the kind of the traditional weekend warrior startup founder.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1133 How to slowly quit corporate, code your platform and land your first customer

And then we're hoping eventually, you know, the next few months here, when we get this off the ground more fully that we can get that seed round in so that we can really go all in full time, all four of us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1133 How to slowly quit corporate, code your platform and land your first customer

Our goal is to raise $500,000 for a 12.5% stake in the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1133 How to slowly quit corporate, code your platform and land your first customer

So it's a $3.5 million pre-money evaluation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1133 How to slowly quit corporate, code your platform and land your first customer

It will be $4 million once the money's in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1133 How to slowly quit corporate, code your platform and land your first customer

And that's a really good starting point for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1133 How to slowly quit corporate, code your platform and land your first customer

It gives us a 12-month runway to start onboarding customers, hopefully get some traction, get some revenue on the books.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1133 How to slowly quit corporate, code your platform and land your first customer

And our goal is to

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1133 How to slowly quit corporate, code your platform and land your first customer

aim.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1133 How to slowly quit corporate, code your platform and land your first customer

Our goal is to aim for 500 licenses in the first 12 months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1133 How to slowly quit corporate, code your platform and land your first customer

Once we fully rolled the platform out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1133 How to slowly quit corporate, code your platform and land your first customer

That would be, yeah, that would be basically the 40 grand a month would be, uh, all four of us to get us, you know, at least a starting salary.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1133 How to slowly quit corporate, code your platform and land your first customer

So again, we can do this full time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1133 How to slowly quit corporate, code your platform and land your first customer

And then some I've budgeted in, you know, some marketing sales expenses, travel, you know, um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1133 How to slowly quit corporate, code your platform and land your first customer

Later in September, we're sponsoring a startup showcase in the Boston area.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1133 How to slowly quit corporate, code your platform and land your first customer

So little events like that where we're going to start to go out and really kind of spread the word about what we're doing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1133 How to slowly quit corporate, code your platform and land your first customer

Two of us are.