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Sammy Linenvuo

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103 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1152 How Screenful monopolized Trello marketplace to drive $15k in MRR

Yeah, so Screenful helps companies to become more successful in their project delivery.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1152 How Screenful monopolized Trello marketplace to drive $15k in MRR

So it's a dashboard tool.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1152 How Screenful monopolized Trello marketplace to drive $15k in MRR

We pull data from the tools that teams are already using, like Jira, Trello, Pivotal Tracker, GitHub.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1152 How Screenful monopolized Trello marketplace to drive $15k in MRR

We pull the data from the APIs of those tools, we calculate some metrics, and we visualize it on a dashboard.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1152 How Screenful monopolized Trello marketplace to drive $15k in MRR

Got it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1152 How Screenful monopolized Trello marketplace to drive $15k in MRR

And what's the revenue?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1152 How Screenful monopolized Trello marketplace to drive $15k in MRR

It's a SaaS company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1152 How Screenful monopolized Trello marketplace to drive $15k in MRR

We have monthly subscriptions starting from $29 per month and going up by the number of dashboards.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1152 How Screenful monopolized Trello marketplace to drive $15k in MRR

The average customer is paying about $50 per month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1152 How Screenful monopolized Trello marketplace to drive $15k in MRR

The company was launched around on 2013 and the product itself was launched online on 2015.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1152 How Screenful monopolized Trello marketplace to drive $15k in MRR

So there was a fairly long period when we were sort of interviewing potential customers, trying to figure out like what kind of product we want to build.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1152 How Screenful monopolized Trello marketplace to drive $15k in MRR

Well, we actually got some early business angels investing on us fairly early on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1152 How Screenful monopolized Trello marketplace to drive $15k in MRR

How much?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1152 How Screenful monopolized Trello marketplace to drive $15k in MRR

We are talking about like, you know, 50,000 euros.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1152 How Screenful monopolized Trello marketplace to drive $15k in MRR

And on top of that, in Finland, we have this government organization called Tekes, which provides grants for early stage startups.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1152 How Screenful monopolized Trello marketplace to drive $15k in MRR

Yes, absolutely, absolutely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1152 How Screenful monopolized Trello marketplace to drive $15k in MRR

And that's really helpful because, I mean, when you're building a SaaS company, you really have to spend time upfront building that product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1152 How Screenful monopolized Trello marketplace to drive $15k in MRR

It was like 50,000 grand.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1152 How Screenful monopolized Trello marketplace to drive $15k in MRR

Then when you get the grant, you need to have private investors to match it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1152 How Screenful monopolized Trello marketplace to drive $15k in MRR

Yeah, yeah, so that's where I started.

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