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Sammy Linenvuo

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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

We raised a bit more, so now we've raised about 200,000.

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

So we're a team of four at the moment.

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

So we have two guys in Helsinki, one in Jerevan, Armenia, and one in Berlin.

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

So we're a distributed team.

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

So like before that we had some like a pilot customers that we got like through kind of traditional direct sales.

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

So we would pick up phone and call and make meetings and we got some early customers.

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

But then on 2015, we actually launched it online.

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

We did the product hunt launch and we actually got quite a many signups and the product,

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

was kind of crappy at that point still, but we noticed that there were clearly demand because there were some like, a lot of companies from U.S., which is like not common for a Finnish startup to actually get U.S.

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

companies to get interested in our product.

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

So we were kind of happy.

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

And right after that, we actually got our first U.S.-based customer and that felt good at the moment.

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

We have now about 300 customers.

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

You end up with the MRR, which is about like 15,000.

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

And that means, you know, with the current team, we are about break even at the moment.

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

I think 12 months ago, well, it was still slower because, you know, our businesses, we built these integrations to these tools.

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

And whenever we build a new integration, we get access to a new set of potential customers.

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

And we also get a delivery channel because, you know, we can distribute our product through those tools.

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

So over the time, all the time we've got, like,

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

more signups and- Yeah, Sammy, I understand all that.