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Sammy Shuny

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
127 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
New Sales Enablement Tool, $1m to $3.5m in 2 Years, Now Raising $7m on $50m Valuation

It's a kind of a,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
New Sales Enablement Tool, $1m to $3.5m in 2 Years, Now Raising $7m on $50m Valuation

You have to remember that Shovel is a Finnish company, so we are based in Finland.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
New Sales Enablement Tool, $1m to $3.5m in 2 Years, Now Raising $7m on $50m Valuation

And because of the COVID, we did a big change in our strategy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
New Sales Enablement Tool, $1m to $3.5m in 2 Years, Now Raising $7m on $50m Valuation

So we kind of concentrated all our people in Finland.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
New Sales Enablement Tool, $1m to $3.5m in 2 Years, Now Raising $7m on $50m Valuation

So the salary is not that high as it would be, for example, in the West Coast USA.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
New Sales Enablement Tool, $1m to $3.5m in 2 Years, Now Raising $7m on $50m Valuation

We do have most of the people placed in Finland right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
New Sales Enablement Tool, $1m to $3.5m in 2 Years, Now Raising $7m on $50m Valuation

It's about more, but also the location of the offices.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
New Sales Enablement Tool, $1m to $3.5m in 2 Years, Now Raising $7m on $50m Valuation

We have the world's best healthcare, world's best education system.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
New Sales Enablement Tool, $1m to $3.5m in 2 Years, Now Raising $7m on $50m Valuation

The tax rate is quite high, but then again, you get good services, nature,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
New Sales Enablement Tool, $1m to $3.5m in 2 Years, Now Raising $7m on $50m Valuation

clean air, everything.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
New Sales Enablement Tool, $1m to $3.5m in 2 Years, Now Raising $7m on $50m Valuation

So for us, it's more about the location.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
New Sales Enablement Tool, $1m to $3.5m in 2 Years, Now Raising $7m on $50m Valuation

We are slightly burning at the moment, but we are getting there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
New Sales Enablement Tool, $1m to $3.5m in 2 Years, Now Raising $7m on $50m Valuation

We are actually planning to raise the next round.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
New Sales Enablement Tool, $1m to $3.5m in 2 Years, Now Raising $7m on $50m Valuation

Seven to 10 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
New Sales Enablement Tool, $1m to $3.5m in 2 Years, Now Raising $7m on $50m Valuation

And why is seven to 10 million the right number?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
New Sales Enablement Tool, $1m to $3.5m in 2 Years, Now Raising $7m on $50m Valuation

It's the right number because we want to go full ahead with two arrows or heads.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
New Sales Enablement Tool, $1m to $3.5m in 2 Years, Now Raising $7m on $50m Valuation

First of all, we want to do the sales-led growth, and we also want to do the product-led growth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
New Sales Enablement Tool, $1m to $3.5m in 2 Years, Now Raising $7m on $50m Valuation

We do need to hire new salespeople, but we also have to hire new engineers and really get the product itself into shape where it can sell itself.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
New Sales Enablement Tool, $1m to $3.5m in 2 Years, Now Raising $7m on $50m Valuation

Churn is really slow, low at the moment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
New Sales Enablement Tool, $1m to $3.5m in 2 Years, Now Raising $7m on $50m Valuation

So it's about 3.5.