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Scott Snyder

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
122 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1705 Would You Ever Put $1m Of Your Own Money In Before Turning on Revenue?

Well, there's validation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1705 Would You Ever Put $1m Of Your Own Money In Before Turning on Revenue?

I mean, we ran a lot of qualitative research.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1705 Would You Ever Put $1m Of Your Own Money In Before Turning on Revenue?

It wasn't like just jump into this with a huge investment with no anticipation of a need for it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1705 Would You Ever Put $1m Of Your Own Money In Before Turning on Revenue?

We ran validation tests on it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1705 Would You Ever Put $1m Of Your Own Money In Before Turning on Revenue?

Well, you know, qualitative research where we're talking to people that are looking for solutions to their problems and finding and identifying, do you need a unified platform?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1705 Would You Ever Put $1m Of Your Own Money In Before Turning on Revenue?

And it's overwhelmingly yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1705 Would You Ever Put $1m Of Your Own Money In Before Turning on Revenue?

I mean, you can see all the big players that are out there right now are trying to move into a so-called unified platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1705 Would You Ever Put $1m Of Your Own Money In Before Turning on Revenue?

But their approach is that they're going to go and acquire different companies that have pieces to the puzzle.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1705 Would You Ever Put $1m Of Your Own Money In Before Turning on Revenue?

They're not a truly built platform from the ground up that's unifying all of these sales, marketing, customer service features.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1705 Would You Ever Put $1m Of Your Own Money In Before Turning on Revenue?

I mean, you can go and take a look at Gartner research and all kinds of research out there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1705 Would You Ever Put $1m Of Your Own Money In Before Turning on Revenue?

It's overwhelmingly, you know, everything's moving in that direction.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1705 Would You Ever Put $1m Of Your Own Money In Before Turning on Revenue?

We're entering into an experience economy right now, and it's no longer going to be about what you're selling.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1705 Would You Ever Put $1m Of Your Own Money In Before Turning on Revenue?

It's really about the customer experience.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1705 Would You Ever Put $1m Of Your Own Money In Before Turning on Revenue?

So if you want to differentiate yourself, you're going to need your customer data unified, no matter how you look at it, and trying to go and piece it together from a whole bunch of different apps, using different vendors, different databases, and

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1705 Would You Ever Put $1m Of Your Own Money In Before Turning on Revenue?

you're not going to really be able to compete.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1705 Would You Ever Put $1m Of Your Own Money In Before Turning on Revenue?

So we're coming into the market with a system that's going to give you access to your customer data at a fraction of the cost.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1705 Would You Ever Put $1m Of Your Own Money In Before Turning on Revenue?

Yeah, we're targeting the manufacturing and wholesale distribution industry, specifically right now manufacturing and wholesale.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1705 Would You Ever Put $1m Of Your Own Money In Before Turning on Revenue?

And for the SMB market...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1705 Would You Ever Put $1m Of Your Own Money In Before Turning on Revenue?

Primarily companies that are doing under $100 million in revenue and they are located here in the United States.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1705 Would You Ever Put $1m Of Your Own Money In Before Turning on Revenue?

We have 10 people on the team today.