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Shriram Shubhamanian

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
143 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
153 Brands Use Them To Report Sales Volume to Shopping Malls, $20k in MRR, $1.5m Raised

I actually went out to customers, built out Linux servers myself, and deployed it and realized that how am I going to get this to 1,000 or 10,000 customers?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
153 Brands Use Them To Report Sales Volume to Shopping Malls, $20k in MRR, $1.5m Raised

There's no way we can do that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
153 Brands Use Them To Report Sales Volume to Shopping Malls, $20k in MRR, $1.5m Raised

So that was sort of the first failure and learning for us as to what's our DNA.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
153 Brands Use Them To Report Sales Volume to Shopping Malls, $20k in MRR, $1.5m Raised

And that's where the focus just to B2B evolved.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
153 Brands Use Them To Report Sales Volume to Shopping Malls, $20k in MRR, $1.5m Raised

So we have 13 enterprise like customers and then end retailers and businesses are about 153.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
153 Brands Use Them To Report Sales Volume to Shopping Malls, $20k in MRR, $1.5m Raised

I believe this is the recent count that use our technology.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
153 Brands Use Them To Report Sales Volume to Shopping Malls, $20k in MRR, $1.5m Raised

So Daniel Wellington would actually be sitting as the end user, the retailer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
153 Brands Use Them To Report Sales Volume to Shopping Malls, $20k in MRR, $1.5m Raised

For us, as a B2B business, the first touch point is the platform, the cloud platform itself, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
153 Brands Use Them To Report Sales Volume to Shopping Malls, $20k in MRR, $1.5m Raised

A payments platform or a post company, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
153 Brands Use Them To Report Sales Volume to Shopping Malls, $20k in MRR, $1.5m Raised

That is building.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
153 Brands Use Them To Report Sales Volume to Shopping Malls, $20k in MRR, $1.5m Raised

A cloud platform or a large reseller of the cloud platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
153 Brands Use Them To Report Sales Volume to Shopping Malls, $20k in MRR, $1.5m Raised

Right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
153 Brands Use Them To Report Sales Volume to Shopping Malls, $20k in MRR, $1.5m Raised

But now we do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
153 Brands Use Them To Report Sales Volume to Shopping Malls, $20k in MRR, $1.5m Raised

Once we sold them through it, we work directly with the customer and their team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
153 Brands Use Them To Report Sales Volume to Shopping Malls, $20k in MRR, $1.5m Raised

Actually, we don't know the total number of locations because if you take certain relationships where a reseller would have taken to, let's say, 30 customers across different countries in Europe.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
153 Brands Use Them To Report Sales Volume to Shopping Malls, $20k in MRR, $1.5m Raised

We don't have visibility into all the different types of businesses and the locations they serve because the reseller in those cases would own that relationship.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
153 Brands Use Them To Report Sales Volume to Shopping Malls, $20k in MRR, $1.5m Raised

So it's tough for us to get visibility because we also support a model where our entire stack of microservices can be deployed into a customer or partner's environment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
153 Brands Use Them To Report Sales Volume to Shopping Malls, $20k in MRR, $1.5m Raised

So there's only limited metrics that we can get in that scenario.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
153 Brands Use Them To Report Sales Volume to Shopping Malls, $20k in MRR, $1.5m Raised

That's the model where we are directly serving the retailer or customer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
153 Brands Use Them To Report Sales Volume to Shopping Malls, $20k in MRR, $1.5m Raised

But then there is a model where we are deploying inside of the customer or partner's environment as well, right?