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Soren Monk Hansen

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
127 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1489 Getting your First 20 Customers and $1k/mo in Revenue

I think we applied an Excel spreadsheet, so we thought we were more digital than the law firms, which we probably were.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1489 Getting your First 20 Customers and $1k/mo in Revenue

And what we did in the first two years, we basically helped the companies identify and then organize those.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1489 Getting your First 20 Customers and $1k/mo in Revenue

The first year was five years ago for the consultancy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1489 Getting your First 20 Customers and $1k/mo in Revenue

What we saw was that people actually, we usually solve their problems on a use case base.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1489 Getting your First 20 Customers and $1k/mo in Revenue

So usually if you wanted to get your company sold or you wanted to implement a contract management system, you'd call us to actually find your documents and put into those systems, put into a data room for due diligence.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1489 Getting your First 20 Customers and $1k/mo in Revenue

What we saw was that there was actually, we asked our customers, I mean, on a use case basis, we can help you out, but why are you such a mess?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1489 Getting your First 20 Customers and $1k/mo in Revenue

I mean, what are your contracts?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1489 Getting your First 20 Customers and $1k/mo in Revenue

They're not based for use cases.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1489 Getting your First 20 Customers and $1k/mo in Revenue

They're actually based for you on a day-to-day basis to do whatever the contract is aimed for.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1489 Getting your First 20 Customers and $1k/mo in Revenue

And we asked, so don't you need like a daily use case here?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1489 Getting your First 20 Customers and $1k/mo in Revenue

And basically all of them, all of our customer asked, said, yes, we would love to.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1489 Getting your First 20 Customers and $1k/mo in Revenue

And I had like dollar signs in my eyes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1489 Getting your First 20 Customers and $1k/mo in Revenue

I thought this is going to be a great consultancy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1489 Getting your First 20 Customers and $1k/mo in Revenue

However, we think we weren't able to meet demand for the consultancy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1489 Getting your First 20 Customers and $1k/mo in Revenue

We needed something automatic here.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1489 Getting your First 20 Customers and $1k/mo in Revenue

So we started building the software three years ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1489 Getting your First 20 Customers and $1k/mo in Revenue

getting our first machine learning data scientist on board.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1489 Getting your First 20 Customers and $1k/mo in Revenue

And we just launched the software in a beta late last year, got some beta feedback, Israel had feedback, and then we launched our first paying module four months ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1489 Getting your First 20 Customers and $1k/mo in Revenue

Exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1489 Getting your First 20 Customers and $1k/mo in Revenue

So the last summer we got some investors in both, but it's primarily funded through consultancy.