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Stefan Fountain

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
159 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1050 3+ Years to Hit $20k in MRR, Sell and Get Out!

It's a bit higher.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1050 3+ Years to Hit $20k in MRR, Sell and Get Out!

It's a bit higher.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1050 3+ Years to Hit $20k in MRR, Sell and Get Out!

And then we have some one-time setup fees and that also sort of helps.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1050 3+ Years to Hit $20k in MRR, Sell and Get Out!

And a lot of the customers pay yearly upfront.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1050 3+ Years to Hit $20k in MRR, Sell and Get Out!

So that really helps in terms of being cashflow positive, which we are.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1050 3+ Years to Hit $20k in MRR, Sell and Get Out!

No, we, well, there's a question for later, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1050 3+ Years to Hit $20k in MRR, Sell and Get Out!

We raised 400K from industry experts in a local VC.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1050 3+ Years to Hit $20k in MRR, Sell and Get Out!

And with that money, we're able to scale our sales and marketing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1050 3+ Years to Hit $20k in MRR, Sell and Get Out!

And now we've got to an acquisition versus LTV ratio of over three, one on three.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1050 3+ Years to Hit $20k in MRR, Sell and Get Out!

So it's really cool to see that we're finding our scalable sales process from that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1050 3+ Years to Hit $20k in MRR, Sell and Get Out!

And yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1050 3+ Years to Hit $20k in MRR, Sell and Get Out!

We've reached cashflow profitability and keen to see whether this path leads before we go out to raise an A round.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1050 3+ Years to Hit $20k in MRR, Sell and Get Out!

Oh, I don't have that number.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1050 3+ Years to Hit $20k in MRR, Sell and Get Out!

I know that we grew 67% over the whole year to 2017 compared to 2016.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1050 3+ Years to Hit $20k in MRR, Sell and Get Out!

I would say,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1050 3+ Years to Hit $20k in MRR, Sell and Get Out!

I think a bit less than that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1050 3+ Years to Hit $20k in MRR, Sell and Get Out!

So, yeah, there's a bit more complex backstory than that because we started as a side project of an existing company, The Next Web Blog.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1050 3+ Years to Hit $20k in MRR, Sell and Get Out!

You might know them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1050 3+ Years to Hit $20k in MRR, Sell and Get Out!

They have the biggest sort of tech conference in Amsterdam as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1050 3+ Years to Hit $20k in MRR, Sell and Get Out!

And there's really just a bunch of guys building this product.