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Steve Benson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
518 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I hit $5m ARR, kept control using 3 different debt providers

So those are my bits of wisdom.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I hit $5m ARR, kept control using 3 different debt providers

Depends on the lender.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I hit $5m ARR, kept control using 3 different debt providers

So some lenders, I mean, ultimately what you want to do is be making $10 million a year and $2 million in profit, and then you can get some real cheap loans.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I hit $5m ARR, kept control using 3 different debt providers

Because a lot of lenders look at EBITDA and make loans on that, and those are cheaper loans.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I hit $5m ARR, kept control using 3 different debt providers

But, I mean, it's hard to make $2 million a year in profit.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I hit $5m ARR, kept control using 3 different debt providers

And the reason they do that is because it's like, oh, well, if you're taking $2 million a year in profit, even if things go kind of sideways, you're still going to pay your loans back.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I hit $5m ARR, kept control using 3 different debt providers

So these are all for earlier stage companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I hit $5m ARR, kept control using 3 different debt providers

These are all MRR-based loans.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I hit $5m ARR, kept control using 3 different debt providers

If you're profitable, I haven't gotten there yet, but... Awesome, guys.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1700 How A Bootstrapped $3m Revenue CEO Plans to Handle Virus, Potential Cashflow Issues

Let's do it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1700 How A Bootstrapped $3m Revenue CEO Plans to Handle Virus, Potential Cashflow Issues

Well, you know, so I think that we're one of those companies that will be affected by this because of the service that we provide, you know, helping field salespeople go and meet their customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1700 How A Bootstrapped $3m Revenue CEO Plans to Handle Virus, Potential Cashflow Issues

So dentists, for example, right now aren't, they're probably not buying a lot of new fake teeth or new tools or new medical devices.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1700 How A Bootstrapped $3m Revenue CEO Plans to Handle Virus, Potential Cashflow Issues

And so our customers, the people that go and sell that dentist, that type of stuff, they probably don't, they're not getting meetings.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1700 How A Bootstrapped $3m Revenue CEO Plans to Handle Virus, Potential Cashflow Issues

They're not out in the field.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1700 How A Bootstrapped $3m Revenue CEO Plans to Handle Virus, Potential Cashflow Issues

some software companies will be impacted differently than others.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1700 How A Bootstrapped $3m Revenue CEO Plans to Handle Virus, Potential Cashflow Issues

I mean, obviously, if you were Zoom, then more people need your stuff right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1700 How A Bootstrapped $3m Revenue CEO Plans to Handle Virus, Potential Cashflow Issues

But for us, definitely, there's going to be

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1700 How A Bootstrapped $3m Revenue CEO Plans to Handle Virus, Potential Cashflow Issues

there's going to be a downtrend in demand for our products, at least for the short term here.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1700 How A Bootstrapped $3m Revenue CEO Plans to Handle Virus, Potential Cashflow Issues

Well...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1700 How A Bootstrapped $3m Revenue CEO Plans to Handle Virus, Potential Cashflow Issues

I think that the more cash you have on hand right now, the better off you are.