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Steve Benson

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518 total appearances

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

And so they behave obviously much more like a B2B customer.

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

MRR is much more important than the absolute number of customers.

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

I don't know when this will publish, but it's March 17th right now.

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

So like San Francisco was just locked down and, you know, kind of people aren't supposed to go to restaurants or bars as of, as of yesterday.

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

So that's kind of where we're at right now.

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

So I haven't seen a ton of that yet.

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

I think, so I just had a conversation with my VP of sales about this.

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

um, this morning actually is how, how do we, how do we respond to those, those calls of people quitting?

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

And we haven't had many, but I, I think that the, what we landed on was when an individual calls, we should, we should offer them half off for three months.

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

Um, if they called to quit, um, offer them half off for three months and then, um, and then, and, uh, and see if they do that instead of quitting.

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

And I think the reasoning there is then, you know, their stuff's not all deleted.

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

It's still in the system.

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

It's, it's, uh, they don't have to reset anything up.

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

We don't have to reset them up, which is, which is good for us.

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

So it's, it's kind of a win-win for everybody.

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

Um, for, for larger companies, I think, you know, I don't think what we would feel like the B to the B to B side of the business, um, which is bigger than the B to C. Uh, I don't think we would do that because, you know, company, you know, just like we,

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

Just like we're going to, you know, just like we have to batten down the hatches that other businesses need to too.

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

So, um, but I, so I think that's the key question, right?

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

I don't know how deep people are going to have to cut.

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

I think when businesses get in situations like this, they make a series of cuts.