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Steve Richard

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
169 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 532: $1m Raised, $70k MRR to Record Sales Calls and Coach with ExecVision's Steve Richard

were willing to get me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 532: $1m Raised, $70k MRR to Record Sales Calls and Coach with ExecVision's Steve Richard

So you can think of it as like sales development reps on demand.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 532: $1m Raised, $70k MRR to Record Sales Calls and Coach with ExecVision's Steve Richard

So we've grown that to 35 SDRs for hire, being contracted by companies like Tipco, Marketo, Corporate Visions, those kind of people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 532: $1m Raised, $70k MRR to Record Sales Calls and Coach with ExecVision's Steve Richard

So in that business, most people pay us a fee per meeting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 532: $1m Raised, $70k MRR to Record Sales Calls and Coach with ExecVision's Steve Richard

Some people pay us a fee for time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 532: $1m Raised, $70k MRR to Record Sales Calls and Coach with ExecVision's Steve Richard

And for the most part, it's a supplemental to something they're doing in-house.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 532: $1m Raised, $70k MRR to Record Sales Calls and Coach with ExecVision's Steve Richard

So they do a little bit themselves of outsource to us as needed.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 532: $1m Raised, $70k MRR to Record Sales Calls and Coach with ExecVision's Steve Richard

That's what we see.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 532: $1m Raised, $70k MRR to Record Sales Calls and Coach with ExecVision's Steve Richard

We use the profitability from that organization.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 532: $1m Raised, $70k MRR to Record Sales Calls and Coach with ExecVision's Steve Richard

to fund ExecVision.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 532: $1m Raised, $70k MRR to Record Sales Calls and Coach with ExecVision's Steve Richard

We also plucked the best talent from that organization to put into the ExecVision sales and customer success organization.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 532: $1m Raised, $70k MRR to Record Sales Calls and Coach with ExecVision's Steve Richard

We have raised capital since then.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 532: $1m Raised, $70k MRR to Record Sales Calls and Coach with ExecVision's Steve Richard

But when we originally founded Voresight back

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 532: $1m Raised, $70k MRR to Record Sales Calls and Coach with ExecVision's Steve Richard

11 and a half years ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 532: $1m Raised, $70k MRR to Record Sales Calls and Coach with ExecVision's Steve Richard

It was completely bootstrapped, did no debt, no investors for 10 years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 532: $1m Raised, $70k MRR to Record Sales Calls and Coach with ExecVision's Steve Richard

At the 10 year mark, the 10 year anniversary, my business partner, our CEO, David Stillman looked at me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 532: $1m Raised, $70k MRR to Record Sales Calls and Coach with ExecVision's Steve Richard

I'm actually the chief revenue officer, not the CEO, but he looked at me and he said,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 532: $1m Raised, $70k MRR to Record Sales Calls and Coach with ExecVision's Steve Richard

Hey man, what are we doing?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 532: $1m Raised, $70k MRR to Record Sales Calls and Coach with ExecVision's Steve Richard

You know, like we've been doing this for 10 years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 532: $1m Raised, $70k MRR to Record Sales Calls and Coach with ExecVision's Steve Richard

We essentially built a lifestyle business when we were like 35 and said, you know, are we just going to ride this thing?