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Steven Nelmans

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
169 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Proof you don't need a new idea, just better execution. Firm hits 160 customers, $25k MRR

I think we have over 10K signups, but we have like a thousand weekly active users.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Proof you don't need a new idea, just better execution. Firm hits 160 customers, $25k MRR

And the thing is, we also did a bit of like the Dropbox PLG model where you get 25 free emails per month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Proof you don't need a new idea, just better execution. Firm hits 160 customers, $25k MRR

But if you invite your colleagues and friends and stuff like that, you get more.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Proof you don't need a new idea, just better execution. Firm hits 160 customers, $25k MRR

And that's also why 37% of our

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Proof you don't need a new idea, just better execution. Firm hits 160 customers, $25k MRR

Sign-ups come from referrals at this moment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Proof you don't need a new idea, just better execution. Firm hits 160 customers, $25k MRR

Exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Proof you don't need a new idea, just better execution. Firm hits 160 customers, $25k MRR

Exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Proof you don't need a new idea, just better execution. Firm hits 160 customers, $25k MRR

Yeah, I got it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Proof you don't need a new idea, just better execution. Firm hits 160 customers, $25k MRR

Um, yeah, it's, it's, it's 24 and a half, uh, right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Proof you don't need a new idea, just better execution. Firm hits 160 customers, $25k MRR

Um, so I guess I have one of the numbers outdated, but, uh, yeah, that's, uh, that's great.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Proof you don't need a new idea, just better execution. Firm hits 160 customers, $25k MRR

um let's say about a thousand um but like six months ago we were also at a thousand like the thing is with this market because there's also obviously it's a crowded market we spent the entire first year focusing on product market fit interviewing hundreds of users we're averaging about five years interviews per week since we launched and we just keep that going because that feedback is very valuable so only in january this year we switched to growth so also in january 23 we were still at about a thousand

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Proof you don't need a new idea, just better execution. Firm hits 160 customers, $25k MRR

dollars MRR.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Proof you don't need a new idea, just better execution. Firm hits 160 customers, $25k MRR

And since then, we switched the focus.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Proof you don't need a new idea, just better execution. Firm hits 160 customers, $25k MRR

We moved on towards growth, started utilizing our own product because it was good enough to actually start selling for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Proof you don't need a new idea, just better execution. Firm hits 160 customers, $25k MRR

And hence, we found product market fit because then it means that it would also be good enough for our users.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Proof you don't need a new idea, just better execution. Firm hits 160 customers, $25k MRR

And that's why we've been growing 50% month over month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Proof you don't need a new idea, just better execution. Firm hits 160 customers, $25k MRR

We raised a bit of capital.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Proof you don't need a new idea, just better execution. Firm hits 160 customers, $25k MRR

So we are profitable right now, but we raised a small angel round pre-launch.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Proof you don't need a new idea, just better execution. Firm hits 160 customers, $25k MRR

So before we started coding, because we wanted to focus, we actually wanted to buy ourselves the time to do that market research and to do those user interviews.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Proof you don't need a new idea, just better execution. Firm hits 160 customers, $25k MRR

That was January 22.