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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

That was 350K.

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

No, not at all.

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

Not at all.

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

The thing is, I love bootstrap companies.

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

I've done bootstrap companies as well.

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

And it's cool because you're in full control and stuff like that.

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

But in all honesty, for our market, we just need to speak.

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

And if we were to do everything on margins, gross margins and stuff like that, and expanding the team based on our cash flow, then we would not be fast enough.

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 going to prepare our next funding round as well, because all of our competitors are doing it as well.

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

But it'll

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

Also, because we know that we can actually, we're not fundraising for the sake of fundraising, but we're fundraising because we know that if we can invest X in people, anything you can think of that utilizes growth, that we can go much faster.

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

No, we did it on a 6 million pre-money valuation.

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

Okay, 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

We're thinking about two million, like one and a half, two million, something like that.

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

It depends a bit on the funding climate as well, because I hear a lot of horror stories about investors not wanting to invest anymore.

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

So it depends a bit on how that is and what they think of our traction so far.

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're doing pretty well in comparison to our competitors because they have a hard time getting off the ground, also because it's so crowded.

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

So you actually need to have a competitive edge there to actually start growing.

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

And we found that, and that's what we're doubling down upon 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

That's also very dependent on the market.