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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'd love to double the valuation since we launched, but it was also another funding climate in 2022 than it is 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

So it's very hard to say.

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 going to start from there.

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

Just as three co-founders.

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 started a company with three, one CTO, one chief growth, and me.

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're still with the three of us.

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

Well, there are a lot of companies working on the same technology, but I think the biggest competitor for us would be Apollo, actually, Apollo.io, which is a very interesting one because they're a partner 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

So they're targeting another segment.

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 take a look at the proposition that we're selling right now, that we're putting in the market, which is an all-in-one solution and not just like,

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

like I said, the party trick of generating a sales email, but also finding the right leads, scraping the internet, all kinds of different sources of information to write proper emails, but also generating data, right?

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

If I can write a standardized template and reach out to you, or I can

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

see in our database of all the emails that we've already sent like nathan has these kind of demographics and stuff like that and based on classification and prior data say well he's a very busy guy i need to be straight to the point i need to use like 100 words max and then like use a lot of white space and stuff like that which is built for you then so steven just to pause for a second how do you get people to believe the story that you have an edge over apollo when you're three people and there are 926 people

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 for now because they're very big.

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

They have a lot of people and they have a huge market share 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

And the thing is, only speed is going to make us a true competitor for them.

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

So if we're doing 24 and a half right now, if we in six months do 30 or 35, then we're never going to win.

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 really need to crank up our game.

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

and get our market share.

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 have a superior product right now, but having a superior product is nothing if nobody knows about it.

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 the thing that we're going to be focusing on for the next couple of years.