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Taj Forer

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
148 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1157 From Artist to $200k MRR SaaS Company for Content Publishing

Okay, so total raise is what?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1157 From Artist to $200k MRR SaaS Company for Content Publishing

How much?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1157 From Artist to $200k MRR SaaS Company for Content Publishing

Uh, we, we've raised only about a million bucks of external capital.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1157 From Artist to $200k MRR SaaS Company for Content Publishing

You know, other people's money is just too sweet.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1157 From Artist to $200k MRR SaaS Company for Content Publishing

Yeah, we're pretty bulletproof about sharing our revenue, being an early stage company, but we're off and running and not shutting off the lights anytime soon, that's for sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1157 From Artist to $200k MRR SaaS Company for Content Publishing

Uh, well, you know, we, we get deals done when we need to get them done.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1157 From Artist to $200k MRR SaaS Company for Content Publishing

So often we'll discount it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1157 From Artist to $200k MRR SaaS Company for Content Publishing

So I'm not going to give a specific number, but yeah, you're in the ballpark.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1157 From Artist to $200k MRR SaaS Company for Content Publishing

Um, yeah, I mean, we were doing less than that a year ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1157 From Artist to $200k MRR SaaS Company for Content Publishing

It's a it's a hybrid of both.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1157 From Artist to $200k MRR SaaS Company for Content Publishing

I mean,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1157 From Artist to $200k MRR SaaS Company for Content Publishing

We can only extract so much revenue out of an existing customer unless we have sold into, like, let's take a CPG brand.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1157 From Artist to $200k MRR SaaS Company for Content Publishing

If we sold into one of Procter & Gamble's consumer brands and then, wow, the product is performing incredibly well and we're driving increased e-commerce conversions.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1157 From Artist to $200k MRR SaaS Company for Content Publishing

Like, beautiful.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1157 From Artist to $200k MRR SaaS Company for Content Publishing

That might expand into a massive account for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1157 From Artist to $200k MRR SaaS Company for Content Publishing

We've got influence most of the time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1157 From Artist to $200k MRR SaaS Company for Content Publishing

So we typically sell into the top.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1157 From Artist to $200k MRR SaaS Company for Content Publishing

And as a result, we're focused on servicing those customers, maybe driving ancillary long-tail revenues through our services offerings, but from a pure SaaS play standpoint.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1157 From Artist to $200k MRR SaaS Company for Content Publishing

You know, we're interested in scaling our revenues by adding new customers to the customer base.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1157 From Artist to $200k MRR SaaS Company for Content Publishing

I will say that as relates to native advertising and working with publishing and media companies, you know, oftentimes those relationships are a bit more nuanced, you know, like just cost of doing business perspective as well as a revenue perspective, namely because they operate like agencies.