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Vincenzo Ruggiero

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
151 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 383: Prospect.io $0 to $17k in MRR in 6 Months, 400 Customers

So yeah, you know, with savings and taking care of everything and not spending too much.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 383: Prospect.io $0 to $17k in MRR in 6 Months, 400 Customers

Yeah, thank you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 383: Prospect.io $0 to $17k in MRR in 6 Months, 400 Customers

In fact, I think most entrepreneurs are playing this game.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 383: Prospect.io $0 to $17k in MRR in 6 Months, 400 Customers

In fact, you see a lot of people raising big money with big VC and just going on TechCrunch and things like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 383: Prospect.io $0 to $17k in MRR in 6 Months, 400 Customers

And I don't think this is the normal way to be an entrepreneur.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 383: Prospect.io $0 to $17k in MRR in 6 Months, 400 Customers

I really believe a company should do money before everything else.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 383: Prospect.io $0 to $17k in MRR in 6 Months, 400 Customers

So yeah, that's the way I take now with this company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 383: Prospect.io $0 to $17k in MRR in 6 Months, 400 Customers

We really want to stay self-funded as long as possible.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 383: Prospect.io $0 to $17k in MRR in 6 Months, 400 Customers

And if we have to raise money later, we will do it in a very confrontable situation with revenue and with being profitable.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 383: Prospect.io $0 to $17k in MRR in 6 Months, 400 Customers

In fact, this is kind of breakeven.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 383: Prospect.io $0 to $17k in MRR in 6 Months, 400 Customers

We spend everything.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 383: Prospect.io $0 to $17k in MRR in 6 Months, 400 Customers

If we are profitable, and we are, because every month we are adding more MRR than the previous month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 383: Prospect.io $0 to $17k in MRR in 6 Months, 400 Customers

Yeah, for example, in May and June, we did 12 of the 17.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 383: Prospect.io $0 to $17k in MRR in 6 Months, 400 Customers

Oh, wow.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 383: Prospect.io $0 to $17k in MRR in 6 Months, 400 Customers

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 383: Prospect.io $0 to $17k in MRR in 6 Months, 400 Customers

And what we do directly is to hire.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 383: Prospect.io $0 to $17k in MRR in 6 Months, 400 Customers

So we are hiring now another developer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 383: Prospect.io $0 to $17k in MRR in 6 Months, 400 Customers

And that's how I want to build this company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 383: Prospect.io $0 to $17k in MRR in 6 Months, 400 Customers

If we are profitable, if we make more revenue, then I will hire and put everything in the business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 383: Prospect.io $0 to $17k in MRR in 6 Months, 400 Customers

yeah in fact that was from may and june so the two months bring 12 new k in mra how did you do it ah you know this is this this is the growth uh and in fact this is kind of strange uh kind of kind of strange because i can't really answer your question i i know that that this can be was there a test you ran i mean is that when you integrated with pipe drive what what happened