Everything Anthony Eden said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Eden: Non-technical founders can succeed using contractors instead of technical co-founders
“I feel like for a lot of folks that if you have something that's working and you have the confidence to go with it and keep it going, just because the media out there in the startup world says, oh, you need to have a technical founder with a non-technical foun…”
Eden: CTO Skills Differ Fundamentally From Early-Stage App Builder Skills
“CTOs do a very specific job. They run technical organizations and the skills required to do that are very different than somebody that's building out the first version of an app.”
Eden: Startups can market by framing a David-vs-Goliath fight against incumbents
“There's, I mean, there's a marketing angle where you essentially pick a fight. You pick a fight with the biggest guy out there, and you turn that fight into a David versus Goliath sort of showdown, if you will.”
Eden: Healthy SaaS revenue per employee is $250k to $300k
“I think in a SaaS business, your healthy range is probably. 250,000 to 300,000 per employee is what I would be aiming for.”
Eden: Engineering-only SaaS scaling degrades enterprise customer experience without dedicated account managers
“In an engineering organization, you can just keep adding engineers and you can scale pretty well. If you can do a lot of automation, you can automate, you can have knowledge bases and you can, you could do outsource first tier support that then is backed up by…”
Eden: Scaling from $1M to $10M requires multi-product umbrella thinking
“There's a big difference between a million dollars in revenue in year and ten million dollars. And the steps to get from the one million a year to the ten million are actually very significant and they require a change in mindset. And I think that's the compan…”
Eden: Founders must secure IP assignment agreements before contractors begin work
“The thing you really need to do is make sure that you get an IP assignment. So that's before they even start working, you have an agreement written up which states that the work that they're doing for you is owned by your company. Because if you don't do that,…”
Eden: DNSimple was built alongside consulting contracts to reduce financial risk
“When I was first starting DN Simple, I had triplets. Well, at the time, I think that they were maybe six or maybe seven, something like that. And I had a one year old. And so I was right there with you and the approach that I took being a technical founder, I …”
DNSimple kept headcount flat at 12 while growing revenue for four years
“We stayed after, we got to about 12 people, and we stayed in the scale phase for four years. And the revenue numbers kept going up, but we were at a fairly optimized, we had some turnover in the team, but we would get another, we get other people in, and we ha…”
DNSimple built a paid working MVP in three months
“It took about three months during that prelaunch phase to go from nothing to a working product. And that's working, including taking money from people as with credit card payments and subscription and all that.”
DNSimple reached ~$10k MRR by the end of its first year
“So by the end of the first year, we were already doing about 10 K and MRR a month.”
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