Derek Osgood
Founder & CEO, Ignition. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Derek Osgood is the founder and CEO of Ignition, a collaborative go-to-market platform designed to help product and marketing teams plan and execute product launches. Before founding Ignition, he built the product marketing function at Rippling and managed initiatives at PlayStation and BBVA.
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Osgood: Small AppSumo Users Have Identical Launch Problems to Large Enterprises
“Yeah, because honestly, the problem, the problems that are That, that user versus the problems that are a larger company user, they're almost identical when you're talking about launching products. Like I actually fundamentally disagree with the idea that they…”
Osgood: GTM Software Requires Broad Bundled Platforms Over Point Solutions
“So in order to solve this problem, you really have to solve all of the like, 10,000 little paper cuts that are involved in it. And it's a pretty big bundled aggregate solution. It's very hard to build just like one individual part of this.”
Osgood: International tech hires often prefer cash, forcing startups to push equity
“If you go try and hire in Silicon Valley, Everybody is demanding maximum equity and, you know, like everywhere else in the world, people, you can, I have to force it on people.”
Osgood: Launching on AppSumo was one of Ignition's most valuable decisions
“So I actually think that it is one of the most valuable things that we've done in the lifetime of the company.”
Osgood: Existing product launch tools merely track work instead of doing it
“And the real thing is none of the tools actually do any of the work involved. So they're all like systems that are just built for documenting and tracking the work in what is a really specified and like Important process in any company. And so teams end up hav…”
Derek Osgood: Very Few Product Marketers Become Startup Founders
“I think that, you know, probably a big part of why it hasn't been built so far is just, it kind of requires a product marketer to start it because of the fact that it is such a product marketing specific function. And There's not a lot of product marketers who…”
Osgood: Building point tools traps startups into local maxima via customer demand
“Cause like, for example, if we built Just the project management component of it. We would get sucked into building purely a project management tool for most of the life cycle of the company, because that's just where customer demand would end up pulling us. A…”
Osgood: Ignition charges $29 to $99 per editor seat monthly
“So yeah, we charge you know, at our base tier, 29 dollars per editor per month. And then, you know, at our kind of primary tier that most teams use, it's a 99 dollars per editor per month. So you know, small teams end up looking somewhere in the like three to …”
Osgood: Square and SmartRent use Ignition
“So we have, you know, big companies right now, like square and smart rent using us.”
Osgood: Ignition has raised about $5M across two funding rounds
“We raised a pre-seed that was about a 1.8 million, and then we raised another round of funding in in December of last year. So total raised, we've, we raised about five million.”
Osgood: Ignition employs 21 distributed staff, almost all engineers
“The team's about 21 people now fully distributed, so, you know, we're pretty capital efficient in, in the team that we're building and almost all of them are engineers, so I'm the only, actually, we just hired our first marketer so we now have two business peo…”
Osgood: Ignition spends about $150k monthly on its 21-person headcount
“Oh, total headcount expenses is about a 150 K.”
Osgood: Product Marketing Alliance CEO wrote early angel check into Ignition
“So they're CEOs and investors of ours... So he was one of the first checks in actually product marketing alliance.”
Osgood: Ignition targets reaching $1M ARR run rate by end of 2022
“That's the goal. I mean, I think, you know, we'll see if we end up getting there, but I think you know, the target is definitely to get to a million or so by, you know, end of the year.”
Osgood: Ignition has about 100 companies on its platform
“So we've got about a hundred companies on the platform right now.”
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