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Bijapur: Billboard ads delivered better ROI than targeted digital performance marketing
“In fact, our ROI for the limited experiment that we did was better than targeted digital marketing or targeted performance marketing that we did online.”
Bijapur predicts SpotDraft will reach $100 million ARR within three years
“In the next three years, we'll be a hundred million dollar ARR company.”
Makhija: Indian enterprises are paying strong ACVs to domestic SaaS companies
“I know many examples like Exotel, Davenbox, Yellow, they are able to build or get large customer contracts in India, spot draft as you were talking about. So they have been able to sign up enterprises in India, which are paying good ACVs to them. And that mark…”
Ahluwalia: SpotDraft hit $20M ARR without tier-one Indian VCs
“We have a company called Spot Draft from, in Neon. Companies are 20 mil era. They recently raised 54 mil series B from Vertex Singapore. None of the Indian tier one VCs are on the cap table.”
Bijapur: Top SaaS salespeople excel through rigorous cadence and CRM hygiene
“What I've seen is that the best salespeople actually have the best cadence, like their hygiene of the CRM is great. You know, their emails are always on time. If you tell them something, they will remember it and they'll ensure that they follow up with you on …”
Bijapur: SpotDraft doubled revenue annually for three years with ~120% NRR
“So SpotDraft is growing, you know, has doubled its revenue. In the last three years, year on year, we are growing at almost a 120% NRR is what we've maintained and we've got close to 400 logos across the globe. Safe to put we are in our let's say the 10 to fif…”
Bijapur: SpotDraft should have established sales and marketing much earlier
“If I had to go back and change something in time, I would build the sales and marketing functions way earlier in the life cycle and focus more on Compounding and delivering that value that software has that we are building and showing that to the end customer …”
SpotDraft will keep human-led onboarding as it scales to thousands of customers
“What we want to keep As is, is the customer centricity in terms of delivering outcomes and doing that right. That's one process. And second is having a human led you know, onboarding and initiation experience, which people like rather than having to come in an…”
Bijapur: Companies will not share NDAs as AI training data
“There was a dearth of training data. If the document is called a non-disclosure agreement, companies are not going to disclose it for our training purposes as a data set.”
Bijapur: Legal customers want faster turnaround, not automated contract analysis
“What we realized today is people don't want a system that can read your contracts and tell you What is the good, bad, and ugly? What they really wanted was faster turnaround time on their contracts.”
Bijapur: Founders must build for customer problems, not verbatim feature requests
“We focused way too much on listening to the customer and building for the customer and not building for the problem that the customer had.”
SpotDraft originally launched as accounting software before pivoting to contract management
“Shashank, Madhav and Rohit, when they started they started as an accounting software for small and medium businesses. And then they later pivoted to a contract life cycle management software.”
Bijapur: SpotDraft prioritized product features by analyzing competitors' one-star reviews
“We went and read all the one star reviews everywhere for our competitors and said, let's build these pieces out first and focus on these pieces and make them as our differentiators which has worked well.”
Bijapur: SpotDraft is on track to reach $5M ARR by December 2022
“Yeah, we are on, on target to hit five million dollars in ERR.”