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Patel: Ramp Ventures will always choose buying over building for speed
“We'll always buy versus build because it gives us speed”
Patel: Voila Norbert roughly tripled in year one from basic CRO
“I think, and we almost like three X in the first like year. I think it was a little over three X, but like it was basic conversion rate optimization, like simple, like button size, color, like headline copy, redo, you know, simplifying the signup and onboardin…”
Patel: Mailshake integration tripled Warm Up Your Email revenue with no marketing
“We literally gave it away for free to Mailshake customers, and, like, did, we updated the product. We did no marketing on the property. We just kept it as is, and we tripled revenue for it, right?”
Patel: Startup valuation expectations will normalize and decline in 2022
“I do think the market will normalize this year. It's already had a bit of a correction. And I think when I say normalize, I think it's been pretty stable. Like buyers like myself have kind of had a formula for how much we evaluate a company for a while. But th…”
Ramp Ventures operates portfolio companies directly without individual CEOs
“A little bit how we're different than some other firms out there is that we don't have a CEO for each company. We actually, my partner and I are kind of a co-CEO or like CEO COO.”
Patel: Ramp Ventures targets $1M–$5M ARR B2B SaaS, excluding e-commerce
“Ideally, in a perfect world, we're looking at one to two, one to five million dollar AR companies that are in B to B SaaS. Everything else, we'll kind of look at the details unless they sell to e-commerce. So no Shopify and no WordPress for the most part.”