Brandon Bruce

8 statements across 3 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 4, 2016 by Brandon Bruce · said 19 times in 17 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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Apr 4, 2016 neutral
Disclosure
Bruce: Cirrus Insight raised $1.15M via convertible notes without institutional VCs
“We've benefited from the, you know, early support of friends and family. And then a few early customers and angels came in to provide some early capital, but otherwise, you know, we consider ourselves bootstrapping institutional backing. Yeah, we just did conv…”
Brandon Bruce Apr 4, 2016 ▶ 13:02 Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226
Apr 4, 2016 bullish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Bruce: Cirrus Insight targets finishing 2016 at a $15M to $20M run rate
“We've set our sights on doing, you know, about sixteen million in bookings or so. So oftentimes we'll, we'll, we'll look at top line bookings for the sales team. So trying to get those deals in the door, some of them may be multi-year but we love those all the…”
Brandon Bruce Apr 4, 2016 ▶ 15:17 Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226
Sep 12, 2017 negative
Opinion
Brandon Bruce argues Salesforce is not a CRM or sales tool
“I think our key kind of learning over the last few years is Salesforce is not a sales tool. Salesforce is not actually a CRM. It's kind of a misnomer. It's called the customer relationship management platform, but you know, as well as anybody, no customer rela…”
Brandon Bruce Sep 12, 2017 ▶ 4:08 780: SaaS: How Did He 2x ARR In Last 12 Months from $6m to $12m?
Sep 12, 2017
Disclosure
Cirrus Insight prices its Starter tier at $19 and Closer at $29
“Now our two plans starter and closer are 19 and 29 respectively. And our flight plans seats are selling for substantially more.”
Brandon Bruce Sep 12, 2017 ▶ 7:02 780: SaaS: How Did He 2x ARR In Last 12 Months from $6m to $12m?
Sep 12, 2017 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cirrus Insight reaches approximately 125,000 active seats
“So it's up about a 100,000 now. It's probably about a hundred and a quarter.”
Brandon Bruce Sep 12, 2017 ▶ 6:48 780: SaaS: How Did He 2x ARR In Last 12 Months from $6m to $12m?
Sep 12, 2017 positive
Disclosure
Cirrus Insight scales to 70 employees on initial $550K seed funding
“So now we're up to about 70. We haven't raised any additional funding. We haven't sought to, so we're still powering away with the good old-fashioned customer-funded organic growth.”
Brandon Bruce Sep 12, 2017 ▶ 2:55 780: SaaS: How Did He 2x ARR In Last 12 Months from $6m to $12m?
Apr 2, 2018 neutral
Disclosure
Bruce: Cirrus Insight targets $100 to $150 CAC per user
“What we try to do is get it in a range about a hundred, a 150 bucks a user on the acquisition side.”
Brandon Bruce Apr 2, 2018 ▶ 15:22 982 Marketing and Sales Tech? He'll Acquire You!
Apr 2, 2018 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bruce: Cirrus Insight annual revenue churn is 15% to 20%
“The annual churn on our side is going to be around, let's say it's about 15 to 20%.”
Brandon Bruce Apr 2, 2018 ▶ 14:21 982 Marketing and Sales Tech? He'll Acquire You!
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