Derek Osgood

11 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Sep 12, 2022 by Derek Osgood · across every show →

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Sep 12, 2022 positive
Insight
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.”
Derek Osgood Sep 12, 2022 ▶ 10:53 Founder spends $150k/mo on 21 FTE's to build tool that helps your product teams launch
Sep 12, 2022 neutral
Disclosure
Osgood: Cold outbound outreach is Ignition's primary customer acquisition channel
“We have mostly been using cold outbound outreach as our primary, like acquisition vehicle.”
Derek Osgood Sep 12, 2022 ▶ 23:02 Founder spends $150k/mo on 21 FTE's to build tool that helps your product teams launch
Sep 12, 2022
Assertion Supported
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.”
Derek Osgood Sep 12, 2022 ▶ 9:57 Founder spends $150k/mo on 21 FTE's to build tool that helps your product teams launch
Sep 12, 2022 negative
What-if
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…”
Derek Osgood Sep 12, 2022 ▶ 11:05 Founder spends $150k/mo on 21 FTE's to build tool that helps your product teams launch
Sep 12, 2022 positive
Assertion Supported
Latka: Derek Osgood helped scale Rippling to $20M ARR
“Before this, he was an early hire at Rippling, where he stood up the product marketing function, helped scale a company to twenty million in ARR.”
Nathan Latka Sep 12, 2022 ▶ 1:03 Founder spends $150k/mo on 21 FTE's to build tool that helps your product teams launch
Sep 12, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Osgood: Ignition has about 100 companies on its platform
“So we've got about a hundred companies on the platform right now.”
Derek Osgood Sep 12, 2022 ▶ 8:39 Founder spends $150k/mo on 21 FTE's to build tool that helps your product teams launch
Sep 12, 2022 neutral
Opinion
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…”
Derek Osgood Sep 12, 2022 ▶ 2:24 Founder spends $150k/mo on 21 FTE's to build tool that helps your product teams launch
Sep 12, 2022
Disclosure
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…”
Derek Osgood Sep 12, 2022 ▶ 11:45 Founder spends $150k/mo on 21 FTE's to build tool that helps your product teams launch
Sep 12, 2022 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
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.”
Derek Osgood Sep 12, 2022 ▶ 24:10 Founder spends $150k/mo on 21 FTE's to build tool that helps your product teams launch
Sep 12, 2022 positive
Disclosure
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.”
Derek Osgood Sep 12, 2022 ▶ 21:31 Founder spends $150k/mo on 21 FTE's to build tool that helps your product teams launch
Sep 12, 2022 negative
Insight
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 Sep 12, 2022 ▶ 1:58 Founder spends $150k/mo on 21 FTE's to build tool that helps your product teams launch
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