SaaS founders
8 statements across 7 episodes · 5 bullish · 2 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Feb 5, 2016 by Matthew Bellows · across every show →
Everything said about SaaS founders, oldest first
Feb 5, 2016 positive
Bellows: Founders should generate $1M in sales before hiring first rep
“My recommendation is that the founding team, whether that's If the engineer is the sort of CEO person, the partner, sell about a million dollars worth of product before you go out and sell and hire your first or second salesperson. You want to get to about a m…”
Jun 5, 2021 positive
Fazio: SaaS founders should offset CAC by selling paid onboarding courses
“In terms of other SaaS founders growing their sasses, I feel like a lot of them will spend an absolute ton of time making these giant support articles and all these videos when you guys could just package this up in a course and use that as your front end offe…”
Jul 18, 2021 negative
Peterson: Most SaaS Sellers Are Product-Focused and Avoid Sales Teams
“What I'm seeing in the SaaS space is that founders tend to be tech savvy, but not business savvy, and that's not a slight against any founders. It's just the way founders in this space are, right? So SaaS founders are very good at identifying a need in the mar…”
Jul 3, 2022 neutral
Nov 11, 2022 positive
Mar 3, 2023 negative
Work-Life Balance Is Impossible for Scaling SaaS Founders, Kepes Argues
“And the reality is that as a SaaS founder, no matter what people say, you don't have that balance because you have to focus because it's a short life cycle. And in order to scale to the level, To see the outcome you need to be hustling.”
Feb 20, 2024 positive
Webb: Struggling SaaS Founders Should Switch to Manual Phone Sales
“There are anomalies where that can happen, but for most of the founders that are watching the show that might feel they're struggling, it is user by user, and you really do want to be on the phone. If you're not picking up the phone, trying to get your users I…”