SmartSuite

21 statements across 3 episodes · 8 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 6, 2022 by Jon Darbyshire · said 43 times in 6 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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Mar 6, 2022 neutral
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Darbyshire: SmartSuite converted 20 to 25 paid customers from Product Hunt
“Probably 20, 25 probably came from product hunt with the discount code that we provided.”
Jon Darbyshire Mar 6, 2022 ▶ 5:02 Fastest Growing Ever? How He Went From $0 to $1.2m in 4 Weeks
Mar 6, 2022 bullish
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Darbyshire: SmartSuite reached 400 paying accounts in first four weeks
“We have about 400 accounts that are on the platform in the last four weeks.”
Jon Darbyshire Mar 6, 2022 ▶ 3:40 Fastest Growing Ever? How He Went From $0 to $1.2m in 4 Weeks
Mar 6, 2022
Disclosure
John Darbyshire retains 100 percent equity ownership of SmartSuite
“I do. Yes.”
Jon Darbyshire Mar 6, 2022 ▶ 14:56 Fastest Growing Ever? How He Went From $0 to $1.2m in 4 Weeks
Mar 6, 2022
Opinion
Darbyshire: People aged 23 to 38 do the actual work in organizations
“The UI that we built is, is built for people ages, 23 to 38 who are Who we feel actually does the work in an organization.”
Jon Darbyshire Mar 6, 2022 ▶ 16:00 Fastest Growing Ever? How He Went From $0 to $1.2m in 4 Weeks
Mar 6, 2022 positive
Insight
Darbyshire: Review Sites Provide Sales Value Even Without Direct Leads
“It allows us to show potential customers that are coming in that comparisons are Of how we compare against competitors, even if the site's not sending us leads, we can send our clients there to kind of understand that.”
Jon Darbyshire Mar 6, 2022 ▶ 19:40 Fastest Growing Ever? How He Went From $0 to $1.2m in 4 Weeks
Mar 6, 2022
Disclosure
Darbyshire: SmartSuite is targeting a $100M valuation for Series A
“We're in that hundred range is what we're talking about right now.”
Jon Darbyshire Mar 6, 2022 ▶ 18:09 Fastest Growing Ever? How He Went From $0 to $1.2m in 4 Weeks
Mar 6, 2022
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Darbyshire: SmartSuite accounts average 10-12 seats split evenly between tiers
“Average, every seats are 10 to 12 right now, and we're about fifty-fifty between our team and our professional edition.”
Jon Darbyshire Mar 6, 2022 ▶ 2:53 Fastest Growing Ever? How He Went From $0 to $1.2m in 4 Weeks
Mar 6, 2022 positive
Opinion
Darbyshire: SmartSuite Has More Enterprise Features Than Monday, ClickUp, and Airtable
“We're one level above those organizations. Our goal is to help organizations manage any process or project inside of a single platform, but it has a more enterprise features than you'll find from a Monday, a ClickUp and Airtable type.”
Jon Darbyshire Mar 6, 2022 ▶ 1:20 Fastest Growing Ever? How He Went From $0 to $1.2m in 4 Weeks
Mar 6, 2022
Disclosure
John Darbyshire personally invested $12.5 million to self-fund SmartSuite
“I funded it myself. We put in about 12 and a half million to date to kind of get to where we're at.”
Jon Darbyshire Mar 6, 2022 ▶ 11:24 Fastest Growing Ever? How He Went From $0 to $1.2m in 4 Weeks
Mar 6, 2022
Disclosure
Darbyshire hired 90 contract developers over three years to build SmartSuite
“So we have a little unique company here in that we're in nine different countries around the world. We have about a 110 people that are part of the company. We have a lot of contractor and contractor firms that we've hired for specialty areas, feeling that we …”
Jon Darbyshire Mar 6, 2022 ▶ 6:22 Fastest Growing Ever? How He Went From $0 to $1.2m in 4 Weeks
Mar 6, 2022 positive
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Darbyshire: SmartSuite grew primarily organically before $10k paid search campaign
“We just started our first page search campaign for like 10 grand last month. So everything's been primarily organic up until this point.”
Jon Darbyshire Mar 6, 2022 ▶ 4:28 Fastest Growing Ever? How He Went From $0 to $1.2m in 4 Weeks
Mar 6, 2022 bullish
Disclosure
Darbyshire: SmartSuite will pursue Series A in next month or two
“We'll be looking at a series A here in the next month or two.”
Jon Darbyshire Mar 6, 2022 ▶ 16:52 Fastest Growing Ever? How He Went From $0 to $1.2m in 4 Weeks
May 1, 2022 positive
Disclosure
SmartSuite pays Agency Enterprise ~$175/hr for high-end US development
“We use a company called Agency Enterprise Out of California that does a lot of work for SpaceX. So they're kind of our high-end developers. We way overpay for them, but they're really, really good.”
Jon Darbyshire May 1, 2022 ▶ 24:26 How he hit $1m with no FTE's (Fiverr contractors only)
May 1, 2022
Disclosure
SmartSuite operates with zero employees and two co-founders using agency contractors
“We have no employees in place. I have two co-founders We hired teams of people inside of companies. I think we have five different main companies that we work with from a development perspective.”
Jon Darbyshire May 1, 2022 ▶ 24:03 How he hit $1m with no FTE's (Fiverr contractors only)
May 1, 2022
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SmartSuite took 2.5 years and ~100 developers to build core platform
“It actually took two and a half years of development time About a hundred developers that were just working night and day to kind of, if we go to the next slide, to kind of build out all these core capabilities in this platform that would make that a reality.”
Jon Darbyshire May 1, 2022 ▶ 23:28 How he hit $1m with no FTE's (Fiverr contractors only)
May 1, 2022
Disclosure
Darbyshire: Personally invested $12.5M to build SmartSuite's MVP
“It's unusual to spend 12 and a half million dollars on a, on an MVP, but for the idea that we had here, it was something that we needed to do. I personally put that money in today.”
Jon Darbyshire May 1, 2022 ▶ 32:02 How he hit $1m with no FTE's (Fiverr contractors only)
May 1, 2022
Disclosure
SmartSuite signs 325 affiliates offering 50% first-year commission
“So we've had so far we're, I think we're, today we're like, 325 affiliates that have signed up. We offer them 50% commission of the first year revenue. So that allows us to have a sales force that's kind of international from day one.”
Jon Darbyshire May 1, 2022 ▶ 27:02 How he hit $1m with no FTE's (Fiverr contractors only)
May 1, 2022 bullish
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Darbyshire: SmartSuite reached $85K to $90K MRR six weeks post-launch
“So we're in the 85 to 90 K per month range. Right.”
Jon Darbyshire May 1, 2022 ▶ 25:47 How he hit $1m with no FTE's (Fiverr contractors only)
May 1, 2022
Disclosure
Darbyshire: SmartSuite employs about 60 people in Ukraine
“From a business perspective, it's been challenging with the work that we're doing, but we've kind of got that worked out in the last week or so, so it hasn't affected us, but there's about 60 people there that are just outstanding people that are really strugg…”
Jon Darbyshire May 1, 2022 ▶ 30:40 How he hit $1m with no FTE's (Fiverr contractors only)
May 1, 2022 positive
Disclosure
Darbyshire: SmartSuite contracted its entire design team exclusively via Upwork
“He is. His team. So he's got a team of three or four people that work with him. Very reasonable rates for that team. And they got rid of everything else about a year and a half ago, so they, that's basically our design team.”
Jon Darbyshire May 1, 2022 ▶ 29:22 How he hit $1m with no FTE's (Fiverr contractors only)
Oct 5, 2022
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SmartSuite's founder spent $7.5M of personal capital before acquiring a customer
“I I'm close with John and he said, Nathan, we can't launch until we have all the features that ClickUp has, which is kind of in the same space that you're in. Well, finally, he spent 1.5 million dollars of his own money on the MVP, right? But before, before, l…”
Nathan Latka Oct 5, 2022 ▶ 11:43 He's spent $200k already, pre revenue, list of 3,000 users. How to convert them to paid?
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