Boggs: Converting a services business to SaaS is harder than growing it
Eric Boggs · EP 544: RevBoss $700k 2015 Revenue, Now $90k MRR to Help Customers Drive Revenue with CEO Eric Boggs · Jan 19, 2017 · at 9:46
Eric Boggs, founder and CEO of RevBoss, reflects on the operational hurdles of pivoting an agency model into a SaaS company.
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“Turns out building a services business is pretty easy. Growing a services business is really, really hard. And then turning that services business into a SaaS business is even harder.”
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