Parker: Simply Insight presold client contracts before having a product
Amanda Parker · EP 350: Toronto Based SaaS Doing $25k MRR with 10 Clients with Amanda Parker · Jul 9, 2016 · at 3:57
Amanda Parker, CEO of Simply Insight, explains how the company launched by preselling contracts to enterprise clients before building the product.
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“Signed on our first client contracts before we actually even had a product, ah, in market.”
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