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Jones: Founders will never find more founder-friendly terms than Y Combinator's
“I strongly encourage everyone to go through the program because you're never going to receive any more founder friendly terms than what Y Combinator offers.”
Bryn Jones Feb 13, 2017 ▶ 12:08 EP 569: GrowSumo Helping 70 B2B SaaS Companies Grow Affiliate Programs, $100k New MRR So Far with CEO Bryn Jones
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Jones: Sending 100 invites yields 3 to 5 influencer signups
“You send out a hundred invites, you might get three to five influencers join your program.”
Bryn Jones Feb 13, 2017 ▶ 7:08 EP 569: GrowSumo Helping 70 B2B SaaS Companies Grow Affiliate Programs, $100k New MRR So Far with CEO Bryn Jones
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Jones: GrowSumo beats Commission Junction and Influitive in head-to-head sales
“So right now we're winning battles against commission junction, which is an affiliate network, a very, very large affiliate network. And we're also winning battles against platforms like influitive, which isn't really an influitive yet.”
Bryn Jones Feb 13, 2017 ▶ 10:33 EP 569: GrowSumo Helping 70 B2B SaaS Companies Grow Affiliate Programs, $100k New MRR So Far with CEO Bryn Jones
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Jones: Successful SaaS affiliate programs pay 15% to 20% to influencers
“Right, so the average programs and the one we see to be very successful is they're paying 15 to 20% out to the influencers and it's working for everyone.”
Bryn Jones Feb 13, 2017 ▶ 15:47 EP 569: GrowSumo Helping 70 B2B SaaS Companies Grow Affiliate Programs, $100k New MRR So Far with CEO Bryn Jones
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Jones: SaaS companies pay affiliate commissions for 12 to 24 months
“People are paying between 12 and 12, 12 and 24 months for that.”
Bryn Jones Feb 13, 2017 ▶ 15:59 EP 569: GrowSumo Helping 70 B2B SaaS Companies Grow Affiliate Programs, $100k New MRR So Far with CEO Bryn Jones
Disclosure
Jones: GrowSumo charges enterprise clients $10k annually plus 10% payout fee
“The enterprise account is 10,000 dollars annually. In addition to this, we take a 10% fee on all payouts that you make over to your influencers.”
Bryn Jones Feb 13, 2017 ▶ 5:32 EP 569: GrowSumo Helping 70 B2B SaaS Companies Grow Affiliate Programs, $100k New MRR So Far with CEO Bryn Jones
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Jones: GrowSumo grew 50% month-over-month since September 2016
“What I can say is that we've grown 50% month over months in September.”
Bryn Jones Feb 13, 2017 ▶ 9:20 EP 569: GrowSumo Helping 70 B2B SaaS Companies Grow Affiliate Programs, $100k New MRR So Far with CEO Bryn Jones
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Jones: GrowSumo has over 70 paying customers
“So right now we're working with over 70 paying customers, which is great for our business.”
Bryn Jones Feb 13, 2017 ▶ 9:37 EP 569: GrowSumo Helping 70 B2B SaaS Companies Grow Affiliate Programs, $100k New MRR So Far with CEO Bryn Jones
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Jones: Influitive pays advocates in gift cards while GrowSumo pays cash
“Where we differentiate from a platform like influitive is we let people get paid cash for it. Influitive just pays, you know, gift cards and that type of thing.”
Bryn Jones Feb 13, 2017 ▶ 10:55 EP 569: GrowSumo Helping 70 B2B SaaS Companies Grow Affiliate Programs, $100k New MRR So Far with CEO Bryn Jones
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Jones: Y Combinator invests $120K via priced common stock and a SAFE
“Now it's one 20, 20% or 20,000 dollars of it is invested in common share. So it's a priced round. And then the other a 100,000 dollars is invest, invested on a safe.”
Bryn Jones Feb 13, 2017 ▶ 11:49 EP 569: GrowSumo Helping 70 B2B SaaS Companies Grow Affiliate Programs, $100k New MRR So Far with CEO Bryn Jones
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Jones: GrowSumo generated over $100k in monthly recurring revenue for customers
“But what I can say is we're, we've driven over a 100,000 dollars in recurring monthly revenue for our customers to date.”
Bryn Jones Feb 13, 2017 ▶ 14:01 EP 569: GrowSumo Helping 70 B2B SaaS Companies Grow Affiliate Programs, $100k New MRR So Far with CEO Bryn Jones
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Jones: GrowSumo finished top three on Product Hunt with hundreds of signups
“I think we ended the day like top three, we had hundreds of companies sign up.”
Bryn Jones Feb 13, 2017 ▶ 2:04 EP 569: GrowSumo Helping 70 B2B SaaS Companies Grow Affiliate Programs, $100k New MRR So Far with CEO Bryn Jones
Disclosure
Jones: GrowSumo charges early-stage startups $300 per month
“If you're a new startup and you have a new affiliate program or you want to run a new influencer program, it's 300 dollars a month.”
Bryn Jones Feb 13, 2017 ▶ 4:49 EP 569: GrowSumo Helping 70 B2B SaaS Companies Grow Affiliate Programs, $100k New MRR So Far with CEO Bryn Jones
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