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Lemieux: Multiple Small Startup Exits Provide Total Freedom
“Every exit isn't a billion dollar exit, right? But you get enough of these little one and two base hits, and you can have the freedom to do whatever you want to.”
Lemieux: An $8,000 ACV is difficult for high-touch, commission-based B2B sales
“If you've got a product, that's a true B to B sale that takes a salesperson and you're moving things with, you know, commission based You know, that deal size is, is tough.”
Lemieux: Attentive.ly raised about $2.1 million in total pre-acquisition funding
“Oh, in total a couple million. I want to say 2.1.”
Lemieux: Founded 10+ Companies and Reached 4 Exits With Husband
“I think between us, we've started 10 plus companies and had four exits.”
Lemieux: Attentive.ly raised too little money to withstand platform API changes
“One of them is we raised too little money. And when we had a, you know, six month period where MailChimp changed their API and Facebook completely where you're at their API and full content, like every tool that we used that sucked up all our dev resources, an…”
Lemieux: Integration-driven churn motivated Attentive.ly's acquisition
“And actually for part of the motivation with the acquisition too was people were churning because the integrations weren't strong enough.”
Lemieux: Attentive.ly had a 3 to 4 month sales cycle for $8,000 deals
“It was I want to say three or four months. So, you know, for an 8000 dollar deal, it wasn't optimal.”
Lemieux: Post-acquisition, Attentive.ly switched pricing from matches to total CRM contacts
“We changed the price structure. So now it's tied to it's a little in the weeds, but it was tied to match. So how many social matches were actually listening to in the product? And now it's tied to your overall number of contacts in your CRM because it's being …”