Episode 489 | 15 Years to a SaaS Exit (Plus Why Forecasting is Crucial)
Startups For the Rest of Us
Rob Walling
4.9 • 819 Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this week's episode of Startup for the Rest of Us. I'm your host, Rob Walling. This week, |
| 0:04.1 | I chat with Matt Wensing of Summit and of RiskPulse, a software company, a SaaS company. He ran for 15 years |
| 0:11.8 | before selling it earlier this year. And we dig into his journey, building it to multiple |
| 0:17.6 | seven figures, finding a CEO and replacing himself in 2019, and then selling |
| 0:23.2 | RiskPulse in 2020 for a life-changing sum of money. Then moving on to Summit, which is a tiny seed |
| 0:29.9 | funded company. And then we also dig into forecasting because Summit is for, actually, |
| 0:34.6 | RiskPulse and Summit were both forecasting engines. RiskPulse did it for logistics and Summit does it for SaaS companies and recurring revenue |
| 0:42.8 | companies. So super interesting conversation, Matt is just sharp as attack and, you know, |
| 0:48.0 | has a really deep insight into forecasting and how it works and why it works and when it does |
| 0:52.2 | and all that stuff. So I enjoyed our |
| 0:54.5 | conversation. I hope you do as well. Before I dig into that, I wanted to call your attention to |
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| 1:05.9 | It's 30 minutes every day at noon central time. And it's an idea that we came up with on the microcomf team |
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| 1:24.9 | though if you're used to working from home, it's still such a different |
| 1:28.2 | situation now. You can't go to coffee shops and a lot of places in the world. We can't, |
| 1:33.2 | you know, we just can't do the normal things that we're used to. So started doing this live |
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