How He Got First $2k in MRR From His Community of 1,000
SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Nathan Latka
4.6 • 702 Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Personalized Product Demos for Enterprise Sales Teams.
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| 0:37.8 | GetsmartQ.com. Get SmartQ.com. |
| 0:39.4 | They launched back in 2021, got paying customers. |
| 0:43.5 | The product kept crashing. |
| 0:44.6 | They shut it down. |
| 0:45.2 | They relaunched September of this year on product on 852 upvotes to his community of 1,000 |
| 0:50.3 | people. |
| 0:51.1 | He now has eight paying customers that pay on average 300, 400, 500 bucks a month. |
| 0:55.2 | So about $2,000 in MRR. They raised a $150,000 pre-seed round at a battle $2 million |
| 0:59.6 | valuation a year ago, hoping to raise another million dollar round next year in 2023 at around |
| 1:05.1 | a $10 million valuation. Now that he has a bit more product market fit with his team of five, |
| 1:09.2 | as Robin looks to scale. |
| 1:16.6 | Hey folks, my guest today is Robin Singh. He's the founder and CEO of SmartQ, the fastest sales effectiveness platform with the shortest learning curve for enterprise sales teams. |
| 1:20.7 | Robin, you ready to take us to the top? |
| 1:23.3 | Yes, sir. How are you doing, Nathan? |
| 1:25.7 | I'm good. When you say for enterprise sales teams, what do you mean in terms of like minimum ACV? |
| 1:30.4 | In other words, they have to have a $50,000 ACV to get value out of smart Q, |
| 1:33.7 | otherwise it's not useful. |
| 1:35.9 | Yeah. |
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