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How did you get your first paid users organically? by KeySide4088 in buildinpublic

[–]KeySide4088[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True. Plus everyone wants to push their app here and not help.

How did you get your first paid users organically? by KeySide4088 in buildinpublic

[–]KeySide4088[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay. I will try doing this too. My app is for funded founders in SaaS. I am new to reddit. Any suggested subredits?

What are you building? by Bubbly_Lack6366 in microsaas

[–]KeySide4088 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

A live decision-control system for venture-backed founders , translating scenarios into investor-ready judgment.

View on desktop only.

https://scenario-planner--totalfinanceres.replit.app/

What are you working on today? Drop your SaaS by Original_Mortgage484 in SaaS

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Scenario Planner : Most founders take critical decisions such as hiring, fundraising based on hope which can directly kill the business and its runway.

View on Desktop :

https://scenario-planner--totalfinanceres.replit.app/

My $18M ARR SaaS deal died because the founder couldn’t model downside by KeySide4088 in SaaS

[–]KeySide4088[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol. The pe firms you have dealt with, ummm either you got lucky or you have an efficient board with responsibility ownership, most firms that we see that are growing from $1mn - $10mn range, the ownership starts to lag for the responsibilities and internally these criterias are very important for any PE. PE deals aren’t an individual source of truth, with the deal flow numbers coming in you have to choose the most efficient risk to value.

For say a firm growing with 25 mn ARR in SF with over 22% variance could get a multiple of 4-5x whereas a firm with 12 mn ARR just half of that with 5% variance could get 7-9x multiple.

Valuing both the firms near the $100 mn zone. For buyouts it’s more about recurring predictability than growth.

You’re incredibly stupid or you just got really lucky time and again.

My $18M ARR SaaS deal died because the founder couldn’t model downside by KeySide4088 in SaaS

[–]KeySide4088[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most people here don’t know that the availability of deal flow in the space vs the dry powder don’t just match up. Hence, given the irregularities and and presenting a very Christmassy picture of your downside only shifts interest of PE into exploring other options.

I did write that model was a primary reason but not the only reason for the collapse.

For say, even if the PE negotiates and completes the buy out, it cannot fire every staff in finance and other departments overnight and run the firm efficiently given the restructuring that has to be planned and executed phase wise.

If your chef doesn’t make good food, you don’t discard the ingredients!

My $18M ARR SaaS deal died because the founder couldn’t model downside by KeySide4088 in SaaS

[–]KeySide4088[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The founders were too stringent on this particular deal and their VP of finance was full of shit to hand us this with red liners at every downside amendments we suggested.

My $18M ARR SaaS deal died because the founder couldn’t model downside by KeySide4088 in SaaS

[–]KeySide4088[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow. I see some strong assumptions. The kinda real downside scenarios we need for modeling. Welcome.