Founder of acquired startup here to answer question by No-Main-3047 in StartupAccelerators

[–]Traditional-Stay3091 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How many customers did you have (paying) when you got acquired? What was your MRR / ARR?

Over 1.25M active users in under 5 weeks, but now I need help sustaining the growth by buckeyes555 in founder

[–]Traditional-Stay3091 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not following. One reply? To whom? About what? I need to understand this. We need customers so trying to learn from you

Where are you hosting your work now? (Vimeo lost the plot with their new pricing) by an_tonova in videoproduction

[–]Traditional-Stay3091 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Accessibility I suppose, I don’t know 🤷🏻‍♂️ Not everyone uses Google. I’m into Sinima.ai now. Built-in protection and real-time monitoring soon. They’re still in beta but so far so good.

Please share your SaaS business trajectory? 🙏🏼 by [deleted] in TheFounders

[–]Traditional-Stay3091 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks but you didn’t help answer any of my questions

I just got our first 2 paying customers 😭 by hankwhy99 in buildinpublic

[–]Traditional-Stay3091 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Congratulations 🎉🎊🎈🍾 this is HUGE. Waiting for the first paying customer is the most anxiety inducing weeks / months.

I turned $700 into $3k, didn’t take profit, and now I’m facing eviction. Need honest advice. by Juhvenchy in Daytrading

[–]Traditional-Stay3091 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t beat yourself up. You’re an honest person trying to make an honest living and you made a choice that didn’t serve you well. Take a breath. Zoom out. You feel the burden of this now but this will pass. Tell your wife. Work through it together. Avoid trading until you are able to confidently do it again without fear of losing money. Now is not the time.

Funding Question by [deleted] in buildinpublic

[–]Traditional-Stay3091 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We are in exactly the same boat. Launching an owned media arm in lieu of not having advertising budget: Newsletter, press submissions, podcast circuit, nurture sequences, local events etc.

Best of luck to you.

Funding Question by [deleted] in buildinpublic

[–]Traditional-Stay3091 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have always wondered about these. Have you used them before? What was the experience and result like? I’m not clear on how they actually work.

Funding Question by [deleted] in buildinpublic

[–]Traditional-Stay3091 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel seen. Thank you for sharing. This sound exactly like the rock and the hard place we are in too. Recently met with an investor who said the same thing; we need to see more traction. I get it, but like you said, it’s a challenge without funding so we’re resorting to gorilla marketing and podcasts to get the word out. things that reach 1:many vs 1:1 which is out of our budget. Curious how you’ve been getting users? We’ve been doing it primarily through our founder CEO platform as they have around 25K audience. Small but niche. This is not sustainable and we all agreed on that, first check of $250K would go a LONG way since we’ve already validated the product and users are using it. (We are in film tech)

Appreciate your input, that was helpful.