Hi HN,I started a SaaS company 3 years ago with no prior knowledge in sales or marketing. Got first few customers from existing network and facebook. Since then my co-founder and I kept repeating same process for new customers, without focusing on 1 channel.Now we are at steady $10K MRR with a product people love, healthy margins and low burn rate, but don't have a repeatable customer...
Also, optimizing search ranking for your product is hit-and-miss, with no clear guidelines or tips.
I have a few products listed on aws marketplace (Both AMI an SaaS). Does anyone have experience in optimizing product position in search results?Marketplace listing management has a field for adding keywords, but they don't affect result position.
Indian Citizen here. I have a startup incorporated via Stripe Atlas. If it reaches $1 Million in annual revenue, can I qualify for EB5 green card?
Or if I have around $500K in revenue and raise $250K from investors, does that help with EB5?
I am bootstrapping a SaaS product with a 7 day free trial (no credit card required).Few weeks ago someone wrote a blog post about services that have free trials and mentioned my site. Since then, I have been getting very high number of signups using fake names. Most of these users try to host phishing pages, send bulk emails, try to upgrade using stolen cards and in some cases try penn testing...
I started a service agency that makes e-commerce sites significantly faster on desktop and mobile (Sometimes as fast as native apps). I have around 25 customers.But when I approach new prospects, none of them care about their store's performance. I keep amazon and google's studies handy, but often the conversation ends before I can bring them up.Highlighting revenue benefits of a fast site...
Most startups I see are using wordpress for their blogs, even if their programming stack isn't based on PHP.How do you manage wordpress security and updates if you host the blog in house? If not, what service do you use to maintain wordpress?
Fixed them on the site.
I'd love your feedback on my side project. My goal with screenshotapp is to make it easy to visually monitor any site or webapp for changes across browsers and different resolutions.
After spending last few years working with major cloud providers, I'm thinking of building a startup that will automate cloud deployment and operations with 1 click. Here's what I'm thinking:1. Users will see a list of available tasks similar to this: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials?primary_filter=trending(Example: Deploy a self-healing ruby stack, Deploy memcached, Deploy...
I am visiting SF next week and will be there for a few days. During my stay, I would like to meet founders and developers and have interesting chat.I have fairly good experience with cloud ops and scaling apps and stacks across datacenters. So I might be able to bring something to the table as well.If any of you awesome people are available next week, coffee is on me :)
I recently got invited to final round of interview at an accelerator in SF. Interview will be with few partners.What should I expect at the interview as a B2B SaaS founder with some revenue?
I have developed a SaaS product for devops after a user survey. I got 500-600 users to signup for invitation list. After sending them invitations, around 10% users signed up but didn't engage with the product, and didn't respond to feedback emails / widgets.Now I am trying to find new users and have followed tips from various "How to get first X users" threads without much luck. I have a...