Establishing Your Business Foundations
Revenue Goal: $10M ARR • Team Size: 50 • Funding: Series A
Establishing Your Business Foundations
So you created a SaaS solution, found product market fit, customers, and have achieved $1M ARR, now what? Now that you have paying customers, it's about understanding who they are, why they bought, and then going out and finding people just like them, we call these people your ideal customer profile or ICP.
At the Foundations Stage, it's about understanding what you want to share with the world, what the industry calls your business model, your vision, and your mission for the company. In this stage, it's also about getting feedback from your early adopters and building out the additional functionality of your MVP so you can introduce additional value to future buyers.
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Key Metrics To Understand While Establishing Your Foundations
When you are building out the foundations of your SaaS Platform, keep the metrics simple.
Ideal Customer Profile
Who is your ideal customer and what buyer personas are you targeting in that segement?
Conversion Engagements
How often are you able to engage and connect with your ideal customer profile buyer personas?
Monthly Recurring Revenue
How much recurring revenue do you make per sale and will this revenue allow you to grow?
How To Measure Foundational Success
The Foundations Stage is complete when you can share what your business model is and how you will grow recurring revenue, understand who your buyer is and the problems they are trying to solve, and can connect and engage with them regularly.
From a financial milestone, most SaaS owners who reach this stage of their SaaS journey can reach out to investors and get an initial Series A investment to fuel their growth and keep moving forward.
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Establishing Your Business Foundations
Congratulations, you have a proven minimum-value product and are generating consistent revenue on a reoccurring basis. The next step is establishing a stable foundation for your SaaS platform to scale with so you can work through good times or recessions.
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Tools To Help You Get Started
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Hublead
LinkedIn Outreach
Hublead eliminates the need for manual import contacts and allows you to track LinkedIn activities with just one click-right from LinkedIn or Sales Navigator into HubSpot.
Vidiosa
Video Marketing
Creates high-converting videos for SaaS and tech-enabled brands including explainers, product launches, and demos, complete with script writing, voiceover recording, design, animation, and unlimited revisions.
Wistia
Video Hosting
Wistia provides simple software for creating, managing, and sharing videos for business. With a customizable player, detailed analytics, and Soapbox, Wistia is the go-to video software provider for 300,000 creative video marketers.
ShutterStock
Stock Photography
Shutterstock offers the best quality, royalty free stock images, photos, vectors, illustrations, footage, video, and music for nearly any application.
Amplitude
BI Intelligence
Product analytics that guide you to growth. Spot trends with machine learning, see insights at a glance, get fast answers without coding.
Zero Bounce
Email Reputation
You invest for better email marketing ROI. We help you find valid emails and connect with your customers. Boost your inbox placement and open rates with 99% accurate real-time email validation software and email deliverability tools.
SaaS Stages Of Growth
Understand each stage of the journey and what it takes to reach the next level.