[SaaS Club] First Time Founder's Guide to PMF

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I hope you're doing well.


Here's a quick round up of what's been going on at SaaS Club:

🎧 Podcast

In 2018, Cristina quit her job to start her SaaS business...

She was a first-time founder, who didn't know how to code and didn't have any sales experience.

But she was driven by a life-long dream to one day start her own business.

After raising a pre-seed round, she hired a software development company to build the product which she launched at SaaStock in Dublin three months later.

But when she tried to sell her product, she got a lot of objections:

  • Some people said that they didn't have a problem managing software subscriptions

  • Others felt they already had a good solution in place (even if it was just a spreadsheet)

  • And a lot of other people just weren't interested at that time


So for a while, things weren't looking good for Cristina.

And even worse, she didn't charge for her product for 18 months. In fact, there wasn't even a way for customers to pay for her product - which many would say was a rookie mistake.

Despite those challenges, Cristina and her co-founder Brad, have grown Cledara to $2.4M in ARR so far with over 700 customers.

And they've raised $7M and built a team of nearly 50 people.

In this episode, Cristina shares the lessons she's learned as a first-time founder and how she was able to overcome so many challenges to find product-market fit.


Listen to the full podcast episode



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📗 Book of the Week
We have two books that Thor recommended:

Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by General Stanley McChrystal



👩‍💻 Around the Web

Magical, a text expander and autofill Chrome extension raises a $35M Series A round. Yup, a Chrome extension.

Paddle acquired Profitwell in a deal worth $200M. Patrick Campbell (Profitwell's founder) and I are recording an interview soon. You can listen to the original interview I did with Patrick here.


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Have a great week!

- Omer


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1. Group Coaching: Do you need coaching for an affordable price? Join me for live coaching calls every 2 weeks, access the archive of recordings, and more.

2. 3-Month Bootcamp: Need more help getting to your first $10K revenue? You will get 10 weeks of training, live group coaching, email support and more.

3. Private Coach/Advisor: Want to work directly with me? I'll help you get the clarity & focus needed to execute confidently and get breakthrough results.











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