Mikko Honkanen is the Co-founder & CEO at Vainu.io - a bootstrapped Finnish SalesTech SaaS company.
In this episode Mikko shares his experience of growing Vainu, which has bootstrapped its way to +15M ARR, and Mikko talks about:
- Why the founding team decided to bootstrap
- How Vainu validated demand and established product market fit
- Differentiation and positioning within the crowded martech & salestech space
- Challenges Vainu faced with internationalisation
- Scaling localised product & marketing
- How Vainu pivoted their strategy when entering the US market
- The impact bootstrapping had on Vainu’s go-to-market strategy & demand gen tactics
- The Vainu sales and marketing playbook
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Links:
Vainu >> https://vainu.io/
When Breath Become Air >> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25899336-when-breath-becomes-air
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