I recently stumbled upon a great post from Clement Vouillon (Point Nine Capital) about “the rise of non “VC compatible” SaaS startups.” The Rise of Non “VC compatible” SaaS Companies Hi there, we’re Point Nine Capital a VC firm focused on SaaS and marketplaces. If you want to be kept informed of our…medium.com His post gives the VC point of view about what path might be right for you. I wanted to provide a founder’s perspective on that topic. …

If you’re building a startup, you have a LOT of decisions to make early on. Most of them will be wrong and that’s OK. You learn from them and move on. But when it comes to attracting markets beyond your country’s borders, you have to make the right decisions from…

A year ago, I was closing 2015 with glee. After four years of constant hustle, our company had finally reached profitability and was approaching the 100k monthly recurring revenue (MRR) mark. This was a huge milestone for us. At that time, I told the team: “We’ve doubled our MRR in…

We’ve built Agorapulse as a “semi-remote” team. We have an office in Paris (9 people) and in Buenos Aires (3 people), along with 15 team members working remotely from the United States, Ireland, Mexico, Slovakia, and Brazil. That’s a total of 27 team members. Why did we choose to build a remote team in the first place? We started with our Paris office…

My co-founder (Benoit Hediard) and I started Agorapulse five years ago. From day one, we knew that we wanted to create a truly international SaaS business. “Truly international” meant being able to work primarily in English but also serve our users in French, Spanish and Portuguese. At the very beginning…