033 Turn MRR into upfront cash and grow without selling equity | Podcast with Danielle Messler - Founderpath

Exclusive deal for Tekpon Founders: https://founderpath.com/partners/tekpon Founderpath is a financing vehicle for SaaS founders to help them turn monthly subscriptions (MRR) into upfront cash. The firm aims to help companies raise funds without sacrificing equity. Founders connect their bank accounts, customer information, and other data to get a credit score. Based on this credit score, Founderpath lends the company money. Better credit scores get better rates and cheaper capital. Founderpath has a debt fund, so it invests directly in companies. Founderpath is focused on bootstrapped SaaS companies doing at least $10,000 in MRR, with the typical company profile doing between $1 million and $5 million in ARR. Connect with Danielle 👇 Founderpath: https://founderpath.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielle-messler-75351720/ Tekpon is a SaaS marketplace born out of the genuine desire to help people change how they consume and purchase software products and services. Tekpon has behind a team of enthusiastic tech lovers whose main goal is to help users boost their lives and businesses with the right software. Connect with Tekpon ⚡ Website: https://tekpon.com SaaS Entrepreneurs & Startups: https://www.facebook.com/groups/tekpon The topics we've discussed 🕐 00:00 Intro 00:25 What is Founderpath? 00:46 The biggest problem you solve 01:52 Best Founderpath features 02:45 Founderpath pricing 03:33 Founderpath integrations 04:03 Happy customers 08:10 You don't have to be bootstrapped to use Founderpath 08:57 How is Founderpath different? 11:05 Being the biggest sponsor of SaaStock 12:57 Founderpath conferences - Founder500 & SaaSOpen 13:46 Find all the SaaS events here 14:25 When did you start doing webinars? 14:45 Why do you these webinars for SaaS founders? 16:05 Any piece of advice when attending conferences 16:45 What is GetLatka? 18:25 How did you join Founderpath? 20:03 What is your story, Danielle? 21:25 Piece of advice for starting marketers 22:47 Top 3 favorite software 23:40 Outro