As part of the Founder Institute’s series of free online startup events for entrepreneurs worldwide, we were pleased to welcome returning startup finance expert Rami Essaid of Finmark on March 9th, 2022 for a live, interactive online event focused on Revenue Generation and Scaling Up.
Transitioning from pre-revenue to bringing in your first paying customers is a key inflection point for any startup. How do you know if you have product-market fit? How do you find customers that are willing to pay for your product? Once you land your first customers, how do you scale customer acquisition? Watch this video to see Rami Essaid answer these questions, as well as share tips for startup founders on landing their first customers, and on scaling up to first $1M in revenue and beyond:
About the Speaker:
Rami Essaid is Cofounder and CEO of Finmark. He also serves as Venture Partner at IdeaFund Partners where he focuses on investing in cyber, infrastructure, and fintech companies. Rami also serves as an Extended Team Member at Ubiquity Ventures. Prior to founding Finmark, Rami was founder of Distil Networks, the global leader in bot detection and mitigation.
As CEO, Rami grew Distil to over 200 employees and $25MM in revenue. With hundreds of enterprise customers and 5 global offices, Forrester named Distil Networks as a leader in the Forrester Wave: Bot Management in 2018 and 2019. Distil was acquired in 2019 by Imperva, a leader in the application security segment. Prior to that, Rami was the founder of ChitChat Communications.
An alumnus of the YCombinator and TechStars accelerator programs, Rami now serves as a mentor for current participants, advising the next generation of entrepreneurs and coaching them on how to scale their businesses while continuing to provide innovative and boundary-pushing products and services.
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