095 Create and share a detailed and accurate financial model in just minutes | Podcast with Simon Ritchie - Blox

Better, faster decisions without spreadsheets. Making financial modeling and planning simple for Startup and SME business leaders. Creating a financial model is now easier than ever - Blox provides pre-built planning models to help business leaders escape the tyranny of complex, clunky, and error-prone spreadsheets, giving you visibility into and confidence in the reality of your business. Connect with Simon 👇 Blox: https://www.blox.so LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/siritchie 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 Listen to the podcast 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0sf7X3sC8Pg8gzpphTYxgi Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tekpon-saas-podcast/id1637493062 The topics we've discussed 🕐 00:00 Intro 00:12 What is Blox? 01:03 Blox features 03:00 Blox pricing 03:45 Popular integrations 04:25 Who can use your product? 05:55 Success stories 07:30 How competitive is your space? 09:05 How Blox differentiates from the rest 10:03 Funding 10:41 How difficult is it to find investors now? 12:10 Simon's previous company was acquired for $10B 13:15 Early employee at Anaplan 14:30 How big is your team? 14:50 You have founder-market fit, but do you have product market fit? 16:55 Fundraising has been Simon's biggest challenge 19:16 What is your vision for Blox? 22:53 First startup 23:43 Advice for starting founders 25:54 Favorite SaaS product? 26:40 Outro