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Let’s go!! 

Perry Oostdam Co-founder & CEO at Recruitee a fast, easy, collaborative hiring tool!

Hi Perry, could you tell us how did you come up with the idea to launch your start-up ?

I’ve met my co-founder Pawel online -on a platform for entrepreneurs. We’ve started GeoRun (a gps-based gaming company) four years ago. When our team grew, we looked around for a handy recruiting tool. We couldn’t really find a simple and intuitive tool, and decided to build our own tool for internal use. Several startups in Amsterdam and Poznan started to use our solution as well, and we realized Recruitee could be turned into a separate business. One year later, we’ve pivoted our business and got the whole team working on Recruitee.

Could you introduce your app in few lines ?

Recruitee is a fast, easy, collaborate hiring platform. We aim to be an industry standard for fast-growing teams, proving them with both a backend recruiting tool (ATS) and career site editor (employer branding).

 

Would you share with our community one funny anedocte about your start up ?

When we started this project (Recruitee had another name back then), we bought a domain name on one of the big auction sites. We had no external cash and decided to bootstrap our business at least till breakeven.

After two weeks of being live, we received a very angry letter from a NY law firm indicating that our name was infringing on their copyright. Damn it, and that after two weeks!

We bluffed that our operations would stay in Europe, and our initiative wouldn’t hurt their business in the US. One week later, a domain name broker approached us, asking if we would consider selling the domain.

We ended up selling the domain name for an amount that brought us to breakeven ;-).

What are your 3 favorites Saas apps ? Excluding yours of course 😉

Intercom

Baremetrics

Trello

If you had to compare your start-up, would it be a movie, a sport or a music band ? Which one and why ?

A movie. The Godfather of course! Why? Because we make you an offer you can’t refuse ;-).

Enjoy 50% discount on Recruitee during 6 months! Until september 20 ?

Here are 5 tools very useful to run your startup :

Namech_k

Namech_k is a tool that you can use to find your startup name and check its availability. Namech_k search for you on domain names available but also on all the social media apps like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or ProductHunt!

 

 

Instapage 

Instapage is an app that lets you create a landing page in just 3 minutes. Before launching your product, you must have a landing page to test your market fit!

Get 50% Off during 6 Months on SaaS Invaders!

 

Bananatag 

When you’re launching your startup you will send a lot of emails ! Bananatag is the essential tool to track your sent emails. You will be able to check your emails stats : open rate ; clicks on different links from your email or even the location of your recipient!

 

 

Simplifyd 

There are hundreds CRM on the market but Simplifyd is particularly well done and very beautiful. It allows you to have an overview about your sales, but you can also manage your contacts, calendar, to do list, timeline …

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Buffer 

You are a web startup ? So you have to use social medias ! Buffer lets you manage all your pages (Facebook , Twitter, Google + …) from just one interface ! With Buffer, you can schedule your publications and track the performance for an optimal result.

 

Kiss and Love from France
Team SaaS Invaders

Thibaud Elziere is a fabulous french entrepreneur, he especially co-founded Fotolia (bought in 2014 by Adobe for 800 million dollars) as well as the startup studio Efounders which has performed Mailjet, Aircall, Mention, TextMaster or Front.

Thibaud makes us the pleasure to answer to some few questions!

Hi Thibaud, a few lines to tell us a bit more about your career?

I caught the entrepreneurship virus pretty early on – I never even worked as an employee. I decided to build Fotolia while I was still studying. After 4 years of building Fotolia, I built Zilok in 2008. 3 years later, in 2011, I met Quentin Nickmans to create eFounders. And it is what I’ve been working every single day since.

eFounders, what is it and how it works? If I have a great idea for a new SaaS app, can I contact you?

eFounders is a startup studio. Our process is to develop our business ideas inside our studio; once an idea is validated and falls under our building thesis, we “hire” two co-founders to develop the business with us and make it skyrocket. We build 3 to 4 SaaS startups a year. After 18 months, each startup becomes independent. So far, we have built 7 startups used my millions of businesses.
As a startup studio, we generate business idea internally. You can always contact me to talk about SaaS, I love it ; but it won’t become an eFounders startup! If you are an exceptional entrepreneur (business or tech), on the other hand, you are more than welcome to apply to become our co-founder.

In your opinion, what are the succes criteria for a start-up on a SaaS market?

1. The Market positioning. We believe in what we call the “Fortune 5 Million” market opportunity (as opposed to “Fortune 500”). Millions of companies that use your product, every day, and globally.

2. The team: in order to build a SaaS unicorn, you need a formidable founding team with both exceptional business and technical skills

3. A great mindset: to me, your startup mindset and culture should rely on resilience, ambition and a bit of craziness in order to succeed.

Can you give us THE metric to monitor when you have a SaaS software?

Definitely: Churn. Churn changes everything, it makes the difference between a pony and a unicorn. The cost of a huge churn, when your revenue is important, kills your business. And at the same time, the profit of a negative churn makes a very small business looks like the next unicorn.

Rather than an advice,  could you share with us a failure, regret?

About a failure: we recently shut down one of our apps, Solved.io after a few weeks in beta. Although we were very fond of the team and the product, we had to face the truth: we did not find a product-market fit. It was necessary decision to make and we learned a lot from it, yet it was a hard one.

And if there is one thing to regret… maybe not having built Slack? 🙂

What are your 3 favorite SaaS apps? Excluding those from eFounders, of course 😉

– Algolia: because they have a disruptive technology which is pretty rare for a SaaS solution (Disclaimer: I am an investor)

– Slack (of course): because it completely changed the way we communicate within a company. And all the integrations and the endless possibilities make it an awesome product.

– Workable: we like the team and the product at efounders – because we receive so many job applications every day, Workable has helped us streamline the process a lot.

 

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September 15, 2015, France Digitale opens up the Carreau du Temple in Paris, starting from 13h, for the third France Digitale Day, a meeting that became a must for all players in the digital ecosystem. More than 2,000 people are expected. A day that promises to be rich in debates, experiences and meetings with entrepreneurs, investors, large groups and without forgetting the politicians. To talk a little bit more about this event, we met Laura Calmore, marketing and event manager at France Digitale. 

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LAST MINUTE, you want take part to the France Digitale Day! With SaaS Invaders you can get your ticket!! Have a look at the end of this article to find out more!

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Saas Invaders : Could you remind us in few words what is France Digitale?

Laura Calmore : An association that brings together the champions of digital entrepreneurship: start-ups with strong growth plans and potential investors (venture capitalists and business angels).

Tell us the “pitch” of France Digitale Day 2015!

I can only quote Olivier & Marie (NDLD : Olivier Mathiot et Marie Ekeland) on this, what else can I pitch besides : “In its third year, France Digitale set its sights even higher for digital progress, startups and attracting talent and business to our nation.”Battle for Greatness” will be a major event carved into stone because on September 15, we all come together (entrepreneurs, investors and thinkers of our time) to collectively write the real political program for France’s digital glory.

We are inviting ourselves to the table and into the political agenda of the 2017 political candidates, just like we did at the time of the pigeons (#geonpi). For those currently in office, they’re starting their great sprint for the last 18 months of their term;and for everyone else, this is their moment to debate big ideas that will shape the future and leave small political squabbles behind.”

Which elements will allow you to say that this edition is a success?

Our ambition and the members & partners that support us. This year we’re taking it to the next level. We’re taking an action France needs to get out of the economic crisis and renew it’s digital and entrepreneurial zest. The stakes at play are employment, growth, and international influence of our businesses. Together let’s make a universal, neutral, and pragmatic case for digital. FD Day “Battle For Greatness” will be the first political meeting of our new generation, yesterday’s Pigeons are becoming proactive drivers of change today.

France Digitale just celebrated its 3 years, what do you keep in mind from these few years?

#JouerCollectif . That’s our DNA and one of our values.

Olivier Mathiot, co-president of France Digitale says that France has many strengths but also some weaknesses on the global digital market, can you give us more details?

The rendez-vous was set for Sept the 15th, meet us there and you’ll have your answer 🙂

Otherwise, what are your three favorite apps?

• Tracktl
• Swapcard
• Gymlib

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Win your ticket to the France Digitale Day!

Want to take your chance, nothing easier. You just have to share this article via twitter or RT with #InvadersFDDay.
A random drawing will be held on July 30! The entrance value to this event is €450.

And if you are not the lucky winner, you can get 20% off to the entry price through the promo code: saasinvadersfdday3. Register here. 

Brief recap:

• The France Digitale members receive a ticket for free and 50% off on the second for the FDDay.
• The startups of the Business Innovation Center (Montpellier) can join for free France Digitale.

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Private Sales # 3 on the SaaS Invaders website. Are you ready to start a new week and discover the most innovative apps of SaaS market ? We remind you that once you join the community, you can test for free the applications and also benefit from an advantageous offers ! So, drum roll …. this week, we invite you to discover Foundersuite, Mailjet, Mix Max and Sniply !

Private Sales from 20 July to 2 August 2015, little overview of the 4 solutions :

Foundersuite, tools to get startup sh*t done !

Foundersuite is a set of software tools and templates for entrepreneurs. Foundersuite helps you ideate, fundraise, manage PR, track competitors, and update investors. Foundersuite also contains 80+ templates and spreadsheets.

Mailjet All-in-one email delivery engine

Better sending, better insights for marketers and developers. With 22% of opt-in email landing in the spam folder (source: ReturnPath), Mailjet know delivering emails into the inbox can be a challenge. Mailjet’s first class deliverability experts and technology help guide your email to its destination. Create beautiful emails in a
matter of minutes !

MixMax, the best gmail add-on to boost your productivity

MixMax is the ultimate email productivity suite that lets you do everything you do on the web directly in email. Know exactly who opens your email and when. Schedule meetings in one email instead of ten. Create the perfect email with one-click templates. Schedule emails to be sent later and more…

 

Sniply, share content. drive traffic. Attach a call-to-action to every link you share. 

Sniply is the only way to drive conversion through the content you share on social media. Boost website traffic, increase social media ROI, get signups and subscribers, leverage viral content.

Please note that who says private sales, mean limited period and limited quantity! So, see you soon on SaaS Invaders. Remember that you still have a few days to enjoy the private sales #2 which offer discount up to 50% on Unitag, Sellsy, Cake HR, Briefmetrics.

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