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Risk-profiling software for financial advisors, grown through daily founder-led customer conversations.
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John Ndege built Pocket Risk, a risk-profiling tool for financial advisors. After roughly a year, the business had four customers and $230 MRR, despite 46 sales demos. He changed his routine to speak with a customer every day, using sales calls and customer contact to learn about the market and improve the offer. The talk later describes Pocket Risk at 137 customers and roughly $10,000 MRR. The product averaged about $190 per customer per month, below Ndege’s own $300 threshold for building a sales team; he recommends content marketing below that level. This case is useful for narrow B2B SaaS founders because the growth lesson is both behavioral and measurable: make customer contact a daily habit, then apply what you learn to positioning and product decisions. Figures are speaker-reported, not audited.
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Join the Unicorn Club — $5/moCancel anytime, in one clickData credibility: MicroConf speaker John Ndege reports four customers and $230 MRR after about a year and 46 demos, later 137 customers and roughly $10K MRR. He cites average customer revenue around $190/month. These are speaker-reported and unaudited; no dashboard or third-party records are shown.