Fastest growing ever? How he went from $0 to $1.2m in 4 weeks
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Tara Darbyshire, Peter Novosel, and Jon Darbyshire founded the SmartSuite, which provides a collaborative Work Management platform that enables teams to plan, track and manage workflows.
Before building SmartSuite, the founders took the time to understand what appeals to that market - how they collaborate, communicate, and manage files.
Around 90 outside developers worked for 3 years to build the core platform, and it managed to acquire 400 customers in just 4 weeks at $100,000 MRR
SmartSuite currently offers three monthly seat pricing tiers:
- $10 for Team
- $25 for Pro
- $35 for Enterprise.
Currently, they are seeing 10 to 12 seats per customer on average. The largest deal they had closed since their launch four weeks ago is for 150 seats.

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