Sharetribe

How We Built A 7-Figure SaaS Product And Raised $1M+ Through Crowdfunding

January 1st, 2023
Juho Makkonen
Founder, Sharetribe
$200K
revenue/mo
3
Founders
24
Employees
Sharetribe
from Helsinki, Finland
started October 2011
$200,000
revenue/mo
3
Founders
24
Employees
market size
$4.03B
starting costs
$19.4K
gross margin
83%
time to build
300 days
growth channels
SEO
business model
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Moz, Transistor.fm, Upwork
time investment
Full time
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34 Pros & Cons
tips
2 Tips
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Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?

My name is Juho Makkonen. I'm the CEO and one of the co-founders of Sharetribe.

Our SaaS product makes it easy for non-technical founders to create their online marketplace: you can build and launch your marketplace in one day, without coding skills!

Today our software powers more than 1000 marketplaces in 70+ countries.

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What's your backstory and how did you come up with the idea?

My co-founder and I launched our first marketplace while working on a research project at a Finnish university. We wrote the code ourselves. We were by no means very experienced developers, but we knew enough to get things going.

Eventually, we spun it off and launched our business. While the marketplace business we initially had in mind never took off in a big...

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