Startup
Minlopro Partners shines at close of first year
Founder Mort Sayyed will spend today celebrating.
He opened the doors of his business one year ago today. A lot has changed in the course of 12 months.
His company, Minlopro Partners, a Saleforce consulting firm, announced the company surpassed $5 million in revenue in its first year. Additionally, the company increased its staff from a single employee to 44 people in its first year in business.
Sayyed dreamed of starting his own business since childhood, and in the last ten years he began to turn dreams into plans. Initially inspired by the gaps he saw in the Salesforce support market, he became increasingly motivated to launch the business by his desire to spend more time with his wife and two children.
The 16-year veteran in the Saleforce industry, along with co-founders Jessica Lillquist, Mitul Bhakta and Mireily Backus launched the business in April 2022. Four months later, Minlopro Partners was open for business. The bootstrapped company is headquartered in the Eagleknit building, owned by Wangard Partners.
With an estimated 150,000 companies using Saleforce worldwide, the market serving those users is competitive. According to Sayyed, it is Minlopro Partner’s approach that sets them apart from the competition and keeps its customers satisfaction scores high.
“There are so many teams that are really good at the front-end work – the pre-sales. They hire these incredible architects who know how to wordsmith (proposals) and get customers to commit, and then they lob it over to some other group and the other group is like ‘what the hell is this? What did you sell?’,” Sayyed said.
“We are different,” he continued. “The person who sells the deal and the person who supports the sale of the deal are also responsible for delivering it. So, you can never be irresponsible here. You can never have a disconnect between the front end and the back end…. You can sell something you never deliver, but then you’ll never sell anything again. We try to keep it as connected as possible.”
Growth in Milwaukee
The company had just one employee when it launched in April 2022. Today, the company has 44 employees, many of them technical employees working in India.
“About half of our team is in Milwaukee and that actually is our big focus. I want to grow our focus. I love Milwaukee. This is my city. I’ve had a lot of failures here and a lot of success there, but I’m not going anywhere. I’m right here. This is my town,” Sayyed said.
“I love it here and I keep telling my team that we’re going to keep finding talent here. We just started an internship program. That program is designed to recruit people from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee- that’s my alma mater,” he said.
“I am incredibly ambitious in that we’re going to grow a big footprint in Milwaukee,” he said. “If it’s not an existing footprint, we’ll build it ourselves. We will find young talent. We will train them. We have the people here who can coach. We have the tools. We have the assets, and we want to give folks in Milwaukee an opportunity to work at a tech startup. Why can’t we have tech startups here?”
“These kids are coming out of college, they don’t need to leave to find success,” Sayyed said. “You don’t have to go south or east or northwest into a bigger city to get access. There’s opportunity here and I think if we build it, they will stay. That’s something I’m pretty excited about. (We have) expanded that footprint of 12 (employees) in Milwaukee. I think it’d be really cool if we could double that by the end of the year and there’s no reason we can’t.”
With a fantastic first year completed and the excitement surrounding Minlopro Partners ambitious scaling plans, the company has planned a celebration, and all of Milwaukee is invited.
In addition to the internal meetings and events taking place for employees around the globe, the company will introduce its new branding materials by lighting the Hoan Bridge in the colors of the company’s new logo.
To learn more about this company on the rise, connect with Minlopro Partners here.
