Mike Taber
Founder, Bluetick. On 1 show, 8 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Mike Taber is a software entrepreneur who founded Bluetick.io, an automated email and outreach platform for sales follow-ups. He is best known as the original co-host of the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us and the co-founder of the MicroConf conference and FounderCafe community alongside Rob Walling.
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55said about them ↓ Everything Mike Taber said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Taber: Google Mandated Minimum Price Floors For Third-Party Developer Security Audits
“The other piece, when I was talking to the three different companies, one of them basically let slip that Google came to them and said, you are required to charge at least this much money. And apparently they get copies of the invoices, which to me seems like …”
Taber: Commercial office real estate will never recover
“I believe that commercial office space, real estate will never recover.”
Taber predicts definitive proof of extraterrestrial life will be discovered
“My fifth and final prediction here is that we will discover definitive proof of extraterrestrial life. I don't know what exact form that's going to take, whether it's going to be Mars or some comment or, you know, an asteroid going by, but that's the predictio…”
Tabor: Expansion revenue makes marketing positioning almost irrelevant during fast growth
“If you're growing quickly enough, the marketing almost doesn't matter, especially if you've got that expansion revenue.”
Taber: Founder Claims AppSumo Users Drove 80% Support Volume Years Later
“One of the founders I talked to, he's like, yeah, 80% of my support calls come from this group of AppSumo users and they're contributing zero moving forward. And this was three, four years later, he still got 80% of his support volume is from those AppSumo use…”
Taber: Google's mandatory security audit is an "utter scam"
“And this whole thing is just an absolute, utter scam. It really is.”
Taber: Regulators will attempt to break up Big Tech, likely targeting Facebook
“There's going to be a over attempt by a government and I'm going to, you know, kind of lump a couple of them together, like the United States, either the United States federal government, the European union, or even maybe even, I doubt a state government would…”
Taber: Governments will pass new legislation cracking down on gig economy in 2021
“Governments are going to actively crack down on the gig economy and essentially people who are doing side jobs or they're stringing together multiple side jobs in order to either make a living or make extra money on the side, those type of people I think the g…”
Taber predicts major 2021 breakthrough in medical nanotechnology implants
“My third prediction is related to healthcare, and I think there's gonna be a major breakthrough in nanotechnology. So, obviously, there's been a lot of, you know, advances with the COVID vaccine, but I think that this is gonna get to the point where it could b…”
Taber: Marvel Cinematic Universe popularity will fall off a cliff
“Specifically, I think that the Marvel Cinematic Universe is going to
The following is going to somewhat fall off a cliff.”
Tabor: Agencies offer higher profitability and lower support costs than individual users
“Switching over to agencies and agencies manage lots of mailboxes. So they're much higher value customers. They're harder to land and they have more indefinites and more technical requirements, but they're also far more profitable and it's a lot easier to do su…”
Tabor: Targeting agencies lowers SaaS support costs via standardized workflows
“It was kind of intentional to start focusing on those agencies more because I could see that that was where my support costs would be lower because they're going to have essentially a standardized process internally for managing their own customers and then be…”
Tabor: Bluetick email volume grew 500x to 600,000 daily within 12 months
“I've gone from sending on a good day. I was sending maybe a thousand emails a day to anywhere from five to 600,000 emails a day. So 500 X growth in 12 months”
Tabor: Bluetick MRR Doubled in Three Months
“I mean, I would say my MRR doubled in the past three months. There's that hockey stick looking growth curve that I've had recently”
Tabor: Bluetick will triple revenue within eight months via new agency features
“I'm looking specifically at those features as ways to essentially triple revenue in the next six to eight months because of implementing those features and then rolling them out to my customers that I have now. And then they don't have to pay these other vendo…”
Taber: Bluetick Yields More Profit Than Partner CRM Despite 15x Revenue Gap
“Your point about the revenue difference between them, and I think it is probably closer to 15 X. That is accurate, but at the same time, revenue, you know, as well as I do, revenue and profit are not the same thing. And if you're talking about profit, I think …”
Taber: Google Security Audit Cost $10K+, Vendor Doubled Quote Next Year
“I blew five plus figures easy getting this stupid audit done, and it, you know, murdered my profitability, and then they doubled the price the following year, and I'm like, you know, forget it. I'm just not going to bother.”
Taber's Google security audit renewal quote doubled from initial price
“Fast forward one year, and I ask them for a price quote, they do everything, and they send me the price quote, and it's almost double what I paid initially.”
Taber: Landing enterprise customers is exponentially more profitable than podcast tours
“I really think that I need to learn the stuff about those large customers, because if I can land more of them, it's exponentially more profitable to land those types of customers than it is to go out and do a podcast tour for money which may or may not ever sh…”
Taber: Bluetick can displace Salesloft and Outreach via deeper mailbox integration
“And I do think that there's opportunities there for blue tick to go in and do some competitive displacements for people who are using things like sales loft or outreach or reply because it does have that more in depth hooks into the mailbox and it can do more …”
Tabor: Competitors remove prospects from all email sequences upon a single reply
“A lot of my competitors have that issue where if somebody replies to any email, They're immediately out of every sequence, and they're just essentially marked as done, whereas I don't do that inside of Bluetick.”
Tabor: Bluetick is profitable and has surpassed five figures in MRR
“At this point, the business is fairly profitable.
I see avenues for essentially tripling revenue.
It has passed five figures at the moment, certainly not near six”
Tabor: Bluetick MRR could approach six figures by end of 2023
“I could definitely see some things on the horizon where it could get close to six figures by the end of this coming year, and that's MRR.”
The other half of the tape: Mike Taber's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 55 times in 29 episodes across the shows. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Rob Walling 38Craig Hewitt 3Jordan Gal 2Ben Orenstein 2Andy Baldacci 2Tony Chan 1Einar Vollset 1Courtland Allen 1
Every mention by year
tap a year for its mentions
Startups For the Rest of Us 55
2025 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2024 7 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
2023 5 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- Episode 687 | An 8th Thing You Should Never Do, Things That Don't...
- Episode 668 | 9 Key Takeaways from MicroConf U.S. 2023 in Denver
- Episode 664 | The Challenges of Horizontal SaaS, Adding Services...
- Episode 656 | Taste vs. Shipping + Being First vs. Being the Best...
- Episode 648 | Competing with a Non-Profit, Driving Traffic to A L...
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2021 9 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- Episode 567 | From Developer to CTO to Buying the Company for $1
- Episode 539 | Post-Exit Life, Writing Six Books, and Brewing Beer with Dan Norris
- Episode 563 | The Struggle, Calls to Action, Selling Above $1M ARR, and More Listener Questions
- Episode 558 | Thinking Through Funding as a Bootstrapper
- Episode 550 | Three Years of Grind to Six Figures in ARR with CloudForecast
- Episode 530 | Making Development Decisions, Regrets about Selling, and More Listener
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2020 30 mentions in 10 episodes 3 per episode
- Episode 500
- Episode 514 | An Inside Look at MicroConf Remote
- Episode 493 | Startup Roundtable
- Episode 526 | Launching, Learning, and Teaching with Justin Vincent
- Episode 521 | A Roundtable Discussion about a Potential Recession, Working from Home,
- Episode 519 | Profit Sharing, Stock Options, and Equity (A Rob Solo Adventure)
- Episode 502 | Accelerating Growth and a Failed Product Hunt Launch
- Episode 497 | Documenting SaaS for a Sale, Email Harvesting and Spam, and More Listener Questions
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2020 →
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Mike's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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| STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF USLEDGER | Founder, Bluetick | 8 | 35 | 50% 2/4 | full record on Startups For the Rest of Us → |