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How Dresma Hit $2M ARR With Usage-Based Pricing & AI-Powered E-Commerce Imagery
- ▶ 18:49 Nathan Latka Are those people say, Nathan, I can't have AEs in India selling to big Puma companies based in California.
From $500K to $1.5M ARR: Bootstrapping VR SaaS for Trade Skills
- ▶ 16:32 Nathan Latka At what point do you go, man, it makes sense for me to put a body or two in a small office in California and do this ourselves because we're paying our resellers so much in referral fees.
These are the AI SEO Secrets that Clickup, Airbase, and Freshworks are using to win
- ▶ 25:56 unnamed speaker Alright, so you can, you can look at, like, you know, if you search for B-to-B SaaS SEO agency in New York, B-to-B SEO agency in California, like, you know, even after SEMrush, we are the number one or number two, uh, opposition, uh, for…
She invented Gmail Send Later in 2010. Bootstrapping to $10m revenue with Boomerang CEO Aye Moah
The Revocable Living Trust Cheat Code for SaaS Founders (Save millions on taxeS)
- ▶ 9:50 Alessandro Chesseri So number one, if you live in a state like California or New York, you're subject to enormous state taxes, you know, anywhere from 10 to 13% for income or cap gains or dividends. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:52 Alessandro Chesseri I mean, it doesn't matter if you're married in California. 3 times in the scene
Miami Based Fintech did $70m in 2023 Revenue - What about Gross Margin?
- ▶ 7:48 Alex Schwartz Look, we have disclosures in states like California,
Do these 9 things to ensure your way to $50 Million ARR
- ▶ 12:16 Mark Douglas If you're in, if you're doing business in California and you have any private data, you gotta follow all kinds of new rules for your privacy data.
This CEO Does $20m/year Selling Software to Chiropractic Offices
- ▶ 4:19 Matt Prados In California.
Founder Hits $13m Revenue with No VC Raised selling SaaS to Defense Firms
- ▶ 16:02 Adam Sandman My wife, she wants to go to California. 2 times in the scene
Zero to $1m in 12 Months, how he used personal brand to scale SaaS Fast
- ▶ 16:34 Arun Kumar Because we, we did an intense study on valuation, and we also hired a consultant from California who is a very strong M&A expert, and, you know, we got opinion from him as well, and he says, I don't, this is fair value.
How Cyber SaaS Hit $2m ARR and 190 Customers So Fast
- ▶ 19:22 Darren Gallup So like California's new privacy law, stuff like that.
Bootstrapped to $18m by door knocking while competing with Toast, Square, and other fintechs
- ▶ 21:19 Austin McNair You know, California.
Trucker Sells his Company for $300k cash, Launches $1m ARR SaaS
- ▶ 16:50 Nathan Latka And they'll tell you like how many new truck companies are registered in California in the past 30 days.
Uber for Laundry did $200k last year. Can this be a $10/year business?
- ▶ 7:53 Jennifer Meyer I believe the majority of them are here in Idaho, but we do have consistent customers in California, Kansas, Texas.
FinTech Helps Hotel Bed Owners in US Hedge FX Risk Selling to Travelers in Other Countries
- ▶ 0:43 Nathan Latka For example, if you're selling a hotel bed in California to a Mexican travel agent who needs to sell it to Mexican residents in pesos, he'll help you hedge that risk.
- ▶ 3:38 Nathan Latka If I'm a wine owner today, I run a liquor shop in California and I spent a million dollars to buy wine from Europe, you know, today, but I'm not going to get it until four months from now. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:55 Nathan Latka For example, if you're selling a hotel bed in California to a Mexican travel agent who needs to sell it to Mexican residents in Pesos,
Bootstrapper hits $5m ARR using $2m in debt, keeps all his equity
- ▶ 2:06 Steve Benson I mean, you know, we were in California at the time. 2 times in the scene
How we grew our GovTech SaaS from $50k to $350k ARR in the last 12 months
- ▶ 26:36 Ibrahim Asim Since the beginning of this year, uh, you know, many states, California, Nevada, Arizona, are starting to formalize legal procedures or legal rules around, uh, court virtualization, justice system virtualization in general, um, you know,…
How I bootstrapped to $20m in 5 years (and 3 growth channels I used to hit first 100 customers)
- ▶ 2:38 Cody McLain So we had everybody going to Cali to try and strike it rich.
$100m Deck Builder: Bootstrapped to $100M Valuation
- ▶ 20:16 Matt Prados Technically it's in my name, but in California, in marriage, all that, like it's, everything's 51.
He shut down his $50m quant fund to launch AI agency. I bet big SaaS is next.
- ▶ 9:06 Robert Corwin And then we also have, uh, we actually took an investment from a big consulting firm in California and they have opened up their resources to us.
How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises
- ▶ 14:13 Alex Quilici You don't need to have an employee sitting in California.
How He Did $100m Secondary but also raised cash to buy a $5m+ ARR Competitor
- ▶ 4:54 Paroon Chadha I'm sitting here in Laguna, um, you know, beach in California and, uh, you know, we just signed up Laguna beach as a customer, uh, you know, uh, two weeks ago.
Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation
- ▶ 1:54 Kurt Avarell And so, uh, my parents and then also my grandparents built second homes for people in Lake Arrowhead, California, which is a destination outside of Los Angeles.
- ▶ 9:02 Kurt Avarell So it's, it's Oregon, California, Utah.
How he hit $1m with no FTE's (Fiverr contractors only)
- ▶ 24:32 Jon Darbyshire Out of California that does a lot of work for SpaceX.
This Founder Built 3 SaaS Companies, hit $40m ARR 3 times. Here's how
- ▶ 3:49 Godard Abel You know, I was in California at the time, the Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene
Productivity Tool Profits $15k/mo, Bootstrapped team of 3
- ▶ 18:02 Jeff Solomon He's like, I don't want to pay California tax anymore.
Fastest Growing Ever? How He Went From $0 to $1.2m in 4 Weeks
- ▶ 7:51 Nathan Latka And, and how did you know, I mean, it's, you know, picking up from beautiful California and going over to Kiev to do diligence on this firm is a lot of your time and energy. 2 times in the scene
The Next Redfin? Real Estate Broker SaaS hits $2.4m Revenue, $50m Valuation
- ▶ 3:27 Biju Ashokan So we were just in California in the last year. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:05 Nathan Latka So that would be, well, California, actually, let's bump it up.
$70m Raised with just $10k in MRR? Can this Devops for SalesOps tool Grow Into Lofty Valuation?
- ▶ 15:34 Benny Schneider I know it is because we are recruited also in the Bay Area, in California and elsewhere in the States.
100 Solar Panel Firms Pay $83k/mo To Manage $1.5b in Projects on Enact
- ▶ 4:19 Deep Chakraborty And in specific markets, you know, specifically markets like California, where we are in, or even across the world, like in Delhi or in Dubai, the pockets of dense use, because we have very active platform users.
- ▶ 14:55 unnamed speaker We are only 18 employees, seven in California and 11 in India.
- ▶ 18:30 Deep Chakraborty We're in California, and we're enjoying the weather.
Can Bindle beat Clear to Handle COVID Records as NFT's?
- ▶ 2:39 Carlos Corton So typically, and the best tokens you can get are going to be issued by the state of California issued by the state of New York.
Electric Companies Pay Them $250k To Track Forest Fires, $1.2m raised at $7m Valuation
- ▶ 1:30 Abhilasha Purwar So for instance, the forest fires that we have in India, you have in California, uh, Siberia, Spain, Greece, everywhere on the planet, and we just don't know how much fires is happening, how much are the greenhouse gas emissions, and all… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:21 Nathan Latka I mean, you're seeing this in California right now.
400 Firms pay $1k/mo For This Investor Database, Growing 100% YoY Bootstrapped
- ▶ 3:09 Guy Koston It can be growth equity, private equity, but they're calling on Harvard and Yale and the state of California and those pension funds because they have a ton of money they need to invest in funds just like that.
- ▶ 6:21 Guy Koston But what we did is we brought on an allocator from like Harvard or from the state of California and interviewed them.
DeckRobot Breaks $1m Revenue Helping You Create Slide Decks Faster
- ▶ 16:39 Tony Urban Um, I wish I moved to California earlier.
$20k Upwork Side Gig to $200k ARR SaaS Project Editing Real Estate Photos
Zoom Recording Tool Grain Hits 300 Teams, On Track for $1m ARR, New $3m Raise in Upround
- ▶ 2:44 Mike Adams And, uh, we ran into a lot of regulatory challenges at the state of California that has since made extremely clear that their position is that income share agreements where you pay a portion of your income in the future, once you get a job… 2 times in the scene
Profitable UserZoom Hits $80m Run Rate, 1k Customers, $500m+ Valuation
- ▶ 15:36 Alfonso de la Nuez With a company that had a headquarters in, in, in California versus Barcelona, a new board here, but yet Spain and the Barcelona team have become, have remained absolutely critical for the success of the business.
SaaS Helps 50 F500 Brands Unlock Tax Credits, Targeting $6m ARR This Year
- ▶ 10:52 Lawrence Sotsky Uh, off, off the coast of, uh, off the coast of California, that's, that's changing the landscape of, uh, coal-based fuel over to sustainable fuel that I can, I can kind of look my kids in the eye and say that I'm doing a good thing in the…
Brightpearl $33m Raised, $105m Valuation, $18m Revenue, Targeting $25m by EOY
- ▶ 14:28 Derek O'Carroll So I might have sort of west coast in the US, California, um, that the, the, the drag along cost there for the AE sort of support with the opportunity that's in market support, a much higher quota, although we leave it at 900, but we…
SpringBig Raised $11.5m on $100m Valuation at $20m Revenue in Niche CRM Space
- ▶ 4:57 Jeffrey Harris And it also comes from the existing more mature markets like California, um, where, you know, we continue to just grab more and more share as, you know, as our brand continues to get more awareness.
- ▶ 10:41 Jeffrey Harris So for example, the person handling California will have a different quota than the person handling Missouri as an example. 2 times in the scene
FlumeWater Sells 10k Units at $200 With SaaS Upsell
- ▶ 2:06 Eric Adler What got us into water marching was the drought in California. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:38 Eric Adler Uh, no, we actually raised a lot from angel investors on the central coast of California.
- ▶ 7:05 Eric Adler Uh, we start out domestically here in California. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:37 Nathan Latka You move from California to overseas, you maybe made five, six, 700 grand, uh, in terms of the margin there.
- ▶ 18:35 Eric Adler Um, there is this kind of pro level of service we're offering in a very specific region in California.
Front End As a Service, I Predict They'll Be $100m Within 3 Years
- ▶ 15:57 Matthew Hager I'm not from California. 2 times in the scene
Shift Sells $200m Worth of Cars, Makes $30m, $225m Equity Raised, IPO Next?
- ▶ 2:16 George Arison Um, that's available in all of California and all of Oregon. 3 times in the scene
Tootris Launches Daycare as a Service, 100 Customers
- ▶ 9:58 Nathan Latka If you operate in a state like California, providers right now are not allowed to operate.
- ▶ 11:56 Alessandra Lezama All of California, with a high emphasis in San Diego, because our proof of concept was San Diego, and this is where we had the most interaction with providers. 3 times in the scene
CookieInformation Hits $2m Bootstrapped For Easy GDPR Copmliance
- ▶ 14:59 Karsten Rendemann It's coming now in California and Brazil, in India, Korea, Thailand, Japan.
SendLane Hits $5m ARR Helping ECommerce Brands Do Email Marketing
- ▶ 1:42 Nathan Latka He's limited up in sunny San Diego, California.
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently
- ▶ 2:04 Nathan Latka And was the youngest founder accepted into batch 20 of the prestigious 500 startups accelerator program in California.
Madwire Hits 20k Customers, $120m Revenue, and Profitable Serving SMB's. IPO next?
- ▶ 2:21 JB Kellogg Um, a lot of them are reactivating now, which is good, but there's still areas like California and stuff.
Wingman Hits $6k MRR, 24 Y.O Uses to Track Option Trades
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com
- ▶ 41:16 Will Schroeder Yeah, it was a total fluke, but that's actually what brought me to Los Angeles, which kind of like put me in California for the last 10 years.
Woven.com: Ex Facebook CIO Looking to Re-Invent How We Setup Meetings
- ▶ 14:53 Tim Campos So the rules there are different than it would be for California.
Trust and Will Company Passes 5k Customers, $1m in ARR Digital Way to Do Estate Planning
- ▶ 8:12 Cody Barbo Yeah, we launched our first product, which was the will, just a basic last will and testament in the states of California and Texas in April of 20,018. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:30 Cody Barbo So when we launched our trust product in January of last year, it was just California, Texas.
153 Brands Use Them To Report Sales Volume to Shopping Malls, $20k in MRR, $1.5m Raised
- ▶ 11:07 Shuram Subramanian Uh, so we have in India, uh, we have a team of 11 people full-time, and, uh, we, we have a few developers, uh, working out of, uh, two in New Zealand, one in Hungary, and, uh, a good advisory, uh, team, uh, based out in the Middle East,…
1701 How He Turned 50k Free Users into $12k in MRR
- ▶ 16:06 Vaibhav Domkundwar California.
1700 How A Bootstrapped $3m Revenue CEO Plans to Handle Virus, Potential Cashflow Issues
- ▶ 11:27 Nathan Latka I think it's a really good, I mean, if you haven't tapped that before, I would ask you why you haven't tapped that before, but, but, uh, Well, you're unique though, Steve, a lot of people haven't, they're, they're not, I mean, especially…
1698 Shift Sells $200m Worth of Cars, Makes $30m, $225m Equity Raised, IPO Next?
- ▶ 1:16 George Arison Um, that's available in all of California and all of Oregon. 3 times in the scene
1691 Why This Company Rebranded with $950k Raised Helping Clients Customize Proposals
- ▶ 0:26 Nathan Latka Of months, 25 people in California and remote, about 15% logo churn per year.
- ▶ 18:48 Nathan Latka 25 people in California and remote.
1667 Top Tech Journalist Predicts We'll All Be Unemployed, Blockchain Takeover, Less Taxes!
- ▶ 11:50 Mike Malone Well, California just outlawed that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:34 Mike Malone So what we're doing now, like in California, we're making it impossible to be an entrepreneur.
1656 With $40m in ARR, He's Helping Office Owners Manage Rooms and Scheduling
- ▶ 7:37 Paul Statham We've got offices in California, in New York, across Europe, uh, Singapore, Australia.
1631 His Argument For Moving from SaaS to On Prem
- ▶ 6:47 Nathan Latka So California, Hungary, team of three, and have you bootstrapped this today, or have you raised?
1624 Why This Founder is Totally Happy Running 2 Businesses At Once
- ▶ 0:20 Nathan Latka Uh, just him really focused on it mainly with, with some other family members, uh, based obviously in California, but also building Skylight, which is a multimillion dollar kind of e-commerce business with a software component they just…
- ▶ 17:06 Nathan Latka Uh, just him really focused on it mainly with, with some other family members, uh, based obviously in California, but also building
1607 Why She Said No To Vista Equity Despite $10m in ARR
- ▶ 10:41 Lauren Hall We've got offices in, um, America, okay, which is California, and we just are now opening Dallas, and we're just opening Canada in January.
1601 If All Content Becomes 3d With AR, VR, This CEO Will Be At The Center Of It
- ▶ 12:29 Nathan Latka Are all 18 folks based in California? 2 times in the scene
1595 Chegg Founder's New SaaS Company Breaks $7m ARR To Help CNBC Communicate
- ▶ 0:20 Nathan Latka 65 people between California and Pakistan, less than five percent gross revenue churn per year, north of 100%.
- ▶ 0:44 Nathan Latka He is the winner of the prestigious Ernst & Young California Entrepreneur of the Year back in 2009.
- ▶ 6:02 Nathan Latka So this is 65 between, um, California and Pakistan, uh, founded in 2013.
- ▶ 19:07 Nathan Latka They're six months away from being profitable, 65 people between, uh, California and Pakistan, less than five percent gross revenue churn per year, north of a hundred percent net revenue retention.
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space
- ▶ 7:12 Nathan Latka Look, I, I think with under, well, I'd say I think with under a million, considering you're in California, you still can kind of wear your bootstrapped hat, right?
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months
- ▶ 4:43 Tariq Khribech And then eventually get the plan to expand to other market like Atlanta, Georgia, as well as in LA, California.
1534 With $10m in ARR, He Left Amazon to Help F100 Brands Sell More on Amazon
- ▶ 0:27 Nathan Latka On acquisition, so called a hundred grand there, a team of 80 people between California and India.
- ▶ 20:55 Nathan Latka A team of 80 people between California and India.
1532 His Hardware + Software Will Reduce Grain Spoilage by 30-50%
- ▶ 0:34 Nathan Latka They, uh, founded in 2014, team of 20 people between California and remote locations, again, helping the grain industry decrease spoilage by anywhere from 30 to 50%.
- ▶ 15:57 Nathan Latka Uh, 20 people, is everyone based, everyone in, uh, California? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:43 Nathan Latka They, uh, founded in 2014, team of 20 people between California and remote locations.
1519 Health Records Company Hits $23m ARR Serving 6000 Health Customers
- ▶ 0:21 Nathan Latka Over a hundred percent net revenue retention team of about a 103 people between California and Baltimore as they look to scale
- ▶ 8:30 Michael Nusimow Uh, in 2011, we joined the Y Combinator Incubator and actually relocated to California from New York.
- ▶ 10:52 Michael Nusimow uh, we have around 70 people in California. 3 times in the scene
1508 With $1.2m in MRR, They're Making Truck Fleets More Efficient
- ▶ 0:29 Nathan Latka They've got a team of about a hundred people based between Mumbai, California, and other remote locations as they look to keep scaling two or three X year over year.
- ▶ 11:54 Dhruvil Sanghvi Uh, and in North America, uh, we are, uh, having a base in Fremont, California.
- ▶ 18:17 Nathan Latka They've got a team of about a hundred people based between Mumbai, California, and other remote locations as they look to keep scaling two or three X year over year.
1498 Why He Took $1.6M in Venture Debt From Lighter Capital
- ▶ 9:55 Nathan Latka Okay, and is everyone based out there in California, or are you guys spread out?
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