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How to Scale to $12M ARR: The Serial Founder Playbook for Vertical SaaS and Agentic AI
- ▶ 7:41 Matt Spiegel Um, that's in Chicago every year.
Coro Announces $100m Live on the Show, Their Partnership Playbook
- ▶ 4:41 Dror Liwer So we had, uh, a team that basically out of Chicago that cold called into organizations and sold them cybersecurity.
Masters of Debt: How I bought a $5m SaaS Company Using Debt, Grew to $20m, Then Flipped for a Huge Gain
- ▶ 11:44 Brad Miller Very bootstrapped, uh, was all in Chicago, um, had a hundred buildings in Chicago, and all the other competitors had raised 20 to eighty million dollars, and they were all based in Chicago, too, but he had the number one market share, and… 4 times in the scene
Coro Breaks $25m ARR, Hits $600m Valuation Growing 300% YoY in CyberSecurity for Mid Market Space
- ▶ 1:04 Nathan Latka Up there in Chicago as they look to continue to scale across their three key channels.
- ▶ 5:02 Dror Liwer We have, uh, a team in Chicago, very diligent, that is going out and engaging with potential customers and bringing them on board.
- ▶ 22:21 Dror Liwer Um, and both, uh, we've, we have a massive office in Chicago right now. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:43 Nathan Latka Up there in Chicago as they look to continue to scale across their three key channels.
Bootstrapped to $18m by door knocking while competing with Toast, Square, and other fintechs
- ▶ 2:09 Austin McNair So we don't focus on big towns like Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, all these other areas.
How he doubled from $500k to $1m Last 12 months selling Data as a Service
- ▶ 8:13 Gianluca Ruggiero Our SDR is in Chicago.
A SaaS founder makes $1m off those NFL highlight clips you see on twitter
- ▶ 10:22 Ari Stavchansky Um, I have my backgrounds in filmmaking and in computer science, and also in, also in something called interaction design, which is basically the design of how humans work with, you know, things, products, and, um, you know, I took all…
Unlocking B2B Influencer Marketing: How I used $20k to get over $1M in ARR
- ▶ 13:25 Zach Oates I literally just spoke at the national pizza expo in Chicago, like, 2 times in the scene
How he used community to raise $1m for his Backend as a Service SaaS
- ▶ 0:48 Nathan Latka He's an ex-management consultant for McKinsey & Company, and he also worked at Chicago and Istanbul in the Istanbul and Chicago offices.
This Founder Built 3 SaaS Companies, hit $40m ARR 3 times. Here's how
- ▶ 13:38 Godard Abel And he was just, Salesforce was still private, but I remember I met him at a Salesforce event in Chicago, and I'm like, hey, Mark, I think we could partner, because we were using his CRM, and at the time, it was really only for SMBs, maybe…
- ▶ 15:25 Godard Abel It was like a really shitty office in the Chicago suburbs, a suburb called Highland Park.
Trucking Software Goes $0 to $1.4m in 11 Months, $35m Valuation
- ▶ 5:49 Nathan Latka Are they shipping from, driving from Chicago to New York City or from San Francisco to Washington, D.C.? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:12 Nathan Latka So let's say one of these eight shippers pays and needs you to ship shoes from Chicago to Denver.
Logistics API Software for Collectibles Breaks $75k in MRR After Pivot Away from Marketplace
- ▶ 1:16 Nathan Latka He holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and though he grew up in downtown Chicago, he has called New York City home for the past
- ▶ 20:21 Adam Fields So we've been at, we've added some pretty nice, uh, new investors, um, between, you know, cores and capital, uh, in Chicago and a couple of other funds that have really seen this new direction that we're going, uh, and wanted to help…
MDIHealth Raised $8m, Moving 6 PIlots To Full Time Customers With $1m+ ACV Potential
- ▶ 0:52 Nathan Latka Originally from the suburbs of Chicago, he now lives in Tel Aviv.
224 Communities use Seva to Manage Volunteers, Raising $1.5m on $6m Now
- ▶ 11:41 Anita Beberg As you know, the city of Oakland is, and also Chicago.
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post
- ▶ 1:20 Nathan Latka You teach me about shipping from LA to Chicago, trucks, terminals.
- ▶ 2:44 Oren Zaslansky Think eight drivers, eight trucks, eight terminals to go from that LA to Chicago example that, that we spoke about last time.
DevOps SaaS Data Tool Breaks $4.9m ARR Bootstrapped Using Its Marketplace To Grow
- ▶ 8:32 Pavel Dolezal You know, we, we were experimenting like now once here, we would have one person, you know, you have two people in Chicago or then three people for some time, but we were just experimenting with it.
400 Firms pay $1k/mo For This Investor Database, Growing 100% YoY Bootstrapped
- ▶ 6:30 Guy Koston We cover Boston or Chicago or New York.
Virtual Leasing Tour SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Sells 60% at $34m Valuation Bringing on New Strategic Partner
- ▶ 2:37 Matt Weirich I was moving from Purdue university up to Chicago, about a two to three hour drive, not terribly far, but it was that real estate search process back in, uh, that really opened my eyes to how inefficient the real estate search process was.
- ▶ 7:54 Matt Weirich Uh, so I actually, when I was moving to Chicago, I was starting my career as a consultant at Accenture doing management consulting, and I was on the road for three years straight doing consulting.
- ▶ 11:36 Matt Weirich But, um, it was, uh, uh, there was a lot of attention on the prop tech space in Chicago at that point when we launched our company in Chicago.
Physna Raises $7m More for Geometric Deep Learning in 3d
- ▶ 13:26 Paul Powers That would have been out of an, I, uh, an event up in Chicago, an IMTS event. 2 times in the scene
He's Spent $200k+ on MVP, How He Plans To Get First Customers
- ▶ 2:36 Brian Ouellette And so I did in college, I worked, uh, moved out of, uh, moved to Chicago after graduation, worked on the Chicago board of trade, which is now enrolled up since then, but I got my license out there, began to build my business.
SalesQualia SaaS Secret Weapon, Helping 35 Founders Scale Pipeline, $1m+ Run Rate
- ▶ 4:07 Scott Sambucci The, the bad weeks are when I had to travel to Dallas and Chicago and DC to do implementation.
GetRoute Builds Cleaning Business to $10m in 2020, Now Launches Software
- ▶ 3:44 Ricardo Regalado So anybody in the office could actually work on the bid that you just did a walkthrough for, uh, in Chicago and you could be in Philadelphia.
- ▶ 6:43 Ricardo Regalado Eddie Lou, Eddie Lou here in Chicago and Chris Deutsch here in Chicago. 3 times in the scene
FlockFreight Grows 400% YoY, 500k Pallets Shipped, Still Shy of $1b Valuation
- ▶ 2:22 Oren Zaslansky So it's a little complicated thing to think of, but if you have four pallets of commercially manufactured goods and you're in LA and you want to ship them out to Chicago, you would otherwise move them through the LTL industry, less than…
- ▶ 3:47 Nathan Latka If I want to ship two full trucks from LA to Chicago, and let's say they're Adidas shoes, what am I likely going to pay for that? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:41 Nathan Latka Yeah, yeah, ok, got it, but, but generally, like, a truck like that, LA to Chicago, it's like four grand, something like that.
Checkli Launches Enterprise Plan To Get Past $5k in MRR
- ▶ 5:13 Marvin Russell The last one was actually a local Chicago company, but they literally laughed at the price and said, look, Marvin, we love your product.
Wingman Hits $6k MRR, 24 Y.O Uses to Track Option Trades
LogoPackage Sells $80k One Time To Fuel New SaaS Tool MVP
- ▶ 1:38 Nathan Latka He then made Chicago his home after graduation and worked for design agencies for four years before going freelance.
Param Solutions hits $35k MRR helping People Get Gov Developer Jobs
- ▶ 8:36 Anil Kasablada There are firms, there is a company in Seattle, Chicago.
MediaFly To Acquire More, $20m in ARR, Burning $600k/mo, $28m Raised
- ▶ 1:36 Nathan Latka He's the CEO and founder of the company based in Chicago, really focused on sales enablement.
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?
- ▶ 22:55 Pedro Alves And the, the qualifier of the Valley is, I think that the, the, the point of view that investors take, cause I, I spoke to investors from Boston, Austin, Atlanta, uh, Chicago, New York.
Can SlidesUp Actually Threaten CVent, Bizzabo?
- ▶ 9:26 Kunal Bhatia So our first one was from Chicago and our second one is in Mexico city.
TrueFace Won't Sell Mass Surveillance System to China, Breaks $1m in Revenue
- ▶ 1:44 Nathan Latka His journey to create the company began in 2012, leaving Merrill Lynch in Chicago and booking a one way ticket to Casablanca, Morocco to pursue his entrepreneurial vision, make technology accessible, personable, and trustworthy.
Einar Volsett on How TinySeed Works
- ▶ 20:59 Einar Volset Versus people in places like, you know, you know, Vancouver, or Chicago, or, you know, DC, made their money elsewhere.
- ▶ 48:22 Einar Volset So what happened was I ended up doing, uh, so a friend of mine worked at a consulting firm in Chicago.
New podcast: Anthony Pompliano on Price of Bitcoin, Gold, Chinese Power, Corporate Bailouts and 3 Places He's Investing
- ▶ 17:05 Anthony Pompliano So there was an infant in Chicago, uh, that died.
1672 How This Lawyer Pivoted from IP Protection to CAD Editing with NASA
- ▶ 12:21 Paul Powers That would have been out of an, uh, an event up in Chicago, an IMTS event. 2 times in the scene
1639 How This Company Hit $10M Valuation Serving Real Estate Value Investors
- ▶ 0:24 Nathan Latka 11 folks on the team, again, helping to drive towards profitability now, all based in Chicago.
- ▶ 9:01 Nathan Latka All in, uh, Chicago? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:11 Nathan Latka 11 folks on the team, again, hoping to drive towards profitability now, all based in Chicago.
1617 How He Closed 50,000 Seat Deals on Day 1
- ▶ 0:11 Nathan Latka Professional services, stuff on top of that, again, serving kind of the HR, uh, space, uh, signing deals in the, you know, smallest couple thousand seats, all the way up to big corporate accounts, 50,000 seats, to friends or folks they've…
- ▶ 15:03 James Sturges So these were in the HR space, uh, the SHRM conference in Chicago, which is the largest, uh, SHRM, Society of Human Resource Management, um, which was in Chicago this year. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:33 Nathan Latka 50,000 seats to friends or folks they've networked with at conferences like the SHRM conference in Chicago or the HR tech conference in Vegas.
1605 How He Gets Movers, Trash Companies, Internet Providers To Pay Him Referral Fees on 13,000+ New Home Owners
- ▶ 0:40 Nathan Latka Before that, he was a consultant with AT Kearney, a management consulting firm in Chicago.
- ▶ 4:33 Nathan Latka Um, I end up using a brokerage to do the, to buy my new house in Chicago.
1587 Why Banks Pay Him $2k/year To Help Serve Lower Income Community Members
- ▶ 1:53 Nathan Latka So I'm in Chicago. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:31 Nathan Latka I'm in Chicago. 3 times in the scene
1584 Why 600 Companies Pay Him $150/mo To Help With VC Updates
- ▶ 0:20 Nathan Latka Just now experimenting with paid spend obviously won't go over a 12 month payback period team of five in Chicago and other remote locations.
- ▶ 0:32 Nathan Latka He's from the Midwest and lives in Chicago, attended at Indiana University, and is also an alumni of the Orr Fellowship.
- ▶ 6:01 Mike Preuss We have some folks in Dublin, Chicago, Indianapolis, uh, and, uh, hopefully a couple more in, in Europe coming up soon as well.
- ▶ 17:53 Nathan Latka Team of five in Chicago and other remote locations.
1569 Why 1000+ Boarddecks Get Manged Using This $7m ARR Tool
- ▶ 0:56 Nathan Latka They're based out of Lafayette, Indianapolis, London, Toronto, and he lives in Chicago, Perun.
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months
- ▶ 0:30 Nathan Latka He is, uh, the team leader and CEO and founder at, uh, and director consult, and he's backed by director consultant Terry Friel and various mentors at 1871 Chicago's premier incubator.
- ▶ 4:34 Tariq Khribech Uh, and that's what we feel like, you know, that 500 to 7750 K is a sweet spot for us to focus our economic, our, uh, growth in the city of Chicago
- ▶ 7:23 unnamed speaker Um, that's why with the focus now is shifted back into Chicago, even though if you look at our user map, 2 times in the scene
1526 With $60m in ARR, 1400 Employers, 18m Employees Use JellyVision for Understanding Employee Benefits
- ▶ 0:29 Nathan Latka So healthy growth, 400 people based in Chicago has looked at additional products related to, you know, paid time leave and do I get fired and how's that all work?
- ▶ 0:40 Nathan Latka She is the CEO of Jellyvision, one of Chicago's fastest growing tech companies that serves 1400 customers with Alex, the most helpful employee decision support platform on the planet. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:57 Nathan Latka All in Chicago? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:54 Nathan Latka 400 people based in Chicago has looked to add additional products related to, you know, paid time leave, and do I get fired, and how's that all work?
1510 Would You Compete In a Super Fragmented Space like Checklists Apps?
- ▶ 0:27 Nathan Latka He's the former CEO of a top digital marketing agency in Chicago.
- ▶ 3:12 Nathan Latka So call it two of you guys, both in Chicago.
1508 With $1.2m in MRR, They're Making Truck Fleets More Efficient
- ▶ 11:59 Dhruvil Sanghvi Uh, we have an office in Chicago and New Jersey.
1492 Industrial IoT Platform Hits $150k MRR, 3x YoY growth
- ▶ 13:20 Vinay Nathan And then we also have a small team in Chicago.
1491 $1k/mo Scheduling Tool Turns Down $5m Offer, would you do the same?
- ▶ 8:07 Nathan Latka And, uh, That was up there in Chicago?
1484 Content Marketing at Scale Passes $3m ARR, 500 Customers
- ▶ 1:18 Nathan Latka So two month payback, nine person team in Chicago and other remote locations, again, helping you scale
- ▶ 12:34 Nathan Latka And the nine folks you have, is everyone in Chicago or are they all over? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:42 Nathan Latka Number two, is there a kind of under the radar CEO that you're following in Chicago? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:34 Nathan Latka Nine person team in Chicago and other remote locations.
1456 Hyper Secure CRM Tool Passes $10M in ARR
- ▶ 20:25 Jody Glidden Um, we have some, and, uh, we have a Chicago office now with a half dozen people or so, and then a bunch of other
1426 Adtech DSP Passes $30m in Revenue With Addition of New Data Product
- ▶ 14:00 Michael Beebe We've got a few sales offices in San Francisco, Chicago, Atlanta, LA, and Boston.
1404 He was fired then went all in, now $30k/mo
- ▶ 9:24 John Doherty She's based in Chicago.
1389 With $10m in ARR, He's Helping Publishers Better Monetize Social Traffic
- ▶ 6:55 Jim Anderson I was in Chicago visiting a client and, uh, you know, I lived in Atlanta at the time.
1386 AdTech Platform Acquired by GTCR Doing "Well North of $30m in ARR"
- ▶ 4:14 Frost Prioleau Um, well over, we, we sold about a year ago to GTCR, uh, which is a private equity firm up in, uh, Chicago.
1329 His Product? A Daily Email, 172k Milennial Subscribers and $100k+ in Revenue
- ▶ 0:18 Nathan Latka Two people based in Chicago, list size, 172,000.
- ▶ 13:41 Case Kenney Everyone's always asking, oh, when are you going to do Chicago meetup, LA, New York, something like that.
- ▶ 14:28 Case Kenney I need someone here in Chicago and I have that.
- ▶ 15:57 Nathan Latka Uh, no kids running around Chicago?
- ▶ 16:31 Nathan Latka Two people based in Chicago list size, 172,000
1294 Predictive Supply Chain Company Closes 7 Figure Deals, $12m Raised
- ▶ 7:23 Adam Compain We got some folks in New York and Chicago as well, but most based here.
1249 Hireology Passes $20m in ARR, Helping 5000+ Businesses Hire Better
- ▶ 0:37 Nathan Latka A 170 people between Chicago and other remote locations around the U.S.
- ▶ 15:36 Adam Robinson Uh, we are in Chicago, Illinois. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:12 Nathan Latka A 170 people between Chicago and other remote locations around the US.
1212 Chatbot company SmartAssistant: We'll pass $50m in next few quarters
- ▶ 10:11 Marcus Linder Uh, I wanted to send my first sales director to Chicago, uh, but she said, it's way too cold there.
1210 How this Niche CRM player passed $7m in ARR after CEO Stroke
- ▶ 0:27 Nathan Latka Based between Chicago and China work to give more power back to these nonprofits via the CRM product.
- ▶ 2:59 Jeff Gordy Uh, Chicago. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:16 Jeff Gordy Um, we've got about 56 people here in our Chicago office.
- ▶ 16:49 Nathan Latka Payback period there, obviously, under six months as their team of a hundred people based between Chicago and China work to give more power back to these non-profits via the CRM product.
1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches
- ▶ 10:16 Oren Klaff If you're in Cincinnati, if you're in Chicago, um, you know, we have a good company that is in, uh, that we're working with that's actually in Florida.
1195 3 Metrics Automated Insights Focuses on as a Private Equity Owned Company
- ▶ 11:24 Mark Zionts I moved here post-acquisition, um, after living in Chicago for 30 years.
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