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1173 Loyalty Perk SaaS Hits 2300 Locations, $2.3m in ARR
- ▶ 3:53 Sunil Saha I don't know if you've heard of belly card, for example, out of Chicago, where they had the iPads that sat at the cash register.
1145 How Eero is Locking Down Distribution Channel for "Home Automation Wars" With $100m
- ▶ 1:51 Nathan Latka Nick is originally from Chicago, graduated from Stanford with a BS in management science and engineering, and currently lives in San Francisco with his wife.
1128 New CEO with New Funding Grows SalesScout from $35k to $260k MRR
- ▶ 1:25 Nathan Latka My guest today is Chris Lined, and after co-founding a large retail chain in Chicago in the late seventies, he was persuaded by one of his mentors to get into the data, predictive analytics, and marketing technology space.
1122 Sales Tech CEO "We've Passed $30m in ARR", 70% yoy growth
1062 I raised $5m to spin the company out of corporate
- ▶ 15:37 David Dowhan Uh, we've got people in New York, people in Austin, people in, uh, people in Chicago.
1053 Me: Did You Sell To Vista for $250m? CEO:"Your math astute"
- ▶ 6:03 Jared Schrieber So, uh, we've got about 60 in San Francisco, about 30 in Chicago, 20 in New York, and the rest spread out all over the country, wherever our clients are in sales and services roles.
- ▶ 22:32 Nathan Latka Um, super healthy, uh, revenue retention year-over-year with their team of about a 145 people between San Fran, Chicago, and New York.
1044 How This Engineer Went From $0 to $44k/mo in Revenue
- ▶ 9:01 Igor Povoy So for instance, a local Chicago company, Fuda, I ever heard of Fuda.com?
1042 "We're selling the company right now" for $10m+
- ▶ 11:50 Mike Lapchick The only difference that I would make is that I wouldn't do it in Chicago. 6 times in the scene
1028 Advertisers Put $250m Through Him Last Year As Top Google, Facebook Alternative
- ▶ 17:24 Dan Greenberg We've got headquarters in San Francisco, a bunch of people in New York, London, LA, Detroit, Chicago, uh, Japan, probably somewhere else I'm forgetting.
1017 The New Nielsen? $12m in Revenue Says, Maybe!
- ▶ 14:49 Peter Daboll We have a fairly big presence in New York and a few people in Chicago, and then we're just kind of everywhere, um, wherever the advertisers are.
980 How This Company Uses Free Goodie Boxes and Reviews to Hit $12m in Revenues
- ▶ 17:06 Aiden Akar Uh, we have an office in Toronto, we have some people there, we have some people in Chicago, and we have some engineers overseas.
978 Why Sole Founder is OK Burning $40k Cash and Bootstrapping
- ▶ 9:57 Sam Saltis Uh, uh, Chicago, and I felt the tech community was a bit lack, lacks, um, New York was my second choice, and I went to Dallas, and my Uber driver had open carry guns, so I figured that wasn't, uh, for my daughter,
938 Will 28 Year King of Malware IPO with $130m in ARR in Next 12 months?
- ▶ 3:56 Marcin Kleczynski Although we're in the Bay area, I'm a good old Chicago and Midwest boy.
- ▶ 5:26 Marcin Kleczynski So we, when, when we started the company in Chicago, we just started hiring people from these communities, right?
932 How ShareASale CEO Kept 100% Equity, Sold For $35m+
- ▶ 17:01 Brian Littleton Uh, there's 30 of us here in Chicago, so.
914 Finally Gamers Get Rid of Lag Using New, $6m Funded Tool
913 Adtech: Revenues of $110m on $500m Spend, How it breaks down
- ▶ 21:52 Sean Riegsecker Next year in Chicago, uh, or, you know, I'm in Austin or something.
799: SaaS: How He Grew To $200k MRR, $2m Raised at $7m Cap
798: Mobile Ad Tech Passes $100m in Revenues
- ▶ 0:07 Nathan Latka Now it's over 300 folks between New York, Chicago LA,, L.A., San Francisco, London, Sydney, many other places totally bootstrapped.
- ▶ 14:02 Harry Kargman We have offices, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, um, smaller offices in Detroit and Dallas and Minneapolis.
- ▶ 20:20 Nathan Latka Now it's over 300 folks between New York, Chicago, LA, San Francisco, London,
797: SaaS: How He Did $30m 2016 Revenue And Will Hit $40m This Year
- ▶ 18:06 Irv Shapiro Chicago. 2 times in the scene
783: SaaS: Here's How RFP Scout 3x YoY to $1.2m+ in MRR
- ▶ 13:50 Alex Yakubovich So, like sourcing leaders programs in New York and Chicago and other places. 2 times in the scene
684: How to Raise Your First Round of Funding with Healthcare API, Redox Founder Niko Skievaski
- ▶ 17:33 Nico Skievaski We have a couple of people in Chicago, um, and they're going to open up a tiny office there too.
EP 502: 30% Annual Yield AirBNB Investing with Andrew Keene
- ▶ 9:50 Andrew Keene And unfortunately, you know, I traded on the trading floor in Chicago.
- ▶ 10:32 Andrew Keene Uh, yeah, I own a place in Chicago as well. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:59 Andrew Keene There's a company based in Chicago. 2 times in the scene
EP 489: $200k Shark Tank Deal, Cuban/Sacca, 30,000 People Booked $12M Worth of Sports Weekend Housing from RentLikeAChampion CEO Mike Doyle
- ▶ 9:46 Mike Doyle So, you know, relatively, uh, relatively lean and we're based in, in downtown Chicago. 2 times in the scene
EP 488: Hireology $26M Raised, $1.2M MRR, Helping 4000 Customers Hire More Effectively with Hireology CEO Adam Robinson
- ▶ 11:11 Adam Robinson We're in Chicago downtown. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:13 Adam Robinson We've raised twenty six million dollars in two rounds from, uh, from 2014 to 20 16 from, from Bain Capital Ventures and Baird Venture Partners here in Chicago.
- ▶ 18:59 Nathan Latka Arpu, somewhere around 1.2 million bucks in monthly recurring revenue with his 40, with his, sorry, over a hundred employees based in Chicago.
EP 475: VayStays Helps 150,000+ Quickly Plan Vacations, $5M In TTM Transaction Volume with CEO Chris Brusznicki
- ▶ 1:58 Nathan Latka Chris lives in Chicago with his wife and six kids.
- ▶ 2:28 Chris Brusnicki Those are the companies that are in places like Tahoe, Miami that have 50 to a thousand beautiful villas, townhomes, et cetera, that are right on the beach that they manage for folks that, um, might live in Chicago, New York, LA,… 2 times in the scene
EP 469: SharkTank Sunk Him, Then He Won Big With $1.4M with Revestor CEO Bill Lyons
- ▶ 6:37 Nathan Latka In an Airbnb in Chicago.
EP 401: Quit $180k Microsoft Job to Launch Own Startup with KarmaCircles CEO Deepak Goel
- ▶ 1:13 Nathan Latka Prior to that, he was co-founder and chief technology officer of Pack Back, a Chicago-based startup funded by Mark Cuban and other notable angel investors, where he built their product strategy, online marketing, and engineering team.
EP 389: ConceptDrop Raises $1.1M, Helps You Get Creative Work Done Quick with Phil Alexander EP389
- ▶ 1:14 Nathan Latka But before that, he was a member of 1871 in the greater Chicago area.
- ▶ 2:05 Phil Alexander Um, so we are a Chicago based company.
- ▶ 7:08 Phil Alexander It was actually, it's a, a venture firm in Chicago. 2 times in the scene
Ep 370: $120k 2015 Revenue, Private Chefs for Elderly with Kate Toews of Chefs for Seniors
- ▶ 3:54 Kate Toews We also just opened in the North Shore of Chicago, so we're pretty excited about our growth prospects for the next couple of months.
EP 367: $94M Raised, Car Marketplace, 270 Employees with George Arison of Shift
- ▶ 15:00 George Arison Um, so I actually was at Google, um, before that, uh, so after Taxi Magic, um, uh, when, uh, we, you know, I, I, I helped start Taxi Magic, and we grew up a very, uh, large business in some ways there as well, like we were booking, you…
He's 36 Year Old SaaS Dad of 2, Gets 8+ Hours of Sleep, Business Did $640k in 2015, EP 312: Dave Nevogt
- ▶ 9:57 Dave Nevogt We have a, uh, our lead, another kind of lead developer in Chicago, and then, uh, we've got a big team in Eastern Europe, and then, um, I've got a lot of people all over the world for marketing, really.
EP 321: He's Focused on Social Impact and Still Makes Cash
- ▶ 5:04 Lori Lane-Zucker I've worked with a Chicago-based water purification company that's designing technologies for the billion plus people in the
He is Killing That Annoying "We Missed You" Sticky Note the UPS Always Puts on Your Door, $3m Raised, 10 Teammates, EP 271: Zander Adell
- ▶ 6:52 Xander Adell Uh, right now we're only in San Francisco, Chicago, and New York.
Turning Humans Into Robots For 50 Million Monthly Unique Wesbite Views with Emerson Spartz of Dose.com Ep 240
- ▶ 20:14 Nathan Latka Distributed team or all in Chicago? 3 times in the scene
This 30 Year Old Bought a $6.2m Apartment Complex And Makes How Much Cash Flow? With Joe Fairless Episode 239
- ▶ 7:32 Nathan Latka Once you raised the 1.3 million, bought the 160 unit in Chicago apartment complex.
YEC Lands Forbes Partnership, 1000's of Paying Members Early EP 232
- ▶ 13:57 Ryan Paugh Favorite business book is, uh, a book about Charlie Trotter, who's a famous, famous restaurateur in Chicago.
Sold 5 Companies Before Age of 30, Now Side Stream Income is $500k/Year with Lane Campbell EP 218
- ▶ 4:27 Lane Campbell It's a, it's a venture fund here in Chicago.
They hit $100k/mo in revenue in 2015, now raising $2.5m round of funding with Eran Eyal episode 188
- ▶ 6:15 Nathan Latka I mean, he used, you know, in that episode, which was 31, he walked through kind of one growth tactic that got him 250 K and a spot in tech stars up in Chicago.
How to Quit Corporate for a Startup with Kristi Zulkhe Episode 181
- ▶ 13:26 Christy Zulkhe I tend to follow CEOs that are local, that can be tangible to me, and that I can network with, and so the two that I follow in Chicago are, um, the CEO of Blue Dog Design and Innovation Company, Michelle Hayward, who has built
He Pushed Button, $1 Trillion Transferred with Nick Sonnenbergof CalvinApp
- ▶ 2:41 Nick Sonnenberg You know, investing tons of millions and millions in like microwave technology to submit packets or to, to ship from New York to Chicago to save literally microseconds.
How to Build SaaS Company in Small Biz Space, Sell for $30m With Jay Bean
- ▶ 12:16 Nathan Latka So there's, there was a lot of like recent graduates listening that are maybe making 50,000 or 60,000 working in New York or Chicago or San Francisco or Austin, Texas or whatever.
How to Sell $300k Of Your Physical Product with Trisha Roy from Barn and Willow
- ▶ 17:10 Nathan Latka This week's winner was Jesse from up in Chicago.
Why You Should Turn Down a $14m Acquisition Offer with Derek Bluford of QuickLegal
- ▶ 17:41 Nathan Latka This week's winner was Jesse from up in Chicago.
Stress Free Way to Launch Startup In Red Tape Industries with Jarie Bolander of Lab Sensor Solutions
- ▶ 15:25 Nathan Latka This week's winner was Jesse from up in Chicago.
How to Do Your First Profitable Real Estate Deal
- ▶ 0:42 Nathan Latka This week's winner was Jesse from up in Chicago.
- ▶ 21:29 Nathan Latka This week's winner was Jesse from up in Chicago.
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