Europe

49 statements across 45 episodes · 17 bullish · 7 bearish · 44 people on the record · first statement Feb 23, 2016 by Ida Tin · said 697 times in 382 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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Everything said about Europe, oldest first

Feb 23, 2016
Assertion Supported
Tin: Only 30% of women in Europe and America use hormonal birth control
“Only 30% of women in Europe and America is actually on hormonal birth control.”
Ida Tin Feb 23, 2016 ▶ 5:19 How To Build App Worth $10m With 3 Million Users with Ida Tin of Clue EP 154
Jun 12, 2016 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Carnivore Club reached nearly $200,000 in sales in February 2016
“February, 2016, we did just shy of 200,000 in sales across Canada, the U S and Europe.”
Tim Ray Jun 12, 2016 ▶ 10:20 Meat on Demand Does $1,200,000 in 2015, EP 280: Tim Ray
Oct 5, 2016
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Benson: Helped Creator With 122 Followers Get 10 Free Hotel Nights
“I helped a friend stay in Europe, 10 nights for free. She only has a 122 followers.”
Zach Benson Oct 5, 2016 ▶ 13:10 EP 438: Dancing His Way to $100k+ Business with Instagram Genius, Dancing Wizard Zach Benson
Jan 8, 2017 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Saumet: Typical European SaaS valuation is 5x ARR
“The typical valuation in Europe would be five times our ARR.”
Tim Saumet (Tim Salme) Jan 8, 2017 ▶ 10:31 EP 533: $1.5M Raised, $100k MRR Helping 800 Customers Manage and Track Documents with CEO Tim Samulet
Jan 8, 2017
Assertion Supported
Saumet: European buyers do not Google for proposal management tools
“Nobody in Europe would actually search in Google proposal management tool today. It's the case in the U S but not in Europe.”
Tim Saumet (Tim Salme) Jan 8, 2017 ▶ 15:15 EP 533: $1.5M Raised, $100k MRR Helping 800 Customers Manage and Track Documents with CEO Tim Samulet
Jan 8, 2017 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Saumet: Complex regulations make European e-signatures cost 1 to 2 euros each
“You have to understand that the market is very different between the U S and Europe. Talking about the signature in France or in Europe generally speaking, A signature is a paying we would pay from one to two euros per signature because he has, it's a much mor…”
Tim Saumet (Tim Salme) Jan 8, 2017 ▶ 13:38 EP 533: $1.5M Raised, $100k MRR Helping 800 Customers Manage and Track Documents with CEO Tim Samulet
Mar 12, 2017 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mitkova: ClaimCompass acquires customers for $15 to $27 each
“It depends on the channel and audience as we advertise in a lot of different countries in Europe on a lot of different languages, but it goes between 15 and 27 dollars right now.”
Tatiana Mitkova Mar 12, 2017 ▶ 7:52 EP 596: ClaimCompass Has Helped 1000 Airline Passengers Get $420 Each Back From Airlines for Cancelled Tickets and Lost Items with CEO Tatyana Mitkova
Mar 14, 2017
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fidzup works with 2,500 retail locations mostly in Europe
“2000 2500 in mostly in Europe for now.”
Olivier Magnan-Saurin Mar 14, 2017 ▶ 3:19 EP 598: Fidzup Riases $3.7M, Helping 2500 Retail Locations Track In Store Visits From Advertising, 25 Team with CEO Olivier Magnan-Saurin
May 18, 2017 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Delivv.io's operating costs in South Africa are one-eighth of Western markets
“Yeah, they're probably one-eighth the price it would cost us to run the business. In Europe or North America.”
Trevor Wolfe May 18, 2017 ▶ 7:38 663: How He Gets Mega-Brands to Pay Him $5,000 To Test Their Ads Before Going Live with Delivv.io CEO Trevor Wolfe
Jun 19, 2017
Assertion Supported
Tech salaries in Stockholm are half of Silicon Valley
“I mean, salaries are about half in, in Europe or in Stockholm or even less compared to Silicon Valley.”
Rickard Carlson Jun 19, 2017 ▶ 10:08 695: When You Deploy Software Product, Use This to Keep Hackers Out with Detectify CEO
Oct 5, 2017 positive
Insight
Latin America offers startups low competition and talent at competitive costs
“Latin America is a great place to get started because it's much less competitive than other more mature markets like, you know, North America or Europe. And it's also like very easy to acquire high quality talent at very competitive costs.”
Spencer Kuhn Oct 5, 2017 ▶ 5:42 803: SaaS: Email He Used To Get From $0 to $10k MRR
Oct 5, 2017 bullish
Disclosure
Highbox plans to raise a 1 million euro Series A in Europe
“Yeah, but actually we're talking right now to a few VCs here in Spain, and we are planning on raising one million euro you know, sort of series A type, type size round for Europe in the next three to six months.”
Spencer Kuhn Oct 5, 2017 ▶ 9:29 803: SaaS: Email He Used To Get From $0 to $10k MRR
May 24, 2018
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Grabowski: Churn is higher in Asian markets than in the US or Europe
“We also serve a lot of markets like you know, India, Malaysia Asia and so on, where we see a little bit higher churn than let's say in the United States where the churn is super low or in Europe.”
Simon Grabowski May 24, 2018 ▶ 11:40 1034 How GetResponse Bootstrapped to $50m+ Revenue
Sep 6, 2018 neutral
Insight
European Banks Typically Match Startup Equity 1:1 With Debt
“And in general, from the very beginning that's exactly how it works in, in France and I say even in Europe. So you have to raise one to get one in debt.”
Tim Salmay Sep 6, 2018 ▶ 8:18 1139 We're about to close $5m round for our sales document tool
Nov 18, 2018
Assertion Supported
SmartAssistant employs over 100 people across the US and Europe
“We have in terms of the teams, we have more than a hundred team members across U.S., Europe”
Marcus Linder Nov 18, 2018 ▶ 7:26 1212 Chatbot company SmartAssistant: We'll pass $50m in next few quarters
Dec 9, 2018 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
The US will soon overtake the UK as TransferWise's largest sending country
“UK is still our biggest sending country. It will be overtaken by US very soon, but today UK is the biggest sending country, and the biggest corridor is from UK to Euros, to all over Europe.”
Taavet Hinrikus Dec 9, 2018 ▶ 21:57 1233 With 4m Customers, $4b Transfered Every Month, is Transferwise The Cheaper Bank Of The Future?
Dec 22, 2018 negative
Opinion
Kimla: Starting a CRM from scratch in Europe will not work
“If you want to start it from really from the scratch in Europe, especially in Vienna, it will not work. The market is too small.”
Nicholas Kimla Dec 22, 2018 ▶ 1:53 1246 What the hell does "We revolutionize everything" mean?
Dec 28, 2018 positive
Opinion
Index Ventures is one of Europe's two most important VC firms
“We knew like they were, you know, one of two really important firms in Europe, and we knew that You know, getting them would kind of help us give, give our brand more visibility and more attention in the markets.”
David Okunyev Dec 28, 2018 ▶ 9:25 1252 Typeform Now At $19m ARR, 50m Forms Each Month, 40,000 Customers
Dec 29, 2018 bullish
Assertion Supported
Smajić: HubSpot is growing new sales faster in Europe than the US
“So I just talked to HubSpot like two weeks ago, they're actually growing their business more in Europe right now, new sales than in the U S”
Samir Smajić Dec 29, 2018 ▶ 12:42 1253 GetAccept Breaks 4000 Customers, Grew ARR 3x to $1.7m in ARR Last 12 Months
Jan 18, 2019 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
PrestaShop powers 270,000 active on-premise stores, with 80% based in Europe
“Hundreds of merchants and on our on-prem solution, we have 270,000 stores active to date, which means that we are part of the leading solution worldwide and the leader on in Europe, because 80% are based in Europe, making us a leader solution in Europe.”
Alexandre Eruimy Jan 18, 2019 ▶ 4:39 1273 270,000 ECommerce Shops Use This Tool (Not Shopify)
Mar 2, 2019 positive
Opinion
Rodriguez: Raising travel tech capital is easier in Europe than US
“I actually think that for the travel space in which we are, it might be easier to raise in Europe today than it is in the US. Because the hospitality market in Europe is very dynamic, very large, and there are many people who really know the market well, and t…”
Juan Rodriguez Mar 2, 2019 ▶ 11:06 1316 3000 Hotels Pay Him $4.3m in ARR to Help With Website Bookings
Apr 22, 2019
Assertion Not checkable as stated
CloudBeds Averages About $200 Per Month From North American Customers
“In North America, it's probably around 200 and some change per month. On an, on, on an average basis, and then Europe might be right around that as well, and then parts of Asia might be much less.”
Adam Harris Apr 22, 2019 ▶ 2:07 1367 CloudBeds Passes $10m in ARR, Launches AirBnB Partnership
May 3, 2019 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
US Market Projected to Overtake UK and Europe for Shorthand
“The US is kind of just coming up and maybe going to overtake that over the next 12 months.”
Ricky Robinson May 3, 2019 ▶ 12:34 1378 250 Content Producers Pay Him $6k/yr For Storytelling Drag and Drop Platform
Jun 29, 2019
Insight
Valishev: Live chat signups convert harder in US and Europe than Brazil
“For example, in Russia it's, or in Brazil, it's really popular nowadays. But for example, in Turkey, in Europe, or for that matter, in the United States, it's, it turns out that it's harder to convert signups to active users.”
Tim Valishev Jun 29, 2019 ▶ 12:58 1435 Live Chat For Business Passes $5m in ARR, 31,000 Customers, Bootstrapped
Aug 7, 2019 positive
Opinion
Von Roeder: Berlin offers the best engineering talent in Europe
“Most are actually based in Berlin because you get, you know, the best engineers in Germany or probably I would say in Europe you get in Berlin.”
Michael Von Roeder Aug 7, 2019 ▶ 14:29 1474 Advantages of IoT+SaaS with $2.5m Revenue CEO of Senorberg
Aug 8, 2019 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Fransen targets a 3M to 5M euro valuation at 40K MRR
“I would say about three to four, three to five million.”
Wart Fransen Aug 8, 2019 ▶ 7:19 1475 If Clearbit and Hubspot Had a Baby...
Sep 29, 2019
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Schwarz: Risk Methods serves 430 enterprise customers in Europe and North America
“So we, today, as of today, we serve from customer base of 430 enterprises across, which are headquartered across Europe and North America.”
Heiko Schwarz Sep 29, 2019 ▶ 9:17 1527 Supply Chain Risk Company Hits $7m in ARR, 130 Customers
Dec 3, 2019 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
iAdvize achieves up to 10x revenue expansion on European accounts
“I think it's some customers we were able to multiply by 10 the revenue generated with them.”
Nicholas de Rosen Dec 3, 2019 ▶ 15:36 1592 Why This $12m ARR Company Had To Pivot Away From Just Live Chat, Rely on $100k+ ACV American Customers
Jan 12, 2020 positive
Opinion
European companies are actively seeking alternatives to US software providers
“Companies are looking for alternatives to U S U S softwares. And we sort of built in a credibility, a brand that sort of makes us stand out in France. That's kind of help the recruitment of new customers.”
Lionel Roux Jan 12, 2020 ▶ 12:47 1632 How He Got 1000 Customers from 42,000 Free Users, $150k in MRR
May 20, 2020 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Santens: European companies absorb about half of VAT increases on average
“We also see in Europe, too, that around, on average, about half of that is passed on, and about half is absorbed”
Scott Santens May 20, 2020 ▶ 13:45 Scott Santens on UBI vs Stimulus Checks
Jun 2, 2020 negative
Disclosure
Trustmary paused US and European marketing after finding product too generic
“We started putting efforts on sales and marketing, for example, in the US and into Europe somewhere The more effort somewhere in the November, December, but then we didn't get a lot of results. So that's why we have been, we scaled that down for a couple of mo…”
Arttu Haho Jun 2, 2020 ▶ 11:58 TrustMary: Transition from $2m Agency to $200k SaaS
Aug 21, 2020 negative
Opinion
Founders cannot build a bootstrapped software company in Western Europe
“You cannot build a product company, especially a bootstrap company from London or anywhere from Europe.”
Saravana Kumar Aug 21, 2020 ▶ 13:18 Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products
Sep 9, 2020
Disclosure
Most of Jiga's European and Israeli customers do not know Xometry
“We are operating mainly in Israel and in Europe, and most of our customers don't even know about Zometry.”
Yonatan Wolowelsky Sep 9, 2020 ▶ 12:22 Jiga3d Connects Engineers to Manufacturers, 30 Transactions at $2k each so Far
Oct 14, 2020 neutral
Opinion
Islay: European product companies lack sales investment and capital
“I think in Europe in particular, there's a lot of great product companies that have you know, don't have the capital to grow and have you know, like, Generally weak. You know, don't have the investment in the sales team. And also in their home markets, it's us…”
James Isilay Oct 14, 2020 ▶ 4:51 Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary
Jun 14, 2021 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
SalesScreen Generates One-Third of Its Revenue from North America
“So we shifted our revenue from being like mainly coming out of Europe. And the Nordics to having like you know, one third of the revenue coming out of North America and, you know, growing very fast.”
Sindre Haaland Jun 14, 2021 ▶ 12:06 Gong Competitor: "We'll Raise at a $120m Valuation" after breaking $6m in ARR
Feb 16, 2022
Disclosure
Lauritzen: raffle.ai plans to delay US expansion until 2023
“But not, I don't think we're going to do it right now. I think we're going to do it in, in, in, in 23. So we are first going to expand in, in Europe.”
Suzanne Lauritzen Feb 16, 2022 ▶ 12:40 AI Powered Internal Search Tool Grows 200%, Breaks $1m Run Rate, $15m Valuation in 2020
Mar 7, 2022 positive
Opinion
Bawas: European startups have higher success rates by doing YC
“They know that if you do YC, it's like you have more chance to succeed in the business. Then when you do it alone and in, in Europe.”
Shafik Bawas Mar 7, 2022 ▶ 15:46 How to Sell $50k Contracts on Day 1 of your Startup
Mar 19, 2022 negative
Opinion
Isilay: European tech companies lack capital and sales investment compared to US and UK
“I think in Europe in particular, there's a lot of great product companies that have you know, I don't have the capital to grow and have you know, like Generally weak. You know, don't have the investment in the sales team. And also in their home markets, it's u…”
James Isilay Mar 19, 2022 ▶ 4:13 Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary
Jun 1, 2022
Disclosure
Higherport plans European expansion in 2023 backed by new funding
“And then, 2023, we will go abroad to Europe. I'm also preparing a funding round in the next months to make that possible.”
Bram Medina Jun 1, 2022 ▶ 14:35 3 co-founders own 33% each of new recruiting marketplace and SaaS tool
Nov 29, 2022 positive
Opinion
Suvanto: Revenue operations is booming in the US but trailing in Europe
“I know in us, the rev ops is, is already booming in Europe. It's sort of coming few steps back.”
Pietari Suvanto Nov 29, 2022 ▶ 16:36 How they hit $12m ARR with just $4m Raised helping RevOps teams with Firmographic Data
Jan 20, 2023
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Free D Group's take rate: under 2% in China, 10-20% in EMEA
“I mean typically, for example, if we, because actually we work with a wide range of suppliers for all the other the merchants from different markets, for example, if it's in China the other the take rate's actually quite quite, quite sad. We're talking about b…”
Abel Zhao Jan 20, 2023 ▶ 4:30 Bootstrapped to $35m Revenue, $15m recurring, $20m One Time Connecting Smart cities in Japan with local farmers
Mar 20, 2023
Disclosure
Danzeisen: Venios operates across Europe, South America, and India
“We started in Germany, then rather fast went into Netherlands, Austria, and Switzerland. Now we do have activities are in whole Europe and also first activities in South America and also in India.”
Jonas Danzeisen Mar 20, 2023 ▶ 2:27 SaaS For Power Grids Hits $5m ARR Charging $5 Per Utility Meter
Mar 23, 2023
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Europe accounts for 60% to 70% of Sourcepoint's total revenue
“That would account for. 60 to 70% of our revenue coming from Europe.”
Ben Brokus Mar 23, 2023 ▶ 12:56 Sourcepoint Hits 500 Customers for Data Privacy Product, Will "definitely hit $50m in 2024"
Oct 10, 2023
What-if
Volpini: WordLift would command $35M in SF versus €20M in Rome
“You know, in Europe, the evaluation are slightly lower. If we would be in San Francisco, that would be maybe a 35, but we are in Rome.”
Andrea Volpini Oct 10, 2023 ▶ 13:35 AI Tool Profited $70k Last Month on $195k of Revenue. Plans to hit $3m ARR By December then Raise $5m.
Apr 16, 2024 negative
Insight
Business failure carries a lasting stigma in Europe unlike the US
“Failure in the U.S. Is a different kind of beast. If you're taking off the football team as wide receiver and you have to go to junior varsity and try to come back to varsity, you're celebrated more if you make it back to varsity because you endure it, you fou…”
Rasmus Holst Apr 16, 2024 ▶ 6:45 This Danish CEO Hit $30m ARR using Unique 14 Hub Model Selling Software for Microsoft Ecosystem
Feb 18, 2025 negative
Insight
Alina Vandenberg says European and Outlook-using prospects close significantly slower
“We also observe that we're gonna sell less well if, sorry, they're based in Europe, they take forever to close. If they're on Outlook, for some reason, people that use Outlook, they're a lot slower to make decisions as well and if they're a traditional company…”
Alina Vandenberg Feb 18, 2025 ▶ 9:11 This CEO Does $50m/yr and is moving to a Flat Org Structure, ChiliPiper CEO
Jul 10, 2026 negative
Disclosure
Wachs: Handwrytten Is Avoiding European Expansion to Prevent Distractions
“You know, there's been talks about expanding into Europe, but the problem is there's so much opportunity here. I just don't need the distraction of dealing with Europe, you know.”
David Wachs Jul 10, 2026 ▶ 10:22 Handwrytten Sends 6 Million Fake Handwritten Notes a Year and Makes $10M
Sep 8, 2026 positive
Assertion Partly supported
European Small Businesses Employ Two-Thirds of the Workforce
“Considering that they employ like two thirds of the workforce in Europe, they create 85% of the new jobs in Europe, and still they don't have this kind of basic infrastructure of external financing to grow and do much more.”
Oliver Moseni Sep 8, 2026 ▶ 1:41 The Surprising Way This Startup Bank Makes Millions
Sep 8, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Froda Takes a 3% to 5% Upfront Credit Loss Buffer
“So we need to hold some buffer for losses, and basically we take that loss up front, right? So if we lend to a customer, we have to take cost for loss as soon as we do the payout. And I, it's about three to five percent.”
Oliver Moseni Sep 8, 2026 ▶ 10:05 The Surprising Way This Startup Bank Makes Millions
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