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B2B Hardware Plus SaaS Business Breaks $4.5m in Sales Volume, Super Sticky SaaS Revenues Feb 13, 2022 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 0:11 Nathan Latka You just added another 300,000 dollars in sales from 500 printers on Kickstarter at 600 bucks a pop.
  • ▶ 6:36 Marcos Kern Yeah, we have a Kickstarter campaign, so that's where we obviously sold the pre-orders at a quite discounted price, and now there's like every week, four, five, six, nine, 10, sometimes coming in. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:22 Nathan Latka You just added another 300,000 dollars in sales from 500 printers on Kickstarter at 600 bucks a pop.

Buy Rendering Power with YellowDog, $1.8m ARR, $12.5m Valuation Oct 23, 2021 · 1 mention

Solar Power eCommerce Brand Hits $5m In Sales, 100,000 Customers, Software Next? Oct 2, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:23 Nathan Latka You seeded that with like one K raised 213 grand on Kickstarter took eight months to deliver it.

How GoSun Sold 50,000 Units, $4m Revenue, 250k Community, Software Next? Dec 25, 2020 · 13 mentions

  • ▶ 2:10 Patrick Sherwin It was about seven years ago, twenty-thirteen, uh, launched it on Kickstarter, and it was a, a solar oven, uh, that kind of blew away all other fuel-free devices, uh, cooked a meal in 20 minutes for two people, uh, basically, uh, vacuum… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:57 Nathan Latka And how'd it do on Kickstarter? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 4:37 Patrick Sherwin Uh, and we've done most of them on crowdfunding, Indiegogo, and Kickstarter. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 5:58 Nathan Latka I don't think you'd probably give yourself enough credit, but I mean, I'm looking at highly technical drawings here on the Kickstarter page, where it looks like it's something out of a physics textbook, but like your labels are like… 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 8:16 Nathan Latka Obviously, I imagine Kickstarter gives you the emails of your backers, but are, how are you getting the rest of these opt-ins? 2 times in the scene

MyCroft Raises $5m to Ship Home Speaker Echo Competitor That Doesnt' Suck In Data Sep 26, 2020 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 2:14 Michael Lewis Um, well, uh, to be honest, I was a backer on the Mark II Kickstarter project, and so I've been following Mycroft for a while.
  • ▶ 4:08 Michael Lewis We're going to fulfill our latest Kickstarter, and then we'll continue to sell units direct-to-consumer, but I'm calling them developer kits at this point, because to be honest, the price point isn't really at the level where we could…
  • ▶ 27:12 Nathan Latka They have a lot of backers on Kickstarter.

How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com Aug 19, 2020 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 51:38 Will Schroeder Um, at the time Kickstarter had just done their first million dollar raise.
  • ▶ 1:18:28 Nathan Latka And then, and then how now you see other options like Kickstarter and start engine comparing to fundable.

1590 Why Farmes Are Buying This $1000 IoT Device to Increase Crop Yield Dec 1, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 11:54 Nathan Latka I mean, so you, you had a pretty successful Kickstarter, Kickstarter campaign then. 2 times in the scene

1431 CRM for Speakers Passes $30k in MRR Jun 25, 2019 · 1 mention

1256 How Array.VC Raised First $15m, Why They Like Art19 Investment Jan 1, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:33 Shruti Gandhi You go and fund a Kickstarter campaign today, you have no idea if that is a real campaign or not.

1174 Planning a $50m ICO for Property Investing, 55% Unlevered IRR Historically Oct 11, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:33 Nathan Latka I was just gonna say, if I was doing this, I would do it much like I would do a Kickstarter campaign, which is set my goal for raising fifty million, but before I even go live, I already have the relationships and soft commitments for…

1164 Want Your Own Alexa, Without Amazon Influence? Mycroft Raises $8m For Opensource Voice Stack Oct 1, 2018 · 5 mentions

1040 To Get Rich, Don't Need $1b Exit, She Has 4 Exits Across 10 Companies May 30, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:07 Nathan Latka So tell, what was your, I mean, should we think of you as Kickstarter for these kind of social good causes?

796: Crypto: Kim Jong-un Crypto Funded Nukes vs. Billions Out of Poverty Sep 28, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:27 Nathan Latka If that company fails, though, right, and there is no value delivered, it's essentially the equivalent of someone that paid for a Kickstarter campaign and then never gets the product, but the founders kept all the money, right, or…

785: He Makes $500k+ From Udemy Helping You Code Sep 17, 2017 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 4:05 Evan Leong Um, we raised, uh, money on Kickstarter and then we got a private investor for a little bit more. 5 times in the scene

706: This 31 Year Old Raised $1.3M To Help You Be More Efficient Jun 30, 2017 · 1 mention

701: Smart Desk King Sells $10,000,000+ Jun 25, 2017 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 12:46 Dewey Huynh So for the first sale, uh, we, um, uh, we did a Kickstarter campaign. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 20:24 Nathan Latka They had a 300,000 dollar Kickstarter campaign where they sold a thousand of their smart desks, which are very cool.

694: Why 1 Year Payback Period is Important From $50M Funded CEO Jun 18, 2017 · 1 mention

688: W/ 4 Kids, He Quit Job to Launch Leather Briefcase Company Breton with CEO Joseph May Jun 12, 2017 · 17 mentions

  • ▶ 0:49 Nathan Latka Now, he launched this company last year in 2016 by running a Kickstarter campaign for the modern day briefcase. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 3:40 Nathan Latka And what did you, so what did the Kickstarter do in terms of total money raised? 9 times in the scene
  • ▶ 7:41 Nathan Latka What was total volume in terms of sales, including the Kickstarter and Indiegogo and crowdfunding? 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 13:48 Joseph May Obviously if you're in like an, in Asia or in Seattle and you're in one of those massive, like monsoon rainstorms, you want to get a rain cover and we, we sell those or we had, we sold them in our Kickstarter and we'll probably put them up…

644: Tech CEO Takes on Coffee, $325k Raised, $17k in GMV in Jan 2017 Helping 750 Buyers Find Their Coffee with Crema.co CEO Tyler Tate Apr 29, 2017 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 6:01 Tyler Tate so I started working on Crema at the beginning of, um, we ended up doing a Kickstarter campaign that spring, um, raised about 25,000 dollars, uh, through that, um, and then, um, around the same time, we closed some, uh, some angel money. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:11 Tyler Tate You know, I mentioned we, we did this Kickstarter campaign, so we had a couple hundred people joining our platform for that, and then kind of word of mouth, uh, we were

EP 629: Mexico's Gaszen Raises $700k, Uses Roof Meter to Tell Mexican Households When Gas Is Almost Empty with CEO Jennifer Reyna Apr 14, 2017 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 6:34 Nathan Latka And it looks like you also have done a Kickstarter. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 13:32 Nathan Latka I love that you launched on Kickstarter for kind of pre-sales.
  • ▶ 15:05 Nathan Latka They had a very successful Kickstarter with over a hundred backers and about 5000 dollars raised, which helped them get started.

EP 621:BluePrintRegistry Raises $1.7M, Passes 2500 Postings and $10M in Transaction Volume with CEO Nevin Shetty Apr 6, 2017 · 1 mention

EP 616: His Coffee Shops Do $1.8M But His Crowdfunding Platform is More Impressive With $550k 2016 Revenue on 486 Projects With $2.5M Funded with CEO McCabe Callahan Apr 1, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 10:04 McCabe Callahan Uh, it was about five months after that shop that I heard on NPR a story about Kickstarter, and when they were just starting to expand out of New York, 2 times in the scene

EP 609: Pagecloud Raises $8.5M Helping 8500 SMB's Drag and Drop Websites Together with CEO Craig Fitzpatrick Mar 25, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 8:21 Craig Fitzpatrick Uh, cause we ran something that was like a Kickstarter campaign, although it wasn't on the Kickstarter platform, but the concept was similar.
  • ▶ 10:54 Craig Fitzpatrick Early access, insider information, frankly, founder member status, and the magic of something like a Kickstarter, I gotta give them credit, is this idea of people supporting people.

EP 608: Tinitell Raises $4M, Ships 15,000 Units of Watch That Calls (No Phone Needed) With CEO Mats Horn Mar 24, 2017 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 4:48 Mats Horn We launched the product on Kickstarter in 2014. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:26 Nathan Latka And you chose to go no volume, you did Kickstarter. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 19:00 Nathan Latka Again, they raised, uh, well, Matt's raised capital first through Kickstarter, sold about 1100 units, about a 140 K in revenue, then went on Alibaba, looked around, found suppliers, built up, up to date, has sold volume of about 15,000,…

EP 590 :Particle.io Raises $14M, Passes $5M In Revenue, Helping Usher in IoT Connecting Keurigs to Internet with CEO Zach Supalla Mar 6, 2017 · 11 mentions

  • ▶ 9:58 Zach Supalla Um, so we launched a product on Kickstarter called the spark socket and it was a connected lighting product, kind of like 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 12:04 Nathan Latka Now, Zach talking about reading the market, you have experienced successful and unsuccessful Kickstarter. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:32 Zach Supalla Uh, 2013, well, really it was only the Kickstarter campaign, so you're looking at it.

EP 566: Scollar Founder Sold Company to AutoDesk in 08 Now Making $99 Smart Pet Collar with CEO Lisa Tamayo Feb 10, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:31 Lisa Tamayo In fact, we're getting ready to launch our Kickstarter campaign on January, 24th.

Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns Nov 14, 2016 · 23 mentions

  • ▶ 6:18 Ben Dobbins We then turned around on Kickstarter and funded season two, uh, raised a 112,000 dollars. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 8:13 Nathan Latka And now I am on Kickstarter right now. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:52 Nathan Latka And how do you, like when you originally put up this Kickstarter page for journey quest three, like literally tell me the first thing you did to get traffic here. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 11:59 Ben Dobbins Uh, I have one of the best Kickstarter planning spreadsheets in, in the business that I've built over the last six years. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:39 Ben Dobbins And generally what we've been able to do is use each Kickstarter as an opportunity to do a big merch infusion, where the reward levels are, okay, we're going to get a new round of t-shirts designed,
  • ▶ 20:39 Nathan Latka Once they hit 10,000 dollars per month goal, uh, you'll fund basically a new monthly episode of the, uh, beginning, uh, show The Gamers, which he just mentioned did 174 grand on Kickstarter, uh, on Kickstarter, so that'll be cool. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 22:16 Nathan Latka Over 400,000 dollars he did on Kickstarter for his last, or the season three of The Journey.

EP 457: 4000+ Units Sold Teaching Kids How To Code, $2m+ Raised with Piper Oct 24, 2016 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 2:47 Tommy Gibbons We launched a Kickstarter in the spring of 2015. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 4:17 Nathan Latka So you've, uh, so how much in total funding have you raised, including the two 50 from Kickstarter? 2 times in the scene

EP 450: 14 Ag Companies Raise $32M Using AgFunder.com with CEO Rob Leclerc Oct 17, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:44 Nathan Latka And it's almost like, it's almost like Kickstarter for companies because you can see here, like Motorleaf has, or no, let's go down to what's funded.

EP 435: Consultant does BIG league $600k Last Year, Now Has Unique Model and Coffee with Brad Costanzo Oct 1, 2016 · 1 mention

EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard Sep 29, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:43 Josh Ledgard Well, if customer come in and like, Hey, you know, we're launching a, you know, a, a, um, a Kickstarter campaign for this physical product.

EP 420: $70k 2015, $100k 2016 Infoproduct for Writers with Jordan Hayles Sep 17, 2016 · 1 mention

EP 356: $1M In Guitar Sales From CrowdFunding, Whats Next? With Adam Lee Jul 15, 2016 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 3:07 Adam Lee Uh, we founded the business in 2012 and we launched, uh, our first products on January, 2013 on Kickstarter.
  • ▶ 7:19 Adam Lee Um, I don't know if we'll necessarily use a Kickstarter Indiegogo every time we launch a new product, but we will take a kind of test the crowd approach, you know, whether we're using tilt or something else. 6 times in the scene

This Guy Might Be the Biggest Underground Growth Hacker Ever, EP 304: Vincent Dignan Jun 20, 2016 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:03 Vincent Dignan I may, uh, they may read my book on Kickstarter right now.
  • ▶ 6:21 Vincent Dignan Um, so through this book on Kickstarter and through my talks and some webinars, um, I think it's a little more powerful if you learn it yourself, um, than outsourcing it.

His Agency Has 30% Net Margin on 1,200,000 Top Line in 2015, EP 296: Rob Riggs Jun 17, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:51 Nathan Latka He raised 500 grand on Kickstarter and then another seven million from investors.

MIT Grad Reinventing Clothes with $7,000,000 Raised and $500k on Kickstarter, EP 295: Aman Advani Jun 17, 2016 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 2:44 Aman Advani Um, we launched the company in 2012 on Kickstarter and ended up just having this unbelievable launch where we, we, um, beat our goal by 14 X. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 5:14 Nathan Latka And what is average order size, but you know, between, is it between a 102 hundred, like the Kickstarter campaign?
  • ▶ 21:28 Nathan Latka Remember that as you're building your business from MIT grad Iman and his founders, uh, who launched the business in 2012 with over 500 grand in sales on Kickstarter, which is 14 times their target, uh, growing to where they are today in…

He Can Get You 100,000 Quality Live Viewers Instantly, Ep 294: Eddie Vaca Jun 17, 2016 · 1 mention

Will This 43 Year Old Win The 3D Printing Industry? EP 260: Drew Taylor Jun 5, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 10:13 Drew Taylor So, so that Astro box was basically just a way to prove out our market and to have something great to launch on Kickstarter to get our product out there.

2 Moms, 6 Kids Get Deal on Shark Tank, Take us Behind the Scenes EP 231 Apr 12, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:17 Nathan Latka He left Apple where he led exploratory design and then raised 250,000 bucks for his new product on Kickstarter.

From Apple to Raising $250k on Kickstarter For His New Hardware Company with Nils Mattison EP 230 Apr 12, 2016 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 7:13 Nathan Latka It looks like you launched on Kickstarter and you raised about a quarter of a million bucks. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 13:30 Nils Mattisson Um, we've raised about 300,000 dollars from angels, and then the quarter million from Kickstarter, and that's, uh, up until about now, we're taking about 200 K in another, in another, uh, debt round.
  • ▶ 18:44 Nathan Latka Nils starting at Apple jumped out, raised several 100,000 dollars and is now launching and growing minute with over 4000 units sold and a quarter of a million raised on Kickstarter.

$172k in Debt to $2/5m/Year Painting Company with Father of 2, Matt Shoup EP 229 Apr 6, 2016 · 1 mention

How To Make $500k/year Podcasting With Best Selling Author Jay Baer EP 197 Mar 8, 2016 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 4:11 Nathan Latka And I've seen a few other folks do this like Shankman, but you've got your hug, your haters, the website set up almost like a Kickstarter campaign where there's kind of prizes for levels, break down the psychology there and how that… 2 times in the scene

How to Sell 10,000 Units of a Physical Product Fast with Cathryn and Allen Episode 192 Mar 7, 2016 · 13 mentions

  • ▶ 4:21 unnamed speaker Uh, so we did the Kickstarter. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 6:20 unnamed speaker We've sold like 356 on Kickstarter.
  • ▶ 12:13 unnamed speaker People have gotten the, so our Kickstarter backers, uh, have gotten the journals and a bunch of them are like, I've done more in the past week than I've done in a month.
  • ▶ 13:58 unnamed speaker So the kickstart. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:32 unnamed speaker So the, the product we started developing last year, but we started, we're like, okay, we have to have an email list to launch our Kickstarter. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 20:56 Nathan Latka Alan and Catherine starting off in two separate worlds, linking up early this year, selling well over 300,000 on Kickstarter, over 10,000 units sold, already 16,000 in sales, just halfway into the first month of the year.

His Underwear Story Was Secret Until Now with Franklin Cole Feb 29, 2016 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 1:37 Franklin Cole Uh, yeah, so I think right before we met, I had just done a successful Kickstarter, uh, campaign for an underwear company that I had started with a partner from Australia. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:43 Nathan Latka Okay, so from, you know, underwear entrepreneur on Kickstarter to spending three million and making forty million to father of two plus one on the way, Franklin, dude, you crushed it.

Creative Way to Get Customers From Instagram with Daniel Vitiello of HandGround Feb 28, 2016 · 22 mentions

  • ▶ 1:00 Nathan Latka They raised 309,000 dollars on Kickstarter using a very unique pre-launch strategy that played really heavily on Instagram.
  • ▶ 4:26 Daniel Vitiello Yeah, so his name is Don Craig, and, uh, Don's a fantastic guy, and he's helped out, uh, Ratio is a coffee brewing device with their glass, and, uh, Manual Number One is another coffee device that was on Kickstarter, and he helped them out. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 6:27 Nathan Latka Walk us through, again, you had a hugely successful Kickstarter campaign, pre-sold, 309,000 dollars worth of these things. 9 times in the scene
  • ▶ 12:39 Nathan Latka And have you gotten now more sales outside of the Kickstarter, 309,000? 8 times in the scene
  • ▶ 19:17 Nathan Latka Well, dude, 24 year old entrepreneur who's crushing it, building the world's top of the line coffee, uh, coffee grinder, 309,000 dollars in finances or pre-sales on Kickstarter.

He Crowdfuned $1m. You Won't Believe Why with Christian Smith of Trackr Ep 13 Feb 28, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:37 Nathan Latka They don't want to spend money on manufacturing or marketing before they knowing if, knowing if there's a fit and they're thinking about using one of these crowdfunding platforms like Indiegogo or Kickstarter or

How do You Sell for $90m with NO REVENUE?! EP 167 Feb 23, 2016 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 6:29 Eran Eyal There was the Kickstarter type of concept where people do crowdfunding. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 8:31 Nathan Latka And then additionally, on the crowdfunding front, Iran, we had John Lee Dumas on back in episode one, 63, where he put his freedom journal up on Kickstarter. 2 times in the scene

People Hire Him Behind The Scenes to Launch Their Crowdfunding Campaigns, $40m Raised with Zach Smith of Funded Today Feb 8, 2016 · 12 mentions

  • ▶ 1:06 Nathan Latka His name is Zach Smith, and he is the co-founder and CEO of Funded Today, the world's leading crowdfunding agency, having raised over forty million dollars and counting for over 300 campaigns on Kickstarter and Indiegogo.
  • ▶ 3:49 Zach Smith And the landing page was a simple video, the same exact video that was going to be used on the Kickstarter page, except for we called them to action and said, 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:15 Zach Smith Have they ran a Kickstarter campaign before? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 10:29 Zach Smith She's invented something called the evolution broads, the most funded fashion project in Kickstarter history.
  • ▶ 13:55 Nathan Latka In other words, you have lists of people you know buy on Kickstarter. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:24 Nathan Latka They might be thinking about doing a Kickstarter, and they're going, should I reach out to Zach and work with him? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:32 Zach Smith Well, guess what he does when he goes to Kickstarter?
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