Lately

21 statements across 2 episodes · 8 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Dec 29, 2020 by Kate Chernis · said 26 times in 2 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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Dec 29, 2020 positive
Assertion Supported
Chernis: Gary Vaynerchuk is becoming an investor in Lately
“He is becoming an investor in lately, yes.”
Kate Chernis Dec 29, 2020 ▶ 14:04 How Lately Hit $900k For Social Media Automation Tool Using AI, $7m valuation
Dec 29, 2020
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Chernis: Lately's monthly churn is 2% or less
“Yeah, the churn is two percent per month or less.”
Kate Chernis Dec 29, 2020 ▶ 12:58 How Lately Hit $900k For Social Media Automation Tool Using AI, $7m valuation
Dec 29, 2020
Disclosure
Chernis: Lately secured an oversubscribed $4M term sheet right before COVID
“I graduated in the top three of the class, won the final demo day, had a term sheet in hand, I'm oversubscribed, four million bucks, And the world explodes.”
Kate Chernis Dec 29, 2020 ▶ 9:00 How Lately Hit $900k For Social Media Automation Tool Using AI, $7m valuation
Dec 29, 2020 bullish
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Chernis: Lately is looking to hit $1M ARR by January 2021
“So we're certainly looking at a million in ARR by January.”
Kate Chernis Dec 29, 2020 ▶ 13:42 How Lately Hit $900k For Social Media Automation Tool Using AI, $7m valuation
Dec 29, 2020 bullish
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Chernis: Lately grew MRR from $25k to $74k in 10 months
“So last year we were at 25,000 dollars MRR, and we are now at 74, 74,000 dollars MRR. Oh, great. So that's a 196% increase in 10 months.”
Kate Chernis Dec 29, 2020 ▶ 2:54 How Lately Hit $900k For Social Media Automation Tool Using AI, $7m valuation
Dec 29, 2020
Disclosure
Chernis: Most Lately staff went unpaid for two years during cash crunch
“And so, but that also means most of my staff didn't get paid for the last two years.”
Kate Chernis Dec 29, 2020 ▶ 8:34 How Lately Hit $900k For Social Media Automation Tool Using AI, $7m valuation
Dec 29, 2020 bullish
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Chernis: Lately converted 98% of product demos over 10 months
“The demo has always had a 50% or higher conversion. It's been at 98% for the last 10 months.”
Kate Chernis Dec 29, 2020 ▶ 3:43 How Lately Hit $900k For Social Media Automation Tool Using AI, $7m valuation
Dec 29, 2020 positive
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Chernis: 20% of churned target customers returned after Lately tripled prices
“What's been interesting to us is about 20% of the people that fit our key demographic now, who churned in the past, have come back.”
Kate Chernis Dec 29, 2020 ▶ 7:07 How Lately Hit $900k For Social Media Automation Tool Using AI, $7m valuation
Dec 29, 2020
Disclosure
Chernis: Lately slashed monthly net burn from $100K to $10K
“And so I had no choice, Nathan, but to drop my burn from a hundred K to 10 K, which is pretty amazing.”
Kate Chernis Dec 29, 2020 ▶ 8:22 How Lately Hit $900k For Social Media Automation Tool Using AI, $7m valuation
Oct 29, 2021 neutral
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Bradley-Chernis: Lately maintains 98% sales conversion despite high churn
“Like I've, I still have that 98% sales conversion. I still have that shit, right? Thank God. That's the AI doing his job. But I have a leaky bucket.”
Kate Bradley-Chernis Oct 29, 2021 ▶ 14:49 How Lately Plans to Break $1m in ARR, Raising Now at $10m Valuation
Oct 29, 2021 neutral
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Bradley-Chernis: Lately currently has 358 paying customers
“So we have 358 customers.”
Kate Bradley-Chernis Oct 29, 2021 ▶ 3:18 How Lately Plans to Break $1m in ARR, Raising Now at $10m Valuation
Oct 29, 2021 negative
Disclosure
Bradley-Chernis: Managing Facebook and LinkedIn integrations absorbed 75% of Lately's resources
“And that actually, 75% of my headache as far as resources go, is just dealing with Facebook and LinkedIn and all their bullshit, right? And I didn't understand that Lately could actually function and live without that, so it could be an extension of all the ot…”
Kate Bradley-Chernis Oct 29, 2021 ▶ 5:08 How Lately Plans to Break $1m in ARR, Raising Now at $10m Valuation
Oct 29, 2021 neutral
Assertion Supported
Bradley-Chernis: Lately Has Raised $3.3M in Total Capital
“So actually, actually I've raised 3.3000000 now.”
Kate Bradley-Chernis Oct 29, 2021 ▶ 6:04 How Lately Plans to Break $1m in ARR, Raising Now at $10m Valuation
Oct 29, 2021 neutral
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Bradley-Chernis: Lately MRR is $79k, Down from $94k Peak
“MRR is at 79,000. We were up to 94 and we dropped.”
Kate Bradley-Chernis Oct 29, 2021 ▶ 5:47 How Lately Plans to Break $1m in ARR, Raising Now at $10m Valuation
Oct 29, 2021 neutral
Disclosure
Bradley-Chernis: Founder owns around 38% equity in Lately
“Low, actually. I need to be re-optioned, so I'm around 38%, I believe.”
Kate Bradley-Chernis Oct 29, 2021 ▶ 10:48 How Lately Plans to Break $1m in ARR, Raising Now at $10m Valuation
Oct 29, 2021 neutral
Disclosure
Bradley-Chernis: Lately cap table has roughly 65 angel investors
“So I've raised multiple rounds, but all between 250,750, all angel rounds, and I have a lot of, I mean, my cap table is messy. There's probably 65 people in it.”
Kate Bradley-Chernis Oct 29, 2021 ▶ 10:57 How Lately Plans to Break $1m in ARR, Raising Now at $10m Valuation
Oct 29, 2021 positive
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Bradley-Chernis: Lately has 18 months of runway on $48K burn
“Oh yeah, I have 18 months right now worth of runway, and that's in part, basically my burn is about 48,000, so every 50 K gives me three months.”
Kate Bradley-Chernis Oct 29, 2021 ▶ 7:44 How Lately Plans to Break $1m in ARR, Raising Now at $10m Valuation
Oct 29, 2021 positive
Disclosure
Bradley-Chernis: Lately is raising just under $700K on $10M cap
“I was raising two 50 and I got oversubscribed. So we're now at five 35, six, just under 700.”
Kate Bradley-Chernis Oct 29, 2021 ▶ 10:21 How Lately Plans to Break $1m in ARR, Raising Now at $10m Valuation
Oct 29, 2021 positive
Disclosure
Bradley-Chernis: Lately was invited to Stage 2 Capital accelerator without applying
“He led the first ever accelerator from stage two capital this summer. 700 companies were applying. We didn't apply. They just actually asked us to be a part of it, which is great.”
Kate Bradley-Chernis Oct 29, 2021 ▶ 3:54 How Lately Plans to Break $1m in ARR, Raising Now at $10m Valuation
Oct 29, 2021 neutral
Disclosure
Bradley-Chernis Details Lately's Initial 60-20-15-5 Co-Founder Equity Split
“When we first started, it was I'm eight. No, sorry. Steve, 20. I do math backwards. Jason, 15. Brian, five. And then I'm the rest. So that's the ratios.”
Kate Bradley-Chernis Oct 29, 2021 ▶ 13:23 How Lately Plans to Break $1m in ARR, Raising Now at $10m Valuation
Oct 29, 2021
Disclosure
Lately's AI is Trained on Founder Kate Bradley-Chernis's Writing Rules
“So the way Lely's AI works is it first learns from me. I've written thousands of radio scripts and fiction writing major, and it learns from my best practices, which I've listed out for my whole team to Replicate. And so the AI gives us what we need, and then …”
Kate Bradley-Chernis Oct 29, 2021 ▶ 2:38 How Lately Plans to Break $1m in ARR, Raising Now at $10m Valuation
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