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888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical
- ▶ 14:59 Jeff McQueen No one got into the business of being an architect to sit there and update Excel or to fill in a reporting system to make a CFO happy.
The "GiftCard Trick" to $6m in ARR
- ▶ 2:08 Pete Lamson Um, achieve more effective recruiting results, and I think we've all, uh, worked in environments where companies, uh, recruit using an antiquated, uh, recruiting process, which usually is some hodgepodge of email inboxes, um, uh, Excel…
- ▶ 8:42 Nathan Latka You assume in your projections and Excel sheets, you assume lifetime value is about 21,000 bucks.
SaaS: North Dakota $400k+ MRR Helping You Manage Marketing Calendar
- ▶ 12:59 Garrett Moon So like literally sifting through Excel files, uh, headlines and breaking them out and trying to get hints as to what, uh, types of headlines were performing well was a very long tail piece of marketing, uh, that has paid off for us for…
809: How This $12m Accounting Biz Moves from On-Prem to SaaS Model
- ▶ 2:26 Barry Clapp So, 80%, 70 or 80%, depending on who you listen to, of people use Excel for their budgeting. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:33 Barry Clapp Um, the people need help to convert their current budget model, which is usually in Excel, over to our tool. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:34 Barry Clapp Subject line was always about, uh, you know, getting off the spreadsheets and getting away from Excel, and so we, we created a really cool video, actually, where we showed that Excel was 40 years old. 3 times in the scene
795: SaaS: With $117m Raised, Google Tried to Kill Him But He's Winning App Deeplinking Wars
- ▶ 21:46 Nathan Latka An Excel spreadsheet?
794: SaaS: How He Used Pizza to Hit $7.5m in ARR and $18m Raised for his Lead Scoring Tool
- ▶ 15:02 Nathan Latka A lot of people put these numbers in an Excel file. 2 times in the scene
767: With $10M Raised Will They Be Sytem of Record for Your COO?
- ▶ 3:37 Nick Candito It was a lot of Excel.
749: He's Making $9.6m Off Those Horrible Airport WiFi Connections
- ▶ 16:43 Nathan Latka And what do you, so obviously at one percent, it's, it becomes dangerous to use an Excel sheet to do one divided by churn and predict lifetime value in months, but you probably have a good guess.
735: Sell Cannabis? He's Raised $3m To Be Your Payroll Management System
- ▶ 3:55 Keegan Peterson So, um, we take on a lot of the responsibility of making sure their taxes are, uh, paid correctly, um, and calculated correctly, uh, into it's like a, uh, advanced Excel. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:14 Keegan Peterson They're, um, trying to use some type of Excel or Intuit to calculate what their taxes are, and then they put their cash in the duffel bag and drive it down to the IRS building.
734: Ex Finance Dad of 3 Wants to Own Your Home
- ▶ 14:41 Nathan Latka I know you guys enjoy listening to every episode each morning, but what if there was an easy way for you to get all of the data I capture on my podcast in a very simple Excel-like
733: With $50M Raised, He's Leading Cargo Container Software Space
- ▶ 5:11 Zvi Schreiber Every single time people send an email to China, they look things up in Excels, and then you're gonna wait two, three, four days just for a price quote.
728: With $24m Raised, Why is He Buildling FinTech On Back of Advisors?
- ▶ 27:40 Nathan Latka I know you guys enjoy listening to every episode each morning, but what if there was an easy way for you to get all of the data I capture on my podcast in a very simple Excel-like format where you just go there, you view it, you sort all…
726: This $500k/mo+ Entrepreneur Says Key is Minimizing Expenses
- ▶ 19:55 Nathan Latka In a very simple Excel-like format where you just go there, you view it, you sort all the companies by revenue or CAC or ARPU or lifetime value or churn or gross margin or valuation, whatever you want.
722: This Machine Learning Agency did $800k Last Year
- ▶ 17:54 Nathan Latka All of the data I capture on my podcast in a very simple Excel-like format where you just go there, you view it, you sort all the companies by revenue or CAC or ARPU or lifetime value or churn or gross margin or valuation, whatever you…
720: How Wealthy People Put On a Conference
- ▶ 18:08 Nathan Latka I know you guys enjoy listening to every episode each morning, but what if there was an easy way for you to get all of the data I capture on my podcast in a very simple Excel-like format where you just go there, you view it, you sort all…
715: This CEO Doesn't Care That VC Has Him By Throat
- ▶ 4:42 Nathan Latka Like how are you potty training your machines to make your predictions more accurate than someone just using a historical Excel sheet or something? 2 times in the scene
714: You Won't Believe What This Divorced Mom Raised $7 Million For
- ▶ 18:56 Nathan Latka All of the data I capture on my podcast in a very simple Excel-like format where you just go there, you view it, you sort all the companies by revenue or CAC or ARPU or lifetime value or churn or gross margin or valuation, whatever you…
712: How To Use a Distribution Channel to Get 200 Customers Paying $15k per Year
- ▶ 1:07 Nathan Latka Hey, did you guys know that if you wanted to get all the data that I capture on this podcast without having to listen to every episode, did you know there's actually like a secret button you can click and get the whole Excel file? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:52 Nathan Latka Hey, did you guys know that if you wanted to get all the data that I capture on this podcast without having to listen to every episode, did you know there's actually like a secret button you can click and get the whole Excel file? 2 times in the scene
706: This 31 Year Old Raised $1.3M To Help You Be More Efficient
- ▶ 6:19 Vinay Patankar Um, and then there's the kind of emerging SMB market, midsize companies market, where it's like a lot of these people are moving off Excel, essentially Excel and word.
704: A Son Saving His Mom With Health Tech Product That Recognizes Seizures
- ▶ 16:21 Nathan Latka I use their templates and I can avoid using word templates or Excel files.
697: How $1m in Personal Guaruntees Led to $500M IPO 15 Years Later
- ▶ 23:29 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
694: Why 1 Year Payback Period is Important From $50M Funded CEO
- ▶ 12:18 Nathan Latka It's dangerous to extrapolate numbers in an Excel sheet, but other times the upside truly is unstoppable.
687: Monaco Bored Him, Now Places Ads on DIgital Billboards with VistarMedia CEO Jeremy Ozen
- ▶ 5:46 Jeremy Ozen And, um, so I, I mean, I had an interesting time working there, but the, there was a point where I sort of decided that a company is certainly a lot more than what you can put onto an Excel spreadsheet, and I kind of got set up with that,…
683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele
- ▶ 13:35 Nathan Latka Cause you'll have a lot of over-optimistic brand new founders who will go on an Excel sheet and say, we have one percent churn.
681: Tai Lopez, Gary V Paid Him To Grow Instagram with Classy Savant CEO Eduardo Gonzalez
- ▶ 11:01 Nathan Latka Like, is there someone that, like you mentioned an Excel sheet with all the Instagram like followers, like it sounds like you might be one of the guys that's driving the growth of a lot of these pages that many of us wouldn't even realize,…
- ▶ 17:55 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
657: Is OnFleet New King of Delivery Economy with 300 Customers Paying $500/mo?
- ▶ 15:16 Khaled Naim Excel files and, you know, Google Docs are the primary competitor, and so obviously we like to think that we add enough value, and so we don't actually have that much churn amongst those types of customers.
650: TREX FinTech $15M Raised, Breaks Down Securitized Loans From Renewable Energy Orginators So Investors Can Buy with CEO Benjamin Cohen
- ▶ 8:10 Benjamin Cohen We have nobody to sell it to, or it's impossible to sell it using old Microsoft Excel models.
- ▶ 14:50 Benjamin Cohen You know, if we have to discount for the first year, we expect these, we expect to be incredibly sticky, because you're not going to go back to an XL model that operates 4000 times slower than
- ▶ 17:25 Benjamin Cohen But because we're competing with in-house Excel models, uh, we just need to be on people's radar.
646: He Coined Term "Growth Hacking" After DropBox, EventBrite, LogMeIn Work, Now Launching Book "Hacking Growth" with Sean Ellis
- ▶ 4:33 Nathan Latka They put it in Excel and it's still not working.
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
- ▶ 19:47 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
641: He Has $25B In Medical Tech Exits, $2B Raised, He's Sitting On PhotoTherapy $1b+ Bet Now with CEO Jim Sweeney
- ▶ 15:16 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
638: Alternative Investment Ideas, His Book Deal Included 10% Royalty, $100k Advance from Entrepreneur Patrick McGinnis
- ▶ 22:57 Nathan Latka I use their templates and I can avoid using word templates or Excel files.
637: Reason Infusionsoft Didn't IPO, Passes $100M ARR, $125M Raised, Helping 45,000 SMB's With Marketing and Sales Automation with CEO Clate Mask
- ▶ 17:55 Nathan Latka A lot of people will use an Excel sheet to back into a lifetime value dollar in terms of, sorry, number in terms of dollars.
635: RocketReach Kills Low Margin Product, Doubles Down on $70 ARPU Customers, $10M 2017 ARR goal with CEO Amit Shanbhag
- ▶ 20:08 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
632: Recursion enzyme company raises $23M, launched in 2013 now 40 people with drugs ready for market with CEO Christopher Gibson
- ▶ 15:41 Nathan Latka I use their templates and I can avoid using word templates or Excel files.
EP 629: Mexico's Gaszen Raises $700k, Uses Roof Meter to Tell Mexican Households When Gas Is Almost Empty with CEO Jennifer Reyna
- ▶ 13:05 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
EP 626: Senior Editor at The Atlantic Releases Book To Predict Popularity In New Distraction Age with writer Derek Thompson
- ▶ 16:15 Nathan Latka I use their templates and I can avoid using word templates or Excel files.
EP 623: rfactr Raises $9m, $900k MRR Helping 220 Customers With Social Selling With CEO Richard Brasser
- ▶ 13:18 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
EP 620: ConversionXL Doing $200k+/Mo With 3 Products, Live Masterclass, Agency, and Self-Serve with CEO Peep Leja
- ▶ 20:47 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker
- ▶ 14:53 Nathan Latka That's just what your Excel sheet says.
EP 617: DataSigns Raises $5.4M, Gives Loans To Indian Credit Borrowers At 1/2 The Rate Money Sharks Do With CEO Monish Anand
- ▶ 16:01 Nathan Latka I use their templates and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
EP 614: Pendo Raises $31M Helping 200 Customers With In App Messaging To Drive Usage with CEO Todd Olson
- ▶ 16:55 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
EP 611: VSee Helping 1000 Customers Use Video To Transact Information with CEO Milton Chen
- ▶ 22:05 Nathan Latka I use their templates and I can avoid using word templates or Excel files.
EP 608: Tinitell Raises $4M, Ships 15,000 Units of Watch That Calls (No Phone Needed) With CEO Mats Horn
- ▶ 17:32 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
EP 606: Hornet Raises $8M to Become Gay Content Hub, 17M Users, 3M MAU with CEO Christof Wittig
- ▶ 22:31 Christoph Wittig Whoever has built a cap table in Excel will never look back. 2 times in the scene
EP 605: Demandbase Will Break $100M ARR 2017 Helping 400 Customers With Account Based Marketing with CEO Chris Golec
- ▶ 16:27 Nathan Latka I use their templates and I can avoid using word templates or Excel files.
EP 602: Findo Raises $7M, Passes 80k Users, 700 Pay $10 to Use AI to Find Their Files Quickly with CEO Gary Fowler
- ▶ 18:27 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
EP 599: Taivaco Helps Brands FInd Old Offline Content to Digitize and Annotate With $50K Raised, CEO Michael Kaplan
- ▶ 17:54 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
EP 596: ClaimCompass Has Helped 1000 Airline Passengers Get $420 Each Back From Airlines for Cancelled Tickets and Lost Items with CEO Tatyana Mitkova
- ▶ 12:34 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
EP 593: XOR Data Announcing $2m Funding Round Live, Invested $800k Before Any Revenue with CEO Mike Cook
- ▶ 16:50 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
EP 590 :Particle.io Raises $14M, Passes $5M In Revenue, Helping Usher in IoT Connecting Keurigs to Internet with CEO Zach Supalla
- ▶ 20:47 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
EP 587: Revue Raises $350k, Helping 1000 Customers Send Personal Newsletters with CEO Martijn De Kuijper
- ▶ 16:00 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
EP 584: FlightFox YC Founder: We Talk About When To Quit All The Time, $700k Revenue, Making Travel Way Easier with CEO Lauren Sullivan
- ▶ 16:27 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
EP 583: Socedo Does $1.5M+ In 2016, $200K MRR Now Helping 200 Customers Close More Leads with CEO Aseem Badshah
- ▶ 15:38 Nathan Latka And, and this is obviously probably extrapolating data in Excel sheets, but what do you assume lifetime value is of a customer?
EP 581: DocSend $11M Raised, 2800+ Company Customers, 10,000+ Seats Because Links > Attachments For Docs with CEO Russ Heddleston
- ▶ 22:12 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
EP 578: Ripple Recruiting Passes 8,000 Ivy League Resumes With 15 Employers Paying $300/mo For Access with Ripple CEO Andrew Myers
- ▶ 20:21 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
EP 575: Fruitstreet Raises $6m From 180 Customers for HealthTech, New Kind of VC with CEO Laurence Girard
- ▶ 9:50 Nathan Latka Do you put them all though in a syndicate and just that one syndicate company is listed on your cap table, or are there literally a 180 different line items in your Excel sheet for your cap table for every name of every investor?
- ▶ 11:16 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
EP 574: Buying $2m 600 Acre Pecan Farm, $450/acre/mo, Literally Shaking Money From Trees with Investor Luke Stronach
- ▶ 14:05 Nathan Latka Carry these grapes, carry this Excel sheet, print the paper, whatever, shovel the dirt.
EP 572: 400,000 Books Sold Teach How to Take $1000 to $1.5m with Author Phil Town
- ▶ 23:44 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
EP 566: Scollar Founder Sold Company to AutoDesk in 08 Now Making $99 Smart Pet Collar with CEO Lisa Tamayo
- ▶ 15:33 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
EP 563: InsightPool Near $300k MRR Helping 100 Big Brands Find Influencers with CEO Devon Wijesinghe
- ▶ 14:15 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
EP 560: Badger Maps Does $1.2M in 2016, $120k MRR, Looking to 3x with CEO Steven Benson
- ▶ 16:31 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
EP 558: 2 yr Old HotJar Passes $500k MRR Helping 10,000 Customers See What Website Visitors Are Doing with CEO David Darmanin
- ▶ 20:04 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
EP 557: Appointlet Hits $35k MRR, Co-Founders Because of Reddit Helping 1100 Customers Schedule with Rami El Chamaa
- ▶ 18:23 Nathan Latka I use their templates and I can avoid using word templates or Excel files.
EP 553: Prospectify Raises $1M at $4M Post Money Valuation, $25k MRR, for Better Prospecting with CEO Matt Ekstrom
- ▶ 9:28 Nathan Latka They download the Excel, they pay the one time, you know, month, they download a crap ton of data, they save in their Excel sheets, and they cancel.
EP 550: Attentive Raises $150K in Portugal to Solve Sales Problem with CEO Daniel Araujo
- ▶ 5:51 Nathan Latka Well, like an Excel doc?
EP 547: Handshake.com Raises $24M, Helping 1000+ Customers Manage Store Product Purchasing with CEO Glen Coates
- ▶ 13:54 Nathan Latka Um, I know you have kind of, it sounds like you have two very distinct cohorts, you know, one's under 50 grand ACV, one's above 50 grand ACV, but generally speaking, what do you project in kind of your board decks and your assumption cells…
EP 546: The Pitch Made $80k in Year 1 Sponsor Revenue, 700,000 Downloads with Producer Josh Muccio
- ▶ 16:18 Nathan Latka Like I have a due diligence Excel sheet of about 600 companies I'm talking to in the marketing, marketing tech and sales tech space.
EP 544: RevBoss $700k 2015 Revenue, Now $90k MRR to Help Customers Drive Revenue with CEO Eric Boggs
- ▶ 15:38 Nathan Latka What's at least in your Excel spreadsheet?
EP 543: Bant CEO Hits $32K MRR, Helping Companies Get Higher Quality Leads with CEO Andrei Breaz
- ▶ 3:53 Nathan Latka Are you any different than these companies where you go and say, you know, download a thousand targeted leads that have a team of 10 people in the B to B enterprise space and they shoot an Excel sheet?
EP 541: VerticalIQ Hits $175k MRR, Helping 140 Banks Prep for Company Meetings with President Bobby Martin
- ▶ 14:43 Nathan Latka You don't want to obviously extrapolate that in an Excel sheet.
EP 530: Shut Down $2m Business, Why with CEO Shawn Livermore
- ▶ 7:37 Sean Livermore Who later, his name was Stan, and he later jumped in as an actual co-founder to kind of help us get the thing off the ground, and then we, you know, did a couple thousand dollars of revenue in that pivot, and we moved from any sort of…