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EP 524: Podium Hits $1m MRR in 12 Months, $4m Raised with 6500 SMB Customers sub 1% Churn with CEO Eric Rea
- ▶ 10:03 Nathan Latka And then how do you, this is obviously gets dangerous because we're playing with Excel sheets and kind of forecasting, but what do you anticipate the average customer stays with you for in terms of total months and then in terms of…
EP 520: Agency Hits $6M 2016 Revenue Helping 60 Clients with SEO with PowerDigitalMarketing CEO Nick Bjorn
- ▶ 9:38 Nathan Latka Have you figured out to do this where it's not you in an Excel sheet looking at the big writers about soccer cleats and then reaching out to them, sending them gifts and getting them to write a guest
EP 513: $50M Raised, Helping 50k Customers Get Accurate Contact Data with FullContact CEO Bart Lorang
- ▶ 7:42 Bart Lorang Everything that Apple or Microsoft
- ▶ 9:05 Bart Lorang So one of iCloud or exchange or Google, uh, you get, you know, five business cards a month, you get a thousand contacts to storage, uh, you get some basic capability, uh, but the premium plan actually offers you much more in terms of…
- ▶ 15:59 Bart Lorang Yeah, to be honest, I mean, I think the main competitors we look at are, um, Apple, Google, Microsoft in the generic offerings they have, um, as that's sort of the baseline.
EP 512: $70M ARR B2B SaaS with DiscoverOrg CEO Henry Schuck
- ▶ 7:42 Nathan Latka Are they getting an Excel download?
- ▶ 11:52 Nathan Latka I mean, if you, if you want to just extrapolate that in an Excel sheet.
EP 506: Klipfolio $7.9M Raised, 7000 Customers for Smarter Business Dashboards with CEO Allan Wille
- ▶ 13:15 Allan Wille It's, it's the Excels or the, or the Google Sheets, uh, you know, the kind of status quo.
- ▶ 13:27 Allan Wille I think the, the other one that is probably doing the most interesting stuff is probably Microsoft's Power BI product. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:27 Allan Wille I think the, the other one that is probably doing the most interesting stuff is probably Microsoft's Power BI product. 2 times in the scene
EP 499: GetSignEasy Passes $200k MRR and 130k Customers To Help Sign Documents withCEO Sunil Patro
- ▶ 1:40 Nathan Latka He has a decade of experience as a member of multiple early stage product teams at Microsoft, Juniper Networks, and Tukbox, building enterprise communication apps to carrier grade routing system to consumer focused video conferencing…
Ep 483: Pipedrive Passes $10M ARR, Helping 30,000 Customers w/ CRM with CEO Timo Rein
- ▶ 2:35 Timo Rein And it was, um, one of the biggest Microsoft, uh, with the, with the dynamics program, um, which at that time we thought was, was really, really good and functional.
- ▶ 2:35 Timo Rein And it was, um, one of the biggest Microsoft, uh, with the, with the dynamics program, um, which at that time we thought was, was really, really good and functional.
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo
- ▶ 3:19 Brandon Foo So in order to use Polymail, you actually keep using your Gmail accounts or your Outlook account.
- ▶ 13:41 Brandon Foo I mean, if you sort of look at the timeline of Google's or Gmail's products in the past 10 years, it hasn't really changed very significantly, and I think that there's a huge opportunity for innovation where Google, um, or Microsoft even…
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns
- ▶ 20:51 Nathan Latka All right, Ben, we'll link to that in the show notes at NathanLacker.com forward slash the top four seven eight, along with a screenshot of your Kickstarter kind of Excel sheet thing.
EP 457: 4000+ Units Sold Teaching Kids How To Code, $2m+ Raised with Piper
- ▶ 8:23 Tommy Gibbons We were working out of the Microsoft reactor space, which is their incubator in, in San Francisco, and then we moved to our own space in Potrero Hill, which is just down the road.
EP 449: SMB SaaS <3% Churn, $5M Raised, $200k MRR Helping SMB's Manage Relationships with Hatchbuck CEO Don Breckenridge
- ▶ 5:16 Don Breckenridge, Jr. And what I found was most small businesses are using MailChimp, or Constant Contact, or an email newsletter system, and, and maybe some sort of lightweight CRM that's tried, that they try to integrate, or even just a spreadsheet, or…
- ▶ 14:10 Nathan Latka That's where like assumption cells and Excel sheet can be dangerous, but you still have to do it because it gives you at least a, it, it sharpens your gut.
- ▶ 15:17 Don Breckenridge, Jr. And then we do some paid, uh, paid medium, all this, all that media, all this stuff that you would expect from, you know, like, uh, Google AdWords and Bing and so forth.
EP 447: $0 to $13M Agency Revenue in 10 Years with RaizLabs CEO Greg Raiz
- ▶ 3:40 Greg Reyes I, uh, was previously working at Microsoft and I left and, uh, What salary did you give up?
- ▶ 7:39 Greg Reyes Uh, I had about 15, 20 K from, from when I left Microsoft, so it wasn't a ton.
EP 445: $20M in 2015 Infoproduct Revenue With "Degenerate" Customers with Timothy Sykes
- ▶ 6:45 Timothy Sykes So every single press release is like, oh, we're the next Microsoft.
EP 437: SaaS $10m Raised, $8m+ 2015 Revenue, The Algorithmic Mckinsey with CB Insights CEO Anand Sanwal
- ▶ 8:33 Anand Sanwal They use our data to basically create a sense of urgency among senior management, so they said, hey, here's, here's all of these potential startups and emerging technologies that are sort of unbundling us, and they've helped, with our…
EP 434: Top SaaS Planning Tool Hits $600k in MRR, 1800 Customers, $13M Raised, Growing Fast With CEO Liz Pearce
- ▶ 2:03 Liz Pearce Liquid Planner is a different kind of project management system, so lots of people have used Microsoft Project.
- ▶ 10:41 Nathan Latka So what, what is your lifetime value right now that you have in all your assumption cells in your Excel planning sheets?
- ▶ 14:06 Liz Pearce It's still Microsoft Project, ironically. 2 times in the scene
EP 431: Agency Does $6m 2015, 41 Employees with Publisher/Advertiser Network CEO Nathan Putnamof Monumetric
- ▶ 5:32 Nathan Latka If you had to put your finger in the air, what percentage is humans in Excel versus machine learning and AI? 4 times in the scene
EP 424: SaaS Teckst Passes 65 Enterprise Customers, $2.5M Raised with CEO Matt Tumbleson
- ▶ 17:01 Nathan Latka You have on the big, you know, PowerPoint slide, you know, the big number you guys hit this year in terms of revenue and everyone's popping champagne and celebrating.
EP 418: Executive Recruiter Made $1.1M 2015, Super High Profit Margin with Matt Schwartz of MJSearch.com
- ▶ 5:09 Matt Schwartz Um, uh, the Microsofts of the world, and we actually, our first placement in that division was one of the, uh, creators of Xbox Connect at Microsoft to lead vending machines at PepsiCo. 3 times in the scene
EP 414: $70M Raised, $30k ACV, SaaS Success VidYard
- ▶ 13:26 Nathan Latka This is always tricky because people will put in the assumptions of an Excel sheet and it will spit out like some ridiculous dollar amount in lifetime value.
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp
- ▶ 17:26 Mathilde Collin Um, but I think, you know, a lot of companies from Microsoft Salesforce, et cetera, have acquired email companies.
Cirrius Insights $640K MRR 100,000 Customers
- ▶ 0:14 Nathan Latka Cirrus Insight is a plugin for Gmail and Outlook that tracks emails, schedules meetings, and automatically updates Salesforce as you work. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:42 Brandon Bruce And then also our new, uh, app for outlook, uh, which we launched, uh, six months ago or so is also marching up the app exchange.
- ▶ 7:29 Brandon Bruce So we, we have a lot of customers that will onboard a new customer facing employee and give them a license of Salesforce, a license of outlook or Gmail and a license of serious insight.
- ▶ 15:05 Brandon Bruce And then we're really ramping into this outlook market, which, you know, by most estimates is about 75% of the market and those customers are four or five times larger. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:53 Brandon Bruce So CirrusInsight.com slash blog is where we post all of our updates, including a big release we did today, which actually brings all of the Salesforce applications that people have built on the force.com platform into the inbox where…
EP 405: 409A Valutions, Cap Table Pro-Formas and More with Jonathan Gass of NomadFinancial
- ▶ 8:31 Nathan Latka And it was a, a basically a pro forma that they put together in Excel that took into account all the money we raised, you know, all the option pools, everything it dilution, everything.
EP 404: $360k June 2016 MRR, $4M ARR, 5000 customers paying $72/mo on average with DaPulse founder Roy Man
EP 402: 25 Years Old, $32 Million Raised, $11 Million 2015 Transaction Volume with Brian Wong of Kiip
- ▶ 18:49 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
- ▶ 18:49 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
- ▶ 21:14 Nathan Latka Top Tribe, if you enjoyed Brian Wong today, go back and listen to Deepak yesterday, who quit his cushy, 200 grand per year corporate job at Microsoft to launch his own startup called KarmaCircles.com.
EP 401: Quit $180k Microsoft Job to Launch Own Startup with KarmaCircles CEO Deepak Goel
- ▶ 1:42 Nathan Latka He's also been a senior executive at Microsoft and Nokia.
- ▶ 9:10 Deepak Goel So when you are talking about corporates like Microsoft or Google, we are talking about 10 to 20,000 employees per month per year, per, per user.
- ▶ 16:17 Nathan Latka Jeff is CEO at LinkedIn, which is obviously now part of Microsoft. 5 times in the scene
EP 400: AdEspresso Hits $20M Valuation, 4000 Customers, $400k MRR with CEO Massimo Chieruzzi
- ▶ 0:52 Nathan Latka Coming up tomorrow morning, you're gonna hear from Deepak, who quit his 180,000 dollar per year Microsoft job to launch his own startup called Karma Circles.
EP 399: $1m+ Mattresses Sold using Toptal.com with Adam Tishman of HelixSleep
- ▶ 22:30 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
- ▶ 22:30 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor
- ▶ 20:46 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
- ▶ 20:46 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
EP 393: How to Do Your Own Thing at 22 with Danavir Sarria of CopyMonk
- ▶ 14:01 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
- ▶ 14:01 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
EP 390: Is This The Most Successful InfoProduct Ever?
- ▶ 13:49 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
- ▶ 13:49 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
EP 389: ConceptDrop Raises $1.1M, Helps You Get Creative Work Done Quick with Phil Alexander EP389
- ▶ 1:58 Phil Alexander Through a series of advanced algorithms and integrations to everyday software, like PowerPoint, for instance.
- ▶ 4:37 Phil Alexander So we started as just an overnight design service for PowerPoint, and we really kind of brought in our scope and our offering over the last couple of years, launching our marketplace in 2015.
EP 387: Restaurant Founder Hits $2m+ Revenue, Doubling Locations
- ▶ 6:34 Regina Pradham Um, but while I was waiting on tables, I waited on this one guy who worked for Microsoft. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:48 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
- ▶ 16:48 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
- ▶ 19:19 Nathan Latka Opened her first location after making some money off Microsoft stock splits in 1998.
EP 384: $105k on 1 Facebook Live, The New Webinar with Carissa Hill Ep 384
- ▶ 5:54 Nathan Latka Like, was she just talking her face, or did she use PowerPoint sites?
- ▶ 11:15 Nathan Latka And so do you put up a PowerPoint slide that says go to this link to buy?
- ▶ 17:41 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
- ▶ 17:41 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
EP 381: Make Beautiful Snaps With BlurBiz, $60k MRR
- ▶ 16:15 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
- ▶ 16:15 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
EP 378: $750k InfoMarketer Sells 130k Books with Peter Voogd
- ▶ 17:07 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
- ▶ 17:07 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
EP 375: Dad of 4 Holds Secret to Buying Time, Clearing Your Calendar With Ari Miesel of LessDoing.com
- ▶ 19:31 Nathan Latka I use their templates and I can avoid using word templates or Excel files.
- ▶ 19:31 Nathan Latka I use their templates and I can avoid using word templates or Excel files.
EP 374: 13 yo Starts Business, Now $1.2M in 2016 with Nick Kullin
- ▶ 11:31 Nathan Latka Did you hear, by the way, just, they just got bought by Microsoft, twenty-six billion dollars.
Ep 372: How to Run A Small, Happy, Profitable Agency With James Turner
- ▶ 13:13 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
- ▶ 13:13 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
EP 369: 22 Customers Pay $50K/Year SaaS AppZen.com with Anant Kale
- ▶ 12:33 Nathan Latka I use their templates and I can avoid using word templates or Excel files.
- ▶ 12:33 Nathan Latka I use their templates and I can avoid using word templates or Excel files.
EP 368: From Blog to $40M/Yr, 23k Customers At Moz With Rand Fishkin
- ▶ 12:08 Nathan Latka And I know you've already updated the, the Moz numbers in the Excel sheet with all the SAS companies at NathanLaka.com.
EP 366: Her Cheese Shop Does $1m+ Annually, EBITDA Low, Why?
- ▶ 25:44 Nathan Latka I use their templates and I can avoid using word templates or Excel files.
- ▶ 25:44 Nathan Latka I use their templates and I can avoid using word templates or Excel files.
EP 365: From Consultant to $300k SaaS with Amit Kotharie of Tallyfy
- ▶ 12:20 Amit Kothari And you're not going to get that with email and spreadsheets and Word documents.
EP 363: Google AdSense for Physical BillBoards Does $250k with Douglas Lusted
- ▶ 12:51 Nathan Latka I use their templates and I can avoid using word templates or Excel files.
- ▶ 12:51 Nathan Latka I use their templates and I can avoid using word templates or Excel files.
EP 360: Two 33 yo Men Selling Baby Products with HUGE Re-Order Rate at BabyMori.com
- ▶ 17:42 Nathan Latka I use their templates and I can avoid using word templates or Excel files.
- ▶ 17:42 Nathan Latka I use their templates and I can avoid using word templates or Excel files.
EP 357: He Quit His Job, Lost His Life Savings, Then Hit it Big With SaaS Business
- ▶ 17:16 Nathan Latka I use their templates and I can avoid using word templates or Excel files.
- ▶ 17:16 Nathan Latka I use their templates and I can avoid using word templates or Excel files.
- ▶ 20:31 Hank Leber And then all of the tools that go with Google from the calendaring to the, you know, Google docs and passing Google word docs and Google Excel sheets.
- ▶ 20:31 Hank Leber And then all of the tools that go with Google from the calendaring to the, you know, Google docs and passing Google word docs and Google Excel sheets.
EP 354: $1.3M in Monthly Revenue to Get You Leads with Alex Berman of Inspired Beats
- ▶ 18:11 Nathan Latka I use their templates and I can avoid using word templates or Excel files.
- ▶ 18:11 Nathan Latka I use their templates and I can avoid using word templates or Excel files.
EP 351: $50K Monthly Revenue, Finally Designers Can Quickly Give File to Developers with Anh Vu of Avocode
- ▶ 16:59 Nathan Latka I use their templates and I can avoid using word templates or Excel files.
- ▶ 16:59 Nathan Latka I use their templates and I can avoid using word templates or Excel files.
EP 348: 11,500 Paying Him To Manage One-Piece Wardrobe with Blake Smith
- ▶ 17:36 Nathan Latka I use their templates and I can avoid using word templates or Excel files.
- ▶ 17:36 Nathan Latka I use their templates and I can avoid using word templates or Excel files.
EP 345: Replacing Property Managers With $79 Flat Fee, $31k in MRR with Max Nussenbaum of EnterCastle.com
- ▶ 11:17 Nathan Latka Which means someone would theoretically on paper in an Excel file stay with you for somewhere around a hundred months at one 74.
- ▶ 18:40 Nathan Latka I use their templates and I can avoid using word templates or Excel files.
- ▶ 18:40 Nathan Latka I use their templates and I can avoid using word templates or Excel files.
EP 344: Business Did $15M in 2015, Weird Way David Fortino Got Job at NetLine
- ▶ 16:03 David Fortino Because Clearbit, I'm stepping out a bit of the Windows, uh, normal Microsoft Office experience over into Gmail to extract
- ▶ 16:03 David Fortino Because Clearbit, I'm stepping out a bit of the Windows, uh, normal Microsoft Office experience over into Gmail to extract
- ▶ 16:11 Nathan Latka Oh, you go back into Microsoft.
EP 342: How to Write a Best-Selling Book with Steve Olsher
- ▶ 23:26 Nathan Latka I use their templates and I can avoid using word templates or Excel files.
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