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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.
- ▶ 15:40 Jeff McQueen It's like, sign up, all right, connect your Google account, connect your office, three 65 account, connect your exchange account, whichever one of those it is, you do that.
- ▶ 15:40 Jeff McQueen It's like, sign up, all right, connect your Google account, connect your office, three 65 account, connect your exchange account, whichever one of those it is, you do that.
875 SaaS: Bizable Passes $1m MRR in Attribution Wars
- ▶ 1:24 Nathan Latka He holds an MBA from Pepperdine university and a BS in computer science from UCSB previously, Aaron worked at Microsoft on Bing ads.
- ▶ 1:24 Nathan Latka He holds an MBA from Pepperdine university and a BS in computer science from UCSB previously, Aaron worked at Microsoft on Bing ads.
- ▶ 3:25 Aaron Bird We launched the company in 2011, um, and, and that's when I left Microsoft to start the company.
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…
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 18:44 Nathan Latka If Jeff and LinkedIn and Microsoft come to you and writes you a, you know, twenty four million dollar check to buy the whole company, do you sell?
865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing
- ▶ 22:36 Ryan Holmes Uh, you know, I really have been, uh, enjoying watching Microsoft's transition and transformation, uh, following Sacha quite a bit, and, and, uh, I love what he's doing. 3 times in the scene
864 SaaS: LiquidPlanner Goes Niche Project Management, $6m+ in ARR
- ▶ 2:02 Liz Pearce So a lot of people, um, are either accidentally or intentionally project managers in their job, and most people have used Microsoft Projects somewhere along the way, 2 times in the scene
862 With $150m+ Revenue, Plus New Product, Can Anyone Catch Sprinklr?
- ▶ 28:05 Ragy Thomas And I think they are the usual suspects, you know, um, Microsoft, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:44 Ragy Thomas And now, I mean, I'm a, um, I use pretty much all the tools everybody use, but the one I'm, I'm like really always on is Skype, Microsoft, um, because they, you know, I'm just always connected.
855 How This Bootstrapped CEO is Competing with $400m Raised Qualtrics
- ▶ 3:55 Greg Harris Should we buy Microsoft? 2 times in the scene
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…
826: AdTech: Bootstrapped to $1m-$10m With 20% EBIDTA Margin
- ▶ 14:20 Christian Geissendoerfer The concept in a few PowerPoint slides.
819: AdTech: Bake Off Leads to Major Acquisition and $100m+ In Media Spend Under Management
- ▶ 4:25 Sandy Lohr You want to make sure that the tools are much easier than what you would find if you had to go into AdWords and Bing and Gemini Yahoo and Facebook.
817: SaaS: DemandBase Raises $65m More, $90m+ ARR, Leading ABM Space, IPO Next?
- ▶ 6:42 Chris Golec Um, so, you know, I don't think it's going to be long before, um, you know, Oracle makes more advancements as well as, you know, SAP and Microsoft.
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
- ▶ 19:27 Barry Clapp A lot of email marketing, um, we go to trade, we go to a few trade shows for the big general ledger packages like Sage and, and Microsoft Dynamics, so we go to their trade shows.
807: He Exited His Company Than Invests $1m Into Energy Company For Operations Roll
- ▶ 6:43 Christopher Engman So, um, I, I think, and in the last 50 years, Sweden hasn't really produced, we've done Spotify, we've done Skype, but Skype was sold to Microsoft, so it, I don't think it counts anymore as a Swedish company, and Spotify is, uh, yeah, it's…
- ▶ 17:00 Christopher Engman Uh, LinkedIn is my favorite online tool, uh, and then actually OneNote from Microsoft, which is maybe a bit boring answer, but.
- ▶ 17:00 Christopher Engman Uh, LinkedIn is my favorite online tool, uh, and then actually OneNote from Microsoft, which is maybe a bit boring answer, but.
805: SaaS: 30,000 Customers Make Him King of Call Tracking and Attribution
- ▶ 10:03 Todd Fisher Bing, Facebook, um.
802: Crypto VC: After $10m Raised in ICO for Fund 3, Now Demand High for $250m Fund 4
- ▶ 23:39 Spencer Bogart Most of the time what those services are doing, whether it's Dell or Expedia, Microsoft, or any of the other websites that, that
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
- ▶ 2:34 Nathan Latka Before that, he worked in product management at eBay with a focus on buyer experience, and before that, in business development at Microsoft, where he helped launch the Xbox three 60 for all you gamers out there.
- ▶ 8:05 Evan Liang So, uh, we went on day one, two guys in a PowerPoint. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:02 Nathan Latka A lot of people put these numbers in an Excel file. 2 times in the scene
793: Will This Funded Event Ticketing Company ICO?
- ▶ 2:20 Nathan Latka He was also COO at Teen Social Network Pisco, uh, Pixo, sorry, and director at Microsoft.
- ▶ 18:07 Sandy Khaund Um, OneNote. 2 times in the scene
780: SaaS: How Did He 2x ARR In Last 12 Months from $6m to $12m?
- ▶ 1:53 Nathan Latka He is the COO and co-founder of Cirrus Insight, the sales plugin for Gmail and Outlook.
- ▶ 3:51 Brandon Bruce So what Serious Insight does at its core is bring Salesforce into the inbox so that you can spend your day working in Gmail, Google Calendar, Outlook, Outlook Calendar, and knock out all your prospects and your customer contacts from there. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:01 Nathan Latka Microsoft actually just announced a few days ago. 2 times in the scene
779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company
- ▶ 19:31 Jeff Glueck And when, you know, when apps like Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, LG, Reddit, Twitter, Pinterest, Snap, these are all paying customers for us.
777: Will Masterclass Win Online Course Wars?
- ▶ 23:35 Nathan Latka If Microsoft and Jeff come to you today into your office and say, David, David's investors, we want to write you a, oh, let me just put it out.
774: CreativeLive's Chase Jarvis: If Linkedin Offered You $200m Do You Take It?
- ▶ 19:20 Nathan Latka LinkedIn's kind of course model with Microsoft and, and they start making good money from that.
- ▶ 22:22 Chase Jarvis Uh, Jeff Weiner, incredible leader of Microsoft or LinkedIn now, Microsoft. 2 times in the scene
767: With $10M Raised Will They Be Sytem of Record for Your COO?
- ▶ 1:59 Nick Candito That makes that a pretty exciting play, and I, I have not taken my eye off what LinkedIn and Microsoft are going to be able to do together, where I've, I've heard some good things about Dynamics, so it will definitely be a race to the…
- ▶ 3:37 Nick Candito It was a lot of Excel.
- ▶ 6:31 Nick Candito Um, and the way I kind of think about enterprise today is that, um, all of these large organizations, they're all using Microsoft products.
- ▶ 16:17 Nick Candito Um, office three 65 is a really exciting integration point for us to just based on some, some assets, right?
- ▶ 16:23 Nick Candito So I think word documents and PDFs that you want people to have access to in the field.
- ▶ 24:59 Nick Candito and I think Microsoft's going to have some really exciting years coming up.
766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections
- ▶ 28:24 Anindya Datta I use, well, I use Outlook and Gmail.
763: He's Raised $18.5m To Help Banks Use Open API's, Makes Money From # of API Calls
- ▶ 14:48 Steve Kirsch I think my, my favorite tool, uh, that I use all the time is, um, uh, is, is an add on, uh, to, uh, uh, to outlook that enables me to, it's called, uh, um, simply file simply.
754: They've Passed $15M in Revenue Using Breakfast Meetups for Growth
- ▶ 4:10 Louis Jonckheere They put it on SharePoint.
750: How to 3x Customer Revenue, Be More Than Just Document Signing
- ▶ 5:51 Nathan Latka They're almost like a PowerPoint, but it's like, if you're an agency listening to this episode right now, you could go in there, create like your, your pitch template.
- ▶ 31:19 Mikita Mikado Uh, I'll name, um, I'll name Satya Nadella, um, because when the transition from Balmer to Satya happened, I was pretty confident that, like, that Microsoft is irrelevant, and that changed, like, fast. 2 times in the scene
749: He's Making $9.6m Off Those Horrible Airport WiFi Connections
- ▶ 3:18 Gavin Wheeldon Um, it was in the translation and interpreting business, and the key thing that we did differently was use technology, so whether that was to, you know, use machine translation engines, and not like Google or MS,
- ▶ 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.
747: This This Six Figure Poker Player Quit to Launch Agency
- ▶ 19:43 Nathan Latka Hal was at Microsoft and worked directly with the billionaire Bill Gates. 2 times in the scene
746: Bill Gates Was Great to Work With, But This Founder Wanted His Own Thing
- ▶ 0:00 Nathan Latka Launched this company, guys, back in 2015 after a long stint, not a stint, actually, a tenure at Microsoft, almost two decades. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21 Nathan Latka He was a leader of the Microsoft Dynamics ERP development team from 2004 to 2014.
- ▶ 1:37 Nathan Latka Uh, tell us first what a Comico does, and let's hear about how you exited Microsoft and got into it in the first place. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:39 unnamed speaker So, so you launched again, uh, back in, uh, you launched it right after you left Microsoft, right, in 2014? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:53 Hal Howard Well, I had the good fortune of, uh, of working with Satya Nadella day to day, uh, before he was the CEO of Microsoft and admiring quite a bit. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:59 Nathan Latka He launched his company, guys, back in 2015 after a long stint, not a stint, actually a tenure at Microsoft, almost two decades.
- ▶ 17:48 Nathan Latka With 1.5 million dollars in revenue, are you going to gonna replace PowerPoint?
745: At $1.5m Revenue, Is This The New PowerPoint?
- ▶ 0:14 Nathan Latka Folks are switching from things like PowerPoint and really engaging with his software.
- ▶ 1:11 Nathan Latka But why did this founder leave Microsoft to start his own thing?
- ▶ 2:23 Jose Cayasso Um, mostly PowerPoint, uh, but we do have some, you know, former Prezi people, uh, that also, you know, are looking for a more efficient way to do it.
- ▶ 8:07 Jose Cayasso Um, you know, we, we competing in SEO with, you know, with our competitors, Prezi PowerPoint is very hard.
- ▶ 16:36 Nathan Latka Folks are switching from things like PowerPoint and really engaging with his software.
744: Companies Pay Her $10-100k to Text Customers Funny Messages
- ▶ 1:05 Nathan Latka Jose Cayazo joins us and with 1.5 million dollars in revenue, the simple question I have is, hey, Jose, are you the new PowerPoint?
738: Is He The Future of Design Collaboartion? 1200 Customers and $3m in Revenues Say Yes!
- ▶ 16:50 Mariano Suarez-Battan I mean, we connect to the FHRN startup, so, I mean, something like a prop there, I mean, it's that we, we got a very good, uh, deal with Microsoft Azure.
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m
- ▶ 10:10 Nathan Latka Or did you test putting his face on the PowerPoint slide and see what the valuation increase would be?
736: How Mobile Analytics Company Went $0 to $4 Million in 12 Months
- ▶ 5:27 Sunil Thomas I've worked at Microsoft and HP and, you know, large enterprise companies too.
- ▶ 17:19 Nathan Latka Microsoft CEO? 2 times in the scene
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.
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns
- ▶ 18:51 Stephen Stuut I'm using Outlook on a Mac. 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 9:49 Heather Marie It was pre-Monster, yeah, and then, um, but I was there from the time it was a PowerPoint and, um, led sales and business development and account management and sales ops, you know, it was kind of a team of one for a while, then…
- ▶ 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.
724: The $70m+ Recruiting Company You've Never Heard Of
- ▶ 20:57 Colin Day I'm, I'm enthralled by Satya at Microsoft and the turnaround that he's, he's putting together. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:33 Colin Day I'm gonna give you the most boring answer in the world, but I just live in, I live in three 65 from Microsoft, honestly, from task management, calendaring, email rules.
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…
721: 543 Upvotes Got Him on HackerNews Front Page
- ▶ 2:09 Owen Sadeghpour So, for example, we had a PowerPoint pitch deck that we had over 200,000 people download, and the people that download it for free get certain color themes, but the members that join our paid service called Plus, and it's really only five,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:07 Owen Sadeghpour So the PowerPoint deck hit both.
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…
716: Putin is Making This Man $50 Million Per Year
- ▶ 16:02 Stu Sjouwerman Well, we have something called a phish alert button, and that's the thing that you slip in Outlook or in Gmail.
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
- ▶ 2:07 Vinay Patankar There's been a lot of tools that have, ah, and there's a lot of incumbents that have built workflow products, you know, all the big IT companies you can think of, Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, all have kind of incumbent solutions, um, but…
- ▶ 6:11 Vinay Patankar You need to basically take that market, which is like a giant 13.5 billion dollar market, um, share points, the biggest product in that market. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 12:03 Scott Wingo It's always been my aspiration, and I remember, um, when I was a kid, my dad was a business person, and he got Fortune Magazine, and I remember the Microsoft IPO, and it said, the cover had a picture of Bill Gates, and it said, you know,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:29 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
- ▶ 23:29 Nathan Latka I use their templates, and I can avoid using Word templates or Excel files.
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