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Mode Grows 95% to $19m ARR, Turning Analysis Into Superhero's
- ▶ 1:17 Derek Steer Well, uh, the, the cushy salary only came after the acquisition by Microsoft. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:58 Derek Steer As though their only knowledge is Excel, right? 2 times in the scene
AgentRisk Has $27m in AUM, Better Version of Family Office?
- ▶ 18:29 John Vlachogiannis Uh, I want to say a little bit Bill Gates, uh, because I love the way that he created Microsoft, uh, and I'm following him on his newsletter, the books that he proposes.
FanDuel Co-Founder Launched New Relationship App Idea, $2m Raised
- ▶ 4:37 Leslie Eccles I had a PowerPoint deck.
FundThrough Hits $240m in Invoices Advanced to 2k+ Founders
- ▶ 15:58 Steven Uster Well, so it was a bit of a hope and a dream and a PowerPoint presentation with a little bit of traction. 2 times in the scene
G2 Hits $50m in ARR (+$20m), and $450m Valuation
- ▶ 12:53 Godard Abel You know, if we're owned by Salesforce, like, because obviously we work with SAP, we work with Oracle, we work with Microsoft, we work with everybody, and so we do like to be neutral to the world of technology.
- ▶ 13:56 Nathan Latka So you're selling to Microsoft, not Salesforce. 2 times in the scene
FullCast Hits $1.1m ARR, Pure SaaS From $1m Agency in Rev Ops Space
- ▶ 1:45 Nathan Latka He co-founded Fullcast.io with Bala in 2017 to transform how go-to-market operations are done based off his prior experience scaling Ops at Salesforce and Microsoft.
- ▶ 2:47 Dharmesh Singh That's done in Excel spreadsheets by sales strategy folks, and that gets, never gets, uh, you know, visibility on the ops side of the house. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:14 Dharmesh Singh We worked at Microsoft. 2 times in the scene
CookieInformation Hits $2m Bootstrapped For Easy GDPR Copmliance
- ▶ 15:58 Karsten Rendemann I actually follow Julie Brill, Corporate VP at Microsoft.
Supermetrics $40m Raise Included Secondary at $200m+ Valuation
- ▶ 3:35 Mikael Thuneberg It was a simple Excel, uh, add on to fetch Google analytics data into Excel to automate that data fetching, which many people were doing manually back then. 5 times in the scene
Cocaine, Coding, and Cashflow, The Truth about Dan Martell
- ▶ 13:15 Dan Martell You had to like say, I want this Microsoft server with the database
- ▶ 13:47 Dan Martell Grabbing this magazine, hiring my little brother Mo for like two bucks an hour, three bucks an hour to sit there and transfer all the addresses and information into a Microsoft Access database.
- ▶ 13:56 Dan Martell And then I did a, a word merge, mail merge in word and printed off this form letter essentially that said, you know, if you, you know, we're maritimevacation.ca.
- ▶ 20:00 Dan Martell We went and paid for Microsoft licenses, you know, thousands of dollars. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:04 Dan Martell That would say most of our costs went into like six grand of it was Microsoft SQL server access, the mail and the web app ISS as like technologies.
- ▶ 29:51 Dan Martell Now people would call it like SharePoint or, you know, Yammer or stuff like that.
Lift-Ai Spins Out of $10m Agency, Goes $0 to $1m Run Rate in 4 Months Bootstrapped
- ▶ 9:09 Don Simpson We worked for like Microsoft in the nineties doing that kind of work.
Trakto Hits $30k MRR With Canva Competitor. Can They Hit $1m ARR?
- ▶ 7:07 Paulo Tenório Create, like, a marketing campaign, and with one push, like, ah, some guy that manages a small school in some other part of Brazil, they're able to access immediately that file that prior to Tracto was using Photoshop or, like, PowerPoint…
Richter Hits $4.5m Fine Tuning Sales Process For F500 Brands
- ▶ 11:42 Robert Cornish But I, at the same time, I think that when you're dealing with a fortune 500 company and they have a specific pitch in their Microsoft cloud, they're pitching their Microsoft cloud. 2 times in the scene
HumanProofDesigns Hit $2m Revenue Selling Starter Sites to New Entrepreneurs
- ▶ 1:37 Nathan Latka He started in the IT consulting industry almost 20 years ago, working for some of the US largest consulting firms, including Accenture and Microsoft.
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently
- ▶ 18:14 Nathan Latka Slack, Atlassian, or Microsoft.
- ▶ 19:26 Nathan Latka Trying to obviously improve that again as they use Slack, Atlassian, Microsoft app exchanges to drive additional customer growth.
NightEye App Lands 2500 Customers Using Unique SEO Fiverr Writing Stratetgy
- ▶ 2:33 Stanislav Dimitrov Uh, Chrome, Chromium, Firefox, Safari, Edge, the old Edge, the new Edge, pretty much we are everywhere, but, but, um, we started with the Chrome.
- ▶ 13:52 Nathan Latka But is it like on in word? 3 times in the scene
VaporWare Charges $25k to Build SaaS MVP, $1.2m 2019 Revenue
- ▶ 16:37 Nathan Latka They will help you get your SAS MVP sort of launched, especially if you're targeted on learning sort of one thing, uh, or kind of think that almost like a PowerPoint deck, but on serious steroids as it actually works.
JazzHR Has Record 40k Applicant Month During Pandemic, $15m Revenue
- ▶ 2:15 Pete Lamson And what we do is we replace, in our target market, um, most customers are using some version of Microsoft Office, which is Excel Docs, and, and Word documents, and email inbox management, so we provide, we replace that with a very simple…
- ▶ 2:15 Pete Lamson And what we do is we replace, in our target market, um, most customers are using some version of Microsoft Office, which is Excel Docs, and, and Word documents, and email inbox management, so we provide, we replace that with a very simple…
- ▶ 2:15 Pete Lamson And what we do is we replace, in our target market, um, most customers are using some version of Microsoft Office, which is Excel Docs, and, and Word documents, and email inbox management, so we provide, we replace that with a very simple…
BrainTrust is Fiverr Owned by The Talent via Crypto Token
- ▶ 11:58 Adam Jackson So Nathan, if you refer Microsoft to brain trust and you use your unique code and Microsoft, that product manager signs up at Microsoft and, um, and starts, Microsoft starts paying invoices. 6 times in the scene
Ironman Software Hits 1500 Customers, $300k Revenue Selling Powershell Microsoft Tool
- ▶ 1:33 Nathan Latka He's a solo founder, Microsoft MVP, and longer time open source contributor.
- ▶ 3:04 Adam Driscoll So PowerShell is a scripting language, um, that Microsoft developed, and it pretty much is used for integrating with, uh, both Microsoft's on-prem Windows systems, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:04 Adam Driscoll So PowerShell is a scripting language, um, that Microsoft developed, and it pretty much is used for integrating with, uh, both Microsoft's on-prem Windows systems,
- ▶ 3:14 Adam Driscoll Uh, as well as, like, their Azure technology, and they've kind of brought it into the, uh, cross-platform world now, so you can manage Linux and that kind of thing.
- ▶ 6:11 Adam Driscoll Uh, well, actually, the open source project that I had running was PowerShell tools for Visual Studio, so Visual Studio is Microsoft's development environment. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:11 Adam Driscoll Uh, well, actually, the open source project that I had running was PowerShell tools for Visual Studio, so Visual Studio is Microsoft's development environment. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:30 Adam Driscoll Yeah, so PowerShell's the scripting and shell language by Microsoft. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:34 Adam Driscoll So they actually, yeah, there's a whole ecosystem there around that, and you know, I have, you know, I have an MVP, a Microsoft MVP in the PowerShell space, so I kind of have like a voice inside that, I guess, domain.
- ▶ 15:49 Adam Driscoll Um, I am really fond of him just seeing the way he transformed Microsoft, so I really like that.
- ▶ 16:56 Nathan Latka Iron Man software playing in a Microsoft scripting, scripting language called PowerShell.
Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products
- ▶ 3:39 Saravana Kumar Like I used to work as a consultant in one of the Microsoft technologies called Bistock server.
- ▶ 3:39 Saravana Kumar Like I used to work as a consultant in one of the Microsoft technologies called Bistock server.
- ▶ 6:42 Saravana Kumar Then document three 60 actually, uh, the first line of code was written in Jan 2018 because, uh, I know the dates very clearly because, uh, this is, this is actually, uh, in October 2017, I was in Microsoft campus for an, for a, for a, for…
- ▶ 22:34 Saravana Kumar Uh, I would say, uh, Microsoft Teams because I, we run the entire company now in the end teams.
- ▶ 22:40 Saravana Kumar Uh, so that's, uh, that's from the business side and from a personal side, I, I know my life revolves around OneNote actually.
SnapBar Looses $3m Photobooth Revenue COVID, Pivots in 8 Days, Makes $500k on New Idea, How?
- ▶ 5:00 Sam Eitzen What we were surprised by when we pushed to e-commerce was that, again, it was these brands, big companies like Microsoft, Google, that would purchase 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:33 Sam Eitzen Um, I study the, uh, Satya Nadella quite a bit from Microsoft.
Artivatic Insurtech API $1m Revenue, Closing $500k Round Now
- ▶ 15:44 Layak Singh Uh, age of now we talk about is either team or June because that's the most businesses comes out of that.
HireClub: How 32k Member FB Group Fueled $25k MRR SaaS Business
- ▶ 1:54 Ketan Anjaria Actually, uh, in 2011, um, I was running a design agency, and I had clients like Microsoft, Adobe, and Twitter
BillBooks Invoicing Tool Hits 5,000 Paying Customers, Bootstrapped
- ▶ 2:01 Sagar Kokakar So, um, billbooks has an aim basically to, uh, simplify invoicing, uh, because, uh, everyone, um, I started, uh, freelancing and started my own company at the age of 2000, uh, 19, in, uh, year 2000, and what I felt was in 2005, until 2005,…
- ▶ 2:01 Sagar Kokakar So, um, billbooks has an aim basically to, uh, simplify invoicing, uh, because, uh, everyone, um, I started, uh, freelancing and started my own company at the age of 2000, uh, 19, in, uh, year 2000, and what I felt was in 2005, until 2005,…
- ▶ 2:01 Sagar Kokakar So, um, billbooks has an aim basically to, uh, simplify invoicing, uh, because, uh, everyone, um, I started, uh, freelancing and started my own company at the age of 2000, uh, 19, in, uh, year 2000, and what I felt was in 2005, until 2005,…
- ▶ 14:25 Nathan Latka Freelance talent on Fiverr to do things like do web queries, um, parse information I need, database management, Excel sheet building, uh, competitive intelligence on my competitors, all kinds of stuff.
KarmaBot Slack Tool Hits $200k Revenues, 233 Customers Using App Exchanges
- ▶ 4:00 Stas Kulesh Uh, Slack and Microsoft Teams and actually Telegram, but we have several chats and we focused on this in chat, uh, interface with people typing stuff.
- ▶ 13:13 Stas Kulesh Microsoft teams has own, uh, marketplace and they just come organically.
- ▶ 16:17 Nathan Latka There are others like Microsoft Rewards Bot, which there's way more traffic potential there, but you rank number 16. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:46 Nathan Latka Right now, starting in Slack and Microsoft Teams, they just passed 200,000 bucks in ARR.
Woven.com: Ex Facebook CIO Looking to Re-Invent How We Setup Meetings
- ▶ 4:01 Tim Campos So the things that Microsoft does and Google do, we didn't want to get into that business.
NoteAffect MVP Cost $1.6m, Founder Bootstrapping Using Cash From Last Exit
- ▶ 4:38 Jay Tokosch So it could be a PowerPoint, it could be a web presentation, it could be off of a smart board, um, could be generated by, you know, some other product like Adobe.
Tyler Tringas: How Earnest Capital Hopes to Re-Invent Startup Investing
- ▶ 10:44 Tyler Tringas So I, I wasn't a software developer, but I was doing, you know, visual basic and massive Excel models and stuff like that.
- ▶ 1:10:50 Tyler Tringas Yeah, that, that's a fair point, but IRR is a very, I mean, you, you know, there's a formula in Excel called equals IRR, right?
Albert Wenger on Work After Capital
- ▶ 19:04 Albert Wenger Like you can get a 100,000 dollars from AWS or from Google cloud and probably also from Microsoft, um, cloud, right?
- ▶ 26:10 Albert Wenger So when that's your fundamental business model, and that's certainly the case for, um, uh, companies like Microsoft, uh, sorry, like Facebook and, and, um,
GeoSpiza First 3 Customers at $160k ACV For Climate Risk Software, How?
- ▶ 10:07 Nathan Latka What I do is I capture a bunch of sounds that I like, and I put them in a little word doc.
153 Brands Use Them To Report Sales Volume to Shopping Malls, $20k in MRR, $1.5m Raised
- ▶ 3:57 Shuram Subramanian And they had no way to do this besides manually some, uh, IT managers pulling out excels and sending it to the systems until they found us through the past company to be able to do this in an automated way for pushing daily sales reports…
Einar Volsett on How TinySeed Works
- ▶ 24:13 Einar Volset I think you wanted to build an Outlook competitor for the desktop.
- ▶ 25:26 Einar Volset I think they're acquired by Microsoft for like,
- ▶ 51:25 Einar Volset It's worth something, like even if, at least if you're breakeven or better, um, you know, and so, so you can actually have an exit and a meaningful one, both for like founders and potentially for investors, even without, you know, IPO-ing…
Get More People to Take Your Online Course w/ Gamification, Solo Founder, $100k in ARR
- ▶ 3:32 Nathan Latka I had my next 10 lesson plans done, which include a six point PowerPoint for each class. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:52 Bernardo Letayf We're working with, uh, Microsoft in Seattle.
11 SaaS Companies, Dane Takes Paperless Pipeline to $2m Revenues, Launches Start From Zero Framework
- ▶ 7:28 Dane Maxwell And, um, it's, it's, what do you use Microsoft Excel for in your business? 4 times in the scene
1764 "CoronaVirus Driving Massive Growth At This $2.5m ARR Virtual Event SaaS Company "
- ▶ 15:12 Muhammad Younas Uh, Satya from Microsoft.
1750 With $12m in ARR Yoast CEO Says Wordpress Couldn't Afford to Acquire
- ▶ 7:07 Joost de Valk I mean, there are sites like thenextweb.com or, um, microsoft.com that run our software, where there's hundreds of people working on that site, and it's only one site.
1743 Zapier Hits 100k Customers, $50m in ARR, Eye on Doubling YoY with New Partnerships
- ▶ 7:18 Wade Foster A modern Excel macro.
1742 How Elastic.io Sold, Got Earnout and Hit $6m ARR in PaaS Space
- ▶ 8:27 Renat Zubairov So they connect a lot of Azure services through Elastic.
When Will Poor Revolt Against Rich? Is Unemployment Good? Currency Pegged To Bitcoin with Jeff Booth
- ▶ 46:52 Jeff Booth If Elizabeth Warren or anybody breaks up Amazon or Google, um, or the giant AI companies, or, or Microsoft for that, that, that, that matter, effectively by doing that, you seed AI superiority to China.
- ▶ 1:00:36 Jeff Booth I would bet on Microsoft today.
1732 Why Is He "Waiting" To Drive Sales?
- ▶ 3:25 Nathan Latka Usually I'll send you a PowerPoint ahead of time, you'll look through it, and maybe I'll have my iPad on the table in front of us when we meet in person.
1731 How He Raised $10m From PE To Buy Out 80% Cofounders
- ▶ 10:29 Nathan Latka Freelance talent on Fiverr to do things like do web queries, um, parse information I need, database management, Excel sheet building, uh, competitive intelligence on my competitors, all kinds of stuff.
New podcast: Jason Yanowitz on Consequences of Fed Stimulus, Socialism Next, Bitcoin Halving
- ▶ 37:21 Jason Yanowitz Well in the top 10 holdings for all three of those classes, you had Amazon, you had Apple, you had Berkshire, or you had Facebook and Microsoft.
- ▶ 39:42 Nathan Latka But when you look at cash positions at some of these companies, right, even in Q four, two, 19, Microsoft, one hundred thirty six billion Berkshire Hathaway, one hundred twenty eight billion Alphabet one twenty one billion Apple a hundred…
1725 SEMRush Broke $100m in Revenues in 2019
- ▶ 22:17 Eugene Levin You know, for example, if you have company like Microsoft, and they buy six different subscriptions for their six offices, is it one customer or? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:31 Nathan Latka From Microsoft.
1723 Flat at $2.5m/Year And Totally Happy Helping MidMarket Companies With Their CRM
- ▶ 3:46 Lars Helgeson At the really micro business level, a lot of businesses don't, they're okay with using Excel.
1715 CEO Fine Burning $700k/mo During Virus With Just $6m Revenue Helping Enterprises Manage Data
- ▶ 19:52 Derek Wang Uh, right now is, uh, um, actually a study from Microsoft.
1704 Virus Hits, He's Burning $80k/mo With Just $300k Left in Bank, $3m in ARR, What Should He Do?
- ▶ 11:32 Nathan Latka Freelance talent on Fiverr to do things like do web queries, um, parse information I need, database management, Excel sheet building, uh, competitive intelligence on my competitors, all kinds of stuff.
1702 She's About to Pass $1m in ARR in AI Text Analytics Feedback
- ▶ 3:27 Narjès Boufaden so think of it as a, as an Excel sheet, then you have lines, right?
1675 Doesn't The CEO Have to Be The First Salesperson?
- ▶ 12:57 Nathan Latka Freelance talent on Fiverr to do things like do web queries, um, parse information I need, database management, Excel sheet building, uh, competitive intelligence on my competitors, all kinds of stuff.
1661 How Palo Alto Software Broke $14m in ARR Serving SMB's
- ▶ 3:21 Sabrina Parsons The Windows software business launched actually in, um, 1987. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:27 Sabrina Parsons From our windows products.
1637 The Art of Shifting $60M in 1991 Revenue to Pure SaaS
- ▶ 1:24 Bob Alves We've started 27 years ago, uh, as a Windows solution, so we've been transitioning to a pure play SaaS over the last four or five years.
- ▶ 4:41 Bob Alves We, we were in the business of delivering solutions to nonprofits prior to starting the company, and then Windows was emerging, so we, we built a package, the first package for Windows, um, and it took the company, you know, really… 2 times in the scene
1629 Will a Rebrand Help this $500k MRR Company Break 30% YoY Growth?
- ▶ 2:22 Bruce McGowan When we came into, uh, uh, Salesforce, uh, Salesforce, the financial applications, QuickBooks, the Sage Mass line, Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle, all that, uh, the original customers were folks in QuickBooks in 2006.