Nimble

21 statements across 3 episodes · 7 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 28, 2017 by John Ferrara · said 42 times in 6 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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Apr 28, 2017
Disclosure
Ferrara: I put $3 million of my own capital into Nimble
“So I put in my own money to start the company up. How much? And after I got it, three million.”
John Ferrara Apr 28, 2017 ▶ 11:34 643: Nimble Passes $1.5M In ARR Last Year, $200k MRR now as CRM space heats up with CEO Jon Ferrara
Apr 28, 2017 positive
Insight
Ferrara: Hiring and training retail workers beats hiring $100k sales reps
“So rather than going out and hiring a sales guy for a 100,000 dollars, I'd rather go find somebody who's really cares about customer Customer experience who works at an Apple store or Best Buy or Victoria's Secret, and they may not even have a business or tech…”
John Ferrara Apr 28, 2017 ▶ 15:42 643: Nimble Passes $1.5M In ARR Last Year, $200k MRR now as CRM space heats up with CEO Jon Ferrara
Apr 28, 2017 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ferrara: Nimble maintains about 3% monthly gross customer churn
“About three percent.”
John Ferrara Apr 28, 2017 ▶ 14:15 643: Nimble Passes $1.5M In ARR Last Year, $200k MRR now as CRM space heats up with CEO Jon Ferrara
Apr 28, 2017 neutral
Disclosure
Ferrara: Nimble Series A post-money valuation is around $35M
“And our post money is gonna be around thirty-five million.”
John Ferrara Apr 28, 2017 ▶ 21:10 643: Nimble Passes $1.5M In ARR Last Year, $200k MRR now as CRM space heats up with CEO Jon Ferrara
Apr 28, 2017 negative
Insight
Ferrara: Sales and marketing software should never have been separated
“Because I believe, Nathan, that sales and marketing should have never been split apart. Goldmine did all that in one single unit, and I think today, people don't want to go buy MailChimp to Marketo, HubSpot to Salesforce, and then go out and buy Yesware and To…”
John Ferrara Apr 28, 2017 ▶ 13:11 643: Nimble Passes $1.5M In ARR Last Year, $200k MRR now as CRM space heats up with CEO Jon Ferrara
Apr 28, 2017 neutral
Disclosure
Ferrara: Nimble Generated Roughly $30,000 in First-Year Revenue
“You know, we didn't turn the payroll on until 2013, and I think we might have done, like, 30 grand or so.”
John Ferrara Apr 28, 2017 ▶ 10:08 643: Nimble Passes $1.5M In ARR Last Year, $200k MRR now as CRM space heats up with CEO Jon Ferrara
Apr 28, 2017 bullish
Assertion Supported
Ferrara: Nimble rolled out on 40M Outlook Mobile handsets for free
“We just rolled out Nimble with Microsoft Outlook Mobile on forty million handsets for free, which means you can Nimble anybody in any of your emails and get instant insights on people and companies, and imagine the upsell we're going to be able to do with thos…”
John Ferrara Apr 28, 2017 ▶ 14:33 643: Nimble Passes $1.5M In ARR Last Year, $200k MRR now as CRM space heats up with CEO Jon Ferrara
Apr 28, 2017
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Ferrara: Nimble converts 20% of trials to paid with zero salespeople
“We're generating about 80,000 unique visitors per month on our website with zero marketing. We're converting at 10% of trial and 20% of paid with zero salespeople.”
John Ferrara Apr 28, 2017 ▶ 12:37 643: Nimble Passes $1.5M In ARR Last Year, $200k MRR now as CRM space heats up with CEO Jon Ferrara
Apr 28, 2017
Disclosure
Ferrara: Nimble took angel investment from Cuban, Calacanis, and Dharmesh Shah
“And then after I got it all started up friends and family wanted to give me money, so I took money from Mark Cuban Dharmashar, Jason Calacanis, and other people, Google, and other people like that.”
John Ferrara Apr 28, 2017 ▶ 11:43 643: Nimble Passes $1.5M In ARR Last Year, $200k MRR now as CRM space heats up with CEO Jon Ferrara
Jun 16, 2017 bullish
Assertion Supported
Nimble signs deal with Microsoft to resell CRM through Outlook VARs
“We just signed a deal with Microsoft where they became a reseller of Nimble. Microsoft has started to resell Nimble with Outlook through their VARs And they're going to gift their VARs Nimble, so that their VARs can be better, smarter, faster at sales and mark…”
John Ferrara Jun 16, 2017 ▶ 6:59 692: With Microsoft Deal and $225k MRR, Will He Win CRM Space?
Jun 16, 2017
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Nimble reached nearly 100,000 monthly website visitors with zero marketing spend
“We got our monthly recurring revenue, monthly recurring unique users to our website at almost a 100,000 uniques per month with zero marketing spend.”
John Ferrara Jun 16, 2017 ▶ 4:59 692: With Microsoft Deal and $225k MRR, Will He Win CRM Space?
Jun 16, 2017
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Ferrara: Nimble has around 10,500 customers
“It's about 10,500.”
John Ferrara Jun 16, 2017 ▶ 10:25 692: With Microsoft Deal and $225k MRR, Will He Win CRM Space?
Jun 16, 2017
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Nimble surrendered under 15% equity in its $9M Series A round
“Lower.”
John Ferrara Jun 16, 2017 ▶ 18:15 692: With Microsoft Deal and $225k MRR, Will He Win CRM Space?
Jun 16, 2017
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Ferrara: Microsoft passes all Nimble revenue to VARs
“Microsoft currently is passing through all that revenue to the VARs. So Microsoft's not actually getting a margin on nimble. So the VARs are getting that margin, and so ultimately what's happening is that the VARs make the margin on the monthly current revenue…”
John Ferrara Jun 16, 2017 ▶ 7:55 692: With Microsoft Deal and $225k MRR, Will He Win CRM Space?
Jun 16, 2017 positive
Insight
Ferrara: Companies should earn influencer advocacy without paying direct fees
“You don't pay them. So what you do is you identify the key influencer of your core constituency in and around the areas of promise your product, so thought leaders that are inspirational in and around the areas of functionality of your products or services, an…”
John Ferrara Jun 16, 2017 ▶ 5:43 692: With Microsoft Deal and $225k MRR, Will He Win CRM Space?
Jun 16, 2017
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Ferrara: Nimble ARPU reaches nearly $30 per month
“So it's actually closer to 30 dollars today, and we see it continuing to grow higher”
John Ferrara Jun 16, 2017 ▶ 8:30 692: With Microsoft Deal and $225k MRR, Will He Win CRM Space?
Jun 16, 2017 bullish
Assertion Partly supported
Microsoft bundles Nimble CRM directly inside Outlook Mobile
“Microsoft has bundled Nimble inside of Outlook Mobile.”
John Ferrara Jun 16, 2017 ▶ 11:46 692: With Microsoft Deal and $225k MRR, Will He Win CRM Space?
Jun 16, 2017 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Nimble's Microsoft integrations convert at double the website rate
“And today, a visitor to our website, we're converting at five percent to trial. But on these outlook mobile and office five integrations, we're converting that double that rate at 10% to trial, which is amazing.”
John Ferrara Jun 16, 2017 ▶ 14:17 692: With Microsoft Deal and $225k MRR, Will He Win CRM Space?
Jun 16, 2017
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ferrara: VARs earn 20% margin selling Nimble
“About 20%.”
John Ferrara Jun 16, 2017 ▶ 8:14 692: With Microsoft Deal and $225k MRR, Will He Win CRM Space?
Jun 16, 2017
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ferrara: Nimble reached $225k MRR in March 2017
“So which about 225,000 dollars.”
John Ferrara Jun 16, 2017 ▶ 10:12 692: With Microsoft Deal and $225k MRR, Will He Win CRM Space?
Apr 27, 2021 neutral
Assertion Supported
Peterson: GoldMine founder John Ferrara sold out and now runs Nimble
“The founder sold out and he's running another product called Nimble right now.”
Paul Peterson Apr 27, 2021 ▶ 2:21 Original On-Prem CRM GoldMine Still Does $3.6m in Maintenance Revenue, SaaS Play?
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