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Kadence Reaches $15M ARR Managing Hybrid Work for Revolut & Boeing
- ▶ 11:34 Dan Bladen And then one of my, one of my advisors, mentors, a guy called Kirti, who's the co-founder of, of TechCrunch.
From $7M to $70M Revenue: How RealDefense Scaled Through Acquisitions | Gary Guseinov
- ▶ 10:36 Nathan Latka They're all over TechCrunch and Twitter and the Wall Street Journal feeling good about it, but they're not thinking about, hey, how am I going to make money on this personally in the next one to five years?
He Makes $20m/Yr Selling Digital Robots to Companies
- ▶ 8:26 Nathan Latka A lot of founders just read TechCrunch, and they think the metric of success is just how much can you raise, right?
Suzy.com did $65m Revenue Last Year. 18% was services so how did he keep 75% gross margin?
- ▶ 8:30 Nathan Latka Most starry eyed founders are saying, give me the highest number and let me sign that thing and put it on tech crunch.
Masters of Debt: How I bought a $5m SaaS Company Using Debt, Grew to $20m, Then Flipped for a Huge Gain
- ▶ 6:12 Nathan Latka You're not gonna find your deal reading TechCrunch articles about people that just raised it to a valuation, because then you gotta go negotiate with a VC that wants a 30 X multiple.
Smith AI Breaks $22m ARR Helping Companies Manage Voice, Chat Support, $100m Cap, Burning $300k per Month
- ▶ 1:14 Nathan Latka His former company, Red Beacon, won the TechCrunch.com startup competition in 2009.
- ▶ 2:48 Aaron Lee And, uh, by the time we launched in tech crunch and took the top price in 2009,
How We Scaled Founderpath to Process 200 Million Rows of Financial Data Per Day
- ▶ 18:26 Charlie Martin Pushing the limits of, like, vertically scaling, like, paying for machines that were many thousands of dollars per month, and, um, and, but every time we would, you know, we'd have, like, like, Nathan would be on TV, or, like, he would…
From (almost) bankruptcy to $20M ARR / $2M profit within 3 years
- ▶ 20:07 Gilles Domartini Uh, very often you, you read all of these things, you know, about, uh, TechCrunch and, uh, all the rest.
Don't do these 68 things in your SaaS company
- ▶ 5:06 Anand Sanwal So everybody wants to get that, or a lot of people like to get that little TechCrunch thing as seen on TechCrunch in the bottom of their website. 2 times in the scene
Lessons From $1bn in Exits: Behind The Scenes of the ThriveCart Exit
- ▶ 17:09 Thomas Smale Um, ultimately the deal was covered by TechCrunch, the thirty-five million dollar transaction,
- ▶ 18:24 Thomas Smale This is a screenshot from TechCrunch, just so you know I wasn't lying, and this is a real transaction. 2 times in the scene
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats
- ▶ 22:38 Nathan Latka Yeah, sorry, just to be clear, in April fifth, 2022 years old TechCrunch quote, he claims the data.world now has more than 1.6 million members across customers, including the associated price in Penguin Random House. 2 times in the scene
Collective Raises $50m to Take on Rippling, ZenBusiness. $1m MRR Next?
- ▶ 2:06 Nathan Latka Now TechCrunch reported the headline was Oracle buys audience tracking from AdVis for around two hundred million bucks.
- ▶ 14:17 Hooman Radfar I think there was just an article in tech crunch.
How Metadata grew 700% to $15m in Revenue in 24 months while switching from high burn to profitable
- ▶ 15:28 Gil Allouche A minute after that cute TechCrunch announcement of Series A, I went back to the team and said, hey, guess what?
How Clickup Bootstrapped to $25m, Then Decided to Go All In and Raise $530m to Take on Giants
- ▶ 1:07 Nathan Latka Now, most people know ClickUp today because they read you on TechCrunch.
How much revenue do Jason and SaaStr make?
- ▶ 11:55 Jason Lemkin They don't want to get you on tech crunch or anything.
- ▶ 38:28 Jason Lemkin And that's what, you know, dating ourselves or dating myself, that's what it's so long ago, but that's what they tried to do with TechCrunch, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:43 Jason Lemkin It didn't really work, but keep doing the disrupt when disrupt was a big deal.
Perfect timing Security SaaS Hits $12m Revenue, Closes $80m on $500m Valuation last week
- ▶ 20:33 Dror Liwer Oh no, so, so TechCrunch reported that our valuation was five hundred million.
Look Back at $100m Salesloft Before Vista Deal
- ▶ 16:29 Nathan Latka You get all the tech crunch headlines.
Productfy Sells 10-20% in $16m Series A To Help Anyone Launch a Credit Union in Under a Week
29 Year Old Bootstraps to $2.4m Revenue, $1m+ in Profits
- ▶ 17:09 Nathan Latka Like he's not on TechCrunch.
Is Reclaim the Next Calendly? 16,000 Users Keep Using Every Month, up 400% YoY
- ▶ 6:48 Henry Shapiro And we actually, I wrote an article about it on, on TechCrunch, if you're interested.
SoloSuit Makes $80k/mo Helping Consumers Fight Bank Debt Collectors
- ▶ 11:51 George Simons I think we were, we were publicly doing, we were on startup, we were on TechCrunch startup battlefield last year around that time, and we were doing 15,000 revenue.
- ▶ 12:18 Nathan Latka So, so, um, it's not that you've mentioned YC, you mentioned disrupt.
Coralogix Breaks $24m ARR, 2k Customers After Turning Down $40m Acquisition Offer in 2019
- ▶ 16:51 Ariel Assaraf That's what's published in TechCrunch. 3 times in the scene
He Built Shopify's Content Machine, Now Working With SaaS Founders
- ▶ 10:43 Nathan Latka Um, we're basically going to do essentially like tech crunch, but just celebrating people that own a hundred percent that broke five million revenue and give the dividends to their team.
ConvertKit Raising at $196m Valuation?
- ▶ 53:00 Nathan Latka And now you sound like a tech crunch, thirsty, headline chaser, VC guy.
Zoom Recording Tool Grain Hits 300 Teams, On Track for $1m ARR, New $3m Raise in Upround
- ▶ 7:49 Mike Adams So what happened is we launched on tech crunch a year after that price round. 2 times in the scene
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy
- ▶ 53:57 Nathan Latka And now you sound like a tech crunch, thirsty, headline chaser, VC guy.
The Secret Dataset CPG Gods Use
- ▶ 10:00 Ryan Caldbeck You also have infrastructure like TechCrunch, Y Combinator, 2 times in the scene
Todoist Productivity Tool Hits $14m Revenue, Bootstrapped
- ▶ 17:46 Nathan Latka You need to be on the cover of like the Wall Street Journal and TechCrunch.
Wavve Hits 9k For Audio Video Tool, $70k Monthly Profits!
- ▶ 18:18 Nathan Latka They don't care about a tech crunch headline, but they are happy.
Tyler Tringas: How Earnest Capital Hopes to Re-Invent Startup Investing
- ▶ 1:37:26 Nathan Latka If you make six months from now an investment in this killer company, you have unique access to deal flow and it takes off like three years later and everyone reads in TechCrunch that it has a massive exit.
Dialpad CEO "We'll break $100m in 2020, comfortable burning $1m/mo, $45m in bank"
- ▶ 24:41 Nathan Latka I'm not going to see a tech crunch headline tomorrow and then go, Craig, what the hell?
Video Platform Animoto up 20% YoY with $30m in Revenue, Will Canva Acquire For $300m?
- ▶ 7:27 Jason Hsiao And then, uh, we launched, we didn't really know who was going to use it, um, and then we got lucky, like, I think in that first day or two, Michael Arrington, who used to be the head of, um, TechCrunch, uh, TechCrunch, um, you know, with…
Einar Volsett on How TinySeed Works
- ▶ 26:19 Einar Volset So all of a sudden, you know, we got mentioned on tech crunch and then thousands of people have downloaded the app and it was just, you know, complete mayhem.
- ▶ 1:22:55 Nathan Latka The personality of founder that goes to a tiny is the one that hates tech crunch, you know, looks at the Uber, like fall and goes, ha ha.
1756 "Ripl Hits $10m ARR Helping 70k SMB's Create Video Content "
- ▶ 6:54 Clay McDaniel Uh, not kind of going for these, like, monster, big, impressive, like, written up in TechCrunch rounds.
1736 He'll Never Win Unless He Shuts Down Agency
- ▶ 21:25 Scott Weiss So everybody's looking at the way you do a startup isn't necessarily what you've read about in TechCrunch all these years.
1726 HealthTech Company Expects To Hit $1m in ARR As Critical Tech During COVID
- ▶ 1:53 Nathan Latka Medstack supports many digital health companies and protecting patient and as protecting the patient and has been awarded accolades in the Canadian advanced technology Alliance and tech crunch.
1534 With $10m in ARR, He Left Amazon to Help F100 Brands Sell More on Amazon
- ▶ 6:20 Guru Hariharan We were in the tech, we were in TechCrunch Disrupt.
1520 BlueSnap Wants to Help Merchants Compete with Amazon
- ▶ 6:01 Nathan Latka That's how a tech crunch would find the article and release the raise.
1374 Your Dish Network Repair Man Probably Uses This $1m+ ARR Tool For Communication
- ▶ 7:15 Nathan Latka I'm a big fan of Sansi, and he came on and told me the story about the spin-out from, from, from TechCrunch of Crunchbase.
1373 300 Companies Use Him to Ship, $8m in ARR, $12.5m Raised
- ▶ 0:10 Nathan Latka He's a leading expert at the intersection of shipping and commerce and has been featured in TechCrunch, AOL, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, internet retail and retailer and many others.
- ▶ 0:24 Nathan Latka I see a Disrupt picture behind your head over your shoulder. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:35 Nathan Latka Jeremy Shippock launched on the disrupt stage back in 2013 as a different product.
1343 Data Cleaning and Analytics Tool Passes $7m ARR, Raising $20m on $80m Pre
- ▶ 4:44 Nathan Latka You need your own tech crunch headline.
Fast Trick: How Your Competitors Are Getting Customers
- ▶ 8:27 Nathan Latka Another good place to check is techcrunch.com. 3 times in the scene
1308 Salesforce for Lawyers Passes $3m in ARR, Basically Bootstrapped
- ▶ 14:28 Michael Chasen You know, I think a lot of these people, a lot of people read, you know, we read the lead startup method, we follow TechCrunch, and all these things were just like, we see all these instant successes.
1275 25 Year Old Hits $10k in MRR with his 3 Friends as Co-Founders
- ▶ 8:46 Nathan Latka And most of that was from TechCrunch and SAP.
1248 Bootstrapped Appointment Scheduling Tool Hits $1m ARR
- ▶ 7:37 Nathan Latka Well, everyone, everyone, I just feel like, like tech crunching these people, they just, they sell the wrong message, right?
1233 With 4m Customers, $4b Transfered Every Month, is Transferwise The Cheaper Bank Of The Future?
- ▶ 0:00 Nathan Latka TransferWise founded and launched back in 2011 after a TechCrunch article.
- ▶ 5:44 Taavet Hinrikus Uh, we had an article published, what was back then, a little blog called TechCrunch, and you know, they called us to Skype a money transfer, and turns out there were people who were willing to trust a website which just appeared with a…
- ▶ 23:37 Nathan Latka Tavit, TransferWise, founded and launched back in 2011 after a TechCrunch article.
1212 Chatbot company SmartAssistant: We'll pass $50m in next few quarters
- ▶ 17:51 Nathan Latka Uh, I mean, I've read articles before on tech crunch, you know, we're doing a hundred million in revenue, but then I know the CEO
1164 Want Your Own Alexa, Without Amazon Influence? Mycroft Raises $8m For Opensource Voice Stack
- ▶ 14:56 Nathan Latka I mean, look, we had Matt on the show and he admitted, I mean, the most difficult thing for him at WordPress was convincing, you know, when his community saw on tech crunch WordPress, you know, WordPress passes a hundred million revenue… 2 times in the scene
1112 150 Pay Him $3m For Content Marketing at Scale
- ▶ 13:18 Nathan Latka Okay, so you'll realize, you'll scan for like Ron Miller and realize his TechCrunch articles do really well in terms of sharing settings, things you can get publicly, so you can't get page count, I imagine, but you can get like sharing…
1083 How she 2x ARR yoy in mobile testing space to $6m in ARR
1063 How We Spent $7m To Spin Crunchbase Out of AOL
- ▶ 11:43 Nathan Latka What you guys have that no one else has is you have the, um, contextual analysis via TechCrunch and other articles and other publications that use your data in a contextual sense, and that's what pulls people in.
1036 How He Took SMB Churn From 12% Monthly to 4% In Social Media Marketing Space
- ▶ 4:42 Nathan Latka Yeah, you're looking at this, I imagine going, I know TechCrunch says I should go raise capital and try an IPO, but I'm sitting on 400 grand a month in cash flow, top line.
993 The Argument For Buildling a Product For Yourself First, $6.5m in Funding Later...
- ▶ 7:00 Luke Beatty My, my background has been almost exclusively in, in, in media and in ads and, and content, uh, on the big side running, you know, brands like tech crunch to Yahoo brands like Yahoo autos and, you know, big consumer facing media brands.
947 Is He The New King of Education? 80k Student Customers and $24m in Revenue Says "Yes!"
- ▶ 17:20 Ryan Carson Um, you know, and there's a lot of pressure if you read tech crunch, um, or, or anything to build some sort of unicorn business in three years.
933 Why Wordpress CEO Raised $300m, Replaced Himself, and New Gutenberg
- ▶ 18:09 Nathan Latka In 2010, uh, at LeWeb, it was generally reported by TechCrunch that you guys had passed that magical kind of ten million dollar per year mark, and then 2012, obviously, kind of, Tony put out the statement 45,000,070 million sites, up from…
924 How to Spin a Million Dollar SaaS Company Out of Media Agency
- ▶ 4:56 Nathan Latka TechCrunch reported in 20, 11.
883 SaaS: What To Do When Your Lead Developer Quits
- ▶ 14:07 Nathan Latka If I sign up with you, I can go send me all the email addresses of everyone that works at TechCrunch.
850: SaaS: How Promorepublic Went From $6k to $20k MRR
- ▶ 2:35 Max Pecherskyi So that's what TechCrunch called us.
848: SaaS: Wistia Video King? $10m+ ARR, 10k+ Customers on Just $1m Raised!
- ▶ 14:34 Nathan Latka You'll anything that a VC touches or like tech crunch, which they basically use to lobby, they'll articulate and say, yeah, you want a 12 month payback period.
783: SaaS: Here's How RFP Scout 3x YoY to $1.2m+ in MRR
- ▶ 6:09 Nathan Latka And what is the, like, uh, was there, was there besides just the tech crunch headline that you raised capital strategically, like, do you have a background kind of where you bootstrapped a company and you didn't like it?
698: How this Sales Training Tool Went from $600k to $1.2M in Revenue in 1 Year
- ▶ 6:08 Sam Caucci We've closed on 400 K right now, and we're hoping to close the rest before, uh, before disrupt here in mid month.
659: He's Winning In Home Fitness Wars: $3+ Million Monthly Revenue, $45 Million Raised
- ▶ 11:11 Nathan Latka And, and, and what is the, so you mentioned, I think back in November 16th, based off my research, TechCrunch reporter, you guys had about 200,000 people signed up.
630: Mention Helping 4000 Customers With Google Alerts on Steroids, All Paying Minimum $60/mo for $240k in MRR with CEO Matthieu Vaxelaire
- ▶ 19:08 Matt Vaxelaire As you learn much more by doing than reading, and spending time on, on TechCrunch.
EP 609: Pagecloud Raises $8.5M Helping 8500 SMB's Drag and Drop Websites Together with CEO Craig Fitzpatrick
- ▶ 9:26 Craig Fitzpatrick So we were lucky enough to be TechCrunch, uh, finalists in, let's see, spring of, uh, yeah, 2 times in the scene
EP 590 :Particle.io Raises $14M, Passes $5M In Revenue, Helping Usher in IoT Connecting Keurigs to Internet with CEO Zach Supalla
- ▶ 1:57 Nathan Latka Zach's been featured on CNN in the Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Fast Company, Forbes, Fortune,
EP 581: DocSend $11M Raised, 2800+ Company Customers, 10,000+ Seats Because Links > Attachments For Docs with CEO Russ Heddleston
- ▶ 5:05 Russ Heddleston And we launched that at tech crunch disrupt in 2014.
EP 578: Ripple Recruiting Passes 8,000 Ivy League Resumes With 15 Employers Paying $300/mo For Access with Ripple CEO Andrew Myers
- ▶ 13:20 Nathan Latka They raise all this capital and they never get out from the liquidation from under the liquidation preference, or you read an exit on tech crunch for a hundred million bucks.
EP 538: Nexd.io Raises $1m Pre-Rev, Aims $6M Series A For Smart Sales Automation with Founder James and CEO Larry
- ▶ 8:41 Nathan Latka TechCrunch is going to do an article.
EP 508: Siftery $4M Raised, 25,000 Users to Help You Find Software Tools with CMO Gerry Golyer
- ▶ 12:17 Jerry Collier Uh, and then there was a TechCrunch article soon afterwards. 3 times in the scene
EP 496: PayByGroup $3.4M Raised, $10m in Transaction Volume to Help Groups Pay with CEO Camilo Acosta
- ▶ 8:40 Camillo Acosta And we demoed and at demo day, you know, we were featured in TechCrunch and whatnot. 2 times in the scene
EP 461: $2m Raised, SpokenLayer Turning Blogs Into Audio Content with CEO Will Mayo
- ▶ 3:06 Will Mayo Smashable, TechCrunch, uh, those are just the ones that pop off the top of my head.
- ▶ 7:06 Will Mayo Ah, so we started Spoken Layer originally as an iPhone app that we launched at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2012.
- ▶ 9:20 Nathan Latka Yeah, so it's like when a TechCrunch article goes live.
EP 457: 4000+ Units Sold Teaching Kids How To Code, $2m+ Raised with Piper
- ▶ 12:10 Tommy Gibbons I mean, that was, there's a TechCrunch article that moved it up a little bit.
EP 450: 14 Ag Companies Raise $32M Using AgFunder.com with CEO Rob Leclerc
- ▶ 1:53 Nathan Latka He's a Forbes contributor and has also been published in TechCrunch, Harvard Business Review, uh, and online investment.
EP 431: Agency Does $6m 2015, 41 Employees with Publisher/Advertiser Network CEO Nathan Putnamof Monumetric
- ▶ 19:55 Nathan Putnam If you do some research on them through TechCrunch and others, they're, if they went IPO, they would be one of the biggest IPOs in recent history.
EP 417 SPECIAL: Warner Interviews Latka: Con Artist or Brilliant Genius?
- ▶ 1:00:33 Andrew Warner TechCrunch famously showed them publicly. 2 times in the scene
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp
- ▶ 5:13 Nathan Latka So let me ask you, why did you decide, you know, everyone says raise capital, raise capital, tech crunches, raise capital, but sometimes raising capital is like the death warrant.
EP 402: 25 Years Old, $32 Million Raised, $11 Million 2015 Transaction Volume with Brian Wong of Kiip
- ▶ 9:37 Nathan Latka Okay, by the way, I hate that question, but I feel like, you know, TechCrunch kills me unless I ask it.
EP 391: Why Gary V Led $1.5M Round In This Cosmetics Company
- ▶ 3:36 Nathan Latka That's the exact reason people read tech crunch.
EP 389: ConceptDrop Raises $1.1M, Helps You Get Creative Work Done Quick with Phil Alexander EP389
- ▶ 17:00 Phil Alexander You know, I do read tech crunch, but I feel like I'm living so much of the tech stuff that I,
EP 383: Prospect.io $0 to $17k in MRR in 6 Months, 400 Customers
- ▶ 10:32 Vincenzo Ruggiero In fact, we, we, you see a lot of people, you know, raising big, big, big, um, money with big VC and, you know, just going on tech crunch and things like that.
EP 381: Make Beautiful Snaps With BlurBiz, $60k MRR
- ▶ 2:07 Tamar Dal Pota It allows publishers like BuzzFeed, PopSugar, TechCrunch, all these content creators to actually publish high quality content directly onto Snapchat.
EP 347: How Social Rank Hit $50k In MRR In Under 2 Years With CEO Alex Taub
Where This VC Helps Put $3.7B Worth of Capital And Five $100M+ Companies He Loves, EP 299: Adam Valkin
- ▶ 26:57 Nathan Latka February 26th, there was a fifty million dollar round of funding at a three hundred million dollar post-money valuation as reported by TechCrunch.
EP 329: It Costs $500k To Call Everyone in Florida, He's Behind Ted Cruz
- ▶ 11:25 Brian Badera Everybody's focused on trying to get into BuzzFeed, or trying to get into TechCrunch, or trying to get coverage in Forbes, but that's not how you garner real media impressions.
He Can Get You 100,000 Quality Live Viewers Instantly, Ep 294: Eddie Vaca
- ▶ 3:12 Nathan Latka I think too many people like that's never going to be on TechCrunch, but dude, like this is how the world works. 2 times in the scene
Your $250 Ticket to Luxury Did $700,000 in 2015, EP 292: Carlo Cisco
- ▶ 18:59 Carlo Cisco Um, I remember watching a speech he did at Disrupt a few years ago and wanting to buy the stock.
He Invested in WeWork and Now Runs $150MM Israel Focused Fund, EP 291: Michael Eisenberg
- ▶ 8:46 Michael Eisenberg It's actually on TechCrunch. 3 times in the scene
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