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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Yelp comes up
How I hit $15m ARR using 4 new growth playbooks
- ▶ 9:03 Gil Allouche Just like there is Yelp for a consumer, there is G-two, there is TrustRadius, and a bunch of other websites to help consumers of SAS determine which vendor they should go with.
How I Turned my Podcast into a $50m ARR B2B SaaS
- ▶ 1:59 Gregory Galant I interviewed Reid Hoffman back when LinkedIn had 50 employees, the founder of Yelp, Vanguard Group.
The Ultimate Challenge: Selling a SaaS to Universities, he hated what his Daughter went through
- ▶ 3:40 Dave Hurwit Um, and I'm going to jump on Yelp and we're going to find a great place to have dinner tonight. 2 times in the scene
Imagine doing $6.1m in revenue helping Loom, Dropbox, and G2 break $100m in ARR
We call 30k cold leads per month and land 5% as customers. Here's the playbook
- ▶ 15:27 Andrey Swiavich We scrape Google, we scrape Yelp.
This Founder Built 3 SaaS Companies, hit $40m ARR 3 times. Here's how
- ▶ 7:14 Godard Abel And that's why we said it's kind of a Yelp for business software when we started, and let's give the power to the customer and the user.
- ▶ 16:33 Godard Abel and I decided we wanted to go build another company, because for a couple years we couldn't make any money at G-II, and we had this great vision, let's build Yelp for software, but then we realized nobody wants to write reviews, and I… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:59 Godard Abel Uh, but, you know, we do work with 3000 software vendors now, including Henry and ZoomInfo, but, you know, to help them, and obviously G-II in some ways, it's like Yelp, you can be our, for free, you can be number one.
$5m Revenue On Just $5m Raised, Capital Efficient Founder!
- ▶ 1:03 Nathan Latka So like if I own a little restaurant in Austin, Texas, and I need my Google place thing updated and my search results updated and my, you know, my whatever Yelp thing updated, I can basically manage all the metadata on PinMe too.
- ▶ 19:58 Nathan Latka Too helps 550 customers like gas stations or EV charging stations, restaurants manage their metadata across Google search, reviews, Yelp, et cetera.
SecurityScorecard Breaks $71m ARR, 1700 Customers, $200m in Bank to Fuel Product Expansion
- ▶ 20:44 Alex Yampolskiy Just like, you know, if you have a restaurant, you could have customer reviews on Yelp, but the restaurant should be enabled also to
Billion Dollar SaaS Founders Rely on This Secret Sales Strategy
- ▶ 1:45 Garrett Mehrguth I was mostly just doing like Yelp and Facebook pages.
G2 on Track to Break $100m ARR 2022, $60m+ Today at $1.1b Valuation
- ▶ 1:32 Godard Abel And I think when we started, we said it was going to be Yelp for business software.
How She Bootstrapped to $4m in ARR Helping You Fight Negative Reviews
- ▶ 3:03 Brynn Gibbs This was when Yelp and Google reviews kind of just became popular, and he was attacked online by, um, a vindictive ex-employee.
Today G2 Is Worth $1b. What happened 24 months ago?
- ▶ 6:15 Godard Abel I mean, it's like going to TripAdvisor, Yelp, free advice.
- ▶ 8:42 Godard Abel I mean, you're going to try to build Yelp for Enterprise.
OnCallHealth Grows 150% to $3m Run Rate for Virtual Patient Care HealthTech
- ▶ 1:38 Nathan Latka Prior to starting the company in 2016, he was an early hire at education technology company Top Hat and marketing technology company Turnstile, which was acquired by Yelp.
G2 Hits $50m in ARR (+$20m), and $450m Valuation
- ▶ 5:41 Godard Abel I mean, it's like going to TripAdvisor, Yelp, free advice.
- ▶ 8:08 Godard Abel I mean, you're going to try to build Yelp for enterprise.
Tootris Launches Daycare as a Service, 100 Customers
- ▶ 13:55 Alessandra Lezama So we're reaching out to them and kind of like Yelp where, uh,
MyWifiNetworks Turned Down $5.4m All Cash Offer Last Month, Despite Loosing 30% Due to COVID
- ▶ 12:03 Kevin Zickerman It would very much compete with Zenreach and Yelp Wi-Fi.
"Ex VC Bootstrapping New G2 Competitor, 24 Customers, $12k MRR "
- ▶ 4:15 Phil Strazzulla And if you look at the current online resources, like the sort of Yelp for software businesses, there's not a lot of signal there.
1515 TrueAccord Passes $10m in Revenue Helping Banks Recover $40m+ in Defaulted Payments Over last 12 months
- ▶ 3:02 Ohad Samet We have Yelp.
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR
- ▶ 3:26 Samir Patel So everybody from, if you're a classified, you're, you're ride sharing like an Uber, uh, or an Airbnb or a DoorDash or Yelp or an OpenTable.
1351 Why OwnLocal CEO Turned Down $17m Offer to Keep Helping Newspapers Digitize
- ▶ 6:48 Lloyd Armbrust To do so against standard SAS metrics, because on one end, we're going to be like blowing like Yelp's numbers out of the water.
1324 How He Bootstrapped to $6m in ARR
- ▶ 3:24 David Nafziger Uh, so fast forward, um, to, uh, a company after that where I ran the engineering team for a company called Duty's Book that was a once upon a time Yelp competitor.
1147 We make $200k/mo helping people find financial products
- ▶ 2:27 Miron Lulic To differentiators, origination fees, prepayment penalty fees, like anything that you could want to compare apples to apples, and so we have all that there, um, transparently, but then we get a ton of people coming to the site and…
- ▶ 13:31 Miron Lulic At some point we decided, hey, let's kind of try to create the Yelp of financial services.
1126 How Gong Hit $1m+ in ARR in 1st Year
- ▶ 2:15 Amit Bendov It's kind of like the, uh, the Yelp for B to B software technologies.
1077 We Bootstrapped Our Way to $2m in ARR, Now $10m ARR
- ▶ 1:20 Colin Holmes So we help large chains of multiple locations, improve their presence, visibility, and reputation on sites like Google maps, Yelp, you know, all those reviews that people are reading and, uh, searching for every day when they're trying to…
940 5000 Enterprises Pay Him $100m+ in ARR To Battle CyberSecurity Threats
821: Crypto: $17m Raised to Speed Up Mining Blocks Using New "Validators"
- ▶ 1:40 Nathan Latka After graduating from Cornell in 2005 with a BS degree in computer science, he worked as a developer at Alexa Yelp.
794: SaaS: How He Used Pizza to Hit $7.5m in ARR and $18m Raised for his Lead Scoring Tool
- ▶ 6:19 Evan Liang Uh, think of them as I had built a division, kind of a Yelp for senior care, if you will.
EP 540: Cliently Hits $8k MRR, Aims for $5m Valuation Next Round with CEO Spencer Farber
- ▶ 5:11 Spencer Farber They create videos almost like they, uh, Yelp, but they do videos, uh, and they're looking to work with small businesses to help create videos for them.
EP 524: Podium Hits $1m MRR in 12 Months, $4m Raised with 6500 SMB Customers sub 1% Churn with CEO Eric Rea
EP 328: She Bought 50% for $17k, Now Does $1M Per Year in iPhone Repairs
- ▶ 9:26 Erica Douglas We have the highest Yelp reviews of anybody in Austin, and we want to keep it that way.
- ▶ 11:52 Erica Douglas Yelp is responsive to that kind of stuff. 7 times in the scene
From $0 to $17,000,000 In 2015 With NYC Based SaaS Company, EP 253: Ryan Urban
- ▶ 6:25 Ryan Urban So that's, uh, when I see the people, that girl who worked at Yelp writing to the CEO, I'm like, girl, go get a second job.
Yesware Aims for $30m in 2016 with Matthew Bellows of Yesware
- ▶ 1:25 Nathan Latka Yesware serves more than 750,000 salespeople at companies like Acquia, Adroll, Groupon, Salesforce, Twilio, Yelp, and Zendesk.
How Moms Can Quit Corporate For Their Own Startup with Liz Picarazzi of CheckListHomeServices.com
- ▶ 3:51 Liz Piccarazzi So, um, most likely you're going to find us through a Google search or through Yelp, maybe through Angie's list.