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Eric Boggs

Founder & CEO, RevBoss · 1 appearance on the record.

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Eric Boggs began his tech career as the first employee at Bronto Software before founding and leading social marketing platform Argyle Social as CEO from 2010 to 2014. In 2014, he founded RevBoss, a B2B demand generation agency where he continues to serve as CEO.

11statements → 4claims → 1claims resolved → 3.55/5average certainty → 1.55/5average debate potential → 2said about them ↓

1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 3 not checkable as stated how the 4 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

4 assertions · 1 opinion · 3 insights · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 3 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Eric argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Boggs: Argyle Social raised only $1.6 million
“We'd only raised 1.6.”
Eric Boggs Jan 19, 2017 ▶ 2:41 EP 544: RevBoss $700k 2015 Revenue, Now $90k MRR to Help Customers Drive Revenue with CEO Eric Boggs

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Eric Boggs on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Eric Boggs said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Boggs: Early-stage deal terms matter far more than headline valuation
“Yeah, and I think the lesson I learned from Argyle is that the price doesn't really matter all that much. I mean, it matters, right? You don't want to sell 50% of your company that early, but there's sort of a range for what's reasonable. As long as you can ge…”
Eric Boggs Jan 19, 2017 ▶ 13:55 EP 544: RevBoss $700k 2015 Revenue, Now $90k MRR to Help Customers Drive Revenue with CEO Eric Boggs
Opinion
Boggs: Outreach and SalesLoft lead pure-play sales prospecting software
“I think on the like pure play sales prospecting software, sales loft and outreach, probably outreach than sales loft are the sort of clear leaders”
Eric Boggs Jan 19, 2017 ▶ 8:25 EP 544: RevBoss $700k 2015 Revenue, Now $90k MRR to Help Customers Drive Revenue with CEO Eric Boggs
Insight
Boggs: Converting a services business to SaaS is harder than growing it
“Turns out building a services business is pretty easy. Growing a services business is really, really hard. And then turning that services business into a SaaS business is even harder.”
Eric Boggs Jan 19, 2017 ▶ 9:46 EP 544: RevBoss $700k 2015 Revenue, Now $90k MRR to Help Customers Drive Revenue with CEO Eric Boggs
Insight
Boggs: $1,000 in recurring SaaS revenue beats $3,000 in services revenue
“That a thousand dollars in recurring SaaS revenue is actually a lot more valuable than the 3000 dollars in services revenue”
Eric Boggs Jan 19, 2017 ▶ 10:38 EP 544: RevBoss $700k 2015 Revenue, Now $90k MRR to Help Customers Drive Revenue with CEO Eric Boggs
Disclosure
Boggs: RevBoss struggles with outbound sales despite selling outbound tools
“And, you know, oddly enough, as you know, a company that enables other companies to build pipeline without bound sales, we have really sucked at outbound sales.”
Eric Boggs Jan 19, 2017 ▶ 16:38 EP 544: RevBoss $700k 2015 Revenue, Now $90k MRR to Help Customers Drive Revenue with CEO Eric Boggs
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Boggs: Argyle Social returned 60 to 70 cents on the dollar
“I mean, it was probably somewhere between 60 and 70 cents on the dollar.”
Eric Boggs Jan 19, 2017 ▶ 3:39 EP 544: RevBoss $700k 2015 Revenue, Now $90k MRR to Help Customers Drive Revenue with CEO Eric Boggs
Disclosure
Boggs: RevBoss raised a $1.1M equity seed round for software development
“We raised a seed round a year ago. We raised 1.1 million dollars and almost all of that has been plowed into software development and.”
Eric Boggs Jan 19, 2017 ▶ 12:39 EP 544: RevBoss $700k 2015 Revenue, Now $90k MRR to Help Customers Drive Revenue with CEO Eric Boggs
Disclosure
Boggs: RevBoss sold 20% to 25% equity in its $1.1M seed round
“I think it ended up being like 20%, somewhere between 20 and 25%.”
Eric Boggs Jan 19, 2017 ▶ 13:45 EP 544: RevBoss $700k 2015 Revenue, Now $90k MRR to Help Customers Drive Revenue with CEO Eric Boggs
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Boggs: RevBoss has a customer acquisition cost around $2,000
“Like two K.”
Eric Boggs Jan 19, 2017 ▶ 16:28 EP 544: RevBoss $700k 2015 Revenue, Now $90k MRR to Help Customers Drive Revenue with CEO Eric Boggs
Assertion Supported
Boggs: Argyle Social raised only $1.6 million
“We'd only raised 1.6.”
Eric Boggs Jan 19, 2017 ▶ 2:41 EP 544: RevBoss $700k 2015 Revenue, Now $90k MRR to Help Customers Drive Revenue with CEO Eric Boggs
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Boggs: RevBoss serves 50 to 60 combined services and product customers
“So we built the business as services, probably serving around 50 or 60 services plus product customers right now.”
Eric Boggs Jan 19, 2017 ▶ 9:26 EP 544: RevBoss $700k 2015 Revenue, Now $90k MRR to Help Customers Drive Revenue with CEO Eric Boggs

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
EP 544: RevBoss $700k 2015 Revenue, Now $90k MRR to Help Customers Drive Revenue with CEO Jan 19, 2017 13m
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