Josh Newman

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

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In 2002, Josh Newman founded Media Tavern, a creative marketing and digital design agency based in Westport, Connecticut. He subsequently founded Clatter, an enterprise creative automation SaaS platform that generates compliant, on-brand slide decks and marketing collateral from structured data and governed templates.

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Disclosure

Clatter's net dollar retention is 150% via professional services

“It's and it's probably is around one 50, but not for necessarily the reasons you would think. A lot of it's going to be around that we'll add on professional services to it.”

Josh Newman Oct 1, 2022 ▶ 1:17 1 Employee, $600k ARR, How He's Scaling with Systems for Marketing Collateral SaaS

Insight

Founders should learn proper coding instead of building hacky MVPs

“Man, learn to code the right way. Don't be some sort of hack to build MVPs.”

Josh Newman Oct 1, 2022 ▶ 15:53 1 Employee, $600k ARR, How He's Scaling with Systems for Marketing Collateral SaaS

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First client paid Clatter $250,000 upfront to build the product

“They gave us 250,000 to build out this solution.”

Josh Newman Oct 1, 2022 ▶ 5:28 1 Employee, $600k ARR, How He's Scaling with Systems for Marketing Collateral SaaS

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Clatter did $370k ARR and $675k total revenue in the prior year

“From an ARR standpoint, we were at three 70 a year ago but total, total revenue was six 75 last year”

Josh Newman Oct 1, 2022 ▶ 9:21 1 Employee, $600k ARR, How He's Scaling with Systems for Marketing Collateral SaaS

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Clatter projects around $850,000 in total revenue this year

“We're looking somewhere probably around eight 50 when the year's done.”

Josh Newman Oct 1, 2022 ▶ 9:51 1 Employee, $600k ARR, How He's Scaling with Systems for Marketing Collateral SaaS

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Clatter's recurring SaaS revenue share increased from 55% to 71%

“Now it's at 71%, and a year ago it was 55%.”

Josh Newman Oct 1, 2022 ▶ 9:59 1 Employee, $600k ARR, How He's Scaling with Systems for Marketing Collateral SaaS

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Josh Newman is the only full-time employee at Clatter

“I'm the only full-time person on Clatter.”

Josh Newman Oct 1, 2022 ▶ 10:23 1 Employee, $600k ARR, How He's Scaling with Systems for Marketing Collateral SaaS

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Clatter will generate approximately $274,000 in annual profit

“It is profitable at this year we'll do looking at my spreadsheet, we'll do about two 74 and profit.”

Josh Newman Oct 1, 2022 ▶ 11:50 1 Employee, $600k ARR, How He's Scaling with Systems for Marketing Collateral SaaS

Disclosure

Clatter holds $200,000 in cash reserves for contingencies

“We've put in reserves about 200 K where that can be used for a rainy day, can be used for some marketing that we're going to do.”

Josh Newman Oct 1, 2022 ▶ 12:28 1 Employee, $600k ARR, How He's Scaling with Systems for Marketing Collateral SaaS

Disclosure

Clatter's largest customer pays $10,000 per month

“Our largest customer pays their 10 grand a month.”

Josh Newman Oct 1, 2022 ▶ 4:20 1 Employee, $600k ARR, How He's Scaling with Systems for Marketing Collateral SaaS

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
1 Employee, $600k ARR, How He's Scaling with Systems for Marketing Collateral SaaS	Oct 1, 2022	9m

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