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Mandel: CompStak's customers include Wells Fargo, JP Morgan, and Blackstone
“So our customers are some of the world's largest banks, private equity funds, hedge funds, institutional owners. So people like Wells Fargo and JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley we've got, you know, institutional owners like Blackstone, Brookfield, Bornado, Tishma…”
Michael Mandel Mar 12, 2018 ▶ 2:23 961 How He Sells Commercial Real Estate Data to PE Firms for $5m+ in ARR
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CompStak operates in over 70 commercial real estate markets globally
“We're live in over 70 markets across the US and UK over 900 sub markets in over 8000 cities.”
Michael Mandel Mar 12, 2018 ▶ 2:00 961 How He Sells Commercial Real Estate Data to PE Firms for $5m+ in ARR
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Mandel: CompStak's average annual contract size is around $50,000
“Around 50,000 dollars.”
Michael Mandel Mar 12, 2018 ▶ 2:57 961 How He Sells Commercial Real Estate Data to PE Firms for $5m+ in ARR
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Mandel: CompStak has nearly 100 enterprise customers
“We're a little shy of a hundred customers now.”
Michael Mandel Mar 12, 2018 ▶ 9:09 961 How He Sells Commercial Real Estate Data to PE Firms for $5m+ in ARR
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Mandel: CompStak roughly doubled revenue over the past year
“We roughly doubled our revenues over the last year.”
Michael Mandel Mar 12, 2018 ▶ 10:41 961 How He Sells Commercial Real Estate Data to PE Firms for $5m+ in ARR
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CompStak closed 2012 with $60,000 in revenue from two customers
“I think we probably closed out 20 12 at 60,000 dollars in annual revenue. We, but we actually, that was from basically two customers.”
Michael Mandel Mar 12, 2018 ▶ 4:52 961 How He Sells Commercial Real Estate Data to PE Firms for $5m+ in ARR
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Co-founder worked full-time for a year while Mandel remained a broker
“Actually my co-founder worked on Comstack for nearly a year, basically full time while I was still working as a broker.”
Michael Mandel Mar 12, 2018 ▶ 6:57 961 How He Sells Commercial Real Estate Data to PE Firms for $5m+ in ARR
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