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daPulse Acquires Enterprise Customers at Scale via Social Media Ads
“What everyone tells us all the time that is impossible and we somehow keep Are able to keep doing it in the scale is sell to large corporates on Instagram and Facebook”
Roy Mann Nov 18, 2017 ▶ 14:15 847: SaaS: How DaPulse has 3x'ed Revenue YoY
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daPulse Recoups Its Online Ad Spend in Under One Year
“Well, let's say within a year we get all of it back, but it's faster. It's faster.”
Roy Mann Nov 18, 2017 ▶ 8:36 847: SaaS: How DaPulse has 3x'ed Revenue YoY
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daPulse Monthly Logo Churn Rate Is Between 1.5% and 2%
“So it's it changes slightly, but it's between a 1.5% to two. You know, that's like the range.”
Roy Mann Nov 18, 2017 ▶ 11:39 847: SaaS: How DaPulse has 3x'ed Revenue YoY
Assertion Supported
daPulse Surpasses $1M MRR and Reaches Over $13M ARR
“So we're now at over one million in MRR. In ARR, it's 13 point something million.”
Roy Mann Nov 18, 2017 ▶ 6:24 847: SaaS: How DaPulse has 3x'ed Revenue YoY
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DaPulse maintains net negative revenue churn
“Revenue churn, we don't. We're negative churn. People that love us stick around and pay more.”
Roy Mann Sep 1, 2016 ▶ 12:14 EP 404: $360k June 2016 MRR, $4M ARR, 5000 customers paying $72/mo on average with DaPulse founder Roy Man
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daPulse Customers Start at $70 Monthly and Double Spend Annually
“So it's it started 70 dollars and after a year it grows more than doubles, but the average is misleading because there are way more small companies out there.”
Roy Mann Nov 18, 2017 ▶ 3:23 847: SaaS: How DaPulse has 3x'ed Revenue YoY
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daPulse Maintains a Net Revenue Churn of Roughly -0.5%
“No, no, no. Like close to zero. It's a .5, -.5.”
Roy Mann Nov 18, 2017 ▶ 14:00 847: SaaS: How DaPulse has 3x'ed Revenue YoY
Prediction Held up
daPulse Targets $17M ARR by December 2017
“About seventeen million.”
Roy Mann Nov 18, 2017 ▶ 16:57 847: SaaS: How DaPulse has 3x'ed Revenue YoY
Assertion Supported
daPulse Reached $6.5M ARR in December 2016
“And December so 6.5.”
Roy Mann Nov 18, 2017 ▶ 17:30 847: SaaS: How DaPulse has 3x'ed Revenue YoY
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DaPulse surpassed 5,000 paying companies and doubled every five months
“So we have currently 5000 over 5000 paying companies, and it's actually been scaling since we launched. We double every five months or so.”
Roy Mann Sep 1, 2016 ▶ 3:05 EP 404: $360k June 2016 MRR, $4M ARR, 5000 customers paying $72/mo on average with DaPulse founder Roy Man
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DaPulse reached $360,000 in monthly recurring revenue in June 2016
“In June right now, we're like our run rate is you mean MRR is. Cool. So it's like 360,000 dollars.”
Roy Mann Sep 1, 2016 ▶ 3:56 EP 404: $360k June 2016 MRR, $4M ARR, 5000 customers paying $72/mo on average with DaPulse founder Roy Man
Assertion Supported
DaPulse had raised a total of $9 million by mid-2016
“We raised nine million till now.”
Roy Mann Sep 1, 2016 ▶ 4:51 EP 404: $360k June 2016 MRR, $4M ARR, 5000 customers paying $72/mo on average with DaPulse founder Roy Man
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DaPulse raised $5M at a $28.5M post-money valuation
“Our last round was we got five million more money. And with the post valuation and, you know, with all those convertibles, you can only talk about the post what it's was in 28.5 million.”
Roy Mann Sep 1, 2016 ▶ 9:11 EP 404: $360k June 2016 MRR, $4M ARR, 5000 customers paying $72/mo on average with DaPulse founder Roy Man
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Wix spends over $100 million annually on media buying
“We're coming from the weak school of buying media and they're like spending over a million, a hundred million dollars a year.”
Roy Mann Sep 1, 2016 ▶ 11:19 EP 404: $360k June 2016 MRR, $4M ARR, 5000 customers paying $72/mo on average with DaPulse founder Roy Man
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DaPulse customer acquisition cost averaged $600 in 2016
“It's around eight 600 dollars.”
Roy Mann Sep 1, 2016 ▶ 11:40 EP 404: $360k June 2016 MRR, $4M ARR, 5000 customers paying $72/mo on average with DaPulse founder Roy Man
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