Alex Raymond is the co-founder and CEO of Kapta (https://kapta.com/) 🕒 Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:00 – Nathan's introduction to today's show 0:25 – How Kapta helps account management teams get increase visibility 1:20 – Why companies pay them between $25k and $100k annually 2:05 – How they launched the company in 2016 as an employee engagement platform 3:35 – Why 30 customers are using Kapta right now 4:45 – How they are connecting directly into CRMs and financial systems 5:20 – Why they are doing north of $60k in MRR 6:10 – How they've more than doubled revenue year over year 7:20 – Why they've raised $1.5M in total capital 8:00 – How they've gotten to 110% net revenue retention annually 9:30 – Why they are starting to get annual payment upfront 10:00 – How they are spending less than $10k to land a new deal 10:50 – Why Kapta has scaled to three full-time employees in Boulder 11:45 – How they would look to raise $3-5M in a Series A in 2019 13:15 – The Famous Five

Michael Beebe is CEO of Dstillery (https://dstillery.com/) 🕒 Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:00 – Nathan's introduction to today's show 00:20 – Why they help unlock brand's growth potential through data science and insights 01:20 – How they are fueling their offering with top advertising performers 02:10 – Why they are creating unique audiences based on limited information 03:20 – How they have created a competitive advantage with behavioral data 04:30 – Why they are still selling a data product on a CPM basis 05:20 – How they spend on revenue share or CPM model 06:00 – Why they are charging 20% regardless of the advertising platform 08:45 – How they have raised $60M with the most round coming in 2018 10:00 – Why they are building a pure-play SaaS product right now 10:45 – How starting out on a consulting basis can have a massive impact on launching a SaaS business 11:50 – Why they are taking up to 50% for every dollar spent on their platform 12:30 – How they have process $50M+ in transaction volume this year 12:50 – The Famous Five

Mickey Patton is President and CEO of Clear C2 (https://www.clearc2.com/) 🕒 Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:00 – Nathan's introduction to today's show 0:30 – How they launched the company as an electronic rolodex 0:55 – Why they are built as a CRM for manufacturers 1:35 – How they average customer pays them $60 per seat monthly 2:20 – Why Mickey joined the company to launch the software division 3:00 – How they've scaled to 50 full-time employees 3:40 – Why they are working with 450 total customers today 4:30 – How they are serving around 100,00 total seats 5:20 – Why they put their sales teams on annual quotas 6:15 – How they exhibiting less than 10% gross logo churn annually 7:25 – Why they are transitioning to a more user-friendly model 8:55 – How they are paying around $10k to land a new customer right now 11:25 – How they are doing more than $3M in ARR 12:30 – Why they are growing 60% year over year 13:00 – Why they are past $5M in ARR 13:20 – The Famous Five

Craig is the founder and CEO of SalesNexus (https://salesnexus.com/) 🕒 Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:00 – Nathan's introduction to today's show 0:40 – Why he transitioned to SaaS 1:00 – How SalesNexus has grown to scale by bootstrapping 1:15 – Why the average customer pays them $150-$200 each month 1:30 – How he launched the company back in 2003 as a side-hustle 2:30 – Why they have grown to serve 5,000 total customers today 3:00 – How they manage implementation in-house to drive customer success 3:50 – Why SalesNexus is doing $3.5M in ARR 5:20 – How they added marketing automation features to increase pricing 5:55 – Why they have scaled from $3.25M in ARR 12 months ago 6:20 – How the average customer stays with them for 5 years 7:35 – Why driving customization leads to stickiness for SalesNexus 8:20 – How they are landing new customers via online advertising 9:15 – Why they are spending $300 in CAC right now 10:20 – How their team has grown to 20 full-time employees in Houston 11:10 – Why they are cash flow positive today 11:30 – How Craig still seems room for growth today 13:50 – The Famous Five

Alexander Hoogewijs is the CEO of SiteManager (https://www.sitemanager.io/) 🕒 Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:00 – Nathan's introduction to today's show 0:40 – Why SiteManager has found a niche serving freelance web designers and small agencies 1:40 – How the typical customer pays them $105 each month 2:35 – How they serve 138 customers with 350 total users 3:10 – Why SiteManager is doing $14k in MRR right now 3:30 – How they are landing customers via outbound sales 4:20 – Why most of their team is based in Belgium and remote 4:45 – How their gross monthly revenue churn is around 1% today 5:30 – Why they raised more than $850k in outside funding 7:20 – How they are shooting for $60k in MRR within the next year 8:00 – Why they are paying $1,400 in CAC today 8:55 – Why they are spending most of their cash on their sales teams and onboarding 9:30 – The Famous Five

1422 Nicolas Vandenberghe How He Drove $300k Expansion on $1m ARR Cohort in 12 Months Nicolas Vandenberghe is the CEO of Chili Piper (https://www.chilipiper.com/) 🕒 Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:00 – Nathan's introduction to today's show 0:35 – Why they help businesses close more sales 2:10 – How the average customer pays them around $10k annually 3:55 – Why customers are pairing this technology with SDR's 5:05 – How they launched the company in January of 2016 5:20 – Why more than 200 customers are using their software today 6:10 – How they are at $2M in ARR right now 6:30 – Why they have hit net negative revenue churn annually 8:10 – How a majority of their growth has come from driving expansion revenue 8:35 – Why they have decided to bootstrap up to this point 9:35 – How they recieve payback 10:20 – Why the Chili Piper team has grown to 14 full-time employees 11:00 – How they are receiving payback within one month 14:40 – Why he would look to raise $5M at a pre-money valuation of $40M 15:35 – The Famous Five

1421 Michal Sadowski How He IPO'd $2m ARR Company on Polish Exchange Michal Sadowski is the Founder & CEO of Brand24 (https://brand24.com/) 🕒 Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:00 – Nathan's introduction to today's show 00:24 – Why Brand24 now serve 2k customers each month 03:35 – How their average customer pays them $100 monthly 04:35 – Why they are doing $2.4M in ARR 05:05 – How they launched the company back in 2011 05:15 – Why their team of 65 full-time employees is based in Poland 05:45 – How they've grown to scale with just $300k in venture capital 08:40 – Why they are up from $1.8M in ARR twelve months ago 12:20 – How Brand24 is exhibiting 5% to 7% gross logo churn per month 13:21 – Why they are landing new customers for $280 in CAC 13:45 – How they assume an LTV of $1,500 over 15 months 14:00 – The Famous Five

1420 Joshua Keller He Went Zero to $1m in ARR in 6 Months, Bootstrapped Joshua Keller is the Founder and CEO of Maximus (https://maximus.live/) 🕒 Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:00 – Nathan's introduction to today's show 01:30 – Why their customers pay them $1k per month 02:55 – How they launched the company in 2017 04:00 – Why they have grown to scale by bootstrapping thus far 04:20 – How they have landed 25 total customers 04:50 – Why Maximus is doing $75k in MRR right now 07:00 – How their gross churn is between 2-3% monthly 08:05 – Why their team of 20 full-time employees is based in New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Austin, Ukraine, and India 09:20 – The Famous Five

1419 Bill Kahlert "I Don't Know What Logo Churn Means", I Predict They'll Be Dead in

1418 $1m on $10m pre would raise. Would sell for $10m today. Sean Leonard $2.4M ARR Marketing Automation Company CEO Would Sell for $10M Today Sean Leonard is the CEO and co-founder of ActiveDEMAND (https://www.activedemand.com/) 🕒 Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:00 – Nathan's introduction to today's show 0:35 – How ActiveDEMAND functions as a marketing automation platform 1:15 – Why they've decided to feature professional services 1:50 – How the average customer pays them $400 monthly 3:20 – Why he launched the company in 2014 out of an agency 4:40 – How they've scaled to serve 500 agencies 5:00 – Why they are doing between $200k and $300k in MRR 6:00 – How ActiveDEMAND is growing 30% year over year 6:50 – Why they are growing through a land and expand model 7:30 – How they are landing agencies through partner webinars and content marketing 9:40 – Why they spend $800 to land a new customer 11:10 – How they've grown to less than 50 full-time employees in Alberta 11:40 – Why they are planning on raising capital 13:00 – How he would be happy with a $10M pre-money valuation 14:00 – "Would you sell for $10M today?" 15:00 – The Famous Five