SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka
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Aug 19, 2021 • 19min

Retail SaaS Taking Off Post Pandemic, $1m+ ARR, Raising $8m Series A Now

Michelle Bacharach is CEO and Co-Founder of FindMine, an award-winning content engine that uses machine learning to scale content curation for the world's top retailers. As a product and strategy expert, Michelle is experienced in growing companies by launching software, apps and websites to millions of people, putting together joint ventures, and conceiving of new products. She has an MBA from NYU Stern and a BA from UC Berkeley (Go Bears!), where she wrote her honors thesis on managing innovation in multinational organizations. Previously, Michelle served as Director, Program Management - Univision.com and Entertainment with Univision Communications, Inc. where she was responsible for creating the digital roadmap for Univision's cross-platform digital properties (including TV shows, tentpole events, Univision.com, and the Univision App), ensuring KPIs, user experience, and alignment with business strategy are upheld. She also executed roadmaps using Agile & Scrum methodologies: including writing user stories and acceptance criteria, groom the product backlog, manage overarching priorities and balance workload between 6 different sprint teams to deliver on product vision. She managed delivery of Univision's first digital property built on a responsive framework, which drove triple digit growth in engagement over the previous year's site for the same tentpole event as well as sourced, negotiated, and executed large-scale integrations with vendors. Michelle also served with Univision as Associate in the Office of the CEO. In this role, she worked directly with C-suite leadership to evaluate, plan and execute CEO and Board-level strategic initiatives spanning Univision's assets in Broadcast, Cable, Local TV, Radio, and Online/Mobile, including an overhaul of Univision's digital content and product strategy, structuring and valuation of a joint venture with El Rey, Robert Rodriguez's new cable network, and formulation of Univision's long-range, cross-platform English language strategy. Michelle has also helped venture-backed startups, agencies, and fortune 1000 businesses with their digital strategy and consumer experience: She founded and led the customer innovation team at BigTent, Inc. (acquired by Care.com) and quantified the value of a Facebook "like" for a billion dollar apparel brand while at ReadySet Rocket. She also has raised over $150,000 for her alma mater, U.C. Berkeley and led a team of cold-callers to a record breaking $3M fundraising year for the Cal Calling Center.
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Aug 18, 2021 • 13min

Can This Data Company Win? $9k to $40k MRR in 6 Months Bootstrapped

Like you, I am passionate about technology, making the world better and having fun doing it.
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Aug 17, 2021 • 18min

He's Beating Cancer While Building Fintech Health Tool, $1.6m ARR Bootstrapped

Founder and CEO of CoverMe, healthtech SaaS company using AI to help people find paying sources for healthcare bills in a real time marketplace. Bootstrapped and profitable, CoverMe's team has doubled along with revenue in each of the last four years.
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Aug 16, 2021 • 17min

Reviews.io Breaks $10m ARR Bootstrapped, Growing 150% YoY

An immense passion for technology, company culture and customer experience with business experience spanning 20+ years launching his first business at 19 years old. In May 2018, Tom joined REVIEWS.io as Chief Operating Officer (COO) with the sole purpose of growing the business globally. REVIEWS.io is a digital feedback solution that enables online businesses to build brand trust, and is internationally renowned for its innovation.
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Aug 15, 2021 • 14min

New NFT Tool Helps Artists Sell Work for $20/mo

I use my background in TV, news, branding and technology to help creators earn without ads on the world's first NFT social network where we make everyone an influencer natural. Plus, we enable digital content creators to build communities and monetize their content using blockchain enabled technology.
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Aug 14, 2021 • 18min

20 Year Old Sells $15k Lanyards, Now Ecomm Research Tool

I'm a 20 year old degree apprentice, meaning I work full time as a software engineer and part-time completing university that is paid for. In my spare time I'm working on Ecom Pilot, a SaaS product research tool for dropshippers. We are currently pre-launch, and have been lucky enough to find some partners who are working on a complementary tool now raising a series A. I'm also working on Afiliatree, which is more of a bootstrapped effort at a social enterprise looking to do some good.
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Aug 13, 2021 • 22min

Brazilian Quote to Cash SaaS Hits $10k in MRR up from $2k, $250k raised at $2.5m Valuation

Passionate computer scientist in the fintech space. Past HSBC, EBANX (soon to be listed), cofounder at PLIPAG.
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Aug 12, 2021 • 16min

0 to $20k MRR in 4 Days? How This SaaS Startup Did It.

I'm the CEO of Sales for Life (a LaaS company), the pioneering Social Selling training program for mid-market and enterprise companies. Sales for Life has trained over 250,000 sales and marketing professionals, in dozens of industries. We recently founded PipelineSignals (a BPaaS company) that mines Signal Intelligence from LinkedIn, for any accounts in our customers TAM, for sales opportunities vs. risks.
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Aug 11, 2021 • 16min

$15k in MRR From $50k Raised Helping you Turn Blogs into Audio Content

Administration graduate, shines at problem-solving and creativity applied to business and product development. Albert is co-founder and CEO at VOOOZER, Audio Marketing leading solution in Brazil, selected by Google for Startups as one of the most promising startups in 2019. Advocates for harmony between startup life and family life.
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Aug 10, 2021 • 19min

How He Built The Largest Rev Ops Community In The World (and $500k of revenue!)

15 year sales veteran that started revgenius at beginning of pandemic bringing it to 15,000 sales, marketing and revops pros in a years time.

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