Greg Soper is the CEO of SalesAgility (https://www.salesagility.com/)

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00:00 – Nathan's introduction to today's show

0:30 – Why IT is heavily constrained with delivering value

2:00 – How competitive businesses leverage open source software

3:15 – Why some companies don't have enough capital to optimize out of the box software

3:55 – How they have built their business on top of an open source CRM

4:30 – Why they've had 1M downloads in the last 5 years

5:00 – How they make money doing consulting for their open source platform

5:45 – Why SalesAgility charges for hosting and usage

7:00 – How they are enabling businesses to own their data

7:30 – Why they are providing an alternative to cloud solutions

8:25 – How consulting is a large part of their business

9:50 – Why the average customer is paying them $10-15 per seat monthly

11:50 – How they are planning to launch a new SaaS product soon

12:30 – Why their SaaS product is subsidizing development

13:00 – How they've grown to serve 100 companies today

13:20 – Why they don't make their SaaS offering free

14:30 – How they are doing $5M in annual revenue overall

14:45 – Why their team of 40 full-time employees are based in Scotland

15:30 – How they've grown to scale by bootstrapping

16:00 – Why they are focusing on both SaaS and consulting

19:00 – The Famous 5

Richard Jones is the CEO of The Wayin Platform (https://www.wayin.com/)

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00:00 – Nathan's introduction to today's show

0:25 – How Wayin helps 150+ enterprise customers create interactice experiences

1:20 – Why they collect explicitly shared data

2:40 – How they provide many different mechanisms for engagement

5:25 – Why they don't own or share the data they collect

5:45 – How the average customer pays them $65k annually

7:10 – Why they are doing $10M+ in ARR right now

7:30 – How he launched the company in 2011

8:20 – Why he still has meaningful equity after merging and becoming CEO

8:55 – How they've grown to 72 full-time employees internationally and in the U.S.

9:25 – Why they are growing 62% year over year

9:50 – How their growth is coming from both new customers and expansion

10:30 – Why they are driving 125% net revenue retention annually

12:45 – How they are spending 2% of their revenue on marketing

Max Israel is Founder & CEO of Customerville (https://www.customerville.com/)

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00:00 – Nathan's introduction to today's show

0:30 – Why Max founded the company 15 years ago to scratch his own itch

1:30 – How he grew the business without venture capital

2:20 – Why they made the decision to pivot eight years ago

3:05 – How the average customer pays them $250k annually

4:05 – Why they decided to maintain bootstrapped

4:30 – How they funded the business with a small retail chain

5:30 – Why they serve more than 50 customers globally

6:00 – How they are doing around $1M in MRR right now

7:30 – Why they are growing 50%+ year over year

8:50 – How they've kept gross logo churn below 10% annually

10:00 – Why they are focusing on driving expansion revenue with new features going forward

10:15 – How their team has grown to around 40 full-time employees

10:45 – Why they spent up to $400k on Google AdWords in the past

12:10 – How they are evaluating new plans for growing their sales team

13:00 – Why they aren't in acquisition talks right now

14:00 – The Famous Five

Alex Raymond is the co-founder and CEO of Kapta (https://kapta.com/)

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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/)

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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/)

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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/)

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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