Here’s how to startup. Even when the world goes topsy-turvy. From one home office to another, Zendesk leaders chat with founders, CEOs, and makers on their startup journey. There’s rule-flipping, new dogma and recycling failure into growth. Plus, why customer experience is at the heart of success, as told by people who know unpredictability inside out. (That seems pretty helpful right now.)
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All Tom does is think about and start B2B businesses. This podcast is his excuse to talk about it.* *With awesome B2B entrepreneurs like David Heinemeier Hansson (37signals), Guillaume Moubeche (lemlist), Chris Walker (Refine Labs), Andrew Gazdecki (Acquire.com), Adam Robinson (Retention.com), Peep Laja (CXL), Gil Allouche (Metadata), Jonathan Dane (KlientBoost), Eric Siu (Single Grain), Arvid Kahl (FeedbackPanda), Carrie Rose (Rise at Seven) and many more.
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What if you knew data behind the fastest growing SaaS companies today? Each morning join Nathan Latka as he spends 15 minutes interviewing SaaS founders. You'll learn how SaaS CEO's launched their startup and grew it into a real SaaS business. SaaS Founders range from bootstrapped to funded, MVP to 10,000 customers, pre revenue to pre IPO.
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Actionable marketing automation strategies and tactics from industry practitioners for B2B SaaS marketers. marketingautomation.fm
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Join our podcast to learn the latest in Marketing & Sales for your SaaS business. Listen to suggestions from successful SaaS founders and Marketers and figure out what works!!!
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B2B SaaS Sales is still an emerging domain in Europe. European salespeople and their leaders share actionable initiatives, best practices and insights on how you can source and close more deals faster and become a better sales professional. For more free resources please visit - https://www.unique.ch/ to increase sales with winning moments in every customer conversation - https://thesalesplaybook.io/ on coaching committed B2B startups to exceed their sales goals
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Lemlist Product Genius Shares Strategy, $23,000,000 in Sales (ARR), No Outside Funding
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Lemlist has bootstrapped to $23m in ARR using a combination of Product Virality, Acquisitions, and Courses. Chief Product Officer Kévin Moenne-Loccoz tells us how they stacked growth tactics to avoid raising outside capital while still growing revenue fast. Will they hit $30m by December 2024?By Nathan Latka
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aHref's Does $1m in Revenue Per Employee, Bootstrapped, Using these 5 Content Strategies you should copy
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aHref's generates $900,000 in revenue per employee (100 FTE's, $100m+ in ARR). They ignore Google Analytics, conversion rates, and didn't hire their first sales rep until $90m in ARR. They're bootstrapped. How do they use content to generate millions of website hits per month? Copy these 5 tactics.By Nathan Latka
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Podcast Processes, Premise, and Building Authority (Maker Mixtapes Ep)
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Tom Whatley on LinkedIn Grizzle's website Maker Mixtapes Maker Mixtapes on YouTube Confessions of a B2B Entrepreneur is handcrafted by our friends over at: fame.so Check out our five most downloaded episodes: How To Start A Movement with David Heinemeier Hansson of 37signals Chris Walker Rants On Dark Social, Creating Demand & Company Building CEO …
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CPO Does $90m in Revenue, Reveals M4 Test He Ran To Increase NRR at Month 18
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Clate Mask launched Keap (formerly Infusionsoft) back in 2010 and quickly scaled to $100,000,000 in revenues in 7 years (2017). After that, the company flatlined due to competition and diluted priority. Today, CPO Ammon Curtis is helping turn things around. Learn the M4 test he ran on 705 customers to measure DIY, DFY, DWY onboarding and how this i…
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How I Used 1 Linkedin Post to Generate $1,000,000 in Pipeline and Closed $250,000 in new ARR
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Adam Baker is a 3 time founder currently building DealPad. The firm did $3,700,000 in sales last year without outside funding. Can they hit $7m in ARR before Dec 2024?By Nathan Latka
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Selling An Agency For 8 Figures with Luke Tobin of Tobin Capital
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$6m ARR CEO Shares When to Hire First AE, CSM, and VP
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How This CEO Used Webinars - 45% show up rate - to Hit $8m in Revenue
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Lauren Tickner Shares Her Scale Secrets (Feat. Lara Acosta)
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[$3 Trillion Market Revolution] Democratizing Structured Notes with Halo Investing
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Join host Adam O'Donnell on the latest episode of Sit Down Startup. This week, Jason Barsema, a former financial advisor specializing in managing portfolios for ultra-high-net-worth individuals, has emerged as a groundbreaking figure in disrupting the structured notes market. Barsema initially sought to eliminate the counterparty risk of big banks …
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How This SaaS Product Studio Built 3 Tools and Did $16m in Revenue Last Year
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Founder Does $18m in 2023 Revenue Following 9 Strange SaaS Playbooks
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Gilles Domartini bootstrapped Cleeng to $18m in revenues by focusing on 9 tactics many ignore. His 5 part pricing strategy is new. His organizational efficiency is not-common. Customers use his tool to process 48 million transactions per day adding up to $500m in annual gross billings across 35m user accounts. Will he hit $25m revenue before Decemb…
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Losing $200k Per Month & Investing In Pistachio Farms with Eli Rubel of NoBoringDesign
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$50m Bootstrapped CEO Shares His First SEO Hire, Growth Tactics and Playbook
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Rytis Lauris bootstrapped OmniSend to $50,000,000 in revenues. His top growth driver? SEO. Learn how he made his first SEO hire, how he structured his SEO team, and how much traffic this team drives the business today. Will he hit $70m ARR before Dec this year?By Nathan Latka
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Hunter Hammonds Reveals Assembly’s New HoldCo Strategy
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Is Forecasting a Waste? CFO with $123m in Revenue Tells All
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mFiles has grown from $10m revenues in 2015 to more than $123m today. CFO Justin Kim has been there for the full ride. Is forecasting a waste? How should a CFO setup a plan B? How should scenario analysis actually work?By Nathan Latka
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Purpose & Profits with Gavin Howarth of Howarths
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[4x Founder] From FBI to Founder: Jo Riley’s Journey to Product-Market Fit with Censia
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Join us on the newest episode of Sit Down Startup as Jo Riley, founder of Censia, shares her inspiring journey from the FBI to launching a disruptive AI-driven platform. Host Adam O'Donnell and Jo discuss the importance of persistence, the value of customer feedback, and how Censia is transforming the way companies find and manage talent. Whether y…
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This $100m ARR Company Is Making a Major Change to their Q3 2024 Marketing Strategy
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Typeform CEO Kim Lecha is in a war with Jotform, Surveymonkey, and other form providers. His 2024 top priority is a brand new marketing approach. Will it work? Will Typeform break $180m in ARR before Dec 2024?By Nathan Latka
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How to Sell your Company for $60m (from a Founder who did it)
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Crossbeam CEO Bob Moore invented the term Ecosystem Led Growth. He sold his first company for $60m before taking those lessons and launching CrossBeam. Will he hit $50m in ARR before Dec 2024?By Nathan Latka
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Alan Pentz Bootstrapped A Consultancy $30m (In A Strange Niche). Here's How...
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Coro Announces $100m Live on the Show, Their Partnership Playbook
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Coro CEO Drew Liwer shares breaking news. He credits their revenue growth to a channel first strategy. Listen to get his playbook. Will they hit $150m in ARR before Dec 2024?By Nathan Latka
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How to 3x your revenue with 3 simple pricing changes
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Cledara Co-Founder Brad Leeuwen wanted to grow faster. He was nervous to change pricing. Once he did, the results shocked even him. Will they break $30m in ARR this year?By Nathan Latka
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Culture, Bootstrapping & Gifting with Millie Tadewaldt of Brilliant
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Want $100m in revenue? Copy these lessons from ZenBusiness CEO Ross Buhrdorf
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How did they get Mark Cuban to invest early on? What pricing changes did they make to grow from $40m to $80m in ARR? How did Ross acquire 4+ companies? Will they break $150m in ARR by Dec 2024?By Nathan Latka
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13 Lessons I Learned Bootstrapping to $20m in Revenues
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TimeDoctor CEO Liam Martin has used his community to bootstrap his SaaS to $20m. He'll show you how he grew 202% in 2020 and continues to grow profitably. Can they hit $25m by Dec 2024?By Nathan Latka
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Carrie Rose (Rise at Seven) On How She Bootstrapped A Top Global Marketing Agency (In 4 Years)
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[$30B Market Reimagined] Unlocking Home Care's Potential with Honor
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Welcome back to Sit Down Startup! Seth Sternberg, co-founder of Honor ($625M raised), a company dedicated to addressing the challenges faced by senior citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic, was heavily influenced by his upbringing in Connecticut and his entrepreneurial spirit. Sternberg's experiences during the pandemic greatly shaped his perspecti…
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How I hit $15m ARR using 4 new growth playbooks
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Metadata CEO Gil Allouche almost killed his company in April 2020 when he only had $500k cash left in the bank and less than 2 months of runway. He used 4 growth tactics to turn things around, hitting $15m in ARR last week. Can he break $20m before Dec 2024?By Nathan Latka
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We hit $100m in revenue: 9 Lessons I Learned the hard way
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Founder of Brightedge Jim Yu teaches us the 3 weekly candences he ran to hit $20m, how he set up his org chart from $20m to $100m, and 3 non-standard metrics he tracks. Will they break $150m ARR this year?By Nathan Latka
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Brett (Designjoy) Shares How He Earns +$1m With 0 Employees (And What He Does With The $)
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We hit 4 Scaling Crisis between $0 and $70m ARR, here's how I solved them
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3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day
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Eugene Levin joined SEMRush at $3m ARR after the founders wouldn't let him invest. As president, he's grown the business to 100,000 paying customers 850k free users, $2,500 ACV and 25% YoY revenue growth. Will they break $350m ARR this year?By Nathan Latka
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Ash Jones Shares Personal Branding Secrets From The UK's Biggest Names
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Was my $22m ARR bootstrapped good enough? I felt pressure to be a unicorn, tried, and failed miserably
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Adam Robinson had a 6 person team doing $10m in ARR. Then he went all in on linkedin, pivoted to B2B, and broke $20m in ARR. He did $1,858,399 MRR in Jan 2024 and profited $509,984. Can he break $5m in profits this year?By Nathan Latka
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How I Turned my Podcast into a $50m ARR B2B SaaS
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Leading with Intention in the New World of Work (Transforming Work with Sophie Wade)
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We just hit $400m in revenues. Here are 9 org chart, people moves I had to make to scale
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Jason Cohen founded WPEngine in 2010 and broke $20m within 4 years. Today, the company does $400m+ in Revenues. In this podcast Cohen teaches 9 rules he used to change his org chart, optimize roles, and replace himself as CEO as he scaled. Will they break $500m revenue this year?By Nathan Latka
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27 year old Founder exited for $169m at $50m ARR. How much cash did he take home at exit?
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Ryan Allis launched iContact when he was 18. He made $15m cash when he exited in 2011 for $169m. He shares his negotiation with Salesforce Marc Benioff, how he found 10 profitable acquisition channels, 70,000 customers, and broke $50m in revenues. Will he buy it back for $1 one day?By Nathan Latka
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Tim Davidson Is Changing B2B (with Fruit & Signs)
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Tim Davidson on LinkedIn B2B Rizz's website B2B Growth Goals vs. Buyer Frustrations B2B, the excuses are getting old Check out our awesome sponsor, Fame, they start and grow the world's most profitable B2B podcasts Confessions of a B2B Entrepreneur is handcrafted by our friends over at: fame.so Check out our five most downloaded episodes: How To St…
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This Danish CEO Hit $30m ARR using Unique 14 Hub Model Selling Software for Microsoft Ecosystem
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LMS365 raised $20m in 2023 at a $100m valuation - a 5x multiple on $20m of ARR. As of April 2024, they do $30m in ARR. Their 200 person team is focused on building software for the Microsoft ecosystem. Can they hit $40m ARR this year?By Nathan Latka
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How Younium Hit 200 Customers Paying $30k ACV For its Billing and Revenue Analytics tool
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Rebranding The Pod + Update On Fame's Progress (Solo Ep)
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Confessions of a B2B Entrepreneur is handcrafted by our friends over at: fame.so Check out our five most downloaded episodes: How To Start A Movement with David Heinemeier Hansson of 37signals Chris Walker Rants On Dark Social, Creating Demand & Company Building CEO Spends 70% Of Time On His Personal Brand? Guillaume Moubeche Shares All OLD WAY/NEW…
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Genius SaaS Pricing Page Generated $3m in Revenue Last Year
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They hit $3m ARR fast using MTU tiers on their pricing page. Raised $7m in 2023 at a $35m post money valuation and are burning $30k per month today. Focus is profitability before Q2 2025, will they hit it?By Nathan Latka
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OLD VS NEW WAY In B2B Marketing (Breaking B2B - B2B Marketing & Demand Generation Podcast)
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Sam Dunning on LinkedIn Breaking B2B on LinkedIn Breaking B2B's website Confessions of a B2B Entrepreneur is handcrafted by our friends over at: fame.so Check out our five most downloaded episodes: How To Start A Movement with David Heinemeier Hansson of 37signals Chris Walker Rants On Dark Social, Creating Demand & Company Building CEO Spends 70% …
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39 Year Old Made $21m Last Year Selling Surprising Software
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Rural mom and pop shops love him. 13,000 have purchased his POS and software system processing over $1.85 billion in GMV in 2023 across 35m transactions. Can he crack $2b GMV in 2024?By Nathan Latka
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How Bootstrapper Made $6m Last year Using New Self-Funding Method
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Companies like Samsung are sourcing college talent using Scholarship Owl. The firm hit $6m in 2023 revenue, bootstrapped. 150,000 college students join the platform monthly increasing the size and quality of the talent pool the company’s B2B customers can pay to access. Can he hit $10m this year?By Nathan Latka
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This Guy LOVES Cold Email with Benny Rubin of Senders
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How to turn your sales playbook into a revenue machine that adds $Xm in new ARR per quarter
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Miami Based Fintech did $70m in 2023 Revenue - What about Gross Margin?
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CEO Alex Shvarts shared a default rate of 15%, charge off rate of 6.8%, along with significant expenses related to acquisition costs, and interest expenses. The firm is targeting $300m in capital deployed in 2024. If it hits its target, does this FinTech SMB factoring company have enough margin to survive long term?…
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