Synopsis
Listen to The Top if you want to hear from the worlds TOP entrepreneurs on how much they sold last month, how they are selling it, and what they are selling - 7 days a week in 20 minute interviews!The Top is FOR YOU IF you are:A STUDENT who wants to become the CEO of a $10m company in under 24 months (episode #4)STUCK in the CORPORATE grind and looking to create a $10k/mo side business so you can quit (episode #7)An influencer or BLOGGER who wants to make $27k/mo in monthly RECURRING revenue to have the life you want and full CONTROL (episode #1)The Software as a Service (SaaS) entrepreneur who wants to grow to a $100m+ valuation (episode #14). Your host, Nathan Latka is a 25 year old software entrepreneur who has driven over $4.5 million in revenue and built a 25 person team as he dropped out of school, raised $2.5million from a Forbes Billionaire, and attracted over 10,000 paying customers from 160+ different countries.Oprah gets 60 minutes or more to make her guests comfortable to then ask tough questions. Nathan does it all in less than 15 minutes in this daily podcast that's like an audio version of Pat Flynn's monthly income report. Join the Top Tribe at NathanLatka.com/TheTop
Episodes
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How SurferSEO hit $3m Revenue Bootstrapped Using Chrome Extension, Affiliates
05/02/2021 Duration: 20minDigital marketer with love for SEO. Michał co-founded Surfer and has been evangelizing the product and data-driven approach to optimization ever since. He trained hundreds of SEOs, copywriters, and marketers on on-page SEO, writing, and content marketing strategies.
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LightHousePE Hits $10k MRR Helping Brick and Mortar Keep Customers
04/02/2021 Duration: 14minAndrew Steele is the CEO of LighthousePE, a location-based mobile behavioral engagement platform. He previously co-founded and led 3 startups in healthcare and enterprise SaaS, and earlier led marketing, sales and business development for high growth businesses acquired by Comcast, Motorola and Microsoft.
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MediaMash Raising $1.5m So You Can Own Your Audience
03/02/2021 Duration: 16minA digital strategist, Donna was fortunate to be part of the team who founded the hybrid video platform, MediaMash.tech as CEO. The platform is geared for brands and influencers with large audiences. It helps keep their audience in their universe, while fostering brand development and reducing reliance on social channels.
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FlaskData Software For Patient Trials Hits $350k ARR
02/02/2021 Duration: 14minI am a solid-state physicist by training, serious amateur musician and tech entrepreneur developing automated detection and response for virtual clinical trials.
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How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months
01/02/2021 Duration: 14minNikhil Aitharaju is an entrepreneur who started a multi-million dollar SaaS business in college using SEO and content marketing. After successfully selling the company in 2018 he is now working on a new product to help others achieve similar marketing success for their businesses.
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eComVids Pivots to SaaS For DropShippers to Get Product Creatives
31/01/2021 Duration: 16minI came up. Then I hit hit rock bottom. But I found my way. Then I hit a depressive period. Decided to take control again and I'm prepared to make an exit by the end of 2021.
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SaaS CEO Launches PPE Factory, $10m Sales of Surgical Masks, American Made
30/01/2021 Duration: 19minLloyd is the Founder of Armbrust American, a U.S. manufacturer of surgical masks and PPE launched in May 2020 making over $10MM annually. In 2008, he founded OwnLocal, a Y Combinator-backed startup responsible for generating $300+ million in revenue for more than 3,000 local publications over the last decade. Lloyd currently lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and five children.
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SalesPlaybook Did $320k in Sales Helping SaaS Founders Sell
29/01/2021 Duration: 13minManuel built up https://thesalesplaybook.io/ bootstrapped from 0 to 100+ customers and 350k+ annual revenue in less than 2 years to help committed B2B entrepreneurs selling CHF 25’000-CHF 250’000 deals grow annual revenues by 100-400% by hitting product-market-fit and scaling up sales faster without hiring expensive sales reps.
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SEO Secrets from Shopify, G2 Head of SEO Strategy
28/01/2021 Duration: 22minKevin Indig leads SEO as Director @ Shopify and is the creator of the Growth Memo newsletter. Previously, he ran SEO @ G2 and Atlassian and worked with companies like eBay, Eventbrite, Samsung, Pinterest, and many others.
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How Pepperi Hit $11m Revenue Bootstrapped, Rollup Next?
27/01/2021 Duration: 15minOfer Yourvexel is the co-founder and CEO of Pepperi, the B2B sales platform for brands and wholesalers. Prior to founding Pepperi, Mr. Yourvexel spent over 20 years in executive leadership positions with enterprise technology companies including Amdocs, Jacada, Enigma, and Tefen
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ScholarshipOwl Breaks $4m Revenue Helping 15k Students Get Loans
26/01/2021 Duration: 15minAn engineer from a young age, previously CTO/R&D manager in a number of Israeli startups, ex-Googler turned entrepreneur and CEO, changing the US education financing. Running a successful all-remote company now for 5 years, and a strong believer in remote as a way of life.
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Solar Panel Install Software Breaks $26k/mo, Raising $1.5m on $6m Valuation
25/01/2021 Duration: 14minLove solar & technology. Started The Solar Labs as a Senior in college. My vision is to help solar installers scale their businesses (and thereby bring more solar to the world) and install better engineering solar systems.
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Modigie Gets You Accurate Prospect Cell Numbers, Hits $300k ARR, 29 Customers
24/01/2021 Duration: 15minKen Hoppe is Founder and CEO of Modigie. Prior to Modigie Ken spent 18+ years in various tech leadership roles, experiencing firsthand the widespread shift to mobile-for-business communications. Realizing the significant hurdle in sales productivity due to lack of connection, Ken now strives to transform the B2B sales and marketing process with Modigie; the most effective, real-time mobile phone verification and enrichment platform for Salesforce.
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Proposify Hits $7m Revenue Driving Expansion Into 200 Enterprise Accounts with $10k+ ACV's
23/01/2021 Duration: 21minKyle Racki is the co-founder and CEO of Proposify, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, which currently serves more than ten thousand customers worldwide. He started his first business, a web design company, at age twenty-four and sold it after five years. Kyle has blogged extensively about his journey through the ups and downs of entrepreneurship and is the author of Free Trials (and Tribulations): How To Build A Business While Getting Punched In The Mouth. He lives in Halifax and loves spending time with his wife, Christina, and his three sons, Micah, Ty, and Theo.
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Queen of Community Rosie Sherry Reveals Secrets of Engagement, Growth, Monetization
22/01/2021 Duration: 16minRosie previously bootstrapped Ministry of Testing, a community for software testers, to 7 figures. Now she leads the community over at Indie Hackers and is building up Rosieland, a community for community builders, on the side.
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Finimize Uses 1m Email List to Launch API SaaS, Grows to 30% of Total Revenue
21/01/2021 Duration: 26minFounder of Finimize, the world’s largest and most engaged finance community •Previously co-founded one of the largest ecommerce players in Switzerland, sold with 200 employees to the largest Swiss media house •Forbes 30 under 30 in 2016, mentor at Techstars
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Collabogence Pivoting from $300k Agency, Raising $1.5m on $5m Pre?
20/01/2021 Duration: 16minPeter Smit has spent half his life on either side of the Atlantic. He has lived in 7 countries and speaks four languages Raised in the age of matrix management, running programs, initiatives, projects and business globally, he has long been a proponent of collaboration and the tools which enable it. He is the CEO and founder of Collabogence, a Toronto-based firm which used data to measure the changes in effectiveness and productivity of people and spaces.
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FullFunnel.io Using 4k FB Community, Book to Grow B2B SaaS Business
19/01/2021 Duration: 17minFounder of Fullfunnel.io ( Full-Funnel B2B marketing for B2B Service-Based, Tech and SaaS companies) and ROIplan (marketing planning platform). I live and breathe B2B marketing since 2007. Author of ""LinkedIn Content Marketing: How to generate high-quality B2B leads on LinkedIn without cold messaging and ads"" book that was awarded as the best B2B marketing ebook and was included to 100 Best B2B Marketing Books of All Time by Bookauthority.
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SalesImpact Hits $1.5m ARR Training SaaS Sales Leaders
18/01/2021 Duration: 15minPaul is an entrepreneur with 18 years’ experience in founding and scaling global companies. Over the last 7 years, he has grown two international technology businesses from zero to $70M in combined sales as CRO and $500M + in value. Paul has also raised over $100M of investment across all stages.
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x0pa Breaks $3m Revenue, Grows 6x selling B2B Hiring tool
17/01/2021 Duration: 14minFounder and CEO. Third venture, entrepreneur since 1997. Started first company with an investment of $1000 to make it a multi million dollar company across 5 continents. Pivoted to digital platform in 2017. Recipient of over 23 awards including Female Business Personality of the Year , entrepreneur of the year Asia