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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NessLabs Hits 1,500 Members Paying $75k, Software Next?
27/12/2020 Duration: 18minAnne-Laure Le Cunff is the founder of Ness Labs, an online platform offering neuroscience-based content and coaching to thousands of entrepreneurs and knowledge workers. Prior to Ness Labs, she led marketing for digital health products at Google. She holds a MSc in applied neuroscience from King's College London.
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BossInsights 2x YoY to 5 Customers Helping Lenders Capture Data
26/12/2020 Duration: 19minFormer banker & 2nd time founder, Keren Moynihan is the CEO/co-founder of Boss Insights. Boss Insights offers Business Data as a Service. Their single API enables easy access to hundreds of sources (Quickbooks, SalesForce, Stripe) bridging data gaps between banks and business customers in under 1 minute. Banks know where a business was, is and will be on demand. Keren has 15+ years' experience in financial services as a banker, advisor and is on the Commonwealth’s Women Invested Advisory Council. Under her leadership, Boss was awarded the 2020 Unicorn Challenge and 2019 Executive leader in lending, featured in Forbes, ABA and The Financial Brand for saying Banks must adopt APIs or Fintechs will win.
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How GoSun Sold 50,000 Units, $4m Revenue, 250k Community, Software Next?
25/12/2020 Duration: 21minPatrick has worked with solar for over 20 years, and maintains a diverse background in design, social enterprise and manufacturing. Volunteering in developing countries has inspired Patrick to create solar solutions that meet essential needs like cooking, cooling and sanitation.
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KPISense Raising $1.5m Now on $1.2m Revenues As Tech Enabled CFO For SaaS Founders
24/12/2020 Duration: 14minWill has over a decade of experience helping SaaS and software businesses solve their strategic financial challenges. During that timeframe, Will has led, operated, advised and/or invested in over 100 SaaS and software companies. In March 2019, Will founded KPI Sense to re-invent the concept of outsourced CFO and FP&A work for SaaS and Software businesses. Using tech-enabled automation and vertical market expertise within SaaS, KPI Sense offers a blended product and service solution that allows companies to tackle all of the financial needs, including financial modeling, analytics, forecasting, budgeting, fundraising and M&A.
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Willco Breaks 10k Customers, $1m Revenue, $6m Valuation for End of Life Planning
23/12/2020 Duration: 18minErin is an entrepreneur, speaker, startup advisor, and former technology journalist. She is co-founder and CEO at Willful, an online estate planning platform. She has appeared in publications including The New York Times, Forbes, and CNN, and she was named one of Marketing Magazine's top 30 Under 30 marketers.
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EasyGenerators Grows 100% YoY to $4.2m Revenue, 1200 Customers
22/12/2020 Duration: 14minKasper has been an industry leader in the L&D space for over 25 years. He has made an impact on this ever-evolving field as CEO of the fast growing scale up Easygenerator and as an e-learning blogger (kasperspiro.com), author and speaker at various e-learning conferences around the world.
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EssayJack Raising $2m on $8m Valuation, $250k in ARR
21/12/2020 Duration: 21minDr. Lindy Ledohowski (B.A., B.Ed., M.A., Ph.D.) was a former English teacher and then English professor in Canada before becoming an EdTech CEO for academic writing software platform, EssayJack. She has won numerous awards for her teaching, research, and publications, and is now an award-winning entrepreneur. She has published both peer-reviewed scholarship and popular pieces on writing and offers keynote addresses on webinars on EdTech, leadership, and academic writing.
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OnCallHealth Grows 150% to $3m Run Rate for Virtual Patient Care HealthTech
20/12/2020 Duration: 15minNicholas Chepesiuk is the Founder & CEO of OnCall Health. Prior to starting OnCall in 2016, Nicholas was an early hire at education technology company Top Hat, and marketing technology company Turnstyle (acquired by Yelp).
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WhatConverts Hits $2.1m Revenue, $300k Profits in Call Tracking Space
19/12/2020 Duration: 17minStarted first business (online industrial directory) in 1999 in South Africa, and is still in operation today. Personally moved to UK in 2001 to have a more politically stable business base. Then moved to USA in 2006, as US based clients began to increase. Over the years we morphed from an industrial directory to a digital marketing agency. In 2014 co-founder and I began discussing how to solve lead tracking and reporting problem with marketing clients. We officially launched WhatConverts in March 2015. We've enjoyed the boot-strapped growth, and as a company it feels like we're still in the early stages of where we're going.
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AlgoPix Hits $2.4m Revenue Helping CPG Brands Monitor Competitors Pricing
18/12/2020 Duration: 20minAlogpix is the only place to understand eCommerce market share, pricing, and promotions of your competitors and category in real-time . Powering Fortune 50 CPGs and Marketplaces, Algopix gives you a window into now, not weeks ago with 1P + 3P Coverage so you can adjust to current market conditions, boost sessions and conversions with more relevant merchandising and pricing.
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WriterAccess Makes $9m This Year, Pays Freelancers $6.4m Helping 5,000 Brands With Content
17/12/2020 Duration: 24min -
WIldJar Call Tracking, a 5 person $2m Revenue Business, wow!
16/12/2020 Duration: 17minCo founder and CEO of WildJar First startup. Bootstrapped - started in 2016. Born in New Zealand, grew up in Australia and currently living in the Scotland
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AgentRisk Has $27m in AUM, Better Version of Family Office?
15/12/2020 Duration: 20minI am a serial Entrepreneur (my third Startup got acquired for a 17x return to investors by $SPLK) and I love making companies with a little bit of funding, tons of freedom and small teams. I am an active Angel Investor, organizer of many tech meetups in LA and I still write code (I have a super strong engineering background). I have been a speaker/lecturer to tons of events all over the world about Entrepreneurship and Startups and I love helping founders.
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Credo Hits $300k Revenue By Paying $2m to SEO Consultants
14/12/2020 Duration: 13minCredo was founded and is run by John Doherty. John has almost a decade of experience in SEO and online marketing. Before starting Credo, he ran marketing/growth for HotPads and Trulia Rentals, part of the Zillow Group family of real estate brands. Before that he was a consultant at Distilled, where he was the most senior consultant and a founding member of the New York City office. During his time there he consulted with everyone from small VC-backed startups (who closed rounds of funding because of his work) to large international hotel chains with multiple brands and brand needs. He lives in Denver, Colorado with his wife Courtney and their very large black labrador Butterbean.
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Atrium Breaks $14m Doing AI Consulting
13/12/2020 Duration: 13minAs CEO of Atrium, Chris leads a world-class team in empowering companies to embrace the next generation of tech through the power of AI. Chris brings more than 15 years of sales, professional services and marketing experience across solution areas including CRM, business intelligence, enterprise integration, and custom application development.
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How Shipmonk CEO Kept $5m of $10m Series A Round, Breaking $80m In Revenue 2019
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LeadGenius Hits $10m in Revenue, Growth Slow at 50% YoY Considering $25m Raised
11/12/2020 Duration: 20minPrayag is founder and Executive Chairman of LeadGenius. Before founding LeadGenius in 2011, Prayag worked at Finland’s top research institute as an expert in Ubiquitous Interaction and built mobile applications and embedded systems in Delhi’s startup scene. He is an author of several book chapters and papers on Human Computer Interaction, Computer Networks and Network Security. He has a M.S. in Information Science from U.C. Berkeley and a B.S. degree from Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology India. Connect via twitter @prayagn. He describes himself as, “a standup guy who loves history, poetry, startups and Scotch.”
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FlumeWater Sells 10k Units at $200 With SaaS Upsell
10/12/2020 Duration: 22minEric is a Central Oregon native, Cal Poly graduate and startup founder with a passion for entrepreneurship. Whether it be building a tech company from the ground up, investing in real estate or flipping cars on craigslist, a desire to construct his own success has inspired his actions.
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FanDuel Co-Founder Launched New Relationship App Idea, $2m Raised
09/12/2020 Duration: 22minLesley Eccles is the Founder and CEO of Relish, the first-ever relationship training app making it easier to build happy, healthy, more connected relationships. She was previously co-founder and former head of marketing at FanDuel, the billion dollar fantasy sports company. Lesley also served on FanDuel’s board of directors.
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Vid.Camera Sells $20m in Tokens, Converting 100% to Fiat for New Facebook Where Creators Own Upside
08/12/2020 Duration: 16minJag Singh, Vid.camera founder and CEO