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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HireClub: How 32k Member FB Group Fueled $25k MRR SaaS Business
11/08/2020 Duration: 19minI love helping people succeed in their careers and I turned a Facebook group into a startup that’s increased salaries by over $2m for clients.
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BillBooks Invoicing Tool Hits 5,000 Paying Customers, Bootstrapped
10/08/2020 Duration: 22minStarted digital agency at the age of 18 from Pune India. Launched Billbooks in 2011 with an aim to simplify invoicing with practical features and cost effective to freelancers and small businesses. I have always been facinated by computer software from the age of 10 and never imagined an alternate passion or career option. I pursued a corresponding degree in design and technology along with my core degree in business management. This fuelled my entrepreneurship skills before starting a global design agency, Billbooks, Framesbuy (an ecom for eyewear) and a few more businesses.
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SalesPanda Launches Insurance Broker Pages at Scale, Profitable, Hits $400k Revenue
09/08/2020 Duration: 14minI’m a digital marketing enthusiast and career sales guy. From selling auto components to computer software my life has circled around customers. After having worked for 15 years in companies like IBM, PwC, TCS, I decided to venture on my own. SalesPanda is an effort to help companies leverage the digital reach of their sales teams and channel partners to grow the customer outreach by 20X
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KarmaBot Slack Tool Hits $200k Revenues, 233 Customers Using App Exchanges
08/08/2020 Duration: 20minI grew up in the far-easter part of Siberia, studied Computer Science and Nuclear Physics, played in a band, got excited by the indie-games making and left uni to become a digital designer. For several years in the early 00’s, I’ve been working remotely, traveling and blogging extensively (before that became a popular mainstream thing) and ended up in New Zealand. Nowadays, I'm 'digital-nomading' (NZ -> Argentina -> Chile -> UK) and build Karma.
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Param Solutions hits $35k MRR helping People Get Gov Developer Jobs
07/08/2020 Duration: 20minI am one of the partners at Param Solutions based out of Ashburn, VA. We specialize in Human Capital Solutions and are passionate about helping our clients save on recruiting costs. I have a bachelor's in engineering and a Master's in MIS. I have over 2 decades of experience in Recruiting/Staffing/Corporate/In-house Recruiting and enjoy every aspect of candidate acquisition. I am squarely responsible for strategy, implementation, growth and account management for all accounts at Param that fall under the purview of our Human Capital vertical. After 8 years of running Param's staffing division I have created a new business service called Recruiting As A Service in Novemeber of 2018 to help clients save significant amounts of time while recruiting for talent, decrease time to fill, increase quality fof hires and eliminate exhorbitant recruiting fees!
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ProfitBooks Hit $1m Revenue 2019, COVID Keeps Them Flat This Year
06/08/2020 Duration: 21minFounder at ProfitBooks. Worked with MNCs like HSBC and Barclays for over 9yrs and helped them implement banking solutions before I started my own company. Started ProfitBooks in 2012 and since then acquired 75,000+ users on the platform. It's India's most popular accounting software today. Currently building solutions to organise single-person-bookkeeper industry.
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SupportBee Ticket Software Hits $45k MRR, Bootstrapped, how?
05/08/2020 Duration: 19minHana Mohan is an entrepreneur, cyclist and an aspiring writer. She is a proud transgender woman (pronouns: she/her) and lives in Barcelona with her two cats.
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Closet.Tools 1 Man Show, $250k Profits, $360k in Revenue, Wow!
04/08/2020 Duration: 18minBorn and raised in rural western NY. Went to engineering school and worked as an electrical engineer for 7 years. Started Closet Tools as a way to pay down student loans, and transitioned to full-time founder when it made more than double what I made at my day job.
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SalesRoads: SaaS Companies Hire Him To Build SDR Team
03/08/2020 Duration: 21minDavid Kreiger is the Founder and President of SalesRoads, a business-to-business appointment setting, lead generation and SDR outsourcing company. He has been named as one of The Most Influential Leaders in Sales & Lead Management by the SLMA. David has led SalesRoads through significant growth and the company was twice listed on the Inc 5000 list of fastest growing privately held companies. SalesRoads has been David consulted by some of the largest and fastest growing companies to help their organizations accelerate their sales through proactive prospecting
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Woven.com: Ex Facebook CIO Looking to Re-Invent How We Setup Meetings
02/08/2020 Duration: 22minAs the former Chief Information Officer at Facebook, Tim Campos doubled overall productivity to $1.8 million per employee - making it the most productive company in the world. Now, as CEO of Woven, he is reimagining how people use their calendar, so they can spend time on what matters most.
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NoteAffect MVP Cost $1.6m, Founder Bootstrapping Using Cash From Last Exit
01/08/2020 Duration: 21minI am an entrepreneur. I like to transform ideas into working business models with multiple revenue streams. NoteAffect is my new venture (7th company) that provides software technology for the Education, Corporate, and Government sectors. I recently exited my 6th company, Core-apps.
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Big brands, manufacturers with raw material (oil plastic) where going factory to warehouse.
31/07/2020 Duration: 24minAdam Compain is the Founder & CEO of ClearMetal. Prior to ClearMetal, Adam spent 5 years at Google launching their geoCommerce technology and 19 years as the Executive Director of SEND, the nonprofit he founded. Adam holds five technology patents, two degrees from the University of Michigan, and an MBA from Stanford.
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Qebot Raising $1.5m With $1.2m in ARR Helping 1500 SMB's Be More Productive
30/07/2020 Duration: 20minMatthew White is the CEO of Qebot. With a background in the digital marketing and mobile advertising sectors, Matthew and his partner Cornelius built Qebot to make businesses, franchises, and marketing agencies more productive by centralizing SaaS applications into a single platform.
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"Vested.io HR Tech Company Placed 100 Candidates, Doing $400k/yr "
28/07/2020 Duration: 14minAkash Srivastava is Co-founder and CEO of Vested Technology, a recruiting automation platform. Vested Technology works alongside teams to identify, engage and hire passive candidates saving companies tons of money on additional headcount or agencies. Prior to founding Vested, Akash led finance at Handy and worked several roles on Wall Street. He took the scenic route to entrepreneurship; but he’s a huge believer of ‘better late than never’!
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Advensure Launches, Hits 125 Customers in 4 Months Using 1 Big Channel
27/07/2020 Duration: 13minFounder at Advensure & Ekahal. Love solving problems. Scuba Diving Dive Master and hopeful Scuba Instructor. Amateur(ish) Photographer. Awaiting freedom of time to travel.
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EngageRocket Targets $3m Raise on $15m Valuation For HR Tech Platform
26/07/2020 Duration: 17minCheeTung is the CEO of EngageRocket, a tech company using real-time analytics to help businesses improve talent retention and productivity. Columbia & Cambridge alum, economist by training. Generation T honoree for Asia Tatler, awarded to young leaders shaping the future of Asia.
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Utm.io Hits 100 Customers, $75k Invested From Agency Biz, Now SaaS Focus
25/07/2020 Duration: 13minUTM.io is the internet's most loved UTM link builder. UTM.io is widely used by the best companies and enables teams of all sizes to get better campaign tracking data.
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GitLab Hits $2.7b Valuation is 20x+ Revenue Multiple, 160%+ in Net Revenue Retention, 10,000 Customers
24/07/2020 Duration: 26minSid’s passionate about empowering open source, enabling great products, and evolving global processes. A self-taught Ruby developer, Sid commercialized GitLab with its creator in 2012 and graduated from Y-Combinator in 2015. Since then, GitLab has grown to 800+ remote team members across 55+ countries, and raised $188.2M in funding.
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Churnly Burning $40k/mo, Hits 20 Customers, $200k Revenue Helping SaaS Companies Reduce Churn
23/07/2020 Duration: 16min3 x SaaS founder with 2 exits + former COO at The Guardian. Dropped out of school at 16, started first company at 24. Currently building Churnly to help companies deeply understand their ICP, analyze online customer behavior and predict churn. Competitive mixed martial artist and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu brown belt. Lives in London.