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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1673 How He Sells $600/mo Software to Museums
22/02/2020 Duration: 15minBrendan Ciecko is the founder and CEO of Cuseum, a platform that helps museums and cultural organizations engage their visitors, members, and patrons. Ciecko has been building technology since the age of 11 and has been recognized by Inc. Magazine as being one of America’s top entrepreneurs under 30. Ciecko has been featured in The New York Times, WIRED, Fast Company, Entrepreneur, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, and PC Magazine for his work in design, technology, and business. https://brendanciecko.com/about/
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1672 How This Lawyer Pivoted from IP Protection to CAD Editing with NASA
21/02/2020 Duration: 17minForbes 30 Under 30 winner. Successful serial entrepreneur in B2B technology development and SaaS companies. Law degree from University of Heidelberg in Germany. Member of National Small Business Association's Leadership Council
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1671 Why He's Planning to Raise $500k When He's Profitable, 10% EBITDA Margin
20/02/2020 Duration: 11minRetail Guru that has helped many retailers achieve a 360 degree view of the Customer in an Omni Channel world. Specialist in leveraging data and analytics to increase profitable sales. Implement Strategies and Tactics to compete with Amazon and on-line market places.
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1670 How This 24 Year Old Built a $12M ARR Company on $4m Raised in Influencer Marketing Attribution Space
19/02/2020 Duration: 15minJesse is the founder of NeoReach. Jesse is a mentor to the Alchemist Accelerator, a Thiel Fellow, and a frequent guest lecturer at Stanford and USC. NeoReach has generated $10’s of Millions in revenue from customers like Walmart, Amazon and NBC
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1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility
18/02/2020 Duration: 17minPaul Lappas is the CEO and Co-Founder of intermix.io. He holds multiple patents for cloud computing and performance analytics. In 2007 he co-founded GoGrid, one of the early cloud computing companies, which he grew from to over $50M in ARR.
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1668 How He Got His First $1k in MRR Using Linkedin Sales Navigator
17/02/2020 Duration: 13minWent from identifying as a basketball player to graduating as a nuclear engineer. Worked in the nuclear industry, got an MBA, joined a fast-growing tech company and lived in 7 countries while doing so. I love art and experimenting with food, and founded Mela with two of my best friends.
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1667 Top Tech Journalist Predicts We'll All Be Unemployed, Blockchain Takeover, Less Taxes!
16/02/2020 Duration: 30minMichael S. Malone was the world's first daily high-tech reporter, and he remains one of Silicon Valley's best-known journalists. He is the author or coauthor of nearly thirty books, including The Virtual Corporation with William Davidow.
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1666 How He Got 200 E-Retailers to Pay $300/mo For One Click Management of Amazon, Etsy, Other Channels
15/02/2020 Duration: 13minAlan has over seventeen years of experience in building technology for a number of high growth start-ups in finance and shopping television. As CTO Alan has successfully built the technology of four start-ups involved in the first meeting to fund raising/turnover in excess of GBP 10 million and been involved in other successful start-ups. Systems designed by Alan are used in major corporations including Deutsche Bank and process millions of transactions annually.
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1665 How He's Using Government Loans to Build $50k MRR Visual Communication Tool for Construction Teams
14/02/2020 Duration: 16minWherever he worked and whatever he worked with, his goal has always been to make things easier, faster and better. Some might call this lazy, Tom-Erik uses the title «Simplifying Evangelist". Now that smartphones are approaching a penetration of 90% in Norway and most other developed countries, it is time to use them for something smart! He also has a wife, two kids, a cat and an electric car... Do you know how to make your work faster, easier and better? Call me and let us find it out!
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1664 Travel Expense App Hits 6500 Customers, but ARPU data makes no sense
13/02/2020 Duration: 21minMBA ESSEC (France). Started his career in 2000 in the Consulting Industry (Strategy & Management). Moved to the corporate travel industry in 2005 (heading the consulting departments of CarlsonWagonlitTravel and then American Express GBT). Hired by Sodexo in 2015 to create a new business line targeting the Mobility services. Created and launched Rydoo in June 2018.
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1663 Why He Thinks Push Notifications Are Future with $35k in MRR, 376 Customers
12/02/2020 Duration: 09minI'm ambitious and tenacious. I like working and connecting with people and I enjoy the fact that the simple interactions we have with one another can have a big impact. I try to keep that in mind as I go through my day. I've had the privilege of enjoying some terrific success through many of my endeavors but I've also experienced some spectacular failures. Success is my preferred outcome however, in my experience, failure seem to be part of the foundation of success- much to my chagrin.
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1662 How He Turns Your team Into Referral Machine with $65k in MRR
11/02/2020 Duration: 10minI'm ambitious and tenacious. I like working and connecting with people and I enjoy the fact that the simple interactions we have with one another can have a big impact. I try to keep that in mind as I go through my day. I've had the privilege of enjoying some terrific success through many of my endeavors but I've also experienced some spectacular failures. Success is my preferred outcome however, in my experience, failure seem to be part of the foundation of success- much to my chagrin.
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1661 How Palo Alto Software Broke $14m in ARR Serving SMB's
10/02/2020 Duration: 22minSabrina Parsons is CEO of Palo Alto Software, the company behind the best-selling business management software, LivePlan. Palo Alto Software is dedicated to serving the needs of entrepreneurs and small-business owners, and offers an entire suite of software and tools to help startups plan, manage, market, and grow their business. Sabrina has overseen the transformation of Palo Alto Software from a desktop software company to a cloud-based software company.
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1660 Has She Cracked The Code to Selling To Governments?
09/02/2020 Duration: 07minCatherine is CEO and Co-Founder of CityGrows, the first self-service operating platform for local government, and has extensive experience in startups, digital marketing and civic technology. She created a social impact marketing agency, co-founded Hack for LA, and served as Commissioner for Innovation for Los Angeles.
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1659 How Brazilian SaaS CEO Hit $70k MRR in 12 Months
08/02/2020 Duration: 09min12 years working in brazilian software industry, first as a marketing professional, and as entrepreneur since 2012. Its CEO and cofounder from Ramper, a B2B prospecting automation software and one of the more fast growing brazillian startup that started in 2016 and today has more than 700 customers.
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1658 Why 142 Production Teams Pay Him $142k/mo For Quicker File Management
07/02/2020 Duration: 16minPaul has worked with video and big data files for three decades and he understands the complexities of sharing those files. His experience in the broadcasting and cable industry and the contacts he nurtured through the years helped him to establish latakoo inside some of the biggest broadcasting companies. Paul has won numerous awards, including Emmys, for investigative journalism. He has a Bachelor of Journalism from the University of Texas and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School with a focus on entrepreneurship.
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1657 How He Grew $10M ARR on Just $500k Raised
06/02/2020 Duration: 15minDavid Hood, CEO of VanillaSoft, is a successful software entrepreneur with extensive international experience in finance, business development, sales, and marketing. Under his leadership, VanillaSoft has grown over the past decade from a small start-up to a leader in the sales engagement market.
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1656 With $40m in ARR, He's Helping Office Owners Manage Rooms and Scheduling
05/02/2020 Duration: 19minPaul Statham, CEO & Founder of Condeco Software, has established several successful and innovative businesses, including two exited companies. He has helped to shape the relationship between real estate and technology, establishing Condeco as one of the foremost providers of workspace management technology.
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1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation
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1654 How He Build Astrology API SaaS To $45k in MRR
03/02/2020 Duration: 11minI am a technopreneur with 8+ years of experience in Product Development and Software Architect. In past, worked with MNCs on embedded and e-learning products. Built an Astrology website when in college and created AstrologyAPI.com in 2016. My areas of expertise include NodeJS, Core JS, Java, Android, PHP, AWS & Machine Learning and now Growth and Sales My interests are in Tech, Philosophy, History, and Astrology.