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Nathan Latka ยท Business

Top Founders

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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108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR

10 Jul 2023
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This podcast episode emphasizes a tangible framework, called the SaaS flywheel, for startups to increase their chances of success. It highlights the relationship between defining a product as a solution rather than a code, selecting the right geography that suits the product's value, and adjusting pricing and positioni...

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Your Untapped Resource for Creating a Compelling Product Roadmap

06 Jul 2023
21m
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This podcast episode discusses the challenges of product roadmap development, the significance of customer feedback, and the importance of customer success in understanding user pain points. The speaker emphasizes the need for collaboration between product and customer success teams to gather valuable data and gain ins...

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5 Secret Ingredients for Moving Up Market

05 Jul 2023
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This podcast episode delves into the strategies and challenges involved in transitioning a SaaS business from the SMB to the upmarket segment. It emphasizes the significance of careful preparation, understanding the unique needs of upmarket customers, and adapting marketing and sales approaches accordingly. The episode...

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The Sales & Marketing Tech Stack to Scale Successfully from $1 - $100M+ ARR

04 Jul 2023
17m
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This podcast episode explores the essential steps and technologies necessary for building a comprehensive SaaS RevOps tech stack. From solidifying the foundational components to implementing efficiency-enhancing tools, the episode provides a comprehensive guide for businesses to optimize their sales and marketing opera...

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Lessons From $1bn in Exits: Behind The Scenes of the ThriveCart Exit

03 Jul 2023
23m
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This podcast episode delves into the insightful journey of Thrivecart, a bootstrapped e-commerce business with no prior entrepreneurial experience, and its successful acquisition amidst market challenges. From steady growth to an eventual slowdown, the founder's decision to exit led to a quest for a suitable buyer. The...

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How I use sales data to increase revenue without hiring more reps

30 Jun 2023
21m
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This podcast episode underscores the significance of planning, building, and continuously improving sales teams. Sales expert Kyle Van Voorhis introduces his book, "Cold to Committed," offering tactics for successful cold calling, emailing, and appointment booking. He highlights the "anti-fragile sales team" concept, e...

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$10m playbook for getting sales/marketing to work in harmony

29 Jun 2023
14m
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This podcast episode emphasizes fostering collaboration between marketing and sales teams to drive revenue growth and break down departmental silos. It explores common misconceptions between these departments, proposing a new perspective on the demand generation, SDR work, and sales development process. The episode und...

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The 5 levels of great customer analytics experience

28 Jun 2023
20m
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This podcast episode delves into the concept of customer analytics experience (CAX) and its significance for SaaS companies. It emphasizes the role of CAX in attracting, retaining, and benefiting customers and highlights the need to understand its potential benefits instead of viewing it as a cost center. The discussio...

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Financial habits of the best performing startups

27 Jun 2023
17m
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This podcast episode delves into the three phases of the finance function for startups - planning, reporting and analytics, and strategy - emphasizing their significance in driving growth. It highlights the importance of alignment among department leaders, accurate forecasting, and reliable reporting. The episode also ...

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Tips for Creating a $1m Customer Onboarding Experience

26 Jun 2023
20m
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This podcast episode focuses on customer onboarding in SaaS, emphasizing its significance in retaining customers and driving success. The discussion introduces a customer onboarding framework to optimize the process, involving the AIM (Access, Improve, and Measure) method to assess, improve, and measure each step. It f...

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Emotion is a superpower: how I leveraged mine to drive $5m in revenue

23 Jun 2023
20m
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This podcast episode discusses the significance of acknowledging and processing emotions for personal growth and success. It emphasizes the need to address buried feelings, as they can resurface and cause problems later in life. The speaker shares their journey of self-discovery and how they overcame their fear and emb...

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How we pivoted our customer experience map to hit 80% Gross Margin

22 Jun 2023
19m
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This podcast episode explores the strategies and processes employed by TrustKeith, a data regulation compliance company, to achieve gross margin success. It emphasizes mapping out customer experiences, measuring efficiency, and maximizing gross margins in SaaS companies. The discussion covers the importance of identify...

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Reduce Your Employee 'Burn Rate' to Improve Your Startup's Burn Rate: 5 Tips for Talent Retention

21 Jun 2023
21m
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This podcast episode dives into the experiences of Salmiya Murthy, former Chief Customer Officer of Seven Lakes Technologies, as the company navigated through market and people pivot points. The discussion covers talent identification and retention, the importance of shared language around organic talent, identifying a...

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Transform your business from a EBITA multiple of 4 to a revenue multiple of 5+

20 Jun 2023
18m
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This podcast episode dives into the journey of a services company transitioning to a successful SaaS company. It highlights the importance of strategy, validation, and avoiding pitfalls like creating products with large TAMs but no repeatable sales motion. The speaker emphasizes the need for GP targets, investing in R&...

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Top 5 SaaS Performance & Revenue Efficiency Metrics that Matter in 2023

19 Jun 2023
22m
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This podcast episode provides valuable insights into the key metrics and benchmarks that drive enterprise value for SaaS companies. It introduces the five pillars of enterprise value and delves into specific SaaS metrics, such as CAC payback period, CAC ratio, customer retention, customer expansion, and CLTV to CAC. Th...

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How We Built a Culture To Drive Efficiency, $8m ARR, and $150k in ARR per Employee

16 Jun 2023
18m
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This episode explores the significance of efficiency in company growth and the strategies to achieve it. The speaker emphasizes the importance of creating a clear strategy and plan, aligning team efforts, and breaking down goals into actionable steps. Balancing quantity and quality in execution, fostering a culture of ...

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Doing more with less: Increasing productivity for finance teams

15 Jun 2023
14m
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This podcast episode focuses on the importance of automating finance processes to improve efficiency, productivity, and strategic decision-making. It explores various aspects of finance automation, including identifying areas for automation, implementing solutions, and the benefits of a tech-savvy finance team. The spe...

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Why Tiktok is the Best Marketing Channel for Bootstrapped Startups in 2023

14 Jun 2023
20m
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This podcast episode delves into the potential of video and, particularly, TikTok as a powerful marketing tool for B2B SaaS companies and B2B professionals. The speaker highlights the platform's vast reach, low-cost advertising, and ability to generate significant views and engagement, showcasing examples of successful...

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5 Ways to Grow Revenue in 2023 - Lessons from Analyzing 3M+ Deals

13 Jun 2023
19m
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This podcast episode delves into the significance of data-driven sales and provides valuable insights for optimizing sales performance. By leveraging clean data, focusing on relationships, understanding the DNA of deals, employing coaching techniques, and analyzing closed deals, sales teams can significantly improve wi...

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Partnerships helped us scale to $10m+. Here's what we learned.

12 Jun 2023
18m
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This podcast episode sheds light on partnership strategies that can help SaaS companies drive revenue and growth. The speaker shares insights on affiliate marketing and integrations, emphasizing the importance of careful evaluation to avoid pitfalls and maximize the benefits of collaborations. The discussion also cover...

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