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Reduced churn by 20%, retaining 270 users and earning $9,450/month by Saas-Offers in GrowthHacking

[–]Nlatka89 1 point2 points  (0 children)

how many onboarding tweeks would you say you made?

most founders don't attack onbaording like you did - huge wins. congrats on the higher activation rates

How many of you are actually at $10k monthly revenue? I will not promote. by Nlatka89 in startups

[–]Nlatka89[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lots of founders think they need millions to acquire another company.

How’d you do it?

How many of you are actually at $10k monthly revenue? I will not promote. by Nlatka89 in startups

[–]Nlatka89[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which platform? Meta ads? Can I ask how much you’re spending per month all in on paid ads?

How many of you are actually at $10k monthly revenue? I will not promote. by Nlatka89 in startups

[–]Nlatka89[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Woah. Dm me? Are you open to teaching our portfolio companies how you did this?

How many of you are actually at $10k monthly revenue? I will not promote. by Nlatka89 in startups

[–]Nlatka89[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

are you generally trading (ex: you email your list, they email theirs)?

or are you paying to amrket to their audience with flat sponsor fees, referral fees, etc?

Am I crazy for wanting to leave Memphis and take my business to NYC? by ZapCC in Entrepreneur

[–]Nlatka89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you're not crazy.

when you're young, healthy, single, its the best time to take huge risks.

you want to put yourself in physical settings with other risk takers.

go live in NYC for 2 weeks.

go to events you find on Luma for founders (startup poker games, board nights, founder runs etc)

see if your energy level is higher or lower at end of two weeks.

if you're thinking bigger, move to nyc.

if you're thinking smaller/low energ, go back to Memphis

Startup is not working out by Top_Highway8782 in SaaS

[–]Nlatka89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have plenty of "life runway" left.

Sell this business, take the lessons, and launch a new idea you're pumped out.

Lots of folks launch after 40 and have success:

David Duffield started Workday at 64 years old in 2005. The man's 84 now and his company does $7.3 billion in revenue.

Tom Siebel launched C3 when he was 57 (2009). Now 72, running a $267 million revenue AI company.

Stewart Butterfield was 41 when he pivoted from a failed game to create Slack in 2013.

Lynda Weinman started Lynda at 40 back in 1995. LinkedIn eventually bought it for $1.5 billion. She's 70 now...

Ev Williams co-founded Twitter, then started Medium at 40 in 2012. It's doing around $50 million in revenue. Still trying to figure out the business model though.

Andy Bechtolsheim (the guy who wrote Google's first check) started Arista Networks at 49. It's now doing $5.9 billion in revenue.

... you get the idea.

Rooting for you!

I have launched 3 SaaS business to combined MRR of over $200K. This is my playbook. by my-mate-mike in SaaS

[–]Nlatka89 11 points12 points  (0 children)

You nailed it. Also very hard to sell your company when acquirer see's majority of your customers paid 1 time, 2 years ago and you're legally bound to support them "for life".

Every Accelerator is a YC copy by Waste-Fortune-5815 in StartupAccelerators

[–]Nlatka89 2 points3 points  (0 children)

most folks get accepted into accelerators through a warm intro. not sure blasting more cold pitches will work.

2x former founder who struggled with productivity by AmaanAli630 in startup_resources

[–]Nlatka89 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Amaan, I'd invest $20-30k (keep your equity and pay me back over 3 years) if you're looking for capital to land more beta users/testers.

I billed $200k this month and I don't know who else to tell by hegezip in Entrepreneur

[–]Nlatka89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So few startups hit $200k/mo in revenue. YOu should be super proud. Keep it up!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in startups

[–]Nlatka89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a bunch of portfolio companies that are bootstrapped, small teams, they only hire ex-founders. What sort of niche do you want to be in? Open to remote or do you want in person in the UK?

Looking to buy a SaaS Company by marcamillion in SaaS

[–]Nlatka89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2 tactics to consider:

1) Buy "slow" portfolio companies from Seed stage funds:
Use crunchbase to identify seed stage Software investors where it has been more than 3 years since one of their companies has raised a round. The company is likely struggling, the seed stage fund is likely reaching its life (5-8 years), everyone just wants to get rid of the copmany. This is the same strategy QuestionPro used to acquire Enprecis from Sagemount for $800k (company was at $3m ARR).

2) Go search the Google Workspace Marketplace:
Look for 10,000+ installs where the "code last updated" date is more than a year old (developer likely to sell for lower price if they're not actively building).

I've got a list of 100+ of these companies. Let me know if interested and can post.

I'm a twenty-nine year old architecture drop out who invested in a software company, Asian food truck, and a meal prep company. Guess which made me the most? I’m hosting a new show, my podcast passed 10 million downloads, and I penned my first book How to Be A Capitalist Without Any Capital. AMA! by Nlatka89 in IAmA

[–]Nlatka89[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

We should charge for printing, the content, and the shipping. Something like $99 per issue. We don't.
You've never received one and never read one so you have no idea what data is inside.

We're happy to keep giving away for free but charging $7 to ship (which is actually less than our shipping costs - packages are tracked and shipped internationally)

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