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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

1132 How He Plans to Take on Moz, SEMRush, with 1500 customers, $180k MRR

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

Ceo, Entrepreneurs, Founders, Software, Business, Entrepreneurship, Saas, Startups

4.6683 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Vaibhav Kakkar Co-Founded RankWatch, with an idea of making internet marketing an intelligent process. Apart from helping businesses succeed online and writing about Internet Marketing, he's usually found digging deep into the beautiful world of search engine algorithms.

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he would have capitalized on his opportunities faster.

0:02.5

He built and sold an agency for about 5 million pounds.

0:05.4

And in 2013, jumped into SEO with Rankwatch, launching it with his brother.

0:09.5

Very fair brother, by the way.

0:10.6

They decided to split it 50-50.

0:12.2

Now they've got a team of 30 people based between the India, U.S., and again,

0:16.7

with a salesperson in the U.S. as well, but mainly in India, growing quickly about 1,500 customers paying 125 bucks a month, so about 185 grand right now and monthly recurring

0:25.0

revenue. That's up from 140 grand just 12 months ago, so about 30-ish percent growth

0:30.0

year-over-year in terms of revenue, 3% logo churn per month, which they're working on keeping

0:34.0

low lifetime, I have about 18 months and payback period under six months,

0:38.2

which is obviously very healthy.

0:40.5

This is the top entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies

0:46.6

and got filthy rich or crash and burn.

0:51.9

Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts, and other insider information

0:58.0

that creates business news headlines. We went from a couple hundred thousand dollars to

1:03.4

$2.7 million. I had no money when I started the company. It was $160 million, which is the size of

1:08.9

any IPOs. We're a bit strapped. We have like 22,000 customers.

1:13.6

With over 5 million downloads in a very short amount of time,

1:18.6

major outlets like Inc are calling us the fastest growing business show on iTunes.

1:23.6

I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode.

1:34.6

Good morning, everybody. My guest this morning is Webhaqqar. He's the co-founder of a company called Rankwatch with an idea of making internet marketing an intelligent process. Apart from

1:39.4

helping businesses succeed online and writing about internet marketing, he's usually found

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