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🗓️ 5 September 2018
⏱️ 18 minutes
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I'm a life-long entrepreneur, and have been building software for over 20 years. I co-founded Shopper Approved In 2010. In 2016 we made the Inc. 500. In 2017 we made the Inc. 500 again, and we were also #7 on the Utah 100 list - all with no outside funding or investors.
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0:00.0 | He's now going all in his latest venture called Shopper Approved. |
0:04.1 | It is a ratings system essentially that allows people to leave good and bad ratings. |
0:08.3 | They get all of them tied into one. |
0:10.0 | Scaling quickly, almost sold it for $12 million back in 2013. |
0:12.9 | Thankfully, they did not. |
0:14.0 | It fell apart. |
0:14.9 | Companies launched in 2010, they're now 30 people in Utah bootstrapped, serving 7,000 |
0:19.8 | customers paying on average 71 bucks a month. |
0:21.6 | So last month at about 500 grand in revenue, hoping to break 6 million in ARR by the end of this |
0:26.0 | year, only churning about 10% of their revenue annually, which is healthy, paying 400 bucks |
0:30.0 | to acquire these customers, getting paid back in the first four-month, healthy economics. |
0:34.7 | This is the top entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies and got filthy rich or crash and burn. |
0:45.8 | Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts, and other insider information that creates business news headlines. |
0:55.0 | We went from a couple of hundred thousand dollars to 2.7 million. |
0:58.5 | I had no money when I started the company. |
1:00.5 | It was $160 million, which is the size of any IPOs. |
1:03.8 | We're a bit strapped. |
1:04.8 | We have like 22,000 customers. |
1:07.8 | With over 5 million downloads in a very short amount of time, |
1:12.9 | major outlets like Inc are calling us the fastest growing business show on iTunes. |
1:17.8 | I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode. |
1:22.5 | Hello, everybody. |
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