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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

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

4.6 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Mike is a jazz musician, smart entrepreneur and maker. He runs a portfolio of software companies including angage.net, scrapebook.net and fbradar.com which are bootstrapped and profitable from day 1.

Additionally, Mike runs multiple digital marketing agencies that focus on helping businesses in different niche markets, currently managing more than 100,000 people on different social channels for clients.

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0:00.0	He went through a bad experience at his first shot at entrepreneurship with some investors.
0:04.1	They didn't write anything down. It didn't pan out. But he basically walked away from that.
0:07.3	Then launched Engage.net. Again, basically helping drop shippers figure out what to sell, what products
0:12.6	are doing well. He's got 74 customers, about $3,000 per month in revenue looking to scale.
0:17.1	Now, churn is too high, but he is profitable, you know, profiting about 300 bucks per month on the three grand in top-wide revenue based in Italy.
0:24.1	He's really the only full-time and then two part-time contractors.
0:27.6	Hello, everyone.
0:28.4	My guest today is Mike Rubini.
0:30.7	He is in the e-commerce competitive intelligence insight space with his company, Engage.net.
0:35.1	He's also a jazz musician, entrepreneur, and maker.
0:37.9	He runs a portfolio of software companies, including, again, Engage, scrapbook.net, and
0:41.9	FBradar.com, which are bootstrapped and profitable all from day one.
0:46.0	Mike, are you ready to take us to the top?
0:48.5	Yeah, let's do it.
0:49.3	All right, very good.
0:50.1	So you're running three different companies.
0:51.9	Which one of these does the most in terms of ARR or revenue?
0:57.3	Probably Engage.
0:58.3	Okay, Engage.
0:59.2	So let's focus on that one.
1:00.7	What's the company do and how do you make money?
1:01.4	What's the business model?
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