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Nathan Latka

πŸ‘€ Speaker
225942 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

You grew with the SEO playbook, any other growth tactics you use to break 15 million of revenue, like affiliates or resellers or anything else, paid marketing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

And are you spending money on paid advertising per month right now?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

Interesting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

And just to confirm here, too, you mentioned you were bootstrapped at the start.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

Are you still bootstrapped today?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

How much of the business do you still own?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

Right now, 100%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

Okay, so this is amazing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

It's rare you get someone 100% bootstrapped.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

Now, if you're comfortable sharing, obviously, we've worked together.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

Are you comfortable sharing how we worked together and what that was like?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

For sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

So what was it like?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

Why did you come to FounderPath for capital?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

Obviously, you want to stay bootstrapped, but what was the capital need?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

Gabriel is a tough guy to negotiate with.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

I will tell you, we've deployed almost a quarter billion dollars on 250 million and his CFO is a guy named Andre.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

My Lord, beat me up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled Digital Publishing with SEO & $200K ACVs

But it was a work side, obviously partner with you.