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1236 He's Currently Raising $3m on $13m Pre, Will He Get The Valuation He Wants?
12 Dec 2018
Chapter 1: What is Crazy Lister and how did it start?
Founded the company in 2015, crazy lister. Again, started with the eBay niche, now expanding, helping with pricing optimization and things like that. 4,600 customers paying 33 bucks a month, 150 grand in monthly recurring revenue. That's up from 75 grand just a year ago. So over 100% year-over-year growth.
Chapter 2: How has Crazy Lister grown since its inception?
They've raised $1.2 million, the last tranche being $600 on a convertible note at a $9 million cap. They're now raising $3 million at $30 million pre-money valuation. That's what he's going for. He feels confident about it because the economics make sense. 4% churn, that's logo churn per month gross. $100 cap, so they're getting paid back in under three months.
Lifetime value, 25 months, around a grand in LTV there. His team of 20 based around the world. This is the Top Entrepreneurs Podcast, where founders share how they started their companies and got filthy rich or crash and burn. Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts, and other insider information that creates business news headlines.
Chapter 3: What funding has Crazy Lister raised and what are their current goals?
We went from a couple of hundred thousand dollars to 2.7 million. I had no money when I started the company. It was $160 million, which is the size of many IPOs. We're a bit strapped. We have like 22,000 customers.
Chapter 4: What is the current monthly recurring revenue for Crazy Lister?
With over 5 million downloads in a very short amount of time, major outlets like Inc. are calling us the fastest growing business show on iTunes. I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode. Hello, everyone. My guest today is Victor Levitin.
Chapter 5: What is the customer acquisition cost for Crazy Lister?
He took an e-commerce company to 4.5 million in revenue, and he felt the pains of online selling directly. He then took his current company, Crazy Lister, to 1.5 million in ARR, making online selling way easier for retailers. We'll jump into it today. Victor, are you ready to take us to
the top let's do it all right so what are retailers paying crazy lister for great so our mission in life is make e-commerce online selling a hundred times easier than it is today by liberating retailers from dependency on it skills and we started with the most broken sales channels that we identified which is ebay so today we uh crazy lister
is being used by retailers to completely manage all their eBay operations, creating their product listings, applying professional templates to them, making them mobile optimized, controlling their prices, their quantities, and so on. And we are actually, right now, we are expanding the solution beyond eBay to more sales channels, Amazon being the first one beyond eBay.
Okay, and tell me a little bit about growth. So we had you on kind of early in 2017.
Chapter 6: How does Crazy Lister manage customer churn?
I think it was March of 2017. At that point, you're doing about $300,000 in annual recurring revenue and had about 2000 customers. What are you at today?
We are currently in terms of revenue, we are at about 150 a month in revenue. Um, we serve 4,600 customers from 150 countries and the team has now grown to 20 members.
Chapter 7: What strategies is Crazy Lister using to expand its market?
Okay. So 20 folks on the team and then, uh, those 4,600 customers, if you have 150 grand in monthly recurring revenue, it sounds like those 4,600 customers are paying about 30 or 35 bucks a month. Is that accurate?
Yes, that's correct. The most exciting thing for us here is that for the past quarter, We've onboarded more than 100 customers who pay us north of $100 a month with the highest paying customers paying us four digits a month.
That's great.
So we are pushing up market.
And so, I mean, just to be clear, is that accurate? About a year ago in June 2017, what were you doing in terms of monthly recurring revenue?
June 2017, we were at about half of what we are today.
Yeah, we grew a bit more than 100% year over year, so yeah. That's great, congratulations. And are you still bootstrapped or have you raised capital?
We did raise capital. We've raised 1.2 million to date and we are currently, we've started a new round just last week.
Oh, great. The last funding round that you raised, when was that and for how much?
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Chapter 8: What advice does Victor Levitin have for aspiring entrepreneurs?
We're based in Israel.
Israel. Okay, so obviously a lot of very successful companies coming out of Israel recently. What does the funding market look like over there? Do you think you're going to get the valuation that you want?
Yes, absolutely. We are rising out of a strong point. We have our current VC considered as a top portfolio company. So he reserves cash for us. and we are going to raise because we can, because we can use the cash to accelerate the growth, not because we need it at the moment.
So how much are you looking to raise and at what valuation?
We're looking to raise 3 million at a 13 million valuation prep.
Okay, got it. So 30 million pre 33 post. And if you're doing 150 grand a month right now, it's about call it one, call it 2 million in ARR. I mean, that's a 15x multiple. You feel good about being able to get that?
Yes, absolutely.
Got it. And you're saying the reason you feel good about that is your current investors have reserved cash to lead this $3 million offer.
Not only that, my confidence starts and ends from the team. We've built a killer team. I think we broke some kind of a record. We've just onboarded three VPs in a duration of one month. Three like world-class VPs.
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