SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
834: SaaS: He Hit 5x YoY Revenue Growth in Performance Marketing Space
05 Nov 2017
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
One of the co-founders of Muscat, the marketing performance managing platform.
Chapter 2: What is Musqot and how does it enhance marketing performance?
It is more important to focus on your founder than it is the greatest idea. They launched back in 2014. 2015 got their first product out, did about 100 grand in revenue. 5X that in 2015. Now monthly, they're doing 100 grand per month, trying to hit that beautiful $3 million AR run rate by the end of 2017.
Really healthy growth, $1.2 million raised with about 25 folks, 20 full-time, five contractors. Healthy economics with a $20,000 CAC on average, but an annual ACV, kind of average of 25 grand. Based in Stockholm, Sweden, again, riding a rocket ship off.
Chapter 3: How did Musqot achieve its initial funding and support?
This is The Top, where I interview entrepreneurs who are number one or number two in their industry in terms of revenue or customer base. You'll learn how much revenue they're making, what their marketing funnel looks like, and how many customers they have. I'm now at $20,000 per top.
Chapter 4: What is Musqot's customer acquisition cost and payback period?
Five and six million. He is hell-bent on global domination. We just broke our $100,000 unit sold mark.
Chapter 5: What were Musqot's revenue milestones in the early years?
And I'm your host, Nathan Latka. Many of you listening right now don't have time to listen to every B2B SaaS CEO that I've interviewed. If you want to get access to the database I've created with year-over-year growth rates, customer accounts, margins, and many, many other data metrics and data points, you can go to getlatka.com. Here's the thing, though. This database... I keep it to myself.
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Chapter 6: How does Musqot acquire and retain its customers?
And to preserve the quality of the data and make sure that the people that have access to it have a true advantage, I'm only letting 10 companies on each month. So we're full this month, but you can go to getlatka.com to get on the waiting list for next month. And look, there's big people on the waiting list. I mean, the biggest VCs you've ever heard of, you've probably heard of them.
They're big, private equity, billions and billions under management. So it's an impressive waiting list. Go get on now at getlatka.com. Hello, everyone. My guest today is Oscar Nelson. He's the CEO of Muscat, the marketing technology and a SaaS company. He co-founded after spending 12 years in various marketing roles in small and large companies.
Industry-wise, he's had a mixed background from consulting, media, telecommunications, and enterprise software. He considers himself a business generalist more than a specialist. Oscar, are you ready to take us to the top?
Chapter 7: What strategies does Musqot use for marketing and expansion?
I am. I am. I am.
Very good. So tell us about the company. What does Muscat do and how do you make money?
Chapter 8: What challenges did Musqot face during its growth phase?
So Muscat is a marketing performance management app. We help customers increase their marketing efficiency and marketing effectiveness, ultimately enabling them to increase their marketing ROI. And we sell this as an enterprise B2B SaaS application.
Okay, and when you say enterprise, I mean, are you talking like $10,000 annual contract values on average or higher?
Average is about $25,000. Okay, annual... Yeah, annual. And that's the average. We have customers that are well into six figures, and then we have some very, very small businesses as well that pays way less than that.
And when did you launch the company? What year?
So we founded the company in 2014, about three years ago, and we spent roughly one year developing an alpha product, completely bootstrapped. And then during the second year, we launched a beta version of the product along with a couple of lead customers. And then I would say that roughly one year ago, we launched the real product for real and went into sort of commercial phase.
So 2014, you bootstrapped for a year. I mean, how did you support yourself? How did you buy food and pay rent if you were no customers and bootstrapping? Where did you get the money?
Luckily, I'm married, and I found support that way. Basically, my wife supported it, and obviously, we had some savings. I mean, this is the first company I founded. I had some savings. My co-founder...
had some savings as well so we just put everything we had into it how much did you guys both together put in total would you say um i'd say uh not not that much just like a hundred thousand dollars each or so some people would say that you know a student graduating listening to the show right now i'd go that's a that's a lot of money That's a good point. That's a good point.
And of course, obviously it is a lot of money, but it's still small compared.
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