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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

How to Sell For $100m+

21 Jan 2016

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

0.031 - 15.769 Nathan Latka

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.

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Chapter 2: What was the journey of Hampus Jakobsson with TAT?

16.269 - 27.422 Nathan Latka

I'm now at $20,000 per talk. Five and six million. He is hell-bent on global domination. We just broke our 100,000-unit soul mark. And I'm your host, Nathan Latka.

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Chapter 3: How did BlackBerry's acquisition of TAT unfold?

27.402 - 31.668 Nathan Latka

Okay, Top Tribe, this week's winner of the 100 bucks is Jose Avila.

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Chapter 4: What advice does Hampus give about revenue projections for entrepreneurs?

31.968 - 52.076 Nathan Latka

He is a 17-year-old that doesn't want to go to college and he wants to start his own business. For your chance to win 100 bucks just like Jose every Monday morning, simply subscribe to this podcast on iTunes right now and then text the word Nathan to 33444 to prove that you did it. Coming up tomorrow morning, we hear from Vincent Van De Paul.

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52.096 - 56.802 Nathan Latka

They 3D print minion cases for Walmart and their margins will surprise you.

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Chapter 5: How did Hampus transition from BlackBerry to launching Brisk?

57.693 - 59.657 Nathan Latka

Okay, Top Tribe, good morning.

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Chapter 6: How has Hampus invested in startups and what is his strategy?

59.677 - 61.3 Nathan Latka

Today, you're going to love our guest.

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Chapter 7: What is Brisk's unique approach to sales process acceleration?

61.32 - 83.203 Nathan Latka

His name is Hampus Jacobson, and he is the founder of Brisk, a sales process acceleration tool, and he has customers such as Hootsuite, Intercom, and Evernote. He's also an angel investor in over 45 startups, and previously, between 2002 and 2010, he He was the founder of a company called TAT, which was acquired by BlackBerry for $150 million in 2010.

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83.944 - 86.709 Nathan Latka

And then after that, he led M&A at BlackBerry.

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Chapter 8: What strategies did Brisk use to break into Hootsuite?

87.01 - 89.074 Nathan Latka

So Hampus, are you ready to take us to the top?

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89.855 - 90.476 Hampus Jakobsson

Absolutely.

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90.596 - 94.804 Nathan Latka

So let's do this. First things first, it sounds like you got out of BlackBerry at the right time.

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95.037 - 118.289 Hampus Jakobsson

Yeah, actually, it was funny because when we were acquired, we were, it was amazing. Michael Azarides, one of the founders of Blackburn, the CEO at the time, was such an extraordinary visionary. He totally sold us the vision. So when we were acquired, we really believed that we would push Microsoft's sort of monopoly and everything off the cliff. But then, well, the cliff came for us.

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118.309 - 119.972 Nathan Latka

What was Microsoft's monopoly? The phone?

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Yeah.

120.603 - 127.854 Hampus Jakobsson

No, it was really like back in the day, like 2010, it was still considered that Microsoft was the go-to place for businesses for a lot of things.

128.294 - 142.316 Hampus Jakobsson

And I think BlackBerry was just saying that the world is going to be mobile and all new companies are going to start by thinking what mobile infrastructure they're going to have and we're going to start with that and then grow that to desktop and everything else. Great strategy, just... not being able to execute fast enough.

142.617 - 153.177 Nathan Latka

Got it. Well, hey, before we get into what you're currently working on, which is Brisk, I'd like to talk about the exit that you got for TAT. Now, what does TAT stand for? The Astonishing Tribe.

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