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Dominik Vacikar. He is currently an Associate at Hummingbird VC, but was previously the co-founder of Spaceship and some other startups, including Growth at Nestpick. Listen as Dominik gives us an inside look at the workings of Spaceship and why he was chosen by Hummingbird for a very specific task.\xa0

Famous Five:

• Favorite Book? \u2013 Zero to One
• What CEO do you follow? \u2013\xa0 N/A
• Favorite online tool? \u2014 Stripe
• Do you get 8 hours of sleep?\u2014 No
• If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it be? \u2013 Dominik wishes he wasn\u2019t so hard on himself, so long as he was progressing

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Time Stamped Show Notes:

• 01:35 \u2013 Nathan introduces Dominik to the show
• 02:00 \u2013 Spaceship started as a side project when Dominik had their lead generation tool in social media
• 03:02 \u2013 Dominik shares how Spaceship works
• • 03:18 \u2013 Spaceship searches your entire target audience and provides you with prospect data
• 03:35 \u2013 Spaceship is pay-as-you go
• 03:51 \u2013 10% of Spaceship\u2019s customers are on a monthly plan
• 04:10 \u2013 Spaceship was launched in October 2015
• 04:30 \u2013 2015 revenue
• 04:55 \u2013 Current total revenue
• 05:12 \u2013 Dominik shares why he turned to Hummingbird
• 06:33 \u2013 Spaceship was bootstrapped
• 06:52 \u2013 Spaceship\u2019s current team size
• 07:20 \u2013 Dominik has been with Hummingbird for 2 months
• 07:30 \u2013 Hummingbird wants Dominik to build a radar for startups
• • 07:54 \u2013 The radar will track interesting companies and identify them
• 08:29 \u2013 Dominik shares how their product is different from Crunchbase
• 09:31 \u2013 Dominik shares the variables they use to identify the startups
• 10:30 \u2013 The current biggest problem is updating the data as frequently as possible
• 11:45 \u2013 Hummingbird is good at identifying the funders\u2019 DNA
• 12:08 \u2013 Hummingbird\u2019s main area of expertise
• 13:00 \u2013 Hummingbird might be interested in a Series A
• 13:21 \u2013 Hummingbird\u2019s ARR target
• 14:05 \u2013 Nathan asks Dominik about Spaceship\u2019s founder
• 14:37 \u2013 Dominik is active on Twitter and LinkedIn
• 16:10 \u2013 The Famous Five

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3 Key Points:

• Growth comes in many forms\u2014sometimes from within your own company or from the help of others.
• Develop your expertise by drawing knowledge from other fields and markets.
• Your progress determines your future and YOU set the pace.

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Resources Mentioned:

• Acuity Scheduling \u2013 Nathan uses Acuity to schedule his podcast interviews and appointments
• Drip \u2013 Nathan uses Drip\u2019s email automation platform and visual campaign builder to build his sales funnel
• Toptal\xa0\u2013 Nathan found his development team using Toptal for his new business Send Later. He was able to keep 100% equity and didn\u2019t have to hire a co-founder due to the quality of Toptal
• Host Gator\xa0\u2013 The site Nathan uses to buy his domain names and hosting for the cheapest price possible.
• Audible\xa0\u2013 Nathan uses Audible when he\u2019s driving from Austin to San Antonio (1.5-hour drive) to listen to audio books.
• The Top Inbox\xa0 \u2013 The site Nathan uses to schedule emails to be sent later, set reminders in inbox, track opens, and follow-up with email sequences
• Jamf \u2013 Jamf helped Nathan keep his Macbook Air 11\u201d secure even when he left it in the airplane\u2019s back seat pocket
• @chichikid \u2013 Dominik\u2019s Twitter handle
• LinkedIn \u2013 Dominik\u2019s LinkedIn account
• Show Notes provided by Mallard Creatives