Published: Jan. 25, 2017, 10 a.m.
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Daniel Araujo. He\\u2019s the CEO at Attentive.US \\u2013 a competitive intelligence platform that gives real-time information to teams that use SalesForce, Hubspot, Pipedrive or Full Contact. He\\u2019s the next Googler, loves data visualization and all things technology.
Famous Five:
- Favorite Book? \\u2013 Peak
- What CEO do you follow? \\u2013\\xa0 Jeff Bezos
- Favorite online tool? \\u2014 HubSpot
- Do you get 8 hours of sleep?\\u2014 Roughly
- If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it be? \\u2013 Daniel would tell himself to learn as fast as he can
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Time Stamped Show Notes:
- 01:42 \\u2013 Nathan introduces Daniel to the show
- 02:10 \\u2013 Attentive is a SaaS platform that integrates with CRMs
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- 02:20 \\u2013 Attentive alway looks for information and updates in real-time
- 02:42 \\u2013 Attentive offers monthly subscriptions and an additional setup fee for clients who want to use other CRMs
- 03:03 \\u2013 Average customer pay per month
- 03:16 \\u2013 The integration is a one-time fee and will depend on the client\\u2019s preferences
- 03:55 \\u2013 Attentive does track every person that is in your pipeline
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- 04:40 \\u2013 Every behavior of a lead notifies the user
- 05:00 \\u2013 Daniel shares what their setup looks like
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- 05:09 \\u2013 The information that needs to be filled out for the setup are on the website
- 05:44 \\u2013 There are clients who will give a list of companies they want to track
- 06:21 \\u2013 Number of paying customers monthly
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- 06:37 \\u2013 Attentive just launched a new interface
- 07:00 \\u2013 MRR
- 07:08 \\u2013 Team size is 5 which includes a newly hired Head of Growth
- 08:00 \\u2013 Attentive has raised $150K
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- 08:12 \\u2013 The first $100K was from a big VC in Portugal and the rest is from an advisor round
- 08:50 \\u2013 There are key people who are helping build Attentive
- 09:00 \\u2013 Initially, it was convertible note but everything is converted to equity now
- 09:19 \\u2013 The valuation conversation with an Angel investor
- 10:05 \\u2013 Daniel shares how he started raising Attentive\\u2019s capital
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- 10:28 \\u2013 There are still people who are using Attentive\\u2019s Slack bot for free
- 10:38 \\u2013 The investors believe that Attentive could grow
- 10:58 \\u2013 10% of the company is for the investors, the rest belongs to the 3 founders of Attentive
- 11:17 \\u2013 Daniel shares how the 3 founders split the rest of the company
- 11:40 \\u2013 Daniel wants to move Attentive to the US because they want to compete in that\\xa0 market
- 12:10 \\u2013 Daniel will focus on having an MRR of $5-10K before raising another round
- 12:40 \\u2013 Valuation for Series A will depend on the metrics
- 13:50 \\u2013 Attentive is trying to get on the Boulder acceleration program
- 15:20 \\u2013 The Famous Five
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3 Key Points:
- Believe in your product so that other people, too, will believe in it.
- Deciding the valuation for another raising depends on the MRR or the metrics.
- Learn as FAST as you can.
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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
- Show Notes provided by Mallard Creatives
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