EP 550: Attentive Raises $150K in Portugal to Solve Sales Problem with CEO Daniel Araujo

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
    • 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
    • 04:40 \\u2013 Every behavior of a lead notifies the user
  • 05:00 \\u2013 Daniel shares what their setup looks like
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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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