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Top Startup and SaaS Podcast for Startup Founders, Entrepreneurs and Investors. Learn how to optimize your growth strategy a SaaS startup entrepreneur from beta all the way to exit. We cover topics such as raising capital, acquisitions, leadership, B2B sales, growth marketing, scaling, hiring, M&A, conversion optimization, productivity, bootstrapping, venture capital, private equity, and innovation. By sharing industry lead expertise, we want you to implement the best-proven tactics to help ...
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Creating Custom Digital Funnels to Raising Capital for your SaaS with Jagger Lucé #232
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Jagger Lucé is the Head of Sales at Valynt Digital, a full-service digital marketing agency specializing in paid advertising, video production, copywriting, graphic design, and AI-driven automation. At Valynt, have created a revolutionizing capital raising solution through innovative digital marketing funnels, including Series A - Series D advertis…
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Path to Acquisition: Insights from Weebly & Vurb with Ryan Glasgow #231
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Ryan is the Founder and CEO of Sprig, a user experience measurement tool suite used by top companies such as Paypal, Coinbase, Figma, and Peloton. Since founding the company in 2019, Sprig has raised $90M, achieving a valuation of $330M. He has a proven track record in scaling SaaS startups like Weebly (acquired by Square) and Vurb (acquired by Sna…
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Scaling a SaaS company with ZERO Marketing Budget with Leopold van Oosten #230
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Leo is the Founder and CEO at Amsterdam Standard, a technology partner who specializes in software development, IT staffing, and user interface design, the company provides dedicated nearshore teams, UX/UI interface design services, and agile software development for projects emphasizing agility. With over two decades of professional experience Leo…
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The Intersection and Future Trends of SaaS, AI, and Hospitality with Luca Zambello #229
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Luca Zambello is the co-founder and CEO of Jurny, an AI-driven property management solution which is reshaping short-term rental and hotel operations. He is a recognized expert in artificial intelligence and a serial entrepreneur, founding Jurny in 2019 in order to simplify and make AI and automation accessible for all hospitality businesses, inclu…
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How to Build an effective GTM and Partnership Program for Your SaaS with Barrett King #228
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Barrett King is the Sr. Director of Revenue at New Breed, a HubSpot's top solutions partner, on a mission to help unlock meaningful growth. He is a highly motivated leader with over a decade of experience in building partnerships and executing go-to-market strategies for SaaS companies. His expertise includes creating and implementing sales and mar…
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How to Build an Unbreakable SaaS Business Scaling Beyond $10k in MRR with Matt Verlaque #227
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Matt Verlaque serves as the COO at SaaS Academy, a premier training hub for B2B SaaS entrepreneurs, where they specialize in playbooks, templates, and lessons tailored for the SaaS world. The academy provides both business solutions as well as personal growth coaching. Matt also leads the Growth Accelerator program, helping early founders scale bey…
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Looking for Guidance for Businesses on Security Policy Development With your SaaS with Kyle Jones #226
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Kyle Jones is the Senior Cybersecurity Analyst at Rhymetec, cloud security company that delivers cutting-edge cybersecurity, compliance, and data privacy solutions to contemporary SaaS enterprises. Kyle is a dedicated cybersecurity analyst who’s expertise particularly shines in aligning SaaS cloud structures with industry benchmarks and regulations…
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How to Establish Authority & Build a Loyal Audience as a Tech Leader with Yaniv Zaid #225
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Dr. Yaniv Zaid, also known as "Dr. Persuasion," is a lawyer and economist, provider of business and media consulting to companies and organizations, and a requested and highly experienced lecturer on the topic of improvement of speaking, marketing and persuasion abilities. He's also a No. 1 best-selling author on Amazon with his latest 21st century…
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Going From $0 to $30M ARR and 3x Your Sales Performers Using AI with Ryan Staley #224
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Ryan is the Founder & CEO at Whale Boss, a cutting edge consultancy designed around providing fast results vs. billable hours. Ryan helps CEO’s or Revenue Leaders implement a 7-8 figure sales system in 3 months based on the principles that grew a business unit from 0- $30M ARR while adding $30M+ in capital revenue (with ONLY 4 Sales people and with…
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Exploring Investing, Trends and Fundraising in 2024 with Michael Treskow #223
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Michael is a Partner at Eight Roads Ventures based out of London, where they’re focused on venture and growth investments in technology companies across Europe and Israel. Previously, Michael invested in technology companies at Accel in London, and Warburg Pincus both in San Francisco and New York. He received a BA from Yale University and an MBA f…
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Bootstrapping to $3M ARR and Embracing Outcome-Based Pricing with Stefan Debois #222
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Stefan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Pointerpro, a software platform to create your own online assessments with auto-generated personalized reports. It helps you turn your expertise into a tool that delivers personalized advice at scale. Before founding Pointerpro, Stefan worked for 15 years in several consulting companies as a consultant, project m…
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Mastering The Art of Marketing Through Storytelling with Jarie Bolander #221
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Jarie is the founder of Story-Driven, a company that utilizes storytelling techniques to accelerate brand awareness and generate leads for B2B businesses. With a proven track record in startups, Jarie has successfully raised over $10 million in funding and played a key role in a $750M exit. In this episode we cover: 00:00 - Intro 01:14 - Jarie's En…
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Investing Trends, Niches, and Success Stories with AlbionVC with Robert Whitby-Smith #220
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Robert is a Partner at Albion VC, an independent investment firm that backs visionary founders with long-term capital and scale-up expertise. With £1 billion of venture funds invested in 50+ companies, Robert focuses on deeptech and B2B software startups. His extensive experience in corporate finance and board-level work allows him to provide strat…
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How to Maintain the Balance Between System-Relevent vs Human-Centricity as an Entrepreneur with Michaell Magrutsche #219
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Michaell is the Creativity-Awareness Educator at MICHAELLM.com. He holds the role of Wisdom Art Awareness Coach & hosts his own podcast show called The Smart of Art Podcast. Michaell showcases a unique blend of talents and expertise and advocates for unlocking individual potential. His transformative journey from feeling like an outcast to embracin…
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Empowering Startup Leaders for Success and Resilience with Kenneth Berger #218
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Kenneth Berger is the Executive Coach at Kenneth Berger Coaching with over two decades of experience in the tech industry. He's empowered leaders from startups like Typeform, Dribbble, and Fastly, guiding them to tackle challenges, combat burnout, and achieve their desired life paths. Serving as a trusted confidant to multiple CEOs, Kenneth equips …
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Active Campaign CMO: Integration, Automation and Marketing Insights to Scale to $165M ARR
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Shay Howe is the Chief Marketing Officer at ActiveCampaign, a cloud-based email and CRM automation platform with 185,000 customers worldwide and secured $360 million in funding through three rounds. He's a product leader with a design and engineering background. Before ActiveCampaign, Shay served as Vice President of Product at Belly and Yello, ove…
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Navigating Venture Capital, AI, and Innovation in Q4 2023 with Anupam Rastogi #216
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Anupam Rastogi is a General Partner at Emergent Ventures, which focuses on seed and early-stage ventures, investing in transformative AI-powered SaaS and enterprise infrastructure companies. They invest at pre-seed, seed, seed+, and post-seed rounds across enterprise and B2B software, including Application SaaS, Cloud, Data, Infra, Security, Vertic…
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Empowering Your Sales Journey Through Confidence with Wesleyne Whittaker
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Wesleyne is the Founder of Transformed Sales: A Sales training and consulting firm focused on the STEM industries. She's a chemist turned sales coach, dedicated to helping individuals achieve their professional aspirations. With a background in chemistry and success as a top international salesperson, she founded Transformed Sales to guide aspiring…
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How to Leverage AI for Your Digital Content Marketing with Andy Crestodina #214
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Andy Crestodina is the co-founder and CMO of Orbit Media Studios, a digital agency based in Chicago. He has over 18 years of experience where he's advised 1000+ businesses on digital marketing. Andy speaks at major marketing conferences, contributes to prominent marketing blogs, and also hosts the Content Matters podcast. His extensive writing cove…
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The CEO's Impact on Sales & Overall Business Leadership with Alice Heiman #213
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Alice Heiman is renowned for elevating B2B sales and increasing valuation for high-growth companies. She collaborates with CEOs and sales leaders to develop strategies that energize sales teams, secure new business, and nurture existing accounts. As the host of "Sales Talk for CEOs," her podcast inspires businesses to reach their full potential. In…
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High Performance Selling and Building a Business with John Barrows #212
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John Barrows is the CEO of JB Sales Training, the go-to sales training for the world's top sales forces, dedicated to helping individuals become the highest-paid sellers in any given room. Throughout his +25 years career, he has held diverse roles in the industry, acquiring extensive knowledge and expertise in sales strategies. By sharing his wealt…
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The Power of Human Connection In Community Building and Sales with Jen Allen-Knuth
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Jen Allen-Knuth is the Head of Community Growth at Lavender, an AI email assistant that helps you write better emails faster, double replies, and save time. Together, they are providing comprehensive tools and guidance for crafting compelling sales emails. In this episode we cover: 00:00 - Intro 01:31 - Embracing Vulnerability's Unique Superpower i…
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Unleashing Big Results on a Limited Ad Spend with Mason Cosby #210
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Mason Cosby is the Director of Demand Generation at Sales Assembly, a leading organization that offers Elevated Learning & Development for GTM Teams, where he leads the development of impactful B2B programs. His journey in sales and marketing began as a means to pursue flexibility for seminary studies. In addition to his role at Sales Assembly, Mas…
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Strategies for Success in Social Selling Through LinkedIn with Nicholas Thickett #209
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Nicholas Thickett is the Co Host at the B2B Power Hour, a space to connect with others in B2B marketing + sales space, where they share their experiments on social selling, ABSD, cold email, AI, SEP's, Async video, virtual events and more. With an expansive archive of 160+ podcast episodes, takeaways and articles, they help sales and marketing prof…
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Data-Driven Strategies for Hiring Excellence and Retaining Top Talent with Neha Naik #208
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Neha Naik is the Founder and CEO of RecruitGyan, a human resources company specializing in recruitment consulting, business staffing, and interview preparation with a focus on technology startups. Neha accelerates company growth by attracting top talent and motivating investors. She is an official member of the Forbes Business Council and has found…
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How to Launch Your Startup Business with Limited Resources with Melissa Kwan #207
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Melissa Kwan is the Co-founder and CEO of eWebinar, a revolutionary SaaS company that helps people automate repetitive webinars and achieve a better work-life balance. With over twelve years of experience in startups and three successful companies built without venture capital backing, Melissa is a revenue-driven founder specializing in sales and b…
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Why First Impressions Matter When it Comes to Onboarding with Peter Ord #206
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Peter Ord is the Founder and CEO of GuideCX®, a leading provider of client onboarding and implementation tools for SaaS companies. With a focus on delivering value faster to clients, they offer advanced solutions that help project managers and client success teams invite, guide, and engage their customers. Peter's vision is to empower businesses to…
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Building, Scaling and Fundraising A SaaS Company with Sufian Chowdhury #205
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Sufian is the Founder & CEO of Kinetik, Where they offer a suite of products and API solutions to organizations in the non-emergency medical transportation industry to streamline and automate billing. Through their platform, they help streamline day-to-day operations for brokers, managed care organizations, and local transportation providers. In th…
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Cybersecurity, Space Exploration and The Future Of SaaS Business with Adam Anderson #204
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Adam Anderson is a Managing General Partner of Ansuz Capital, a venture fund that helps Cybersecurity companies that specialize in protecting businesses from the number one cyber risk facing the world: Social Engineered Cyber Attacks targeting your employees. He’s also the Chairman, and co-founder of Hook Security. He’s also an entrepreneur who aft…
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Thriving for Revenue in The 2023 Market Downturn with Scott Stouffer #203
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Scott Stouffer is the Founder & CEO of ScaleMatters, a platform that delivers Go-to-Market operations, analytics, and insights to help businesses drive capital-efficient growth. He took his first company (Visual Networks) public in 2001 and grew it to a peak market cap of $3 billion. Since then, he has been 5x CEO and 3x Founder. In this episode we…
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UI/UX Interfaces For Fast Growth SaaS with UserActive #202
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Peter Loving is a software designer, coach and consultant who works with SaaS companies to build better products, making UI & UX improvements that drive growth & wow users. He’s the founder of UserActive, an agency that designs meaningful tech products. They are inspired by a mission to help tech founders build products that enrich the lives of use…
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The Symbiotic Relationship Between Performance & Brand Marketing with Kamil Rextin #201
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Kamil Rextin is the General Manager of 42 Agency, a B2B Agency that helps SaaS companies scale Demand Generation & build RevOps infrastructure. He has worked in RevOps Growth & Demand Gen for the last 12+ years at companies like CrowdRiff & Uberflip. He uses a scientific approach when it comes to marketing. So rather than believing whatever is tren…
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Technology In Healthcare Management With Plumero #200
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Christian Cox is a linguist, professional ponderer and currently the founder at Plumero Technologies. Christian is an Experienced Agile Business Analytics and Technology Professional with a relatively unconventional background. As a Spanish major who spent six years in Argentina, Chris was first exposed to the digital technology world at a small we…
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What Is SaaS Conversion Content And How to Create It with Carly J Cais #199
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Carly is the Founder & CEO of RevvSpark, a content agency that creates full-funnel marketing content strategy, generates demand, optimizes conversions, and helps elevate Sales Team’s potential. She started in Marketing over 20 years ago, first in B2C and then in B2B where she is now on a mission to grow businesses with creative "Conversion Content"…
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The Psychological Knowledge and Power Behind SaaS Companies with Darshan Pindoria #198
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Darshan Pindoria is a Psychology and Mindset Coach at Deeppsyc, an organizational psychology service that impacts key areas of mental health and performance. Darshan has a BSc in Psychology, he’s a vlogger, public speaker and course creator who also took up training for 9 months as a monk in a yoga ashram. Darshan’s past SaaS experiences working as…
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Subscriptions Management For Digital Agencies With AppBind
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Sunir Shah is a marketer, developer and startup guy. He's the founder of AppBind, a subscriptions management tool for resellers and agencies. AppBind lets you subscribe to software and ads for clients without using your credit card. This cloud-based billing solution enables trustful communication between agencies and clients. In this episode we cov…
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How to Make Better Decisions Around Cost Management with Hani Abdou #047
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Hani is Founder and CEO of Tradogram, an online purchasing system that helps businesses manage their purchasing process and control their business spending. Tradogram also offers advising and coaching for organizations on the implementation and development of a better procurement process. Hani holds a degree in Financial Accounting and an MBA from …
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Top Digital Marketing & Investment Trends with Neil Patel #050
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Neil Patel is an entrepreneur, angel investor, and analytics expert who specializes in SEO and digital marketing, he has co-founded several marketing & tech. companies including KissMetrics, Hello Bar, and Crazy Egg. He also now runs his own ad agency called Neil Patel Digital and a KW research tool, UberSuggest. Over the years he has helped big co…
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The Impact of Branding & Building Innovative Digital Products for Your StartUp with Dmytro Grechko #044
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Dmytro Grechko is a self-taught Entrepreneur & Software Engineer who found his passion & borrowed his inspiration from the constant process of learning and meeting new people, his skills and interests range from emerging technologies and latest market trends to sports and music. As a Founder and CEO of Deskree & Deskree Studio, he specializes on he…
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How to Find your Economic Moat in a Competitive SaaS Market with Jeroen Corthout #046
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Jeroen is the co-founder and CEO of Salesflare, a fast, powerful, and intuitive CRM for B2B SMBs focused on improving prospect relationships and sales. Salesflare has been featured on TechCrunch and Entrepreneur.com and has been named as one of the top CRMs on both Product Hunt and AppSumo. Prior to Salesflare, Jeroen founded Doctura, a medical per…
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How to Perfect the Onboarding Process & Reduce Churn with Jeff Epstein #048
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Jeff is an entrepreneur, team-builder, hustler & investor. He is the founder of Onboard.io which is a SaaS made specifically for customer implementation to automate, optimize & create the perfect journey for every customer and enabling companies to manage the perfect onboarding process.Jeff was previously the founder of Ambassador for over 9 years,…
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Land Clients with Your Proposals and Launch a Competitive Spin-Off with Ruben Gamez #045
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How to Land Clients with Your Proposals and How to Launch a Spin-Off Product in A Competitive Market Ruben is a specialist in Bootstrapping, marketing, User Experience, and software development, he is the founder of Bidsketch, a professional web app focused on designing, tracking, and customizing proposals in no time. In the past, Ruben owned 9thSi…
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Bootstrapping Your Startup to Acquisition with Einar Vollset #049
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Einar Vollset is currently the Co-Founder and General Partner at Tinyseed, a remote-based startup accelerator designed for early stage, bootstrapped SaaS Founders which provides funding, community, guidance, advice and mentorship. He is also the Managing Partner of Discretion Capital, a technology enabled Investment Bank focused on M&A, due diligen…
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Using an Omnichannel Approach In your Marketing Campaigns with Rytis Lauris #040
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Rytis Lauris is a serial entrepreneur of various start-ups, and an expert on E-commerce, Online Marketing and Email Marketing. In 2009, he was the Founder of Treenex, which was a company focused on environmental services. Rytis was also the Co-Founder of IQ Polls, which is an easy to use voting tool that interacts with audiences during conferences,…
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How to Source High Quality Leads Who are More Likely to Buy in the B2B SaaS Industry with Mark Colgan #043
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Mark is the Co-Founder & CEO of Speak on Podcasts, which is an Outbound Prospecting Coach at the Sales Impact Academy, CRO at Task Drive, a B2B SaaS Revenue Growth Consultant at Yello O & Mentor at Growth Mentor. By day Mark works with B2B companies to increase revenue by helping them with their Lead Generation and Data Enrichment strategies & by n…
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How To Effectively Hire & Review Professionals Online & Not Get Burned with Liz Pearce #035
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Liz Pearce is the CEO of Seattle-based Fresh Chalk, where they aim to build a faster and more efficient way to find highly-vetted professionals, everything from doctors to plumbers to landscapers to photographers online. The site allows users to create profiles and search through service providers to see which have been recommended by their friends…
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Top Marketing Challenges that Cost SaaS Startups $100k+ Each Year with Oren Greenberg #041
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Oren Greenberg is the founder of Kurve - a modular growth marketing consultancy with experience of helping FTSE 250s and funded startups to navigate the perilous waters of growth and marketing, his impressive track record of results include; managing over £10M marketing budgets, juggling paid search campaigns with over 13.7 million key phrases, org…
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How to Use Interactive Content for Improving Conversions with Diego Gomes #036
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Diego is an Entrepreneur, angel investor, SaaS expert, and the CEO of Rock Content. After studying advertising he met Victor - his co-founder. They were both avid blog readers which led them to start a blog about trends, technology, and the Internet. Not long after that Diego Created EverWrite, which was an SEO platform that was reverse-engineered …
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How You Can Start Implementing AI in Your Marketing Campaigns with Eric Vardon #034
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Eric is an accomplished AI Tech Entrepreneur and Advisor with more than 20 years of success in different verticals such as marketing, advertising, health and wellness, fashion, technology, and digital industries. Eric’s broad areas of expertise include brand development, digital strategy, entrepreneurship, leadership, and growth. Most notably, Eric…
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Why Understanding Your Customer Persona is Important in Copywriting with Bhaskar Sarma #042
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Bhaskar Sarma is a full stack growth marketer who helps companies and leaders to get more qualified traffic to their site, increasing conversions on their website, converting more free trial users to paid customers and keeping them loyal, upsell and cross sell them and setting up a customized analytics stack which tracks users right through the ent…
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