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Secrets for Scaling is a Geckoboard podcast exploring the growth secrets of successful founders and CEOs. Whether you're just launching your business or taking your company to the next level, you'll learn proven strategies and tactics for growing a sustainable business. If you're interested in focusing your team and improving key business metrics, check out our live TV dashboard app: https://www.geckoboard.com/
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About Bijan Moallemi: A graduate of UCSD, Bijan Moallemi has nearly a decade of experience building and leading finance functions at companies like Qualcomm and Palantir. He knew CFOs deserved access to better tools, so he co-founded Mosaic Finance to build the next generation of finance software for CFOs and their teams. Today, Mosaic has achievedโ€ฆ
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(Bio courtesy of Indie Hackers podcast) We're talking to Patrick Campbell, an indie founder who just sold his company for $200,000,000. That's an insane nine figure exit for a bootstrapped founder. In this episode, we talk with Patrick about his champagne problems and what indie hackers need to know today to get to where he is more quickly. Patrickโ€ฆ
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About Will Peng: Will Peng is the CEO and Co-Founder of Northstar, a financial wellness and benefits platform. Prior to founding Northstar, Will worked in Venture Capital and his firm was an early investor in Coinbase, Guideline, Even, and Oscar. Inspired by the positive change fintech can have on peopleโ€™s lives, Will set out to solve the inequalitโ€ฆ
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Leo Bassam is an entrepreneur and the CEO & founder of Plutio. Their Twitter bio reads: "Founder @plutio_app. Roaming the world with an incredible remote team as we pave the way for anyone to start, run and grow their business from anywhere" Leo's Twitter: https://twitter.com/loaibassam Plutio's website: https://www.plutio.com/ โ€”โ€” Links Reddit SaaSโ€ฆ
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Chris Do's bio (courtesy of "Web 3 and NFTs for Newbies" Podcast) Chris Do is an Emmy award-winning designer, director, CEO and Chief Strategist of Blind and the founder of The Futurโ€”an online education platform with the mission of teaching 1 billion people how to make a living doing what they love. Check out Chris' Socials: Website | Instagram | Tโ€ฆ
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About Jon Penland: With 6+ years of experience working remotely in the technology space, and 10+ years working with customer-facing teams across multiple industries, Jon stepped into the role of Chief Operating Officer at Kinsta, where his responsibilities include hiring and onboarding as Kinsta has grown from a team of 4 to a team of more than 250โ€ฆ
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About Douwe Mann: Born and raised in the Netherlands, Douwe Maan was introduced to computers early by his father, and picked up programming at the age of nine. While studying at Utrecht University, Douwe co-founded a SaaS startup that grew to $150k in ARR, which led to him joining GitLab in 2015 as employee number 10 after landing the parents of itโ€ฆ
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Josh Pigford Josh Pigford is a serial entrepreneur. He is the creator of Maybe.co, Baremetrics.io, Temper.io, PopSurvey.com, PugSpot, Tiny Farmstead and other little bits of internet stuff. Josh's most recent business is Maybe. Their website reads "In 2021 I founded Maybe where we're helping folks take control of their financial future. I also run โ€ฆ
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About Bryan Clayton: Bryan is CEO and co-founder of GreenPal, an online marketplace that connects homeowners with local lawn care professionals. GreenPal has been called the โ€œUber for lawn careโ€ by Entrepreneur magazine and has over 200,000 active users completing thousands of transactions per day. Before starting GreenPal, Bryan Clayton founded Peโ€ฆ
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Pierre's Bio (c/o NoCode Wealth Podcast) Pierre de Wulf is the co-founder of ScrappingBee, a service that handles headless browsers and rotates proxies for you. Pierre is bootstrapping ScrappingBee, currently making $1 million ARR with a team of 3, and sharing all the lessons learned along the way. โ€”โ€” Links Pierre's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Pieโ€ฆ
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Pat's bio (c/o Indie Bites Podcast) Pat Walls is the founder of Starter Story, a website dedicated to helping people start businesses. They interview entrepreneurs from around the world about how they started their business and how they grew it, including revenue figures for every business they interview. Pat's Twitter: https://twitter.com/thepatwaโ€ฆ
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About Aran: Aran Khanna has been labeled many things. Thought leader. Innovator. And (at times) troublemaker. Now, in his search to give technological control back to developers and business leaders, heโ€™s added cloud management entrepreneur to that list as the Co-Founder & CEO of Archera, a company that helps organizations find cloud solutions thatโ€ฆ
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Dennis' bio (courtesy of Ecommerce Conversations podcast) Dennis Hegstad co-founded LiveRecover, a real-time SMS app, in 2018. He sold the company in 2021. "I became bored," he said. So he purchased OrderBump, a Shopify app for product upsells. Dennis' Twitter: https://twitter.com/dennishegstad โ€”โ€” Links Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas Myโ€ฆ
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Show Notes: 00:46 Starting your first business 03:30 As a company, how do you provide value to your employees? Is offering high commissions sustainable? 06:30 Losing a business isnโ€™t the end of the world, thereโ€™s no shame in taking a job while you regroup 09:20 Outsourcing labor in the days before Upwork etc 11:25 Getting the mojo back: starting a โ€ฆ
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Rob's bio (c/o Leadmore) Rob Walling sees himself as a maker and serial entrepreneur. These days he leads with three things: Startups for the Rest of Us, a podcast about bootstrapping SaaS companies, MicroConf, the oldest and largest community for bootstrapped SaaS founders, and TinySeed, the first accelerator designed for bootstrappers. Rob's Twitโ€ฆ
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Brian's bio Brian Casel is a serial founder who currently runs ZipMessage.com. In the past, they've built (and sold many of the following): ProcessKit, Big Snow Tiny Conf, Audience Ops, Productize, Thready, SunriseKPI, Ops Calendar, Restaurant Engine, Hotel Propeller, WP Bids, ThemeJam. Their website reads: I love the hard, creative work of designiโ€ฆ
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About Matija Kovaฤ: Matija Kovaฤ is the co-founder and head of development at Taia Translations, a company that bridges the gap between language barriers with the help of Artificial Intelligence and machine learning. About Taia Translations: Taia Translations is a modern translation platform, where we help companies translate their documents, websiโ€ฆ
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About Reed-McGinley-Stempel: Reed is the Co-Founder and CEO of Stytch, a platform for passwordless authentication that makes it simple for apps and websites to retire the password. Before founding Stytch, Reed joined Plaid as one of their first 100 employees. He remained with them until they grew to a $5B+ valuation. With a selection of new productโ€ฆ
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About Benn Stancil: Benn Stancil is coยญfounder and Chief Analyst at Mode Analytics, a company building collaborative tools for data scientists and analysts. Benn is responsible for overseeing Mode's internal analytics efforts, and is also an active contributor to the data science community. In addition, Benn provides strategic oversight and guidancโ€ฆ
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About Mike Potter: Mike Potter is the co-founder and CEO of Rewind, the leading data backup and recovery provider for cloud and SaaS data. While studying Mechanical Engineering at McMaster University, Mike began his start-up career as the founder of InTheHack.com, one of the most popular sporting websites in Canada. Since founding Rewind in 2015, Mโ€ฆ
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About Jeff Solomon: Jeff is a 6x founder and has been in the startup scene for most of his career. He has done just about every role from CEO to Chief Janitor, Head of Product to Marketing Lead. He has deep expertise in Saas, Content Marketing, SEO, Mobile Apps, Startup Accelerators, Lead Generation, UX, Angel & Seed Funding, B2B Software, Enterpriโ€ฆ
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Tyler's Bio (from his Reddit AmA) "6 Years ago I quit my full time job to start a business. Weโ€™ve bootstrapped it to over $50 million/year in revenue and just won Top 25 Fastest Growing in SC for 4th year in a row. AMA!" We are debt free, 185 employees (trying to hire another 20โ€ฆ), and I started it with less then $1000. Weโ€™ve just won Top 25 Fastesโ€ฆ
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About Jeroen Corthout: Jeroen is the co-founder and CEO of Salesflare, a simply powerful CRM that automates data to build better relationships and make more sales. It's a fast, visual and easy-to-use sales machine. Salesflare is the most popular CRM ever on both Product Hunt and AppSumo. It also got featured on TechCrunch and Entrepreneur.com. Prioโ€ฆ
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Christian's bio (courtesy of Andrew Gazdecki, Microacquire) Christian Friedland is a highly successful entrepreneur and EY Entrepreneur Of The Year nominee who founded, bootstrapped, scaled, and sold Build.com, the largest pure-play internet retailer in the home improvement space in the U.S. During his 15-year tenure at Build.com, he led the companโ€ฆ
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About Andrรฉ Monteiro: Andrรฉ is the co-founder and CTO of Verb Energy. He's a NY-based entrepreneur that leads the tech team at Verb Energy, one of the fastest growing food and beverage brands in the country. Andrรฉ and his team have built a suite of internal tools like a CRM and workflow orchestrator that enable their team to personalize and manage โ€ฆ
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Rob's bio (c/o Leadmore) Rob Walling sees himself as a maker and serial entrepreneur. These days he leads with three things: Startups for the Rest of Us, a podcast about bootstrapping SaaS companies, MicroConf, the oldest and largest community for bootstrapped SaaS founders, and TinySeed, the first accelerator designed for bootstrappers. Rob's Twitโ€ฆ
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Daniel's bio (c/o The Genuinely Interested Podcast) Daniel Vassallo used to work for Amazon. By every measuring standard, he should have been happy & content. He was successful, making a high salary, getting promotions, working with great coworkers - all while working for one of the biggest companies in the world. However, over time, Daniel's motivโ€ฆ
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About Rand Fishkin: Rand Fishkin is cofounder and CEO of audience research software startup, SparkToro. Heโ€™s dedicated his professional life to helping people do better marketing through his writing, videos, speaking, and his book, Lost and Founder. When Randโ€™s not working, heโ€™s usually cooking a fancy meal for the love of his life, author Geraldinโ€ฆ
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Andrew's bio (from their AmA) Hi everyone, Andrew here from MicroAcquire! Startup acquisition marketplace! MicroAcquire helps startups find buyers. Simple as that. Weโ€™ll help you start conversations that lead to an acquisition in just 30 days โ€“ for free. When my company Bizness Apps was acquired in 2018 by a PE firm, it was a bittersweet moment. Onโ€ฆ
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Derrick's bio (from their AmA) Hey, Iโ€™m Derrick Reimer, a full-stack developer. I fell in love with the 37signals ethos back in 2009 and Iโ€™ve been bootstrapping ever since. I've built and sold StaticKit (acquired 2020), a toolkit of dynamic components for static sites, Codetree (acquired 2016), a way of managing development tasks across multiple reโ€ฆ
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Spencer's bio (from their AmA) Hey everyone ๐Ÿ‘‹ Excited to talk about all things startups and creator economy, and anything else. A brief bit of bio: Iโ€™ve been an entrepreneur my entire life, since my early teens. At 37 years old, Iโ€™ve never earned a paycheck from anyone other than myself. This is one of my proudest accomplishments. Co-founded and exโ€ฆ
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About Craig Hewitt: Craig is the founder of Castos, where he leads of team of 15 extremely talented individuals that are crafting the best podcasting platform in the industry. He's a husband to an amazing wife, and father to two incredible children. About Castos: Castos is a full-service podcast hosting, distribution, and analytics platform, with aโ€ฆ
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