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The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship265: Whooshkaa: Launch & Differentiate Your SaaS in a Crowded Market - with Rob LoewenthalRob Loewenthal is the founder of Whooshkaa, a platform that helps creators and brands to produce, host, and monetize their podcasts.The Show Notes Whooshkaa Rob on Twitter Rob on LinkedIn Omer on Twitter Omer on LinkedIn Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS? Join SaaS Club Plus: our membership and community for new and early-stage SaaS founders. Join and get training & support. Join SaaS Club Launch: a 12-week gr...2020-09-301h 02

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship264: Lessons on Perseverance from a SaaS Startup That Almost Failed – with Panos SiozosPanos Siozos is the co-founder and CEO of LearnWorlds, a white-label SaaS platform that lets you create your own, personally branded online school.The Show Notes LearnWorlds Panos on Twitter Panos on LinkedIn Omer on Twitter Omer on LinkedIn Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS? Join SaaS Club Plus: our membership and community for new and early-stage SaaS founders. Join and get training & support. Join SaaS Club Launch...2020-09-2353 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship263: SaaS Product-Led Growth and the New Customer Journey - with Blake BartlettBlake Bartlett is a partner at Openview, a venture capital firm that focuses on B2B companies in the expansion stage such as Highspot, Calendly, and Expensify.The Show NoteThe Show Notes OpenView Atlassian Calendly Hubspot Upkeep Blake on LinkedIn Omer on Twitter Omer on LinkedIn Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS? Join SaaS Club Plus: our membership and community for new and early-stage SaaS...2020-09-1649 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship262: Vajro: The Importance of SaaS Founder-Market Fit - with Baskar AgneeswaranBaskar Agneeswaran is the co-founder of Vajro, a cloud-based mobile commerce platform that creates instant mobile shopping apps for e-commerce stores.The Show Notes Vajro Niwin Santosh – Co-Founder and CEO Raghuraman Ramamurthy – Co-Founder and Director Baskar on LinkedIn Omer on Twitter Omer on LinkedIn Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS? Join SaaS Club Plus: our membership and community for new and early-stage SaaS founders. Join and get training & supp...2020-09-0946 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship261: Qwilr: SaaS Freemium Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them – with Mark TannerMark Tanner is the co-founder and COO of Qwilr, a SaaS product that helps you create design-perfect proposals, quotes, client updates, and more.The Show Note Qwilr Dylan Baskind (Co-founder and CEO) Mark on Twitter Mark on LinkedIn Omer on Twitter Omer on LinkedIn Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS? Join SaaS Club Plus: our membership and community for new and early-stage SaaS founders. Join and get training...2020-09-0258 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship260: Taker: Lessons on Failure & Perseverance from a SaaS Founder – with Abdullah AlsaadiAbdullah Alsaadi is the co-founder and CEO of Taker.io, an online ordering platform and mobile app for restaurants.The Show Notes Taker Salesforce Abdullah on LinkedIn Abdullah on Twitter Omer on Twitter Omer on LinkedIn Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS? Join SaaS Club Plus: our membership and community for new and early-stage SaaS founders. Join and get training & support. Join SaaS Club Launch: a 12-week group...2020-08-2647 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship259: Bootstrapping a SaaS from Zero to $55K MRR in 2 Years - with Arvid KahlArvid Kahl is the founder and editor at The Bootstrapped Founder. He also co-founded FeedbackPanda, a SaaS productivity tool for online teachers.The Show Notes The Bootstrapped Founder FeedbackPanda Zero to Sold: How to Start, Run, and Sell a Bootstrapped Business Danielle Simpson on Twitter (Co-Founder) Arvid on Twitter Arvid on LinkedIn Omer on Twitter Omer on LinkedIn Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS? Join SaaS Club Plus...2020-08-1758 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship258: Salesflare: Finding Your Niche in a Crowded SaaS Market - with Jeroen CorthoutJeroen Corthout is the co-founder of Salesflare, a simple but powerful CRM that automates updating your data so you don't have to.The Show Notes Salesflare Jeroen on Twitter Jeroen on LinkedIn Omer on Twitter Omer on LinkedIn Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS? Join SaaS Club Plus: our membership and community for new and early-stage SaaS founders. Join and get training & support. Join SaaS Club Launch: a 12...2020-08-1049 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship257: RevenueCat: Overcoming Self-Doubts as a First Time SaaS Founder - with Jacob EitingJacob Eiting is the founder and CEO of RevenueCat, a SaaS platform that helps mobile apps to power in-app subscriptions.The Show Notes RevenueCat Miguel Carranza Guisado (CTO and Co-Founder) Jacob on Twitter Jacob on LinkedIn Omer on Twitter Omer on LinkedIn Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS? Join SaaS Club Plus: our membership and community for new and early-stage SaaS founders. Join and get training & support. Join...2020-08-0252 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship256: SaaStock: Global Events for SaaS Founders, Executives & Investors - with Alex TheumaAlex Theuma is the founder of SaaStock, global conferences that bring together SaaS founders, executives, and investors.The Show Notes SaaStock SaaStock Remote The SaaS Revolution Show Alex on Twitter Alex on LinkedIn Omer on Twitter Omer on LinkedIn Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS? Join SaaS Club Plus: our membership and community for new and early-stage SaaS founders. Join and get training & support. Join SaaS Club Launch...2020-07-291h 00

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship255: Trackier: How 3 Guys in India Bootstrapped a $2M SaaS Startup - with Udit VermaUdit Verma is the co-founder, and CMO of Trackier, a SaaS performance marketing, and affiliate marketing platform.The Show Notes Trackier CloudStuff OffersOptimize Udit on Twitter Udit on LinkedIn Omer on Twitter Omer on LinkedIn Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS? Join SaaS Club Plus: our membership and community for new and early-stage SaaS founders. Join and get training & support. Join SaaS Club Launch: a 12-week group coaching...2020-07-191h 00

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship254: Hull: A SaaS Startup That Went from Failure to Successful Pivot - with Romain DardourRomain Dardour is the co-founder and CEO of Hull, a SaaS product that collects, unifies, and enriches your product, marketing, and sales data and synchronizes it to all of your tools.The Show Notes Hull Stefane Koenig (Co-Founder) Stephane Bellity (Co-Founder) Guillaume Cabane Romain on Twitter Romain on LinkedIn Omer on Twitter Omer on LinkedIn Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS? Join SaaS Club Plus: our membership and...2020-07-1654 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship251: A Guide To Product Led Growth For SaaS Founders - With Wes BushWes Bush is the founder of Product Led Institute and author of the book Product Led Growth: How to Build a Product That Sells Itself'. Product-Led Growth (PLG) is a term coined by the VC firm Openview Venture Partners and is a growth model that relies on the product as the main vehicle to acquire, activate, and retain customers.The Show Notes Product-Led Institute Product-Led Growth book The Jobs-to-be-Done Growth Strategy Matrix by Tony Ulwick Kyle Poyar of OpenView interview Blue Ocean Strategy book Wes on LinkedIn Wes on Twitter Omer on LinkedIn ...2020-05-2756 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship203: SaaS Founder: From Client Work to a $20 Million SaaS Business - with Omer ArtunOmer Artun is the founder and CEO of Agilone, a predictive marketing platform for business to consumer brands. AgilOne allows marketers to understand and predict customer behavior to deliver automated, personalized experiences across all customer touch points, online and offline. What do you do if you spot a market opportunity for a SaaS product, but you don't have the money or resources to build the product? Well that's the situation that Omer Artun found himself in. He was working as a consultant and seeing the same recurring issues with his clients. ...2019-03-0549 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship203: SaaS Founder: From Client Work To A $20 Million SaaS Business - With Omer ArtunOmer Artun is the founder and CEO of Agilone, a predictive marketing platform for business to consumer brands. AgilOne allows marketers to understand and predict customer behavior to deliver automated, personalized experiences across all customer touchpoints, online and offline.The Show Notes AgilOne Omer Artun on Twitter Omer on Twitter Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS? Join SaaS Club Plus: our membership and community for new and early-stage...2019-03-0451 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship129: 7 Mental Hacks to Help You Stop Feeling Overwhelmed - with Omer KhanDo you ever feel like there's not enough time in the day to get everything done? Do you start feeling overwhelmed as soon you think about everything on your plate? If you're an entrepreneur, you probably know this feeling well. You're running on all cylinders trying to build your business. You have a long to-do list that seems to grow longer every day. You just don't have enough hours in the day. Which makes you start to feel seriously overwhelmed. Feeling overwhelmed can result in negative emotions such as anxiety, worry or irritability. And it can...2016-11-0426 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship129: 7 Mental Hacks To Help You Stop Feeling Overwhelmed - With Omer KhanDo you ever feel like there's not enough time in the day to get everything done? Do you start feeling overwhelmed as soon as you think about everything on your plate? If you're an entrepreneur, you probably know this feeling well. You're running on all cylinders trying to build your business. You have a long to-do list that seems to grow longer every day. You just don't have enough hours in the day. Which makes you start to feel seriously overwhelmed.The Show Notes Learn Diaphragmatic Breathing [Video] 'Throw Negative Thoughts Away...2016-11-0328 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship112 A Step-by-Step Guide To Generating Business Leads On LinkedIn - With Jerrod BaileyJerrod Bailey is a Partner and VP of Business Development at Tallwave, an Arizona-based business design and innovation agency focused on helping companies build great products and take them to market successfully.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Tallwave LinkedIn Prospectify Yesware SalesLoft Reply Outreach Aweber Infusionsoft Salesforce Socedo Jerrod Bailey - @jerrodbailey | LinkedIn Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS? Join SaaS Club Plus: our membership and community for new and early-stage...2016-05-051h 07

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship103 Surprising Lessons From A 24-Year Old Startup CEO - With B Byrne Of ClefB Byrne is the co-founder and CEO of Clef, a service that provides secure two-factor authentication without passwords or tokens. You just hold up your phone in front of any computer in the world and Clef will instantly log you in. The company is based in Oakland, California. It was founded in 2013 and to date has raised over $2M in funding.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Clef Work at Clef B Byrne - @iamb Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and...2016-01-2149 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship102 How A $400 Startup Got Sold For $43 Million - With Stuart CraneStuart Crane is an entrepreneur and advisor. His previous company, Definitive Homecare Solutions, provided a software product for the home infusion pharmacy industry called CPR+.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Definitive Homecare Solutions CPR+ Stuart Crane - @sdcrane | stuart [at] stuartcrane [dot] com Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS? Join SaaS Club Plus: our membership and community for new and early-stage SaaS founders. Join and...2016-01-131h 03

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship101 How We Bootrapped Our SaaS Business From Zero To 8-Figures - With Aaron Fulkerson, MindTouchAaron Fulkerson is the co-founder and CEO of MindTouch, a social knowledge base product that powers help centers to improve customer engagement and success.Links, Resources & People Mentioned MindTouch Whirlpool Remington Docker Zenefits Steve Bjorg - @bjorg Aaron Fulkerson - @Roebot Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS? Join SaaS Club Plus: our membership and community for new and early-stage SaaS founders. Join and get...2016-01-0653 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship099 How To Get PR For Your Startup In 5 Simple Steps - With Conrad EgusaConrad Egusa is the founder and CEO of Publicize, a startup that's aiming to change the way companies approach PR. As opposed to PR companies that charge $10,000 a month, Publicize provides a month-to-month solution starting from $399 a month.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Publicize TechCrunch PRWeb Yahoo Finance VentureBeat The Next Web Time Magazine Forbes Inc Conrad Egusa - @ConradEgusa | conrad [at] publicize [dot] com Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter ...2015-10-1444 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship098 How A Failing 2-Year Old Startup Achieved Product-Market Fit In 1 Week - With Tom LeungTom Leung is the co-founder and CEO of Anthology, a Seattle-based startup that was formerly known as Poachable. Anthology enables employed tech professionals to explore new career opportunities anonymously.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Anthology - @Anthology Anthology Career Stories (Podcast) Yabbly Quora GeekWire Optimizely Pete Koomen - @koomen Tom Leung - @toml Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS? Join SaaS Club Plus: our membership...2015-10-0753 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship097 Meet The Startup Founder Building A Marketplace For Algorithms - With Diego OppenheimerDiego Oppenheimer is the co-founder and CEO of Algorithmia, a Seattle-based startup that created an online marketplace that connects academics building powerful algorithms with app developers who can put them to use. The company was founded in 2013 and to date has raised almost $2.5 million in funding.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Algorithmia - @algorithmia Kenny Daniel - @platypii AngelList Diego Oppenheimer - @doppenhe | diego [at] algorithmia [dot] com Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter 2015-09-3046 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship096 How George Palmer Bootstrapped His Profitable Startup With Just $50 - With George PalmerGeorge Palmer is the founder of SendOwl, a platform that makes it easy to sell digital products online. He founded the company as a side-project in 2011 while he was still working as a Ruby on Rails freelancer. And within 2 years was able to start working on it full-time. He spent less than $50 to start the business and has bootstrapped it from day one. Today SendOwl has 4 full-time employees and is profitable.Links, Resources & People Mentioned SendOwl SagePay Authorize.net Stripe George Palmer - @Georgio_1999 Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed...2015-09-2446 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship095 3 Surprisingly Simple Growth Hacks That Could Double Your Leads - With Vincent CassarVincent Cassar is the founder of Keeping.com, a Gmail extension that adds helpdesk functionality into any Gmail or Google Apps account. It allows you and your team to manage your customer support right from your mailbox instead of using an external helpdesk app.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Keeping The Growth Hacking Experiment Boomerang Aye Moah Steli Efti Close.io Quora Maria Dykstra Tredigital Vincent Cassar - @vincentcassar | vincent [at] keeping [dot] com Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and...2015-09-1659 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship094 How A Failed Startup Helped Mike Muhney Find A $47 Million Idea - With Mike MuhneyMike Muhney is the co-founder and CEO of VIPOrbit Software, a company focused on building great contact management products. Their flagship product, Vipor CRM is available on iOS & Mac platforms. The company was founded in 2010 and to date has raised over $4 million in funding.Links, Resources & People Mentioned VIPOrbit - @ViporCRM ACT! Contact Management Software MikeMuhney.com Michael Jordan John Romero Charles Barkley Siebel Systems VentureFund Mike Muhney - @MikeMuhney | mike [at] viporbit [dot] com Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a...2015-09-091h 13

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship093 How To Find A Starving Crowd Hungry For Your SaaS Product - With Robert CooreyRobert Coorey is an author, marketer and reality TV pilot host. He's the author of the book Feed a Starving Crowd which features more than 200 marketing strategies to help you find hungry customers.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Feed a Starving Crowd Infusionsoft Robert Coorey - @robertcoorey Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS? Join SaaS Club Plus: our membership and community for new and early-stage...2015-09-0356 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship092 How Nick Kellet Sold His Startup For Millions & Created A Board Game - With Nick KelletNick Kellet is the co-founder of Listly, a product that helps bloggers & publishers engage their audience with continuously evolving lists. According to Listly, 30% of all content on the web is built around lists. But these lists can quickly get stale and don't do much to engage the audience.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Listly - @Listly NickKellet AnswerSets - @AnswerSets GiftTrap - About GiftTRAP BuzzFeed Shyam Subramanyan - Co-Founder, Listly Slideshare Survey Monkey Nick Kellet - @NickKellet | LinkedIn Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast ...2015-08-2659 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship091 What You Need To Know About SEO In 2015 To Generate Leads - With Adam DickerAdam Dicker is a serial entrepreneur and former VP of GoDaddy. He's a prolific domainer with a portfolio of over 30,000 domains. He's sold many of them for 7 figures and one for 8 figures! He owns a number of online businesses, including DNForum, the most popular domain name forum on the internet, with over 500,000 members.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Digital Intelligence, Inc. DNForum AdamDicker.com iBobble.com DCG.com DNFCollege.com Niche Websites The Art of the Name Reputation Repair GoDaddy Traffic Travis SpyFu WordPress Youtube Adam Dicker - @adamdicker | me [at] adamdicker [dot] com...2015-08-1951 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship090 How A Night Sleeping On An Air Mattress Changed Benji Rogers Life - With Benji RogersBenji Rogers is the founder and president of PledgeMusic, an online music platform that allows artists to pre-sell, market, and distribute recordings, music videos, and concerts directly to their audience.Links, Resources & People Mentioned PledgeMusic Biography of Abraham Lincoln Limewire Kazaa Jayce Varden Malcolm Dunbar Rupert Selby Benji Rogers - @BenjiKRogers Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS? Join SaaS Club Plus: our membership and...2015-08-1250 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship089 7 Proven Strategies For Launching An Online Marketplace - With Aaron EpsteinAaron Epstein is the co-founder of Creative Market, an online platform that lets you sell and buy handcrafted, mouse-made design content such as fonts and graphics. He launched his first software product called Color Schemer when he was still in college and went on to grow that into a 6-figures a year business.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Creative Market COLOURlovers ColorSchemer Matt Mickiewicz Collis Ta'eed Gary Swart Aaron Epstein - @aaron_epstein Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review ...2015-08-0542 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship088 Part 1 - What Happens When You Stop Second Guessing & Trust Your Instincts - With Aaron EpsteinAaron Epstein is the co-founder of Creative Market, an online platform that lets you sell and buy handcrafted, mouse-made design content such as fonts and graphics. He launched his first software product called Color Schemer when he was still in college and went on to grow that into a 6-figures a year business.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Creative Market COLOURlovers ColorSchemer Pantone YCombinator Autodesk Aaron Epstein - @aaron_epstein Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on...2015-07-2937 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship087 Part 2 - How StatusPage Went From Zero To A Million Dollars In 18 Months - With Scott KleinScott Klein is the co-founder of StatusPage, a Y-Combinator backed startup that lets you create a hosted status page for your app or website. You can use the status page to display downtime notifications, performance metrics or any other information that your customers might need to know. StatusPage launched in 2013 and has raised about $250,000 to date.Links, Resources & People Mentioned StatusPage.io Steve Klein - @stevenklein Danny Olinsky - @dannyolinsky Y-Combinator AirBnb Dropbox Stripe Heroku Rand Fishkin Scott Klein - @scootklein | @statuspageio Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode?2015-07-2737 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship086 Part 1 - How StatusPage Went From Zero To A Million Dollars In 18 Months - With Scott KleinScott Klein is the co-founder of StatusPage, a Y-Combinator backed startup that lets you create a hosted status page for your app or website. You can use the status page to display downtime notifications, performance metrics or any other information that your customers might need to know. StatusPage launched in 2013 and has raised about $250,000 to date.Links, Resources & People Mentioned StatusPage.io Steve Klein - @stevenklein Danny Olinsky - @dannyolinsky Mark Zuckerberg Lean Startup Y-Combinator Scott Klein - @scootklein | @statuspageio Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe...2015-07-2232 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship085 Part 2 - How A Neglected Side Project Turned Into A Multi-Million Dollar Startup - With Amir SalihefendicAmir Salihefendic is the founder and CEO of Doist.io, the makers of Todoist, an online and mobile task management app. He started Todoist in 2007 when he was still a student with two programming jobs on the side. He needed a way to manage his own work and productivity but couldn't find the right tool. So he decided to build his own tool.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Doist.io Todoist Hacking and Gonzo Slack Rob Rawson - @RobertRawson Amir Salihefendic - @amix3k Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this...2015-07-2042 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship084 Part 1 - How A Neglected Side Project Turned Into A Multi-Million Dollar Startup - With Amir SalihefendicAmir Salihefendic is the founder and CEO of Doist.io, the makers of Todoist, an online and mobile task management app. He started Todoist in 2007 when he was still a student with two programming jobs on the side. He needed a way to manage his own work and productivity but couldn't find the right tool. So he decided to build his own tool.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Doist.io Todoist Hacking and Gonzo Plurk Dropbox Airbnb Amir Salihefendic - @amix3k Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? ...2015-07-1536 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship083 Part 2 - How To Use Content Marketing To Get SaaS Customers & Consulting ClientsMaria Dykstra is an entrepreneur, startup mentor & digital marketing strategist. After a 14 year career at Microsoft, she founded her own company, and in 3 years grew it from a 2 and person consulting firm to a digital agency with offices in 3 countries.Links, Resources & People Mentioned TreDigital Reddit Quora Buzz Sumo Amazon Infusionsoft Constant Contact Mailchimp Drip Rob Walling - @robwalling Active Campaign Flip Board Maria Dykstra - @TreDigital | LinkedIn Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter 2015-07-1340 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship082 Part 1 - How To Use Twitter To Get SaaS Customers & Consulting Clients - With Maria DykstraMaria Dykstra is an entrepreneur, startup mentor & digital marketing strategist. After a 14 year career at Microsoft, she founded her own company, and in 3 years grew it from a 2-person consulting firm to a digital agency with offices in 3 countries. She also runs the Seattle chapter of the Founder Institute, the world's largest startup accelerator program. And she's also on the board of Women in Wireless, a non-profit that empowers and develops female leaders in mobile and digital media.Links, Resources & People Mentioned TreDigital Hootsuite Twitter LinkedIn Twitter ABC: The Ultimate Beginner Guide Twitter...2015-07-0844 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship081 Lessons From A 24 Year Old Whos Built Several 7-Figure Online Businesses - With Syed BalkhiSyed Balkhi is an award-winning 24-year-old entrepreneur with several 7-figure online businesses. He was recognized as one of the top 100 entrepreneurs under the age of 30 by the United Nations. His businesses include WPBeginner, which is the largest free WordPress resource on the planet and OptinMonster a popular lead generation SaaS product that you see on so many sites around the web.Links, Resources & People Mentioned OptinMonster WPBeginner List25 Syed Balkhi Envato Tutsplus Infusionsoft Ontraport Matt Mickiewicz - @MattMickiewicz Syed Balkhi - @syedbalkhi Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode?2015-07-061h 02

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship080 How A British Couple Are On Track To Build A Million Dollar SaaS Business - With Bridget HarrisBridget Harris is the co-founder and CEO of YouCanBookMe, a SaaS product that helps you schedule meetings. The product was launched in 2011 and today serves tens of thousands of users and handles almost half a million bookings each month. Bridget started her career in the film and television industry. She then moved into politics where she ended being an advisor to the UK Deputy Prime Minister. And then in 2012, she took on the role of CEO at YouCanBookMe. The company is based in the UK and has been bootstrapped from day one.Links, Resources...2015-07-0149 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship079 How To Use Influence Marketing To Grow Your SaaS Business - With Dave SchneiderDave Schneider is the co-founder of Ninja Outreach, a SaaS prospecting & outreach tool which was created to streamline the process of connecting with influencers. Before founding Ninja Outreach, Dave ran a travel blog that did six figures a year. Today we're going to take everything that Dave's learned about influencer marketing and teach you how to apply it to your own business. You'll learn how you can find & work with influencers in your market and use those relationships to grow your brand and generate more leads and customers.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Ninja...2015-06-2946 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship078 How A Developer Created & Sold A $15,000 Training Course - With No Sales Pitch - With Douglas CalhounDouglas Calhoun is the co-founder of Hack Reactor, a San Francisco based startup whose vision is to create the CS degree for the 21st century. Hack Reactor runs 12-week intensive coding boot camps (which you can do in-person or online) designed to accelerate your software career. According to Hack Reactor, 99% of its graduates receive at least 1 full-time job offer within 3 months graduating and earn an average salary in the six figures.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Hack Reactor Survey Monkey Ruby on Rails Reddit Anthony Phillips Shawn Drost Marcus Phillips www.reddit.com/r...2015-06-2449 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship077 Part 2 - How A Guy In Canada Built 3 Multi-Million Dollar Businesses By 30 - With Andrew WilkinsonAndrew Wilkinson is the founder of MetaLab and Flow. Metalab is a design agency that Andrew founded when he was just 20 years old and has grown it into a business with over 60 employees. MetaLab is the design team behind Slack which is now valued at $2.8 billion. And Flow is a task management SaaS application for teams which is used by companies like Etsy, Tesla, Adobe, and TED.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Metalab Ballpark Flow Pixel Union OmniFocus Tumbler David Karp - @davidkarp Andrew Wilkinson - @awilkinson Omer Khan - @omerkhan 2015-06-2232 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship076 Part 1 - How Andrew Wilkinson Bootstrapped A Multi-Million Dollar Design Agency - With Andrew WilkinsonAndrew Wilkinson is the founder of MetaLab and Flow. Metalab is a design agency that Andrew founded when he was just 20 years old and has grown it into a business with over 60 employees. MetaLab is the design team behind Slack which is now valued at $2.8 billion and Flow is a task management SaaS application for teams that is used by companies like Etsy, Tesla, Adobe, and TED.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Metalab Flow Slack Coinbase Ballpark Pixel Union Shopify Andrew Wilkinson - @awilkinson Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this...2015-06-1729 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship075 How This Founder Sold His Company For Millions In Just 9 Months - With Grant MillerGrant Miller is the co-founder of Replicated, a service that solves the problem for companies who want to install & deploy a SaaS application inside their own firewall. Previously, he was the co-founder of Look IO, a mobile live-chat problem that was acquired by LivePerson after just 9 months.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Replicated Look.io - Acquired by Live Person SparkPeople GitHub Chris Downie Mark Kimball Dustin Rosen Sam Shank Robert LoCascio Mobile Commerce 500 Grant Miller - @GrantM Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast ...2015-06-1552 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship074 How App Store Frustration Helped Make Over $100,000 A Month - With Robi GangulyRobi Ganguly is the co-founder and CEO of Apptentive, a SaaS platform that provides tools for mobile app makers to engage with customers for positive ratings, feedback and customer research. Apptentive's customers include UrbanSpoon, Overstock, and RealNetworks. The company was founded in 2011 and to date has raised $6.5M in funding.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Apptentive Yahoo Apple Microsoft Webex Greystripe Nordstrom Sky Kelsey Andrew Wooster Mike Saffitz Robi Ganguly - @rganguly Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow...2015-06-1045 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship073 A Marketer Shares Ninja Tactics To Acquire Customers For Your Startup - With Rob RawsonRob Rawson is the co-founder and CEO of Time Doctor and Staff.com. Time Doctor is an app that helps you manage your time (and your team's time) more effectively. And Staff.com is a global recruitment platform that helps companies hire talented people from anywhere in the world and track their hours worked with Time Doctor. Rob originally trained as a Medical Doctor and worked in hospitals in Australia for 3 years.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Time Doctor Staff.com Quora Rob Rawson - @RobertRawson Omer Khan - @omerkhan ...2015-06-0826 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship072 How A Medical Doctor Quit His Job To Build A Million Dollar SaaS Business - With Rob RawsonRob Rawson is the co-founder and CEO of Time Doctor and Staff.com. Time Doctor is an app that helps you manage your time (and your teams time) more effectively. And Staff.com is a global recruitment platform that helps companies hire talented people from anywhere in the world and track their hours worked with Time Doctor. Rob originally trained as a Medical Doctor and worked in hospitals in Australia for 3 years.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Time Doctor Staff.com Rob Rawson - @RobertRawson Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed...2015-06-0333 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship071 The Automatic Customer Creating A Subscription Business In Any Industry - With John WarrillowJohn Warrillow is the founder of The Value Builder System, a company that helps business owners improve the value of their company. Prior to starting The Value Builder System, John started and exited four companies, including a market research business that was acquired in 2008. John is the author of the bestselling book Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You, which was recognized by both Fortune and Inc Magazine as one of the best business books of 2011.Links, Resources & People Mentioned The Value Builder System DanceStudioOwner.com ContractorSelling.com Netflix ...2015-06-0152 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship070 How To Find The Courage To Execute On Your Big Bold Plans - With Peter ShallardPeter Shallard is known as The Shrink for Entrepreneurs. He's a renowned business psychology expert and therapist gone, renegade. He works with all types of entrepreneurs around the world and helps them get measurable results. He's also the founder of CommitAction.com, a service that pairs accountability coaching with cutting edge digital productivity tracking tools.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Peter Shallard - The Shrink for Entrepreneurs CommitAction Blog Post - How to find the courage to execute on big bold plans Bill Gates Peter Thiel - Zero to One Tim Ferriss - Podcast ...2015-05-2733 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship069 How Peter Shallard Teaches Entrepreneurs The Psychology Of Success - With Peter ShallardPeter Shallard is known as The Shrink for Entrepreneurs. He is a renowned business psychology expert and therapist gone renegade. He works with all types of entrepreneurs around the world and helps them get measurable results. He is also the founder of CommitAction.com, a service that pairs accountability coaching with cutting edge digital productivity tracking tools.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Peter Shallard - The Shrink for Entrepreneurs CommitAction Peter Shallard - @PeterShallard Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and...2015-05-2537 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship068 How 2 Guys Learned To Code And Then Made $2M Teaching Others - With Ankur NagpalAnkur Nagpal is the co-founder and CEO of Fedora, a platform that enables anyone to easily create and sell online courses. The company was founded in 2013 and to date has raised $2M in funding. Prior to launching Fedora, Ankur launched a business while at college building social widgets between classes which generated over a $1M. Bloomberg Business called him a widget mogul.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Fedora Camtasia Ankur Nagpal - @ankurnagpal Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review ...2015-05-2040 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship067 How This Entrepreneur Built & Launched A Udemy Competitor In 3 Days - With Ankur NagpalAnkur Nagpal is the co-founder and CEO of Fedora, a platform that enables anyone to easily create and sell online courses. The company was founded in 2013 and to date has raised $2M in funding. Prior to launching Fedora, Ankur launched a business while at college building social widgets between classes which generated over a $1M. Bloomberg Business called him a widget mogul.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Fedora AngelList Ankur Nagpal - @ankurnagpal Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review ...2015-05-1833 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship066 How A Blog Post Led To Zapposs CEO Investing In This Startup - With Walter ChenWalter Chen is the co-founder and CEO of IDoneThis, an email-based productivity tool that allows people to track their productivity with a daily email reminder. You reply to an evening email reminder with what you did that day. The next day, you get a digest with what everyone on the team got done. The company was founded in 2011 and its investors include folks such as the CEOs of Zappos, Shopify & Wistia. Walter is a software engineer and former big law firm lawyer.Links, Resources & People Mentioned iDoneThis - @idonethis Zappos Wistia "How To...2015-05-1434 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship065 How A Frustrated Lawyer Quit His Job & Launched A Successful SaaS Startup - With Walter ChenWalter Chen is the co-founder and CEO of IDoneThis, an email-based productivity tool that allows people to track their productivity with a daily email reminder. You reply to an evening email reminder with what you did that day. The next day, you get a digest with what everyone on the team got done.Links, Resources & People Mentioned iDoneThis - @idonethis Zappos Hacker News AngelPad Tony Hsieh - @tonyhsieh Rodrigo Guzman - @rodguze Will Young - @whatupwilly Walter Chen - @smalter Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe...2015-05-1135 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship064 How YC-Backed Startup Booktrope Is Reinventing Book Publishing - With Katherine SearsKatherine Sears is the co-founder and chief marketing officer of Booktrope, a web platform that allows authors, editors, marketers and designers to form a team and work together to create and market a new book. The company is based in Seattle and was founded in 2011.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Booktrope Worklife Wattpad Tess Thompson - @TessWrites Ken Shear - Publisher & CEO, Booktrope Andy Roberts - CTO, Booktrope Katherine Sears - @ksearsbooks | ksears [at] booktrope [dot] com Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave...2015-05-0646 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship063 How A Startup Got Customers To Pay $6000 Each Before Launch - With Ruben TimmermanRuben Timmerman is the founder and CEO of Springest, a comparison website that helps you find the right training program or course. Ruben launched the business as a side project in 2008. Today the site has a presence in 4 countries and helps you compare over 160,000 programs and courses. The company is based in the Netherlands.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Springest - @Springest Holacracy Energized.org Asana Getting Thing Done (GTD) Zappos Medium Marco Bogers Productive transparency with GTD, Holacracy and Asana — a guide through my setup Ruben Timmerman - @rubzie Omer Khan - @omerkhan ...2015-05-0456 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship062 Startup Master Class How To Validate Your Business Idea With Confidence - With Trevor OwensTrevor Owens is an author and entrepreneur. He's the co-founder and CEO of Javelin.com - the makers of QuickMVP and Lean Startup Machine. QuickMVP is a service that lets you quickly and easily test business ideas. And the Lean Startup Machine is a workshop that teaches you how to build something customers want and run the right experiments to steer your business in the right direction. Trevor is also the author of the book, The Lean Enterprise, which details how corporations can apply more innovation and Lean Startup to launching new products.Links...2015-04-2945 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship061 How A Startup Turned The Lean Methodology Into A 7-Figure Business - With Trevor OwensTrevor Owens is an author and entrepreneur. He's the co-founder and CEO of Javelin.com - the makers of QuickMVP and Lean Startup Machine. QuickMVP is a service that lets you quickly and easily test business ideas. And the Lean Startup Machine is a workshop that teaches you how to build something customers want and run the right experiments to steer your business in the right direction. Trevor is also the author of the book, The Lean Enterprise, which details how corporations can apply more innovation and Lean Startup to launching new products.Links...2015-04-2736 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship060 How Adeo Ressi Helped Launch Over 1500 Startups & Could Help You Too - With Adeo RessiReady to launch your startup? What if there was a proven training program that could give you all the skills and knowledge you needed? What if you could take this training over a few months without even quitting your job? Today's guest founded an organization that has helped to launch 1563 startups so far and if you get through their training program, you have an 87.5% chance of your startup surviving.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Founder Institute Asana Adeo Ressi - @adeoressi Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe...2015-04-2337 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship059 How An Entrepreneur Turned Rejection Into A Multi-Million Dollar BusinessDavid Ciccarelli is the co-founder and CEO of Voices.com, an online marketplace that connects business people with professional voice over talent. The company was founded in 2005 and its customers range from small businesses to Fortune 500 including NBC, Comcast and Cisco. David bootstrapped the company and grew it from nothing into a multi-million dollar.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Voices.com - @voices Google Adwords Salesforce AppExchange Stephanie Ciccarelli - @StephCiccarelli David Ciccarelli - @davidciccarelli | david [at] voices [dot] com Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to...2015-04-2052 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship058 How A Bootstrapped Startup Made Content Marketing Work After Months Of Failure - With Josh HaynamToday's episode is part 2 of the interview with Josh Haynam of Interact - a SaaS product that makes it easier to create shareable quizzes for your website. In this episode, we're going to get tactical and learn how they used content marketing to do that. We'll talk about the 30 or 40 posts that Josh wrote which didn't even generate ONE free user of their product. And we'll talk about the one blog post that he wrote which suddenly started generating paying customers.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Interact - @tryinteract iDoneThis - @idonethis CopyBlogger...2015-04-1535 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship053 How A Startup Grew Its Blog From 9K To 500K Monthly Unique Visitors - With Joshua ParkinsonJoshua Parkinson is the Founder & CEO of PostPlanner, a Facebook tool that makes it easy for people to find and post amazing content to increase their social media engagement. Joshua founded the company in 2011 and to date Post Planner has over 25,000 monthly active users.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Post Planner - @postplanner Nir and Far Jira Fate Hacker Scott Ayres - @scottayres Joshua Parkinson - @Yessayer | Facebook Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter 2015-03-3048 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship051 7 Lessons I Learned By Interviewing 45 Amazing EntrepreneursToday's episode is a little different. I don't have a guest. It's just me. And you! Earlier this week, I published episode 50. I can't believe there are already 50 episodes of this show. So I thought this would be a good time to look back at the last 6 months, reflect on the awesome conversations I've had with so many amazing guests and share some of my own personal insights and lessons with you.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Brian Gardner - StudioPress Adam Schoenfeld - Simply Measured Patrick McKenzie - Appointment Reminder Peldi Guilizzoni...2015-03-2324 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship050 How To Build A Business When Everyone Says Your Idea Is Impossible - With Chris BartonChris Barton is the co-founder of Shazam, a mobile music recognition service which started out as idea that Chris had in 1999. Today, Shazam has over 100 million active users each month. In 2004, Chris joined Google and currently he's working at Dropbox, where he's responsible for business development for mobile operators. He also continues to serve the Shazam Entertainment board.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Shazam - @Shazam AngelList Audible Things Chris Barton - @bartonsurfer Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review ...2015-03-1736 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship049 How To Generate $30,000 A Month In Revenue From Content Marketing - With Josh PigfordJosh Pigford is the founder of Baremetrics, a product that provides SaaS analytics for Stripe. Josh founded the company in Oct 2013 when he built and launched the first version of the product in just 8 days and within 8 weeks he was already doing about $2000 in monthly recurring revenue. In this episode, we get tactical and learn how Josh uses content marketing as the primary channel for acquiring new customers.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Baremetrics - @Baremetrics Stripe - @stripe Ulysses - @ulyssesapp Buffer - @buffer Josh Pigford - @Shpigford | josh [at] baremetrics [dot] com ...2015-03-1129 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship048 How To Take Your Business From $0 To $30,000 A Month In Recurring Revenue - With Josh PigfordJosh Pigford is the founder of Baremetrics, a product that provides SaaS analytics for Stripe. Josh founded the company in Oct 2013 when he built and launched the first version of the product in just 8 days and within 8 weeks he was already doing about $2000 in monthly recurring revenue. In this episode, we explore how Josh took his business from $0 to $30,000 per month in recurring revenue.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Baremetrics - @Baremetrics Stripe - @stripe Josh Pigford - @Shpigford | josh [at] baremetrics [dot] com Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this...2015-03-0931 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship047 How To Bootstrap A Million Dollar SaaS Business Without Selling - With Guillermo SanchezGuillermo Sanchez is the co-founder and CEO of Publitas.com, the easiest way to turn your print catalogs and magazines into interactive, shoppable publications on all devices. Guillermo has bootstrapped the business since it was founded in 2006 and currently, Publitias.com has over 600 customers including many leading retail companies.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Publitas Khalil Seyedmehdi - @kseyedmehdi (Co-Founder, Publitas) Asana - @asana Guillermo Sanchez - @Guillermo_FS Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter 2015-03-0448 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship045 How Rob Walling Grew Drip Revenue By Over 300% In 6 Months - With Rob WallingRob Walling is the founder of the email marketing tool Drip and the owner of the SEO keyword tool HitTail. He's also the author of the book "Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup". And his blog "Software by Rob" is a top 20 startup blog and is read by about 20,000 web entrepreneurs each month. When Rob launched Drip, he was doing $7K in monthly recurring revenue. But he quickly realized that his revenue had already flat-lined and that he had a high customer churn problem. In this episode, we talk about the 'semi-pivot' that Rob...2015-02-2539 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship044 How To Quit Your Job, Build A SaaS Product & Raise A Family In Japan - With Patrick McKenziePatrick McKenzie is the founder of Kalzumeus Software. He's best known for two software products - Bingo Card Creator and Appointment Reminder, both which he has bootstrapped. Patrick's also a well-known blogger who has been very transparent and open about his experience bootstrapping a software business. Patrick currently lives in Tokyo with his wife and newborn daughter.Links, Resources & People Mentioned Kalzumeus Software Bingo Card Creator Appointment Reminder Visual Website Optimizer Wingify - @wingify Paras Chopra - @paraschopra Trello - @trello Patrick McKenzie - @patio11 | patrick [at] kalzumeus [dot] com Omer Khan...2015-02-2355 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship043 How 2 Guys In Ireland Bootstrapped A $14 Million Saas Business - With Peter CoppingerPeter Coppinger is the Co-Founder & CEO of Teamwork, an online collaboration tool that allows teams to work together more efficiently. Peter and his co-founder Daniel Mackey founded the Irish based company in 2007. Peter and Daniel have bootstrapped the company and to date, Teamwork has almost 1.5 million users and $14M in annual revenue.Links & Resources Mentioned Teamwork Peter Coppinger - @irlTopper | peter [at] teamwork [dot] com Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter 2015-02-1837 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship042 How A Startups Using Open Source To Make Its First Million Dollars - With Maciej ZawadzinskiMaciej Zawadzinski is the co-Founder & CEO of Piwik Pro, the business arm of Piwik.org. Piwik is an open-source alternative to Google Analytics, which puts users in control of their data, never shares data with other servers and never sells data for ad targeting. Piwik Pro focuses on providing Piwik cloud hosting and extra paid services for enterprise-level customers.Links & Resources Mentioned Piwik Pro Maciej Zawadzinski - @zawadzinski | m [at] piwik [dot] pro Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and...2015-02-1547 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship041 5 Mistakes Startups Make With SEM & How You Can Avoid Them - With Kevin LeeKevin Lee is the founder & CEO of We-Care.com, a service that allows online shoppers to donate a percentage of their online shopping (at no cost to them) to a non-profit, school or association. It has partnered with over 2,5000 merchants from Travelocity to Sears, 1800Flowers and Apple. To date, We Care has raised over $7.8M. Kevin is also the co-founder & CEO of Didit, an award-winning full-service online advertising and marketing services agency that has been in business for almost 20 years.Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow...2015-02-1124 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship040 How A Startup Helped Consumers Raise $7.8 Million For Their Cause - With Kevin LeeKevin Lee is the founder & CEO of We-Care.com, a service that allows online shoppers to donate a percentage of their online shopping (at no cost to them) to a non-profit, school or association. It has partnered with over 2,5000 merchants from Travelocity to Sears, 1800Flowers and Apple. To date We Care has raised over $7.8M. Kevin is also the co-founder & CEO of Didit, an award-winning full-service online advertising and marketing services agency that has been in business for almost 20 years.Links & Resources Mentioned We Care Didit Kevin Lee - @Kevin_Lee_QED | LinkedIn ...2015-02-0833 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship039 How A Designer Bootstrapped An 8-Figure Marketplace - With Collis TaeedCollis Ta'eed is the Co-Founder & CEO of Envato, a network of sites used by millions of people for their creative projects. The network comprises Envato Market, Envato Studio & Tuts+. Envato was founded by Collis, his wife and best friend in 2006. The company is based in Melbourne, Australia and has been bootstrapped since day one.Links & Resources Mentioned Envato Envato Studio Collis Ta'eed - @collis | collis [at] envato [dot] com Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on...2015-02-0451 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship038 Rand Fishkin Inbound Marketing Lessons For Startups - With Rand FishkinRand Fishkin is the Co-Founder of Moz, a Seattle-based SaaS company that sells inbound marketing & marketing analytics software. The company was founded in 2004 as a consulting firm and shifted to software development in 2008. The Moz website has an online community of more than one million digital marketers. To date, the company has raised just under $20M in funding.Links & Resources Mentioned Moz Rand Fishkin Personal Blog Wait But Why Whiteboard Friday: How to Provide Unique Value in Your Content Rand Fishkin - @randfish | rand [at] moz [dot] com Omer Khan - @omerkhan 2015-02-0128 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship037 How Rand Fishkin Built An 8-Figure SaaS Business - With Rand FishkinRand Fishkin is the Co-Founder of Moz, a Seattle-based SaaS company that sells inbound marketing & marketing analytics software. The company was founded in 2004 as a consulting firm and shifted to software development in 2008. The Moz website has an online community of more than one million digital marketers. To date, the company has raised just under $20M in funding.Links & Resources Mentioned Moz Rand Fishkin Personal Blog Rand Fishkin - @randfish | rand [at] moz [dot] com Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a...2015-01-2834 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship036 How To Launch A 6-Figure Startup In 7 Days - With Dan NorrisDan Norris is co-founder of WP Curve, one of the world's fastest-growing WordPress support companies. He's an entrepreneur with an obsession for content marketing and was voted Australia's top small business blogger by 'Smarter Business Ideas', Australia's largest business magazine. He's also the author of 'The 7 Day Startup: You Don't Learn Until You Launch'.Links & Resources Mentioned WP Curve dannorris.me 7 Day Startup (Facebook Group) Dan Norris - @thedannorris | dannorris [at] wpcurve [dot] com Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating...2015-01-2541 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship035 How This Startup Pivoted Its Way To A 7-Figure Business - With Ryan HamlinRyan Hamlin is the Founder & CEO of PlaceFull, an online marketplace that allows merchants to offer real-time booking of their spaces, services, camps & classes. PlaceFull was founded in 2011 by Ryan and his co-founder George Webb. To date, the company has raised over $2.5M in funding.Links & Resources Mentioned PlaceFull Ryan Hamlin - ryan [at] placefull [dot] com Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS? Join...2015-01-2133 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship034 How To Get Startup Traction & Acquire More Customers - With Gabriel WeinbergGabriel Weinberg is the Founder & CEO of DuckDuckGo, the search engine that doesn't track you, with over a billion searches in 2013. He is also an angel investor and co-author of Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers. Gabriel has been featured on CBS, FOX, the Guardian, the Washington Post and many more.Links & Resources Mentioned DuckDuckGo Traction Gabriel Weinberg - @yegg Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with...2015-01-1833 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship033 How DuckDuckGo Is Making Search Better Than Google - With Gabriel WeinbergGabriel Weinberg is the Founder & CEO of DuckDuckGo, the search engine that doesn't track you, with over a billion searches in 2013. He is also an angel investor and co-author of Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers. Gabriel has been featured on CBS, FOX, the Guardian, the Washington Post and many more.Links & Resources Mentioned DuckDuckGo Traction Gabriel Weinberg - @yegg Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with...2015-01-1434 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship032 How A Simple Idea Turned Into A Product Loved By Millions Of Users - With Michael PryorMichael Pryor is the CEO of Trello, a free app that makes working on group projects as easy as using sticky notes on a whiteboard. He is also the co-founder and President of Fog Creek Software, the makers of products such as FogBugz and Kiln. To date, Trello has raised over $10M in funding and is used by millions of people and companies of all kinds and sizes including Google, Adobe and The New York Times.Links & Resources Mentioned Trello Fog Creek Michael Pryor - @michaelpryor | michael [at] trello [dot] com Omer Khan...2015-01-1147 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship031 How This Non-Technical Founder Launched Two Successful SaaS Startups - With Hiten ShahHiten Shah is the co-founder and president of analytics companies KISSmetrics & Crazy Egg. He founded KISSmetrics with Neil Patel in 2008. The company has raised over $10M in funding and is used by thousands of companies around the world. Hiten is also an advisor and investor who's actively involved in the software industry.Links & Resources Mentioned KISSmetrics Crazy Egg SaaS Weekly Hiten Shah - @hnshah | hnshah [at] gmail [dot] com Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on...2015-01-0758 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship030 How A Gmail Plugin Built A Profitable 7-Figure SaaS Business - With Aye MoahAye Moah is the co-founder and chief of product of Baydin, the maker of email productivity tools such as Boomerang for Gmail, a plugin which lets you schedule emails to send later, get email reminders and track the emails that you send. Baydin was founded in Jan 2010.Links & Resources Mentioned Baydin Boomerang Aye Moah - @ayemoah Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS? Join SaaS...2015-01-0444 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship029 Why Finding the Right Co-Founder is Critical to Startup Success - With Martin NovakMartin Novak is the co-founder of Visidom, a SaaS tool that records your website visitors interactions and creates custom heatmaps, so you can see exactly how people are interacting with your website.Links & Resources Mentioned Visidom Martin Novak - novak [at] visidom [dot] com | LinkedIn Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS? Join SaaS Club Plus: our membership and community for new and early-stage SaaS...2014-12-1850 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship028 How Project Management Uncertainty Helped Build A 7-Figure SaaS Business - With Liz PearceLiz Pearce is the CEO of Seattle-based LiquidPlanner, the industry's only priority-based, predictive online project management solution. LiquidPlanner was founded in 2006 and although Liz isn't a founder, she joined the company before the product launched and so has been involved since the very early days. To date, Liquid Planner has raised over $11 million in funding.Links & Resources Mentioned LiquidPlanner Liz Pearce - @lizprc | lizprc.com Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter 2014-12-1437 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship027 Why Stu McLaren Quit His Successful 7-Figure Software Business - With Stu McLarenStu McLaren is the founder of Wishlist Member, a powerful and easy to use a plugin that can turn any WordPress site into a full-blown membership site. Wishlist Member powers over 54,000 online communities and membership sites worldwide. Stu is also the founder of Rhino Support, a helpdesk SaaS application.Links & Resources Mentioned Wishlist Member Rhino Support Stu.me Stu McLaren - @StuMcLaren Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help...2014-12-1031 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship026 How To Build A 7-Figure Software Business From A WordPress Plugin - With Stu McLarenStu McLaren is the founder of Wishlist Member, a powerful and easy to use a plugin that can turn any WordPress site into a full-blown membership site. Wishlist Member powers over 54,000 online communities and membership sites worldwide. Stu is also the founder of Rhino Support, a helpdesk SaaS application.Links & Resources Mentioned Wishlist Member Rhino Support Stu.me Stu McLaren - @StuMcLaren Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help...2014-12-0742 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship025 How A Marketer Turned His Own Pain Into A 7- Figure SaaS Business - With Rick PerreaultRick Perreault is the co-founder and CEO of Unbounce, a software platform that enables marketers to create, publish and test landing pages. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.Links & Resources Mentioned Unbounce Rick Perrault - @rickperreault Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS? Join SaaS Club Plus: our membership and community for new and early-stage SaaS founders. Join and get...2014-12-0351 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship023 How An Online Marketer Built A 6-Figure Software Business - With Spencer HawsSpencer Haws is the founder of Longtail Pro, a keyword research software. Long Tail Pro allows you to generate hundreds or thousands of "long tail" keywords in minutes. Spencer launched Long Tail Pro in 2011 and successfully grew it into a 6-figure software business.Links & Resources Mentioned Long Tail Pro Niche Pursuits Spencer Haws - @nichepursuits Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS? Join SaaS Club...2014-11-2348 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship022 How A Design Agency Turned Itself Into A 7-Figure SaaS Business - With Jim BelosicJim Belosic is the founder and CEO of ShortStack, a tool that helps you build contents, sweepstakes and data collection forms that you can use on Facebook, mobile and the web to help you convert more of your online followers to leads and customers. Jim founded ShortStack in 2010 and has bootstrapped the company all the way.Links & Resources Mentioned ShortStack Jim Belosic - @shortstackjim Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter ...2014-11-1955 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship021 How An Idea To Improve Live Chat Built A Multi-Million Dollar Company - With Ben CongletonBen Congleton is the co-founder and CEO of Olark, a tool that brings hassle-free live chat to your website. Olark is a Y Combinator startup that was founded in 2009. Today, Olark has over 5000 customers in 151 countries and has grown into a multi-million dollar business.Links & Resources Mentioned Olark Ben Congleton - @jaminben or ben [at] olark [dot] com Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS? ...2014-11-1649 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship020 How To Build A $5 Million Dollar Software Business From A Spreadsheet - With Jesse MechamJesse is the founder of "You Need a Budget", a software product that helps you with your personal budgeting. Jesse is a former Certified Public Accountant (CPA) turned software entrepreneur. He founded YNAB in 2004 and has successfully grown it into a multi-million dollar business with tens of thousands of users from all over the world.Links & Resources Mentioned You Need a Budget You Need a Budget Podcast Jesse Mecham - @jessemecham or jesse [at] ynab [dot] com Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast ...2014-11-1241 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship019 How To Build Disruptive Multi-Million Dollar Marketplaces - With Matt MickiewiczMatt Mickiewicz is the co-founder and CEO of Hired, a two-sided marketplace that matches high-quality technology talent with the right job opportunities. Previously, Matt co-founded 99Designs, the #1 marketplace for crowdsourced graphic designs. He also co-founded Flippa.com, an online marketplace for buying and selling websites, domains and apps. And if that wasn't enough, Matt also co-founded SitePoint.com as a teenager and grew it into a profitable multi-million dollar company without any venture capital or outside funding. And in 2011, Forbes nominated Matt to the "30 under 30" list.Links & Resources Mentioned SitePoint 99 Designs Flippa Hired ...2014-11-0941 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship018 How A Non-Technical Founder Bootstrapped A 6-Figure SaaS Business - With Brecht PalomboBrecht Palombo is the founder of Distressed Pro, the home of BankProspector, a SaaS application that provides access to real-time updates for real-estate financials from some 14,000 banks and credit unions. He founded this business in 2009 and today has built a 6-figure business which he runs from on the road while traveling full-time with his wife and kids.Links & Resources Mentioned Distressed Pro Bootstrapped with Kids Brecht Palombo - @brechtify Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on...2014-11-0554 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship017 How To Scratch Your Own Itch And Build A 6-Figure SaaS Business - With Josh LedgardJosh Ledgard is the co-founder of Kickoff Labs, a lead generation platform which provides easy to setup landing pages, combined with lead capture forms and email marketing to help you grow your customers. Josh and his co-founder Scott, launched Kickoff Labs in 2011 and since then have helped their customers generate over 3 million leads.Links & Resources Mentioned Kickoff Labs Josh Ledgard - @joshledgard Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help...2014-11-0254 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship016 How Paras Chopra Bootstrapped An $8 Million SaaS Business - With Paras ChopraParas Chopra is the founder & CEO of Wingify, which makes Visual Website Optimizer, a market-leading A/B split testing tool. Paras launched and bootstrapped Visual Website Optimizer as a one-man software company in 2010 and within 2 years had over 1000 paying customers. Currently, Visual Website Optimizer is driving over $8M in annual revenue.Links & Resources Mentioned Wingify Visual Website Optimizer Paras Chopra - @paraschopra Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS?2014-10-2953 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship015 How A Failed Startup Helped Build An 8-Figure SaaS Business - With Adam SchoenfeldAdam Schoenfeld is the co-founder & CEO of Simply Measured, a leading social media analytics and measurement platform used by brands such as Samsung, Microsoft, American Express and Pepsi to name a few. Adam founded Simply Measured in 2010 along with his co-founders Aviel Ginzburg and Damon Cortesi. The company now has over 150 employees and to date has raised $29 million in venture capital funding.Links & Resources Mentioned Simply Measured Adam Schoenfeld - @schoeny Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow...2014-10-2748 min

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship014 How Wistia Turned Video Hosting Into A Profitable SaaS Business - With Chris SavageChris Savage is the co-founder and CEO of Wistia, an internet video hosting and analytics company that enables marketers to track and analyze web video viewers. Chris and his co-founder Brendan founded Wistia in 2006. In 2009 they were finalists in BusinessWeek's 25 Most Promising US entrepreneurs under the age of 25.Links & Resources Mentioned Wistia Chris Savage - @csavage Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS? Join SaaS...2014-10-2243 min