Jesse Mecham is a founder, CEO, and Bestselling author of You Need a Budget, which is not only an award winning software and proven budgeting tool but also an education company where they teach people a whole new way of thinking about their money so they make better financial decisions, get out of debt, and build the life they want. During this interview we cover: Why Your SaaS StartUp Need a Budget From Personal Finance Spreadsheets to One of The Best Budgeting Tools The 4 Budgeting Rules ( Per...
Jul 10, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 23
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 helping brick and mortar companies, digitalizes their operation and reinvents their business with the latest technologies, his personal goal...
Jul 08, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 22
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 companies such as Amazon, Microsoft, Airbnb, Google, and HP to help them grow through his amazing marketing skills. Among his many achievements, Neil has ...
Jul 02, 2020•27 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Ruben Gamez 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 9thSign, a small business specialized in web development and consulting, after that Ruben worked In Oasis Outsourcing as a Web development Manager, the largest privately-held PEO at the time, then Ruben decided to quit his job and founded Bidsketch w...
Jun 30, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Gary Swart is a tech and healthcare investor at Polaris Partners and a former executive with experience in general management of all size organizations, including leading sales, operations, staffing, and strategy. Up until April 2014, Gary was the CEO of oDesk (UpWork now), the world's largest online workplace. He guided the company to industry leadership and through a merger with eLance, while serving as a leading voice for the future of work and the emerging online work industry. Gary is passi...
Jun 25, 2020•55 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Peldi Guilizzoni is the Founder and CEO of Balsamiq, a fully bootstrapped ISV focused on prototyping UI/UX. After studying Computer Science in Italy he moved to San Francisco, where he worked for a couple of years. Through his experience at adobe systems as an Engineering lead, he discovered an opportunity to develop a tool that could make everyone more productive and help them do a better job, something he describes as a “no going back technology”. After a series of events that lead to quitting...
Jun 23, 2020•45 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Andy is an expert on Marketing, Business Strategy, Leadgen, SaaS, Digital Transformation, User Onboarding, and UX. He is a marketer, founder, speaker, and mentor with over 10 years of experience in SaaS, Digital Transformation, and Growth. Andy's focus is on the HX (Human Experience), making sure that companies invest resources in creating a great employee experience to support successful change management processes that lead to an enhanced customer experience Over the past years, Andy has been ...
Jun 18, 2020•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 17
Murali Satagopan is a strong marketer and storyteller who loves communication and solving problems in the web space. He founded a company, got funded, grew it big and then had an unsuccessful exit where he left with no money and lots of experience. He used that experience at Freshdesk to help grow their marketplace. Product GTM, Content Marketing, telling great stories and crafting creative marketing campaigns are some of his many strengths. He is currently Head of ISV Partnerships and Partner M...
Jun 16, 2020•45 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Praval is an expert at brand, product positioning & messaging, go-to-market strategy, demand generation, and content-led marketing initiatives. He is a serial entrepreneur and has co-founded several start-ups. He worked as a freelance content marketer for web publishers and blogs in Europe, South-east Asia, and India. Also, he was the Co-Founder of Dokito , an in-house social media analytics tool at Media Redefined ; a digital media agency in New Delhi he also Co-Founded. He worked as a Seni...
Jun 11, 2020•47 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Bree Brouwer is a specialist in the B2B SaaS and online video industries. She has created blog posts that landed on the #1 and #2 spots in Google search for their respective keywords, re-written home page copy which increased product downloads by more than 64.5% and written blog posts that generated $40K in extra revenue. Bree has a Bachelor’s degree in English Writing. Bree’s professional experience includes being a Staff Writer and Digital Media Journalist at Tubefilter, a Freelance Copywriter...
Jun 09, 2020•42 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Rytis Lauris ( @RytisLauris ) 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, seminars and training sessions. In 2009, he became the Founder and CEO of Soundest , which first started off as a digital marketing...
Jun 04, 2020•40 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Asia Orangio joins us for a 1-on-1 interview, where her focus is on working with early-stage startups and high-growth technology companies. She is an expert at helping SaaS companies define their go-to-market strategy, craft a data-driven approach to growth, implement marketing strategies and programs that help them win an audience in their market and to beat the "90% of startups fail" statistic. Asia is currently the CEO and Founder at DemandMaven, a company focused on helping startups either g...
Jun 02, 2020•43 min•Season 1Ep. 12
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. Prior to Tradogram, Hani was the manager at the Magdi Store Company , An importer and wholesaler of dry foods, and was also Partner and Managing Director at Madji Food Centre , where he was able to manage seve...
May 28, 2020•32 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Tom Hunt has experience at building several startups and SaaS businesses from scratch. After graduating from the Imperial College in London, he decided to build Virtual Valley, a marketplace connecting online entrepreneurs and virtual assistants from scratch whilst travelling the world. He then sold 90% of the businesses in 2017. He then joined Repairly as the COO, which was on demand mobile phone repair delivery service. He is now the Co-Founder of <a href="bcast.fm">BCast</a>, a po...
May 26, 2020•30 min•Season 1Ep. 10
In today’s episode, Dan Sallis joins us for a 1-on-1 interview on the SaaS District podcast. Dan is a Software Architect and Database Designer. He is an expert in Software Development, E-commerce, Enterprise Software and Strategic Planning. He is also a serial entrepreneur and Co-Founder and CEO of Cynch! (formerly OrderStorm), a global provider of the next generation of ERP. Cynch is a unified commerce platform that enables small to large enterprises to manage their sales and services both offl...
May 21, 2020•43 min•Season 1Ep. 9
In today’s episode, Thomas Petersen ( @Hello_World ) joins us for a 1-on-1 interview on the SaaS District podcast. Thomas is a serial entrepreneur and startup expert in Service & Product Design, Innovation, Branding, UI/UX and just generally building great innovative Start-Ups from scratch. He has worked with hundreds of different organizations spanning from early stage startups all the way to large Fortune 500 companies. Thomas also co-founded Hello Group in 2006 which was sold to NOA Group...
May 19, 2020•52 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Einar ( @einarvollset ) 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 diligence and strategic partnership development for tech & technology enabled services businesses. Einar was a professor of Computer Scienc...
May 14, 2020•32 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Mark (@MarkEGreen) is a Speaker, Author, Strategic Advisor and a Business & Leadership Growth Coach. He facilitates workshops with executive teams to help them stay on track, hit their goals and continue growing. He coaches CEOs and executive teams all over the world, where he’s worked with thousands of different business leaders, helping them unlock more of their potential and also teaching them how to do the same for their teams. Mark is also a Certified Behavioral Analyst, a Certified Val...
May 12, 2020•46 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Isaac (@ realzeeko ) has his LinkedIn Industry Top 1% SSI certification meaning. Meaning he is an all LinkedIn Expert. Including marketing, consulting, conversion optimization, and business strategy. He was the former COO at an online marketing agency, TEV Marketing, where they specialized in LinkedIn, Adwords, and SEO. Isaac is currently the CEO of Zeeko, a platform that uses LinkedIn to create real, meaningful relationships between clients and customers so that businesses can improve their ROI...
May 07, 2020•45 min•Season 1Ep. 5
In this episode, Mike Watts (@mike100w) joins us for a 1-on-1 interview on the SaaS District podcast. Mike is an experienced entrepreneur who has 6 startup companies under his belt including founding three consecutive multi-million dollar companies in the last 10 years. He has successful exits from three companies including one for over $6 million, and he had a business partnership with Shark Tank famous: Daymond John. He currently serves as Founder and CEO of LoveHandle , a fast-growing America...
May 07, 2020•46 min•Ep. 4
In today's episode, Emilia Chagas joins us for a 1-on-1 interview on the SaaS District podcast. Emilia is an expert in online marketing, enterprise content management, content strategy, growth hacking, and entrepreneurship. She started her career as a content manager at a marketing agency, managing multiple projects for enterprises and SMB’s. In 2015, Emilia founded ContenTools, a streamline content creation software. Ever since then, she has been a full-time serial entrepreneur. Last year, Cont...
May 07, 2020•49 min•Ep. 3
In this episode, Arvind Jha(@ jalajboy ) joins us for a 1-on-1 interview on the SaaS District podcast. Arvind is the director and co-founder at Pariksha Labs, a software consulting and development company working with global start-ups and SMEs. He’s the founder of Partee Hai, a lead generation platform & marketplace for party services, and the founder of a cloud video startup, Movico, India's leading video asset management company. Arvind has built and led large software R&D teams for ma...
May 07, 2020•38 min•Ep. 2
In this episode, Josh Patrick joins us for a 1-on-1 interview on the SaaS District podcast. His specialty is helping private business owners grow and create more value in their business. He has over twenty years of experience as an adviser to private businesses. For nineteen years (1976-1995) he owned a vending and food service company, where he managed to take it from 1.5 to 90 employees before successfully selling the business. During that time he admits to having made a lot of mistakes, but n...
May 07, 2020•46 min•Season 1Ep. 1
We're Live! Time to learn more about everything SaaS. In this episode, our host Akeel Jabber introduces himself and the new SaaS District Podcast. Akeel is a former petroleum engineer turned entrepreneur investor. He runs a micro private equity firm called HoriZen Capital focused specifically in SaaS businesses, where he is a general partner and investment director. Akeel started in the online business world five years ago building, selling, and building websites. He is a serial entrepreneur who...
May 07, 2020•3 min
