Syed Balkhi is a Multi-Founder, CEO & an award-winning entrepreneur, recognized as one of the top 100 entrepreneurs under the age of 30 by the United Nations. He’s also been featured on Inc., Forbes, Entrepreneur magazine, Fortune, Fast Company, FOX Business, and The Wall Street Journal. With over 15+ million websites using the software built by his companies to grow, he’s become a thought leader and expert in the WordPress industry. During this interview we cover: 00:00 Contentfy , Your On-...
Feb 13, 2021•34 min•Season 2Ep. 84
Alex San Filippo is the Founder at Podmatch.com , an A.I tool used to generate interviews by bringing in Podcast Guest and Hosts on the same platform. Alex is also the host of the Creating a Brand podcast A top 20 entrepreneurship podcast that releases weekly masterclass interviews. During this interview we cover: 00:00 Contentfy , Your On-Demand Content Team (Sponsor) 01:02 - Intro 02:06 - Alex’s Background, Past Ventures & Entrepreneurial Journey 04:36 - Leveraging Podcasting for SaaS Bran...
Feb 11, 2021•41 min•Season 2Ep. 83
Pierre-Alexandre Heurtebize is an expert in financial modelling, Business Plan modelling, Financial Due Diligence , Corporate finance, and Private Fquity investments. He holds an MBA from top tier Business School ESSEC (Paris / Cergy), formerly an investment associate in small caps private equity, he has over 4 years of experience in M&A financial due diligence at PwC, one of the big 4 on professional services for enterprises, he builds business plans and has advised several entrepreneurs in...
Feb 04, 2021•32 min•Season 2Ep. 82
Dom Einhorn is a serial entrepreneur, his expertise lies in assisting startup entrepreneurs as well as startup investors in selecting the right business model and/or the right startup(s) to invest in, he’s currently the founder & CEO of Uniqorn Incubator, the largest rural incubator-accelerator of its kind in the world. Located in southwestern France. Dom created the first online art auction back in March 1996, which was acquired by one of the largest auction sites in the world five months l...
Jan 31, 2021•42 min•Season 2Ep. 81
2020 was so far the year of the Software as a Service (SaaS industry because of a complex combination of factors including political changes that disrupted data processing agreements in the UK, the ongoing global pandemic that impacted every industry, but validated the cloud-service, value proposition and a record-breaking year for SaaS IPOs that derived in a fertile ground to make this last year a good one for the SaaS industry. With a new year on the “HoriZen”, in this episode, we’ll re-cap th...
Jan 29, 2021•32 min•Season 2Ep. 80
Ken Wells is the founder & CEO of SalesKey, a sales & marketing company helping B2B companies identify, attract and close their target clients. What they call a Done for you Lead Generation Service and a coaching program with SaaS founders. Ken has over 17 years of B2B Sales & Marketing experience which includes helping grow multiple Inc. 500 & 5000 companies, Ken’s a book reading machine, Italian food lover, casual basketball player, snowboarder & Powerlifter. During this in...
Jan 22, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 79
Nestor is an engineer & entrepreneur and founder of Mi Refacción, a high-tech startup focused on connecting the user with more than 200 brands and companies with their inventory. Prior to Mi Refacción he was involved in the aftermarket retailer industry for many years as a general manager, where he identified the clear problem in the market that was lacking in this industry. He has been awarded the E100 Mexico West Entrepreneurship (2012) and he has been involved in several international com...
Jan 20, 2021•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 78
Visit TK’s SaaS Go-To-Market Program now & accelerate growth to $3M ARR and beyond with an Unstoppable strategy. Hello everybody, this is your host Akeel Jabber and welcome back to another episode of SaaS District, on today's episode my good friend TK Kader invited me to his podcast "SaaS & Scotch" we’re I had the opportunity to talk about myself, my background, about Horizen Capital and about how I got into the SaaS Industry, so we hope you enjoy this episode, please check out TK’s Podc...
Jan 15, 2021•21 min•Season 1Ep. 77
Matt Wolach is a B2B SaaS sales coach, Founder, Investor, a specialist in software demos, and the creator of the perfect deal process that helps software leaders turn bad demos into conversion machines creating an experience that gets prospects emotional and ready to take action. During this interview we cover: 00:00 A word From The Sponsor 01:02 Intro 01:51 Matt’s Background, & Creating The Perfect D.E.A.L. Process 05:24 2 Successful Exits & Why to Launching Planning on Exiting 10:11 La...
Jan 13, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 76
Kate Bradley is the Co-Founder and CEO at Lately, an AI-powered social media marketing SaaS platform that helps marketers scale their publishing and reach. Lately’s artificial intelligence uses your historical social media data to learn what works with your audience and what to post next. During this interview we cover: 00:00 A word From The Sponsor 01:02 Intro 01:50 Kate’s Background, XM Radio & Launching Her Own Startup 08:03 What Were the Initial Costs of Launching & How Does It Work ...
Jan 08, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 75
Ton Dobbe is an author, podcast host, speaker & founder of value inspiration, a growth consultancy focused tech-entrepreneurs where they help B2B software CEO’s grow their businesses. Ton believes that the future belongs to software businesses that create products worth making a remark about. Ton is also the founder of the Tech-entrepreneur-on-a-mission tribe, a community focused on delivering the vision behind your software company with more impact and accelerating growth trajectory. He’s a...
Jan 06, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 74
Get a FREE copy of the Sales International Best Selling Book Win-Win Selling at: https://www.winwinsellingbook.com/ Doug Brown is the CEO of Business Success Factors, where they help Business Owners and CEOs to increase revenue and acquire large accounts using systems that have positively increased sales up to 862%. Doug started working in his family's business at the age of 3 yo and, since then he has built over 35 companies After military service, Doug worked at and became the top-selling sale...
Jan 01, 2021•57 min•Season 1Ep. 73
Jöi Sigurdsson is the founder & CEO of CrankWheel, a bootstrapped B2B SaaS company that provides a screen sharing solution tailor-made for sales teams. In the past, Jöi spent 23 years in the software industry from which he spent 10 at Google and the rest working on various startups. Jöi loves to write about entrepreneurship, technology, management, and whatever comes to mind on his personal blog joisig.com & also writes on the CrankWheel blog mostly about sales best practices. Jöi’s a bo...
Dec 29, 2020•48 min•Season 1Ep. 72
Rossel is now the Co-founder and CEO at video gift startup VidDay , a group gift video solution where they bring in over 1 million video uploads from over 150 countries into their platform. Rossel formerly helped scale SkipTheDishes, a seamless online food delivery and pickup app, from a small start-up to a team of over 2500 employees. Russel thrives off of solving complex challenges and finds passion and excitement in the sometimes chaotic environment of building and growing a Start-Up. During ...
Dec 24, 2020•29 min•Season 1Ep. 71
Immad Akhund is the co-founder and CEO of Mercury, a bank for startups, engineered in Silicon Valley and aimed for tech companies to help them succeed. Immad & Mercury had raised over $25 million from investors like Andreessen Horowitz and Charles River Ventures. Prior to launching Mercury, he co-founded HeyZap which was acquired for $45 million by Fyber. During this interview we cover: 00:00 A word From The Sponsor 01:02 Intro 01:58 Immad’s Background, Launching & Exiting HeyZap & $...
Dec 22, 2020•43 min•Season 1Ep. 70
Dave Schneider was the cofounder of an influencer marketing software NinjaOutreach, a bootstrapped company with 20 people and over 500 customers. He’s also a graduate from Harvard with a degree in Applied Math, where in 2012 he quit his corporate job to travel the world with his wife, where during that time he launched and exited from his first SaaS company, NinjaOutreach, an influencer marketing platform. Nowadays he runs Shortlist.io, a digital marketing "un-agency", with a team of 20 people, ...
Dec 17, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 69
Max Kremer is an entrepreneur, technologist & previous Co-founder of Datastay Corp., an On demand web PLM Software for SMBs which got acquired by Autodesk, Max is now the Co-Founder and CTO of Trialfire, a customer intelligence and web analytics platform that removes the barriers to being data-driven, a always-on data scientist. Max enjoys talking about startup success & failures, as well as methods to measure consumer engagement, what to track, why & how to get to those metrics quic...
Dec 15, 2020•37 min•Season 1Ep. 68
Sydney Wong is the Founder and CEO of VenturX, a startup platform that prepares and connects startups with investor funding that offers startup tools for tracking product validation and business planning for early start entrepreneurs looking to reach revenue, new customers, or funding. Inspired by a courageous and life altering experience in Silicon Valley, Sydney bootstrapped her vision to help startups. Today, VenturX has over $200 million of investor funding to help give out to the most promi...
Dec 10, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 67
Darren is a business leader and security professional with over twenty years of experience as a CEO and CISO of companies that handle sensitive data. Having founded a non-profit organization, three service companies, and two tech startups in his career, he understands how to assess and manage risk in alignment with organizational goals. Darren Gallop is also a tech entrepreneur, information security expert, Techstars alumni, board member, and the CEO of Securicy. He co-founded Securicy and led t...
Dec 08, 2020•47 min•Season 1Ep. 66
Bryce is a tech founder, who’s originally from Australia, and moved to the UK in 2017 to expand an Australian workforce management application into the UK market. Bryce is currently UK General Manager at Tanda, now rebranded as Workforce, which is an award-winning workforce management software that provides clarity, control and tools for businesses to get the most from their workforce. Bryce also uses his skills in startups, sales and marketing to help businesses scale their sales and marketing ...
Dec 03, 2020•40 min•Season 1Ep. 65
Stewart Townsend is the founder at Channel as a Service , a “ results oriented” consultancy service for startups & mature companies to enable them to increase revenue through the right growth channel via an indirect sales force. Stewart has spent 20 years working in channel roles and has specialised in accelerating revenue at global SaaS companies through the building and running of indirect sales programs since then. His focus is working with SaaS companies who are at that point where they ...
Dec 01, 2020•44 min•Season 1Ep. 64
Phillip is a product builder, software engineer, web developer & Digital consultant, the founder of Out Flash , a mass email service inside Outlook, Elementary Analytics a sense making platform for your website and social media analytics, Baitcamp , A log, planner and archive for fishing enthusiasts & Sensible Backup, a backup for your windows device made easy. He currently works full-time as a software engineer where he has experience in desktop development, API construction & off t...
Nov 26, 2020•43 min•Season 1Ep. 63
Naomi is an entrepreneur and the Executive Vice President at WixAnswers , an unified customer support solution focused on providing spot-on support for customers rather than spending time on making all channels work together. Before joining Wix, Naomi was the Co-Founder of 2 travel startups, Tripelia and iTravelJerusalem. Naomi is passionate about helping companies and startups provide best-in-class customer experiences and transform the way companies provide Customer Support, which we’ll dive i...
Nov 23, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 62
Leslie Zane is the president and founder of Triggers, a brand consultancy company that changes customer behavior to accelerate revenue growth. Her curiosity drives her search for the key to changing customer behavior and what some of the companies she works with call “the holy grail of marketing”. As a former brand manager, Leslie discovered the effectiveness of indirect messaging rather than direct persuasion, where reaching consumers meant tapping into their aspirational desires. She created t...
Nov 19, 2020•48 min•Season 1Ep. 61
Garrett is the CEO and Co-Founder at Directive, a next-gen performance marketing agency for software companies. Since its founding in 2014, Garret has led Directive in its expansion of five new locations in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City, Austin, Texas; and London, has led them to a 300% year-over-year growth rate and now boasts a team of more than 50 people over nine nationalities from its headquarters and home of operations. As a thought leader, Garrett has been published by Salesfo...
Nov 17, 2020•51 min•Season 1Ep. 60
Kieran Flanagan is an author, startup advisor mentor who runs his own podcast called the Growth TLDR - which you guys should also check out - and is currently the VP of Marketing & Growth at Hubspot. He is a thought leader on growth marketing and speaks at events across the globe. Kieran has a proven track record in helping SaaS businesses, from start-ups to enterprise-level grow their traffic, users and revenue - which we’ll be talking all about today. During this interview we cover: 00:00 ...
Nov 12, 2020•47 min•Season 1Ep. 59
Eric Siu is the CEO of digital marketing agency Single Grain , a digital marketing agency focused on growing Saas businesses as well as helping Fortune 500 companies like Uber, Amazon and Salesforce acquire more customers through SEO and paid advertising. Eric Siu usually helps entrepreneurs with the tools and processes to help them grow both personally and professionally revealing secrets from that have grown multi-million to billion dollar companies. Eric Siu is a marketing expert that contrib...
Nov 10, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 58
Kevin is a Marketing automation specialist with 21 years of experience working with companies like Charles Schwab and Wells Fargo, and had founder shares in a public company, On Assignment Inc (NYSE: ASGN). Petersen’s SaaS experience includes growing a file sharing platform to seven-figure revenue in its first year, an award-winning music industry start-up, and several portfolio brands that realized >50% YOY growth since acquisition, which he now manages with his portfolio and investment firm...
Nov 06, 2020•52 min•Season 1Ep. 57
Estefania Hernandez is CEO and founder of Mi Dulce Hogar, a formal alternative that facilitates cleaning services for homes of Mexican families, SMBs, and Airbnb hosts. It’s been praised by Forbes and many other publications. Estefania is a modern pinnacle and example of what social entrepreneurship looks like here in Mexico. During this interview we cover: 00:00 - Intro 00:56 - Estefania’s Background, Past Ventures & Mi Dulce Hogar 03:49 - Mi Dulce Hogar, The Opportunity & Problem To So...
Nov 04, 2020•37 min•Season 1Ep. 55
Mubashar is the co-founder at Founderpath , a platform that helps SaaS Founders get capital without selling any equity. Mubs has been tinkering with computers since he was about 8 years old and started building websites in 1995. He loves making many things, a perk that led him to be selected as ProductHunt's maker of the year for 2016, runner up in 2015 and 2017. At the beginning of his career he worked mostly with Internet startups in San Francisco and New York. Now he’s been trying to help oth...
Oct 30, 2020•41 min•Season 1Ep. 54
