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SaaS District

Akeel Jabber | Horizen Capitalhorizencapital.com
Top Startup and SaaS Podcast for Startup Founders, Entrepreneurs and Investors. Learn how to optimize your growth strategy a SaaS startup entrepreneur from beta all the way to exit. We cover topics such as raising capital, acquisitions, leadership, B2B sales, growth marketing, scaling, hiring, M&A, conversion optimization, productivity, bootstrapping, venture capital, private equity, and innovation. By sharing industry lead expertise, we want you to implement the best-proven tactics to help you scale your SaaS company. Top Podcast Industry Nominations: - 13 Best SaaS Marketing Podcasts | SaaS Marketer - Top SaaS Podcasts for 2021 | Beamer - Top 25 SaaS Podcasts You Must Follow in 2021 | Feedspot - Best 26 SaaS & Subscriptions Podcasts to Listen to in 2021 | 2Checkout - Best 26 SaaS & Subscriptions Podcasts to Listen to in 2021 | KlintMarketing
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Episodes

Cybersecurity, Space Exploration and The Future Of SaaS Business with Adam Anderson #204

Adam Anderson is a Managing General Partner of Ansuz Capital, a venture fund that helps Cybersecurity companies that specialize in protecting businesses from the number one cyber risk facing the world: Social Engineered Cyber Attacks targeting your employees. He’s also the Chairman, and co-founder of Hook Security. He’s also an entrepreneur who after 20 years on the frontline of cybersecurity, writing five books, and years of keynotes and interviews, he then sold his first cybersecurity company ...

Mar 10, 202338 minSeason 2Ep. 204

Thriving for Revenue in The 2023 Market Downturn with Scott Stouffer #203

Scott Stouffer is the Founder & CEO of ScaleMatters, a platform that delivers Go-to-Market operations, analytics, and insights to help businesses drive capital-efficient growth. He took his first company (Visual Networks) public in 2001 and grew it to a peak market cap of $3 billion. Since then, he has been 5x CEO and 3x Founder. In this episode we cover: 00:00 - Intro 01:35 - GTM Strategy To Overcome Downturn 05:13 - Common Points For CAC Decreasing & Shortening Sales Cycle 13:11 - Effe...

Mar 03, 202345 minSeason 2Ep. 203

UI/UX Interfaces For Fast Growth SaaS with UserActive #202

Peter Loving is a software designer, coach and consultant who works with SaaS companies to build better products, making UI & UX improvements that drive growth & wow users. He’s the founder of UserActive, an agency that designs meaningful tech products. They are inspired by a mission to help tech founders build products that enrich the lives of users, doing this by applying critical thinking, creative talent and product strategy to solve real business challenges. In this episode we cover...

Feb 24, 202329 minSeason 2Ep. 202

The Symbiotic Relationship Between Performance & Brand Marketing with Kamil Rextin #201

Kamil Rextin is the General Manager of 42 Agency, a B2B Agency that helps SaaS companies scale Demand Generation & build RevOps infrastructure. He has worked in RevOps Growth & Demand Gen for the last 12+ years at companies like CrowdRiff & Uberflip. He uses a scientific approach when it comes to marketing. So rather than believing whatever is trending, he experiments, and whatever proves to be effective is what matters to him. Outside of work, Kamil enjoys hiking and reading, especi...

Feb 17, 202323 minSeason 2Ep. 201

Technology In Healthcare Management With Plumero #200

Christian Cox is a linguist, professional ponderer and currently the founder at Plumero Technologies. Christian is an Experienced Agile Business Analytics and Technology Professional with a relatively unconventional background. As a Spanish major who spent six years in Argentina, Chris was first exposed to the digital technology world at a small web development company. Chris is a certified scrum master and earned his Masters in Regional Integration Processes at Universidad de Buenos Aires and h...

Feb 10, 202325 minSeason 2Ep. 200

What Is SaaS Conversion Content And How to Create It with Carly J Cais #199

Carly is the Founder & CEO of RevvSpark, a content agency that creates full-funnel marketing content strategy, generates demand, optimizes conversions, and helps elevate Sales Team’s potential. She started in Marketing over 20 years ago, first in B2C and then in B2B where she is now on a mission to grow businesses with creative "Conversion Content" that levels up internal teams and drives demand. She’s an expert in streamlining B2B tech companies to ignite rapid growth, specializing in compa...

Feb 03, 202331 minSeason 2Ep. 199

The Psychological Knowledge and Power Behind SaaS Companies with Darshan Pindoria #198

Darshan Pindoria is a Psychology and Mindset Coach at Deeppsyc, an organizational psychology service that impacts key areas of mental health and performance. Darshan has a BSc in Psychology, he’s a vlogger, public speaker and course creator who also took up training for 9 months as a monk in a yoga ashram. Darshan’s past SaaS experiences working as a Business Development Manager at companies like Verto Cloud, eBusiness Guru Limited, Avasam and Replyco. In this episode we cover: 00:00 - Intro 02:...

Jan 27, 202331 minSeason 2Ep. 198

Subscriptions Management For Digital Agencies With AppBind

Sunir Shah is a marketer, developer and startup guy. He's the founder of AppBind, a subscriptions management tool for resellers and agencies. AppBind lets you subscribe to software and ads for clients without using your credit card. This cloud-based billing solution enables trustful communication between agencies and clients. In this episode we cover: 00:00 - Intro 00:46 - AppBind Overview 03:21 - Who Is AppBind's Ideal Customer / Target Market 05:23 - Prices & Features 06:17 - AppBind’s Pro...

Jan 20, 202324 minSeason 2Ep. 197

How To Add Revenue Fast To Your SaaS Company with Aaron Krall #196

Aaron is a SaaS Onboarding & Lead Conversion Specialist, and the founder of SaaS Accelerator, a coaching program that helps SaaS founders to implement systems and processes to scale revenue faster and more predictably. He helps SaaS companies with an ARPU of $100 or more achieve scalable, predictive growth and are looking for proven systems and frameworks they can implement into their business to increase revenue and build a scalable SaaS. Aaron also runs the SaaS Growth Hacks community on F...

Dec 02, 202245 minSeason 2Ep. 196

Importance of Due Diligence When Buying A Business with Ahmed Raza #195

Ahmed is the Director of Due Diligence at Rapid Diligence, a company that provides due diligence and consulting services for buyers looking to acquire businesses under $500M. Ahmed previously founded a small-cap private equity fund to buy eCommerce businesses and lead due diligence for private equity funds focused on SaaS, eCommerce, FBA, and content website acquisitions. In this episode we cover: 01:12 - Ahmed's Due Diligence & Acquisition Background 05:26 - Differences Acquiring a SaaS, an...

Nov 25, 202231 minSeason 2Ep. 195

Using Interactive Product Demos As Your PLG Motion with Natalie Marcotullio #194

Natalie Marcotullio is a Head of Growth and Operations at Navattic, a company that empowers prospects to get hands-on with a product earlier through no-code interactive demos and helping SaaS companies give their prospects a better buying experience. More than 200 go-to-market teams use Navattic across the funnel, from first touch in outbound campaigns, to website product demos and post-demo leave behinds. Natalie has a background in SEO and digital marketing for B2B sales and marketing SaaS. No...

Nov 18, 202223 minSeason 2Ep. 194

How to Build a Successful Startup From Scratch with Dom Einhorn, Spencer Fry & Thomas Petersen #193

In this episode we have great founders talking about what to do, mistakes to avoid and how to validate an startup, great content shared by Dom Einhorn, founder & CEO of Uniqorn Incubator; Spencer Fry, Founder at Podmatch.com and Thomas Petersen, Co-Founder and CEO at First Principle. In this episode we cover: 00:38 - Best Places And Countries To Start Your Business 03:45 - Growth Levers 08:47 - Who Is The Ideal Profile Of Founders Full episodes with: Dom Einhorn Spencer Fry Thomas Petersen G...

Nov 11, 202223 minSeason 2Ep. 193

How to Combine a Community-Led Growth & Product Led Growth Strategy with Zachary DeWitt # 192

Zach DeWitt is a Partner at Wing Venture Capital, a firm investing in Seed and Series A rounds for transformative enterprise tech companies. Prior to Wing, Zach was CEO and co-founder of Drop, which built two award-winning iPhone apps (Drop Messages and Firefly) before selling the technology and the IP intellectual property to Snapchat in 2016. Zach holds a BA in Economics from Yale University as well as an MBA from the Harvard Business School. In this episode we cover: 00:00 - Intro 01:30 - Exp...

Oct 14, 202240 minSeason 2Ep. 192

Big Data Governance & Data Security For SaaS Companies with Balaji Ganesan #191

Balaji is the co-founder & CEO at Privacera, a startup focused on building tools for enterprises to balance data democracy, open use of data with the need for comprehensive governance. They are focused specifically on enterprises moving data to public cloud and leveraging it for analytics, ML & AI. Balaji comes from an IT Consulting background and intentionally moved into Sales at a small company to learn and develop new business on the grounds. He then used that experience to build and ...

Oct 07, 202248 minSeason 2Ep. 191

Why Every SaaS Founder Should Care About Customer Onboarding with Sri Ganesan # 190

Sri Ganesan is Co-founder & CEO of Rocketlane, a leading Customer Onboarding Platform and SaaS product that helps businesses by replacing generic project management and document collaboration tools with a unique, unified workspace. Sri has spent his last 9 years building and scaling SaaS businesses. His last start-up, Konotor, was acquired by Freshworks in 2015 and went on to become their fastest-growing product (today known as Freshchat). Prior to building start up, Srikrishnan was leading ...

Sep 30, 202234 minSeason 2Ep. 190

Shortening The Sales Process From Days To Hours with Aleks Gollu #189

Aleks Gollu is the co-founder and CEO of 11Sight, an Inbound Video Call Platform for Revenue Teams. Aleks is a serial entrepreneur and CEO with a successful track record of building innovative solutions from idea to exit. He started his career at Oracle and Sapient. However, being in the San Francisco Bay Area in California, he rapidly realized his passion for entrepreneurship and co-founded his first startup, O’TelNet, a pioneer of SMS-based cell phone applications that was acquired by a compet...

Sep 23, 202237 minSeason 2Ep. 189

PPC for SaaS - Top Experts Reveal Advice to Scale with Dylan Hey & Luis Camacho #188

In this episode we have two experts talking about PPC, sharing strategies about budget, funnel, campaigns and more. Dylan Hey is the Co-Founder & CEO of HeyDigital, a creative PPC & CRO agency that focuses on helping SaaS & B2B Tech Companies scale revenue with PPC & Paid Social Advertising Campaigns. After successfully managing hundreds of thousands of dollars in spending on Google, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Capterra for a lot of customers, Dylan has built an effective ...

Sep 16, 202214 minSeason 2Ep. 188

Moving Up Market in The SaaS World with Andy Stinnes #187

Andy Stinnes is a General Partner at Cloud Apps Capital Partners, a market-focused VC firm specializing in cloud business application companies. They partner with entrepreneurs at the early stages to build global category leading companies. Andy is responsible for developing investment strategies, sourcing and leading investments, and serving on the boards of portfolio companies. He’s an expert in business software applications, business networks, enterprise-class product strategy and go-to-mark...

Aug 19, 202247 minSeason 2Ep. 187

The Secret Psychology Behind Building A High-Performance Team with Vlad Hu #186

Vlad Hu is the CEO of TensionX, a software development company that specializes in Web Apps and Google Chrome extensions development. The company helps common people find technical solutions, get away from routine and save time for the really important stuff. Vlad is known for his expertise in building SaaS, Optimizing Business Processes, and Automation. In addition to being a co-founder of a handful of cloud SaaS apps, he helps entrepreneurs on their SaaS Business Journey. In this episode we co...

Aug 12, 202234 minSeason 2Ep. 186

Why Founders Should Use a SaaS Service For Data Protection & Resilience with W. Curtis Preston # 185

W. Curtis Preston aka “Mr. Backup” is the Chief Technical Evangelist at Druva, a data protection as a service company. He's an expert in backup & recovery systems, a space he has been working in since 1993, designing data protection systems for some of the largest organizations in the world. He is also the host of the Restore it All podcast, founder and webmaster of backupcentral.com, a website dedicated to backup and recovery and has written four books about backup and recovery. In this epi...

Aug 05, 202242 minSeason 2Ep. 185

Everything About Link-Building in SaaS with Shaurya Jain #184

Shaurya is the founder of Samurai Marketers, a link-building agency for brands in the SaaS industry. He loves to help B2B brands implement their organic marketing and link-building strategies. Among Samurai Marketers' clients, you will find some famous SaaS brands like Zoom, Udemy and Waybook. When he is not working, you can find him reading some business or personal development books. In this episode we cover: 00:00 - Flying Cat Marketing - Content-Led B2B SEO Agency 01:08 - Intro 03:02 - The I...

Jul 29, 202236 minSeason 2Ep. 184

Managing Legal Risks For Digital Documents And Contracts with Charles Brecque #183

Charles is the founder and CEO of Legislate, an early-stage legal tech startup which allows large landlords, letting agents, and small businesses to easily create, sign and manage contracts that are prudent and fair. Legislate’s platform is built on its patented knowledge graph which streamlines the contracting process and aggregates contract statistics to quickly unlock valuable insights. Charles was also one of the first employees of Mind Foundry, an Oxford University spin out specializing in ...

Jul 22, 202232 minSeason 2Ep. 183

5-20% Monthly Growth Using SEO As A Framework For Your B2B SaaS with Maeva Cifuentes # 182

Maeva is the CEO of Flying Cat Marketing, an SEO agency for companies in martech, salestech and proptech. They help fast-growing B2B SaaS companies turn their website into one of their greatest inbound revenue channels through both SEO and content. They can help your SaaS by creating high quality content, convert visitors, and achieve 5-20% monthly growth. Maeva has been a translator since 2009, speaks 5 languages and in her spare time she does improv theater and works on getting fluent in Itali...

Jul 08, 202241 minSeason 2Ep. 182

Defining Pricing & Packaging For New B2B SaaS Products with Dan Balcauski #181

Dan is the Founder & Chief Pricing Officer at Product Tranquility, a consulting firm that accelerates product growth and increases customer loyalty. They bring world-class product management and strategy practices to B2B SaaS and Marketplace companies in the small-to-mid market. Dan has managed multiple products throughout the product life-cycle from new concept incubation, product launch, product maintenance, platform transitions, and end of life over the last 15 years. In this episode we c...

Jul 01, 202248 minSeason 2Ep. 181

Product Development To Turn Your Idea Into Your Next App Scale-up with Andreas Creten # 180

Andreas Creten is a software engineer and an entrepreneur who loves developing apps and building teams. He’s the CEO of madewithlove, an app development company that helps startups and established companies turn ideas into applications by offering development, consulting and ad interim management services, building both products and teams. They have been CTO in over 60 companies, mainly operating as CTO ad interim. You can regularly find Andreas working on open-source projects and speaking at co...

Jun 17, 202239 minSeason 2Ep. 180

Understanding Hybrid-Remote Work & Building Trust In A Virtual Office with Rajiv Ayyangar # 179

Rajiv Ayyangar is the Co-founder and CEO of Tandem, a desktop app for distributed teams that simulates a "virtual office”, allowing users to see who’s around, what they are working on, talk and collaborate in one click. Rajiv studied bioengineering at Princeton and subsequently worked at Fairchild and Yahoo. He’s also a rock climbing, classical piano player and probably an expert on blind wine tasting. In this episode we cover: 00:00 - Byldd - MVP Development Agency Based in New York 01:12 - Int...

Jun 10, 202230 minSeason 2Ep. 179

How PR Strategies Support SaaS Exits with Lindsey Groepper #178

Lindsey Groepper is the president at BLASTmedia, a national B2B SaaS PR agency that takes a holistic approach to PR. Lindsey is responsible for new business development and helping oversee the strategic direction of the agency where they focus public relations. Lindsey graduated from the University of Georgia with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism and Mass Communications, majoring in Public Relations. In this episode we cover: 00:00 - Byldd - MVP Development Agency Based in New York 01:12 ...

May 13, 202236 minSeason 2Ep. 178

How AI Powers Cloud Automation & Help To Reduce Cloud Costs with Leon Kuperman #177

Leon Kuperman is the CTO of CAST AI, a platform that increases your SaaS company’s profit margin without additional work. They cut your cloud bill in half, automate DevOps tasks, and prevent downtime in one Autonomous Kubernetes platform. Leon has over 20 years of experience in product management, software design and development all the way through to production deployment. He’s an industry leader on Web Application Security and Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), e-commerce,...

May 06, 202234 minSeason 2Ep. 177

Net Dollar Retention: The One Metric SaaS Companies Should Focus On with Firaas Rashid #176

Firaas Rashid is CEO and founder of Hook, a predictive data platform that empowers Customer Success teams. Hook is transforming B2B SaaS by providing accurate revenue predictions and intelligent, actionable insights to secure more customer renewals. Firaas founded Hook in late 2020 and has already raised millions in funding from some of the top investors and company founders in Europe. He is passionate about changing the way Customer Success Teams operate, which we’ll go deeper into on today’s e...

May 04, 202242 minSeason 2Ep. 176

Organic Growth Acceleration For Your B2B Saas Company with George Chasiotis #175

George Chasiotis is the Managing Director of MINUTTIA, an organic growth acceleration agency for B2B SaaS companies. George started out as an independent marketing consultant but was soon pulled down the path of creating an agency. In his free time, he imparts wisdom (read: rants) on LinkedIn or buries his head in psychology books to get down the “why” of human behaviour. In this episode we cover: 00:00 - Intro 01:35 - SEO as The Main Channel Of Traffic For a Starting SaaS 05:33 - Link Building ...

Apr 15, 202245 minSeason 2Ep. 175
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