B 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...
Jan 21, 2016•48 min•Ep. 103
Stuart 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 commun...
Jan 13, 2016•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 102
Aaron 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-st...
Jan 06, 2016•52 min•Ep. 101
Each entrepreneur was asked a simple question - "what's the best piece of business advice that you ever received?". In this episode, we discuss why these made our 'top 10 list' and how the advice might just help you get the breakthrough that you've been looking for with your business. 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. Joi...
Nov 04, 2015•33 min•Ep. 100
Conrad 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 podcas...
Oct 14, 2015•44 min•Ep. 99
Tom 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 hel...
Oct 07, 2015•52 min•Ep. 98
Diego 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 thi...
Sep 30, 2015•46 min•Ep. 97
George 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 Palme...
Sep 24, 2015•45 min•Ep. 96
Vincent 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 Enjoye...
Sep 16, 2015•58 min•Ep. 95
Mike 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...
Sep 09, 2015•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 94
Robert 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 ne...
Sep 03, 2015•55 min•Ep. 93
Nick 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 - @Nic...
Aug 26, 2015•58 min•Ep. 92
Adam 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 ...
Aug 19, 2015•50 min•Ep. 91
Benji 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...
Aug 12, 2015•50 min•Ep. 90
Aaron 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 ep...
Aug 05, 2015•42 min•Ep. 89
Aaron 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? Subsc...
Jul 29, 2015•37 min•Ep. 88
Scott 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 H...
Jul 27, 2015•37 min•Ep. 87
Scott 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-Combi...
Jul 22, 2015•32 min•Ep. 86
Amir 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 Enjoye...
Jul 20, 2015•41 min•Ep. 85
Amir 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 episo...
Jul 15, 2015•36 min•Ep. 84
Maria 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 t...
Jul 13, 2015•40 min•Ep. 83
Maria 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,...
Jul 08, 2015•44 min•Ep. 82
Syed 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 O...
Jul 06, 2015•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 81
Bridget 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 ...
Jul 01, 2015•48 min•Ep. 80
Dave 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 a...
Jun 29, 2015•46 min•Ep. 79
Douglas 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 Mo...
Jun 24, 2015•48 min•Ep. 78
Andrew 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...
Jun 22, 2015•32 min•Ep. 77
Andrew 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 - @awilkin...
Jun 17, 2015•28 min•Ep. 76
Grant 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 - @Gran...
Jun 15, 2015•52 min•Ep. 75
Robi 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...
Jun 10, 2015•45 min•Ep. 74
