Gregg Pollack is a software developer and serial entrepreneur. In 2011, he founded Code School, an online learning platform that teaches you programming and web design skills. And 5 years later, he sold that business for $36 million. The Show Notes Code School Envy Labs Starter Studio greggpollack.com Github Try Github Try jQuery Thrive Themes Shane Melaugh Gregg on Twitter Omer on Twitter Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help w...
Jan 05, 2017•58 min•Ep. 133
Aaron Dallek is a serial entrepreneur who started his first business at the age of 14. He's currently the co-founder and CEO of Opternative, an online service that gives you a convenient way to get a prescription for glasses or contacts. With Opternative you complete an eye exam on your computer or tablet and get a prescription signed by a doctor without ever having to go to a doctor's office. The company was founded in 2012 and to date has raised $9.5 million in funding. The Show Notes Opternat...
Dec 01, 2016•36 min•Ep. 132
Pini Yakuel is the co-founder and CEO of Optimove, a SaaS product that uses its predictive customer modeling technology to helps marketers understand customers and create personalized marketing campaigns. The Show Notes Optimove Pini 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 SaaS founders. Join and get training & supp...
Nov 18, 2016•57 min•Ep. 131
Garrett Moon is the CEO and a Co-Founder of CoSchedule, a content marketing and social media publishing calendar for small businesses and marketing teams. CoSchedule helps over 7,000 customers organize their content marketing and social media publishing in more than 100 countries around the world. CoSchedule was founded in 2013 and to date has raised around $500K in funding. The Show Notes CoSchedule CoSchedule Blog Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne Groove Garrett on Twitter...
Nov 10, 2016•1 hr•Ep. 130
Do 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...
Nov 03, 2016•27 min•Ep. 129
Ryan O'Donnell is the co-founder of SellHack, an online platform for salespeople that helps them find targeted prospects, build email lists and verify email addresses. He started his career on Wall Street as a broker making 500 calls a day prospecting for new clients. He decided to follow his passion for tech and joined Right Media, which was later acquired by Yahoo. After spending 3 years at Yahoo, he left and began his startup journey. SellHack was founded in 2014 and is based in Cleveland, Oh...
Oct 27, 2016•47 min•Ep. 128
Matthew Bellows is the co-founder & CEO of Yesware, a platform that helps salespeople connect with prospects, track engagement and close more deals. Yesware serves more than 750,000 salespeople at companies like Adroll, Groupon, Salesforce, Twilio and Yelp. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. To date, the company has raised over $35 million in funding. The Show Notes Yesware Chrome Web Store "The Sales Acceleration Formula: Using Data, Technology, and Inbound S...
Oct 20, 2016•53 min•Ep. 127
Luke Kervin is the founder and co-CEO of PatientPop, an all-in-one marketing automation platform for healthcare providers. The company was founded in 2014 and has raised around $24 million to date. Prior to launching PatientPop, my guest co-founded two companies that both had successful exits and were acquired. The Show Notes PatientPop AthenaHealth Toba Capital Travis Schneider on LinkedIn Luke Kervin on LinkedIn PatientPop on Twitter Omer on Twitter Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podca...
Oct 13, 2016•47 min•Ep. 126
Aseem Badshah is the co-founder and CEO of Socedo, a platform for sales teams that helps them generate relevant leads based on social media data. The company was founded in 2012 and has raised $1.5 million to date. Before launching Socedo, my guest founded and ran Uptown Treehouse, a digital marketing agency for Fortune 500 brands that focused on social media. The Show Notes Socedo Hootsuite Uptown Treehouse Techstars Marketo Hubspot Salesforce Aseem on Twitter Omer on Twitter Enjoyed this episo...
Oct 06, 2016•45 min•Ep. 125
Pulkit Agrawal is the co-founder and CEO of Chameleon, a platform that helps companies create better user onboarding. With Chameleon, you can quickly build, test & deploy product tutorials and tooltips without writing any code. And it collects analytics to help you learn what your new users are doing and how you can improve the onboarding experience. The company was founded in 2015 and to date has raised $1.9 million in funding. The Show Notes Chameleon Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the pod...
Sep 30, 2016•23 min•Ep. 124
Pulkit Agrawal is the co-founder and CEO of Chameleon, a platform that helps companies create better user onboarding. With Chameleon you can quickly build, test & deploy product tutorials and tooltips without writing any code. And it collects analytics to help you learn what your new users are doing and how you can improve the onboarding experience. The company was founded in 2015 and to date has raised $1.9 million in funding. The Show Notes Chameleon Brian Norton Baremetrics: Build vs. Buy Cal...
Sep 28, 2016•24 min•Ep. 123
Pulkit Agrawal is the co-founder and CEO of Chameleon, a platform that helps companies create better user onboarding. With Chameleon, you can quickly build, test & deploy product tutorials and tooltips without writing any code. And it collects analytics to help you learn what your new users are doing and how you can improve the onboarding experience. The company was founded in 2015 and to date has raised $1.9 million in funding. The Show Notes Chameleon UserOnboard.com Brian Norton Y-Combinator ...
Sep 26, 2016•21 min•Ep. 122
Shane Melaugh is the co-founder and CEO of Thrive Themes, a company that creates conversion focused WordPress tools such as Thrive Content Builder and the Thrive Leads plugin. The Show Notes Thrive Themes IM Impact Blog 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 gro...
Sep 23, 2016•24 min•Ep. 121
Shane Melaugh is the co-founder and CEO of Thrive Themes, a company that creates conversion-focused WordPress tools such as Thrive Content Builder and the Thrive Leads plugin. The Show Notes Thrive Themes IM Impact Blog 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 gro...
Sep 21, 2016•23 min•Ep. 120
Shane Melaugh is the co-founder and CEO of Thrive Themes, a company that creates conversion-focused WordPress tools such as Thrive Content Builder and the Thrive Leads plugin. The Show Notes Thrive Themes IM Impact Blog 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 gro...
Sep 19, 2016•19 min•Ep. 119
Ian Harris is the author of the book 'Hooked on You - The Genius Way to Make Anybody Read Anything'. He's the associate director of Gatehouse, a UK based communication agency. And regularly speaks about how to build an audience and use storytelling to capture people's attention. The Show Notes IanHarris.com Hooked on You GateHouse Perry Marshall - @PerryMarshall Andre Chaperon - @andrechaperon Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need he...
Jun 30, 2016•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 118
Jay Gibb is the co-founder and CEO of CloudSponge, a product that helps businesses to acquire more users via their email referral forms. Most referral forms ask you to type in your friend's email addresses. With CloudSponge it's possible to give users access to their contacts directly from your website. The Show Notes CloudSponge Octosend Plaxo Lyft Yelp AirBnB Quora Chargify Arizona Bay Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help wit...
Jun 23, 2016•54 min•Ep. 117
Zvi Band is the co-founder and CEO of Contactually, a CRM tool which helps you turn relationships into results. He's a software developer and entrepreneur who founded Contactually in 2011. And he's grown it into a multi-million dollar business with over 70 employees. The company is based in Washington DC and to date has raised over $12 million in funding. The Show Notes Contactually Evernote Tony Cappaert - @cappaert TechCrunch Quora Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating ...
Jun 15, 2016•47 min•Ep. 116
Kreg Peeler is the founder and CEO of SpinGo, an integrated solution that helps event makers list, manage and promote events. SpinGo's event platform combines content from 100,000 sources to produce a robust local event search engine. The Show Notes SpinGo Amanda Peeler - @amandarpeeler DVD Studio Pro 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 S...
Jun 09, 2016•52 min•Ep. 115
Zal Dastur is the co-founder of Lucep, a sales acceleration tool that helps companies increase their lead conversion rate and boosts revenues by providing faster access to interested leads. The Show Notes Lucep Kaiesh V - @kaiesh Snapdeal Uber 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 Cl...
May 26, 2016•58 min•Ep. 114
Daniel Ha is the co-founder and CEO of the blog commenting platform Disqus. He and his co-founder founded the company in 2007 while they were undergraduates at the University of California, and then shortly after dropped out to work on the business full-time. The Show Notes Disqus Jason Yan - @jasonyan Y-Combinator 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...
May 19, 2016•54 min•Ep. 113
Jerrod 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 o...
May 05, 2016•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 112
Jeremy Reeves is a sales funnel expert. He specializes in building strategic & automated online sales funnels that help his clients generate more revenue. Links, Resources & People Mentioned JeremyReeves.com Sales Funnel Mastery Podcast ContentMarketer.io Connector BuzzSumo OptimizePress LeadPages ClickFunnels DryThemes Infusionsoft Ontraport Hubspot Aweber Constant Contact GetResponse ActiveCampaign SamCart Stripe Visual Website Optimizer Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a r...
Apr 27, 2016•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 111
Marcelino Alvarez is the co-founder and CEO of Uncorked Studios, a rapidly growing design and engineering firm that builds connected products for both the digital & physical world - ranging from an app/website to a wearable device or smart home technology. Links, Resources & People Mentioned Uncorked Studios Wieden + Kennedy PIE (Portland Incubator Experiment) Gorlochs David Ewald John Furukawa BCC Parties Nick Parish Contagious Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and r...
Apr 13, 2016•58 min•Ep. 110
Mogens Møller is the co-founder and CEO of Sleeknote. A SaaS product that helps eCommerce sites get more email opt-ins, without affecting bounce rate and sales. Links, Resources & People Mentioned Sleeknote SumoMe MailChimp Campaign Monitor 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 ...
Apr 07, 2016•58 min•Ep. 109
Ryan McKay-Fleming is the co-founder and CTO of Chalk.com, a SaaS product that helps teachers with lesson planning, grading, assessment, and attendance. Links, Resources & People Mentioned Chalk.com React William Zhou Pete Koomen Optimizely 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 ...
Mar 31, 2016•43 min•Ep. 108
Judy Robinett is the author of the book How to Be a Power Connector: The 5+50+100 Rule for Turning Your Business Network into Profits. Links, Resources & People Mentioned JudyRobinett.com The Business Model Generation Book Preview (PDF) The Business Model Canvas (PDF) Mark Cuban Mike Muhney I Love Marketing Podcast Joe Polish Alley to the Valley iCharts Adam Slovik Angel Capital Association TechCrunch Golden Seeds Cervin Ventures White Star Capital Lylan Masterman Venture Data Enjoyed this episo...
Mar 24, 2016•47 min•Ep. 107
Alexandra Keating is the co-founder and CEO of DWNLD, a mobile app platform that enables media companies, brands, and influencers to easily and affordably create beautiful, native mobile apps. Links, Resources & People Mentioned DWNLD Fritz Lanman - @Fritzanity 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 & sup...
Mar 17, 2016•41 min•Ep. 106
Alex Berman is the head of growth for InspireBeats, a company that does fully managed sales and lead generation for startups and agencies. Links, Resources & People Mentioned InspireBeats LinkedIn Rapportive Yet Another Mail Merge Steli Efti - @Steli Calendly 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 & suppo...
Mar 10, 2016•45 min•Ep. 105
Brandon Pearce is the founder of Music Teachers Helper, a SaaS application thats helping thousands of music teachers around the world manage their studio. It lets them handle everything from billing and lesson schedules to automatic reminders and even tax reports. Links, Resources & People Mentioned MusicTeachersHelper.com Pearce On Earth Blog Post: What I Learned from Being Robbed User Voice Post: How I Spend My Time Now Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review F...
Mar 03, 2016•54 min•Ep. 104
