Rob Rawson is the co-founder and CEO of Time Doctor and Staff.com. Time Doctor is an app that helps you manage your time (and your team's time) more effectively. And Staff.com is a global recruitment platform that helps companies hire talented people from anywhere in the world and track their hours worked with Time Doctor. Rob originally trained as a Medical Doctor and worked in hospitals in Australia for 3 years. Links, Resources & People Mentioned Time Doctor Staff.com Quora Rob Rawson - @Robe...
Jun 08, 2015•26 min•Ep. 73
Rob Rawson is the co-founder and CEO of Time Doctor and Staff.com. Time Doctor is an app that helps you manage your time (and your teams time) more effectively. And Staff.com is a global recruitment platform that helps companies hire talented people from anywhere in the world and track their hours worked with Time Doctor. Rob originally trained as a Medical Doctor and worked in hospitals in Australia for 3 years. Links, Resources & People Mentioned Time Doctor Staff.com Rob Rawson - @RobertRawso...
Jun 03, 2015•32 min•Ep. 72
John Warrillow is the founder of The Value Builder System, a company that helps business owners improve the value of their company. Prior to starting The Value Builder System, John started and exited four companies, including a market research business that was acquired in 2008. John is the author of the bestselling book Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You, which was recognized by both Fortune and Inc Magazine as one of the best business books of 2011. Links, Resources...
Jun 01, 2015•51 min•Ep. 71
Peter Shallard is known as The Shrink for Entrepreneurs. He's a renowned business psychology expert and therapist gone, renegade. He works with all types of entrepreneurs around the world and helps them get measurable results. He's also the founder of CommitAction.com, a service that pairs accountability coaching with cutting edge digital productivity tracking tools. Links, Resources & People Mentioned Peter Shallard - The Shrink for Entrepreneurs CommitAction Blog Post - How to find the courage...
May 27, 2015•33 min•Ep. 70
Peter Shallard is known as The Shrink for Entrepreneurs. He is a renowned business psychology expert and therapist gone renegade. He works with all types of entrepreneurs around the world and helps them get measurable results. He is also the founder of CommitAction.com, a service that pairs accountability coaching with cutting edge digital productivity tracking tools. Links, Resources & People Mentioned Peter Shallard - The Shrink for Entrepreneurs CommitAction Peter Shallard - @PeterShallard Om...
May 25, 2015•37 min•Ep. 69
Ankur Nagpal is the co-founder and CEO of Fedora, a platform that enables anyone to easily create and sell online courses. The company was founded in 2013 and to date has raised $2M in funding. Prior to launching Fedora, Ankur launched a business while at college building social widgets between classes which generated over a $1M. Bloomberg Business called him a widget mogul. Links, Resources & People Mentioned Fedora Camtasia Ankur Nagpal - @ankurnagpal Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode...
May 20, 2015•39 min•Ep. 68
Ankur Nagpal is the co-founder and CEO of Fedora, a platform that enables anyone to easily create and sell online courses. The company was founded in 2013 and to date has raised $2M in funding. Prior to launching Fedora, Ankur launched a business while at college building social widgets between classes which generated over a $1M. Bloomberg Business called him a widget mogul. Links, Resources & People Mentioned Fedora AngelList Ankur Nagpal - @ankurnagpal Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episod...
May 18, 2015•32 min•Ep. 67
Walter Chen is the co-founder and CEO of IDoneThis, an email-based productivity tool that allows people to track their productivity with a daily email reminder. You reply to an evening email reminder with what you did that day. The next day, you get a digest with what everyone on the team got done. The company was founded in 2011 and its investors include folks such as the CEOs of Zappos, Shopify & Wistia. Walter is a software engineer and former big law firm lawyer. Links, Resources & People Me...
May 14, 2015•34 min•Ep. 66
Walter Chen is the co-founder and CEO of IDoneThis, an email-based productivity tool that allows people to track their productivity with a daily email reminder. You reply to an evening email reminder with what you did that day. The next day, you get a digest with what everyone on the team got done. Links, Resources & People Mentioned iDoneThis - @idonethis Zappos Hacker News AngelPad Tony Hsieh - @tonyhsieh Rodrigo Guzman - @rodguze Will Young - @whatupwilly Walter Chen - @smalter Omer Khan - @o...
May 11, 2015•35 min•Ep. 65
Katherine Sears is the co-founder and chief marketing officer of Booktrope, a web platform that allows authors, editors, marketers and designers to form a team and work together to create and market a new book. The company is based in Seattle and was founded in 2011. Links, Resources & People Mentioned Booktrope Worklife Wattpad Tess Thompson - @TessWrites Ken Shear - Publisher & CEO, Booktrope Andy Roberts - CTO, Booktrope Katherine Sears - @ksearsbooks | ksears [at] booktrope [dot] com Omer Kh...
May 06, 2015•46 min•Ep. 64
Ruben Timmerman is the founder and CEO of Springest, a comparison website that helps you find the right training program or course. Ruben launched the business as a side project in 2008. Today the site has a presence in 4 countries and helps you compare over 160,000 programs and courses. The company is based in the Netherlands. Links, Resources & People Mentioned Springest - @Springest Holacracy Energized.org Asana Getting Thing Done (GTD) Zappos Medium Marco Bogers Productive transparency with ...
May 04, 2015•56 min•Ep. 63
Trevor Owens is an author and entrepreneur. He's the co-founder and CEO of Javelin.com - the makers of QuickMVP and Lean Startup Machine. QuickMVP is a service that lets you quickly and easily test business ideas. And the Lean Startup Machine is a workshop that teaches you how to build something customers want and run the right experiments to steer your business in the right direction. Trevor is also the author of the book, The Lean Enterprise, which details how corporations can apply more innov...
Apr 29, 2015•46 min•Ep. 62
Trevor Owens is an author and entrepreneur. He's the co-founder and CEO of Javelin.com - the makers of QuickMVP and Lean Startup Machine. QuickMVP is a service that lets you quickly and easily test business ideas. And the Lean Startup Machine is a workshop that teaches you how to build something customers want and run the right experiments to steer your business in the right direction. Trevor is also the author of the book, The Lean Enterprise, which details how corporations can apply more innov...
Apr 27, 2015•35 min•Ep. 61
Ready to launch your startup? What if there was a proven training program that could give you all the skills and knowledge you needed? What if you could take this training over a few months without even quitting your job? Today's guest founded an organization that has helped to launch 1563 startups so far and if you get through their training program, you have an 87.5% chance of your startup surviving. Links, Resources & People Mentioned Founder Institute Asana Adeo Ressi - @adeoressi Omer Khan ...
Apr 23, 2015•36 min•Ep. 60
David Ciccarelli is the co-founder and CEO of Voices.com, an online marketplace that connects business people with professional voice over talent. The company was founded in 2005 and its customers range from small businesses to Fortune 500 including NBC, Comcast and Cisco. David bootstrapped the company and grew it from nothing into a multi-million dollar. Links, Resources & People Mentioned Voices.com - @voices Google Adwords Salesforce AppExchange Stephanie Ciccarelli - @StephCiccarelli David ...
Apr 20, 2015•52 min•Ep. 59
Today's episode is part 2 of the interview with Josh Haynam of Interact - a SaaS product that makes it easier to create shareable quizzes for your website. In this episode, we're going to get tactical and learn how they used content marketing to do that. We'll talk about the 30 or 40 posts that Josh wrote which didn't even generate ONE free user of their product. And we'll talk about the one blog post that he wrote which suddenly started generating paying customers. Links, Resources & People Men...
Apr 15, 2015•35 min•Ep. 58
Josh Haynam is the co-founder of Interact - a SaaS product that makes it easier to create shareable quizzes for your website. You can create a quiz to engage with your audience or generate new sales leads. Josh and his two co-founders bootstrapped the company since its launch just over a year ago. In 10 months, they went from $0 to $15,000 in monthly recurring revenue. And they landed clients like Disney, NBC and the American Red Cross. And they did that with zero outbound sales calls, and all t...
Apr 13, 2015•28 min•Ep. 57
Pete Koomen is the co-founder and CTO of Optimizely - a leading website optimization and A/B testing platform. The company was founded in 2010 and to date has raised over $88 million in funding. Optimizely has over 8000 customers including major brands such as Salesforce, Disney and Starbucks. Prior to launching Optimizely, Pete worked at Google for 3 years.
Apr 08, 2015•47 min•Ep. 56
Tim Sae Koo is the co-founder & CEO of Tint, a platform that enables brands to aggregate, curate and display social media feeds anywhere - including desktop, mobile, retail TV displays, event walls or jumbotrons at big events. Tint was founded in 2013 and was profitable within 3 months or launch. Today, their platform is used by over 45,000 brands around the world.
Apr 06, 2015•32 min•Ep. 55
Tim Sae Koo is the co-founder & CEO of Tint, a platform that enables brands to aggregate, curate and display social media feeds anywhere - including desktop, mobile, retail TV displays, event walls or jumbotrons at big events. Tint was founded in 2013 and was profitable within 3 months or launch. Today, their platform is used by over 45,000 brands around the world.
Apr 01, 2015•32 min•Ep. 54
Joshua Parkinson is the Founder & CEO of PostPlanner, a Facebook tool that makes it easy for people to find and post amazing content to increase their social media engagement. Joshua founded the company in 2011 and to date Post Planner has over 25,000 monthly active users. Links, Resources & People Mentioned Post Planner - @postplanner Nir and Far Jira Fate Hacker Scott Ayres - @scottayres Joshua Parkinson - @Yessayer | Facebook Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcas...
Mar 30, 2015•47 min•Ep. 53
Joshua Parkinson is the Founder & CEO of PostPlanner, a Facebook tool that makes it easy for people to find and post amazing content to increase their social media engagement. Joshua founded the company in 2011 and to date Post Planner has over 25,000 monthly active users.
Mar 25, 2015•37 min•Ep. 52
Today's episode is a little different. I don't have a guest. It's just me. And you! Earlier this week, I published episode 50. I can't believe there are already 50 episodes of this show. So I thought this would be a good time to look back at the last 6 months, reflect on the awesome conversations I've had with so many amazing guests and share some of my own personal insights and lessons with you. Links, Resources & People Mentioned Brian Gardner - StudioPress Adam Schoenfeld - Simply Measured Pa...
Mar 23, 2015•24 min•Ep. 51
Chris Barton is the co-founder of Shazam, a mobile music recognition service which started out as idea that Chris had in 1999. Today, Shazam has over 100 million active users each month. In 2004, Chris joined Google and currently he's working at Dropbox, where he's responsible for business development for mobile operators. He also continues to serve the Shazam Entertainment board. Links, Resources & People Mentioned Shazam - @Shazam AngelList Audible Things Chris Barton - @bartonsurfer Omer Khan...
Mar 17, 2015•36 min•Ep. 50
Josh Pigford is the founder of Baremetrics, a product that provides SaaS analytics for Stripe. Josh founded the company in Oct 2013 when he built and launched the first version of the product in just 8 days and within 8 weeks he was already doing about $2000 in monthly recurring revenue. In this episode, we get tactical and learn how Josh uses content marketing as the primary channel for acquiring new customers. Links, Resources & People Mentioned Baremetrics - @Baremetrics Stripe - @stripe Ulys...
Mar 11, 2015•29 min•Ep. 49
Josh Pigford is the founder of Baremetrics, a product that provides SaaS analytics for Stripe. Josh founded the company in Oct 2013 when he built and launched the first version of the product in just 8 days and within 8 weeks he was already doing about $2000 in monthly recurring revenue. In this episode, we explore how Josh took his business from $0 to $30,000 per month in recurring revenue. Links, Resources & People Mentioned Baremetrics - @Baremetrics Stripe - @stripe Josh Pigford - @Shpigford...
Mar 09, 2015•31 min•Ep. 48
Guillermo Sanchez is the co-founder and CEO of Publitas.com, the easiest way to turn your print catalogs and magazines into interactive, shoppable publications on all devices. Guillermo has bootstrapped the business since it was founded in 2006 and currently, Publitias.com has over 600 customers including many leading retail companies. Links, Resources & People Mentioned Publitas Khalil Seyedmehdi - @kseyedmehdi (Co-Founder, Publitas) Asana - @asana Guillermo Sanchez - @Guillermo_FS Omer Khan - ...
Mar 04, 2015•47 min•Ep. 47
Rob Walling is the founder of the email marketing tool Drip and the owner of the SEO keyword tool HitTail. In this 'Mini Crash Course for Startups' we explain what marketing automation is, why you should care about it, and we share a step by step plan to help you implement your first marketing automation campaign which puts your customer acquisition efforts on auto-drive. Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS? Joi...
Mar 02, 2015•26 min•Ep. 46
Rob Walling is the founder of the email marketing tool Drip and the owner of the SEO keyword tool HitTail. He's also the author of the book "Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup". And his blog "Software by Rob" is a top 20 startup blog and is read by about 20,000 web entrepreneurs each month. When Rob launched Drip, he was doing $7K in monthly recurring revenue. But he quickly realized that his revenue had already flat-lined and that he had a high customer churn pr...
Feb 25, 2015•39 min•Ep. 45
Patrick McKenzie is the founder of Kalzumeus Software. He's best known for two software products - Bingo Card Creator and Appointment Reminder, both which he has bootstrapped. Patrick's also a well-known blogger who has been very transparent and open about his experience bootstrapping a software business. Patrick currently lives in Tokyo with his wife and newborn daughter. Links, Resources & People Mentioned Kalzumeus Software Bingo Card Creator Appointment Reminder Visual Website Optimizer Wing...
Feb 23, 2015•55 min•Ep. 44
