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Practical Founders Podcast

Tune into the Practical Founders Podcast with host Greg Head for weekly in-depth interviews with founders who have built valuable software companies--without big funding.

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#98: What VCs Don’t Tell Founders About Raising Big...

Practical Founders Podcast ·

2024/06/21

In this episode, Practical Founders Podcast host Greg Head discusses the most important things venture capital investors don’t tell new SaaS startup founders. He emphasizes that VCs invest in very few businesses and are looking for big wins. Greg highlights the importance of understanding the game of venture capital funding and the alternatives available to SaaS founders. Quote from Greg Head, Host of the Practical Founders Podcast “If you’re thinking about raising VC investment, do your

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01:01:03

#97: Bootstrapped Auto Dealer Software and Sold to...

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2024/06/14

Mike Trasatti spent 10 years in the automotive dealer software business before he found an auto dealer in Iowa who had built is own complete software system. They partnered up in 2008, and Mike became the first CEO of the spinout software company, DealerBuilt. DealerBuilt grew slowly as a bootstrapped startup in a market full of large incumbent competitors. They had a better approach to managing multiple dealers in a group with their dealer management system (DMS). DealerBuilt is powerful

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58:22

#96: Expert Explains Payments Monetization For Your...

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2024/06/07

Brian Abernethy, founder of Utopaya, is an expert in helping SaaS leaders navigate the complicated process of adding payments monetization to their product offerings and business strategies. With a long history in the payments industry, Brian has worked with hundreds of early-stage SaaS leaders and their investors to optimize their payments strategies. In this expert podcast interview, Brian explains the basics of payments monetization for practical SaaS founders, answering questions like

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01:08:28

#95: Bootstrapped, Scaled, and Sold a SaaS-like...

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2024/05/31

Jeff Corn is the co-founder and former CEO of Virtuance, one of the US's leading real estate photography and marketing providers. In 2010, Jeff was in the real estate investment business and wondered why it took $10,000 and nearly a month to get professional photos for new listings. He and a cofounder started taking photos to serve busy real estate agents to learn what was needed and improve the quality and speed of delivery with technology. Virtuance started with the vision of a

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55:36

#94: Practical M&A Advisor Explains SaaS Valuations...

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2024/05/24

Adam Haynes is a managing director at GLC Advisors, an M&A advisory firm that helps bootstrapped founders to successfully sell their companies. The software advisor team at GLC has been working with practical software founders for over 15 years and has completed over 100 software transactions. In this expert interview, Adam shares: What has changed in software acquisitions in the last 20 years and recently through 2024 What are the valuation ranges and factors for practical SaaS companies

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47:22

#93: SaaS Sales Coach Shares How to Improve Your Demo...

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2024/05/17

Matt Wolach spent 15 years as a successful SaaS account rep, sales leader, and software founder before becoming a SaaS sales coach for early-stage B2B SaaS companies. He has worked with over 250 SaaS founders and sales leaders worldwide to improve their close rates and create repeatable sales systems quickly. In this episode, Matt shares: How B2B SaaS founders need to learn to sell and understand their own sales processes before hiring salespeople Why technical founders can their sales using

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57:33

#92: Bootstrapped Integration Platform Growing Faster...

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2024/05/10

Charlie Alsmiller is the founder and CEO of APIWORX, a powerful integration platform for mid-sized ecommerce companies. He is an experienced practical founder who has created and grown several software companies. His first venture was VC-funded and shut down quickly in 2001. His next software ventures were bootstrapped with funding from services revenue and his own savings. APIWORKS is a powerful integration platform that connects Shopify data to accounting software and other applications

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01:04:33

#91: How AI Is (and Isn’t) Changing the Game for...

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2024/05/03

David Evans, the managing partner of Sentiero Ventures, a seed fund focused on AI-focused software startups. David discusses the role of AI in software development and the opportunities it presents for practical SaaS startups. He shares his journey with AI and predictive modeling in his previous companies and the key factors he looks for when investing in AI-powered companies. In this expert podcast interview, David discusses: The new questions about revenue models for AI-powered companies

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01:04:11

#90: Why Growth Equity is Practical Funding for...

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2024/04/19

Phil Dur is cofounder and managing partner of PeakSpan Capital, a growth equity investment firm that works with bootstrapped SaaS founders who are scaling up to become sizable market leaders. Phil has been funding capital-efficient software founders for over 20 year and has served on 45 boards with those companies. In this expert podcast interview, Phil explains: Why the practical growth equity approach is fundamentally different from the venture investment approach How PeakSpan and other

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01:05:00

#89: Scrappy Bootstrappers Grew Up to Be the...

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2024/04/12

Joe McMenemon and his college roommate, Brendan, knew they wanted to start a business together. They had run their college fraternity chapter and saw the problem of managing members and collecting payments. So they lived frugally and built a software solution for fraternities and sororities to solve this problem. ChapterSpot grew slowly over several years as they sold to local chapters. Eventually, the national associations came calling, requesting an enterprise solution to manage hundreds of

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57:49

#88: Persevered to Find a Scalable Niche in a Crowded...

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2024/04/05

Jeromy Wilson spent over ten years in the software business as a product management leader working for PE-owned and VC-funded software companies. When he decided to start his own software company, he focused on serving public libraries, like his father, who had created a successful library automation software company called Dynix. Jeromy is the founder and CEO of Niche Academy, the leading learning and development platform for libraries in the US. With his savings and a little angel funding,

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01:03:57

#87: Created Software for His Own Business that is...

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2024/03/29

Paul Van Metre was the co-founder of a successful machine shop that manufactured custom parts for the aerospace and medical device industries. Over 15 years, they created and improved software to run their entire business, which created huge efficiencies and helped them manage their growth. They sold that business in 2014 to focus on selling their complete software platform, called ProShop, to other forward-thinking machine shops. ProShop is now one of North America's leading ERP (enterprise

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01:10:30

#86: Growing Profitably and Getting Big with Happy...

Practical Founders Podcast ·

2024/03/22

Chris Savage is the co-founder of Wistia, a leading video marketing platform for businesses. Wistia was started in 2007 by Chris and a college friend when inexpensive cloud hosting and easy web video encoding became available. They created the first easy way to host and share videos with deep analytics and no ads for marketers to use on their websites. With a bootstrapped approach and just $1.2 million in angel funding, Wistia grew quickly and profitably, becoming a leading video hosting platform

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01:03:02

#85: Moz Founder Rand Fishkin Reveals the Pains of VC...

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2024/03/15

Rand Fishkin is the founder and former CEO of Moz, a leading SEO software for marketers created in 2007 that grew out of the active followers of Rand’s popular SEOmoz blog. Moz grew quickly to over $30 million in revenue by 2013, having raised $30 million in venture capital investment. When growth slowed in 2014, the company faced many internal difficulties and Rand dealt with mental health challenges, causing him to step down as CEO. Rand left Moz in 2018 and later that year published his popular

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59:50

#84: Scaled and Sold a Marketplace of Pre-Vetted...

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2024/03/08

Nathan Hirsch, co-founder of FreeUp, shares his journey of building and selling the company and his other business adventures. FreeUp provides clients with pre-vetted virtual assistants (VAs) and freelancers in an online marketplace. Nathan discusses the importance of niching down and targeting specific industries, such as e-commerce, to attract clients. He also highlights the combination of software and people in FreeUp’s operations, with software handling recruitment and billing and people

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01:01:18

#83: Second-time founder grows Amazon affiliate...

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2024/03/01

Ian Brodie, the co-founder and CEO of Levanta, shares his journey of building a successful SaaS company in the affiliate marketing space. Levanta is an affiliate marketing platform for Amazon sellers, enabling them to connect with content creators, publishers, and influencers to drive sales and traffic to their Amazon storefronts. The company has experienced rapid growth, with over 700 brands and 3,000 affiliates on the platform. Ian discusses the challenges and opportunities of the affiliate

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01:07:30

#82: Former SaaS Founder Launches Seed Fund for...

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2024/02/16

Gregg Scoresby founded CampusLogic in Phoenix in 2021 to provide software for colleges and universities in the US to make it easier for students to apply for college loans and grants online. Initially self-funded, CampusLogic raised investment and grew faster, becoming a leading provider of software to universities with $50 million in revenue. In 2022, CampusLogic was acquired by Ellucian for an undisclosed amount. In 2023, Gregg launched PHX Ventures, a $27 million seed-funded supporting

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#81: Bootstrapped Founder Sells His Profitable SaaS...

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2024/02/09

Esben Friis-Jensen and his cofounder, Sebastian Seilund, teamed up in 2021 to create Userflow, a no-code user onboarding product for SaaS companies. This week, it was announced that Userflow has been acquired by Beamer, a maker of product user engagement software that also used product-led growth strategies just like Userflow. Userflow is profitable and growing, with over $4 million in ARR, 750 customers, and just three employees with no outside funding. Techcrunch reported that Userflow was

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01:27:16

#80: Second-Time Founder Wins Bigger with...

Practical Founders Podcast ·

2024/02/02

Antony Ceravolo is a successful two-time startup founder from Adelaide, South Australia. He started his career in investment banking but left in 2002 to start a DVD rental business in London that raised funding from big VCs and Amazon. It grew into Lovefilm.com, which was later acquired by Amazon in 2011 to become part of their movie streaming service. He moved back to Adelaide and started Sine in 2013 to help schools, businesses, and large office buildings manage guest sign-ins more securely using

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01:05:06

#79: Practical Founder with 3 Exits Explains How SEO...

Practical Founders Podcast ·

2024/01/26

Raj Khera is an experienced practical SaaS founder who has used search engine optimization (SEO) to grow businesses very efficiently. Now he coaches entrepreneurs at MoreBusiness on how to use organic SEO as a core part of their marketing engine. In this expert interview, I ask Raj to explain the basics of SEO for SaaS founders, what tools and techniques are most useful, and how SaaS founders can make the most of SEO investments to drive revenue faster. SEO for Bootstrapped SaaS Topics Discussed on

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