Starting & Sustaining
Candid discussions with folks involved in and around the SaaS industry.
Latest Episodes
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Brennan Dunn, Co-founder of RightMessage
Brennan is a co-founder of Right Message. In this episode, we talk about the path he's taken that led him to create Right Message and what he's learned about building and launching SaaS application...
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Mathias Meyer, Co-founder and Former CEO of Travis CI
Mathias is one of the original founders of Travis CI. In this episode, we talk about the difficulty of leaving the company he helped start, and the challenges of moving on.
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Jaimee Newberry, Co-founder of Picture This Clothing
Jaimee Newberry is the founder of Picture This Clothing where you can print a coloring sheet and design a one-of-a-kind ready-to-wear creation that they send to you. In this epsode we talk about ma...
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Steve McLeod, Founder of Feature Upvote
Steve McLeod is the founder of Feature Upvote, a SaaS tool to enable your customers to suggest and upvote improvements. In this episode, we talk about and compare his experiences running both a B2C...
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Ben Curtis, Co-founder of Honeybadger
Ben Curtis is the co-founder of Honeybadger, a SaaS-based exception tracking application. Honeybadger is bootstrapped and profitable with three co-founders and is a great example of a team scratchi...
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Scott Nixon - Co-founder of Happy Herbivore/Meal Mentor
Scott Nixon is the co-founder of Meal Mentor, a subscription-based vegeterian meal planning service. Scott handles the technology side of the business and works to keep the operational side of thin...
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Matt Goldman, CEO of Churn Buster
Matt is the CEO of Churn Buster, a SaaS app to help recurring revenue businesses handle failed payments better.
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Rachel Andrew, Cofounder of Perch
Rachel is the co-founder of Perch, a small self-hosted CMS. She has some incredible wisdom to share about running a software company that's not based on recurring revenue subscriptions.
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Tracy Osborn, Founder of Wedding Lovely
Tracy Osborn taught herself how to code and built Wedding Lovely through which she acquired some hard-earned knowledge about selling to consumers and the cost of managing support.
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Josh Williams, Founder of Gowalla
Josh Williams has done a little bit of everything as far as building software businesses go. He started out bootstrapping some applications which eventually led to raising money and building Gowalla.
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Thomas Smale, Founder of FE International
Thomas Smale is the founder of FE International, a professional web site broker. FE International helped me sell Sifter in 2016, and they were a fantastic partner. Having sold over 425 business, th...
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Nathan Barry, Founder of ConvertKit
The journey Nathan has gone through with ConvertKit is amazing. From significantly missing his original goals, he continued to work and make adjustments to ConvertKit and his approach until he foun...
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Courtland Allen, Founder of Indie Hackers
Courtland is earlier on in the cycle of building a business, but he's on the right track. He's gained a ton of insight from past experiences, and now he's building Indie Hackers and talking to a pl...
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Ruben Gamez, Founder of Bidsketch
Ruben set out to help a friend find some software for proposals and, when he couldn't find anything, just built it himself in 2009. Eight short years later, and he's built a 5-person remote team wo...
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Allan Branch, Cofounder of Less Accounting
Allan is the cofounder of LessEverying, makers of LessAccounting. They recently sold LessAccounting and are moving back into traditional consulting and having a blast with it.
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Drew Wilson, Founder of Plasso
Drew Wilson is a maker at heart. He's created many products with varying degrees of success, but they've all ultimately led him to where he is now, working on Plasso.
