Happy Progress Growth Podcast

17. Dennis of Convert - Growth Mindset from Successful Startup Founder for AB Testing & Personalization Saas


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Growth isn't easy. Hear how this successful startup had amazing growth while building a happy team. More at http://happyprogress.com/convert Here are some of the highlights from Dennis from Convert:
  • Does progress happiness to you? It feels like. I feel happy when things are moving forward. I don't believe in an end goal to get somewhere, happiness is doing just a little bit every day.
  • Introduction to HolacracyHolacracy is often appealing for early-stage startups. They hear about the sophisticated and nuanced processes for organizing and reorganizing their work. ... They say Holacracy empowers people by taking people out of the organization systems, doing away with managers so people work on the organization not each other.
  • Was your end goal to become an Optimizely or Omniture (Adobe Marketing Cloud)?Yes, in many ways Dennis wanted to raise money and become a lot larger. Then Dennis discovered that may not be the right path for him.
  • Discuss the Intrapreneurs' JourneyBeing an intrapreneur provides you with the opportunity to see if entrepreneurship is the right fit for you without the risks of leaving your job, investing your own money, and starting from the ground up. You can test the waters with a safety net while having access to more resources and a larger platform.
  • Limiting Belief - Are You Worth Your Value? Dennis was very reluctant to pay himself so his startup would grow. Even though his startup was growing and had the money was in the bank, Dennis was struggling and was always worried about paying his mortgage.

Mentions:

  • Paras Chopra - VWO / Wingify - Founder & Chairman Paras started Wingify in early 2009 to enable businesses to design and deploy great customer experiences for their websites and apps.
  • Peep Laja - Founder of CXL and Copytesting Created the best blog for conversion Peep is a former champion of experimentation and optimization turned business builder. Now he grows a portfolio of startup companies.
  • Simo Ahava - Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics Expert He is a Google Developer Expert for Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager. This is a blog all about web analytics development.
  • Optimizely Optimizely is an American company that makes progressive delivery and experimentation optimization software for other companies. The Optimizely platform technology provides A/B testing and multivariate testing tools, website personalization, and feature toggle capabilities.
  • Omniture / Adobe Target & Adobe Analytics Omniture was an online marketing and web analytics business unit acquired by Adobe Systems in 2009. Now known as Adobe Marketing Cloud.
Learn more about Dennis Van Der Heijden founder of Convert.com A/B Testing & Personalization Tool

Dennis founded Convert.com in 2009 which is a conversion rate optimisation software (A/B Testing and personalization - ABM - a tool similar to Optimizely, AB Tasty, and VWO also focused on privacy GDPR / CCPA compliance, CRO agencies, and in-house teams. Convert Saas software structure their accounts and payment plans so that agencies can easily use our software across multiple accounts without having to pay for a new license for each client they use it for. Convert saas startup offer tons of value for an affordable price and a free trial.

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