Big Break Software Podcast

Todd Herman is an author, mentor, and performance coach for high performers in sports and business. He is the creator of the multi-award winning leadership and skills development program, 90 Day Year, and he authored the WSJ bestselling book, The Alter Ego Effect: The Power of Secret Identities to Transform Your Life. 

Todd was also a recipient of Inc. 500’s Fastest Growing Companies Award, as well as the Rama Award for Wisdom and Leadership. His professional programs are delivered annually to over 200,000 professionals in 73 countries.

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Goals are often talked about in business circles as a destination to arrive at, a target to reach, and a milestone to achieve. However, not very many business executives and entrepreneurs are able to truly achieve their goals. Why? Because according to Todd Herman, people fail to achieve their goals because these lack the required motivation to see them through. 

The question now is, how do you set long term and short term goals and still have the required motivation to follow through? What are the different types of goals and how do they feed off each other? 

Todd Herman of The Peak Group gives his insights on seeing through your goals and truly working on your passion projects in this episode of The Big Break Software podcast. Tune in as Geordie Wardman talks to Todd about how understanding goal setting can help you develop the passion you need to move your career and business forward, and how you can create and achieve goals that will truly make you feel accomplished. Stay tuned.

Don Bora is a Co-Founder of Eight Bits Studios, a software development agency helping startups and young companies. He has co-founded or helped start a handful of other companies including Kiwi Internet Group, WisePatient.com, MobileMakers, and a few others. 

Don also co-founded a non-profit company with the goal of placing highschool students in tech internships in Chicago. He is also on the board of a non-profit that runs a Boot Camp for Veterans.

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Where are you in your SaaS business journey? Are you testing your MVP or are at the development stage and waiting to launch? It doesn’t matter which stage you’re at, you’ll find insights from this week’s guest, Don Bora of Eight Bit Studios super helpful. 

With over 30 years of CTO level experience, Don has co-founded or helped start a handful of companies including Kiwi Internet Group, WisePatient.com, and MobileMakers. He also runs a software development bootcamp for military veterans. 

In this episode of the Big Break Software Podcast, Geordie Wardman interviews Don Bora about the service versus product breakdown using Don’s company, Eight Bit Studios as a case study. Find out how Don grew his software development agency by150% in two years, his metrics for choosing the clients to work with, and why great service deserves unquestionable value. Exciting right? Stay tuned.

Geoff Watts is an Agile Leadership Coach over at Inspect & Adapt Ltd. He is a certified Scrum Master Trainer, and he also runs and hosts The Agile Pubcast podcast. Geoff has written four books on the topic of agile in coaching and what makes teams great.

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For your SaaS product to succeed, there are underlying considerations that you need to have in place in order to maximize all the potential possibilities that your product has to offer. And according to Geoff Watts of Agile Pubcast, one of the things you need to keep in mind from the designing process all the way up to launch is that you don’t know everything. That in itself can open a whole new world of possibilities for you, your product, and your business.

It’s nearly impossible to know everything that your potential customers want and need from a SaaS product and the best way for you to get those answers is by getting a Scrum which can help you either deliver the Most Viable Product (MVP) or de-risk the riskiest part of what you're doing.

Tune in to this episode of the Big Break Software Podcast where Geoff Watts discusses his agile coaching business, all things Scrum related, how to improve your SaaS product to match your target group, and the vital role of Scrum Masters. Stay tuned.

Geordie Wardman is the founder of One Stop.io. He's founded five companies, sold three of them and has been in the software industry since 2000.

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SaaS founders are always on the lookout for invaluable insights to grow their business and one way that has proven to be very effective is being on and listening to other founders via podcasts. But when it comes to podcasts you should listen to in the SaaS space, you can easily be spoiled for choice.

In this episode of the Big Break Software podcast, Geordie Wardman narrows your options now to seven of the best SaaS podcasts out there. From Omer Khan’s SaaS Club podcast to Jason Calacanis’ This Week in Startups podcast, you will find Geordie’s picks of SaaS podcasts you should be listening to very helpful. Stay Tuned. 

Craig Hewitt is the host of The Rogue Startup podcast and he is the Founder of Podcast Motor, a SaaS company that provides turnkey, end-to-end podcast editing and production services for busy professionals. He also owns Castos, a podcast hosting and analytics platform that helps people build, grow, and monetize their podcast with ease.

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There are a myriad of challenges you are likely to face if you decide to develop inside the Wordpress Framework and build a SaaS company. However, this week’s guest, Craig Hewitt has been able to surmount many of these challenges and went ahead to build a SaaS Wordpress plug-in that has done $10K MRR within 12 months. 

In this week’s episode of The Big Break Software, Geordie sits with Craig to discuss how Craig built his breakout SaaS company powered by Wordpress, his career, and entrepreneurial background, how Craig grows his customer base and lessons from what he would do differently if he were to start over.

Omer Khan is a SaaS podcaster and founder of the SaaS platform Prestopod where he helps podcasters plan, organize and publish podcasts. He also runs a coaching program called the SaaS club where he helps new and early-stage SaaS founders build and grow their business.

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Many early-stage SaaS startup founders are typically more driven by the idea and the product than figuring out whether they have a problem that’s worth solving. And so when these startup founders go into their launch program they soon realize that they either do not have the roadmap to move the business from point A to point B, or they’ve built a product that does not solve the right problem. Having been there himself, Omer Khan talks about how founders can find the problem and create the right product for the SaaS market.  

Omer Khan is a SaaS founder himself and a consultant to early-stage SaaS founders, helping them build and grow their business by providing content, community, and coaching. 

Omer sits down with Geordie Wardman in this week’s episode of The Big Break Software podcast to talk about his long term career in the software industry, going solo as a podcaster and SaaS founder, the mistakes early-stage startup SaaS founders make, and how they can identify problems in the market to solve. Stay tuned. 

Nick Loper is the Chief Side Hustler at Side Hustle Nation and the host of The Side Hustle Show podcast that gets over 30,000 downloads per episode. He is an entrepreneur involved in a variety of projects and is passionate about helping people build something they care about, generate income outside of their day job, and to have the ability to build more financial freedom and security into their life.

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Everyone needs a side hustle. Whether you’re an entrepreneur or a 9-5 employee, extra cash flow will always be welcome. That’s something Nick Loper of Side Hustle Nation is passionate about -- showing and teaching people how to best generate multiple streams of income that you will love and enjoy. It shouldn’t distract you from your primary hustle, it should enable you to focus on the hustle that you really want to be doing in life.

In this episode of The Big Break Software Podcast, you’ll hear Nick talk about the important factors to consider to start a side hustle, the various side hustles he has done, and some personal experiences you can draw insight from to build your side hustle. Plus, he talks about his 26,000-strong Facebook group and the awesome hustle ideas you can find on his website. Stay tuned.

Alex Theuma is the founder of SaaStock, Europe’s largest SaaS event conferences. They help SaaS companies get traction, grow, and scale through their global conferences, local meetups, community, and content. 

SaaStock started as small informal meetups back in 2016 and it has since grown to be one of the largest events in Saas among thought leaders, Venture Capitalists, successful SaaS owners, and entrepreneurs.

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Launching your company is an exhilarating feeling, but seeing it grow and expand to a point where it becomes capable of helping other people in establishing their own mark in a competitive industry can feel quite unbelievable.

Alex Theuma of SaaStock experienced just that in the process of building his company. He lost $60,000 in a conference he hosted and he persisted in hosting another one which helped turn things around for himself and his company, making it gain a ton of investors and earning $4 million in revenue.

In this week’s episode of The Big Break Software, Geordie Wardman talks to Alex about the early days of his company, trends and competition in the SaaS industry, the importance of building a strong sense of community in the industry, and which niche he thinks should be the main focus of those who are wondering what SaaS product will take off next. Stay tuned.

In this episode of The Big Break Software Podcast, Geordie Wardman interviews JD Graffam about what he looks for in the companies he’s looking to buy, what makes a company seem like a lucrative venture, and what he learned from the failure of his first product. Stay tuned.

Many people tend to feel more comfortable working with local developers and being able to drive down the street & meet them face-to-face. However, this does not always work out well & it is not a guarantee that local developers will deliver the right product or service as needed. 

This was the case with one of Geordie's clients. After engaging the services provided by Geordie, this client was finally able to develop the product, he wanted.