Founders with Pek

Difference of SalesFlare in any other CRM

Jeroen’s background, interests and family background

Challenges in starting a new company

Jeroen talks about his previous company Doctura

The idea on how he started SalesFlare

What works and doesn’t work in building a successful business

How did they got their first early customers?

Partnering with Appsumo deal in getting more sales

Building and growing SalesFlare team

And MUCH MORE!

Matthew worked at the intersection of design and technology for over 22 years, most recently as VP of Design at The Zebra. He builds high-performing teams and designs award-winning products and brands. Beyond that, he also writes about ethics, accessibility, diversity, and education within design.

At The Zebra, he scaled a Design Org from 3 to 22 in 3 years. His teams included product and marketing design, research, and design operations. They built a suite of products that increased revenue from $1M to $100M, along with a 100% retention rate on his team.

Before The Zebra, he was the Co-Founder of DeviantArt.com, the largest online art gallery in the world. With over 30 million works of art and 300 million users.

He’s also involved in the larger design community, both in Austin and abroad. He’s been a member of Invision’s Design Leadership Forum and is currently serving on the Advisory Board for Austin Design Week. He also donates his time and design skills to various non-profits, including American Cancer Society.

In this episode, we talked about

How did DeviantArt.com start?

Some feature Matthew designed in the early days

Deviant Art system

Dealing with copyrights and how did they manage it

Building and engaging with the community

Career after DeviantArt

Starting The Zebra

What is The Zebra and how it serves people

How did he scale design org

And MUCH MORE

Links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewstephens/

https://matthewstephens.com/

https://www.deviantart.com/matteo

https://dribbble.com/matthewlarn

Jane Portman is a UI/UX consultant specializing in web application design, founder of UI Breakfast and Userlist. At Userlist, Jane's goal is to provide flawless onboarding and engagement for SaaS companies through a simple customer messaging platform.

Jane has also been running UI Breakfast Podcast since 2014.

In this episode, we talked about:

How did Jane get into design?

Software design and Saas Products

Life as UI/UX consultant

Productized Consulting

Jane’s workflow and process in writing a book

How to network?

Podcasting to build a network

What is Userlist and what designers need to think about as entrepreneurs

And MUCH MORE!

Links:

UI Breakfast Podcast

Better Done Than Perfect

https://userlist.com/

UI Audit by Jane Portman

Authority by Nathan Berry

Write Useful Books by Rob Fitzpatrick

Stacking the Bricks with Amy Hoy - https://stackingthebricks.com/

The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick

USE PEK300 as a code to get $300 OFF - https://userlist.com/

Bryan Clayton is CEO and co-founder of GreenPal, an online marketplace that connects homeowners with local lawn care professionals. GreenPal has been called the “Uber for lawn care” by Entrepreneur magazine and has over 200,000 active users completing thousands of transactions per day.

Before starting GreenPal Bryan Clayton founded Peachtree Inc. one of the largest landscaping companies in the state of Tennessee growing it to over $10 million a year in annual revenue before it was acquired by Lusa holdings in 2013.

Bryan‘s interests and expertise are related to entrepreneurialism, small business growth, marketing and bootstrapping businesses from zero revenue to profitability and exit.

In this episode, we talked about:

How Bryan scaled his business into the most profitable landscaping business in the state of Tennessee

What led to launching GreenPal

Starting a tech company with no tech background

Hustling and reinventing into a tech entrepreneur

Common mistakes when starting a business

Learning skills from building a startup

Some of the big challenges with growing small business

And much MORE!

Links:

http://yourgreenpal.com/

https://www.facebook.com/greenpallawncare/

https://www.instagram.com/yourgreenpal/

https://twitter.com/YourGreenPal

Marie is the developer and designer of Llama Life, a tool that helps you work THROUGH to-do lists, not just make them. She's a 4th time founder (sold 2 companies) and previously designed an app that was featured by Apple and ranked in the Top 10 Productivity apps. Currently based in Melbourne, Australia, but spent 12yrs living in London and New York where she got her foundation in the Branding and Advertising world.

Marie shares her journey of starting up Llama Life helping thousands of people around the world be more productive and what it differs from other productivity apps. Co-founded an app praised by Apple as one of the "best new apps"

Wonderschool CEO and co-founder Chris Bennett saw too many parents who were anxious and scared about finding child care, as well as educators who couldn’t afford care for their own children while they were at work. He knew that there had to be a better way to address this issue for families and teachers alike.

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Chris’s appreciation for education goes back to his parents, Honduran immigrants who did whatever they could to ensure that he had access to an excellent education—from sending him to a quality preschool to supporting him through his graduation from the University of Pennsylvania. He was committed to making sure other children had the same opportunities to reach their full potential.

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The Wonderschool team designed the mission-driven company as a way to dramatically increase access to high-quality early childhood care for all families. Today, the platform empowers experienced educators and child care providers to run their own in-home business while providing a much-needed service to other families in their communities.

Roger Dickey is the Co-Founder of MADE. Roger is a serial entrepreneur & active angel investor based in San Francisco. Roger's first company was an AirBnB for tutoring started in Austin in 2006.He entered the games industry in 2007 with a Facebook app startup, launching 19 apps with the largest generating 300M+ page views per month. After an acquisition by Zynga, Roger went on to found Mafia Wars (100M users), FishVille (35M users), and 5 other titles in his 3 years there. Roger served as an international product team advisor for Zynga helping the company grow its games in India, Japan, and China. Since leaving Zynga, Roger has launched Gigster, a marketplace for software development services. Alongside his work at Zynga, Roger began advising & investing in bay-area startups in 2010. His investments include Docker, Addepar, iCracked, OpenGov, ClassDojo, and Wanelo. Advisory roles include Formation 8, Nest, OpenDoor, and The Thiel Fellowship.

In this episode, we talked about:

Made Renovation and how it serves people

Made Renovation’s satisfied customers

Roger’s team and system

Their all-in-one renovation system

Overcoming market risks

His career as a CEO and Co-founder in Gigster

What drove Roger to start Gigster

Founding Mafia Wars

Akeel Jabber is the Investment Director and GP of Horizen Capital, an Engineer who was previously a partner and operations director at Wired investors, a micro private equity firm focused on digital asset acquisitions and has been involved in over 15 company acquisitions. Expert in growth marketing strategy and business operations.

Andrew Gazdecki is the Founder of MicroAcquire. Former CEO & Founder of Bizness Apps and Altcoin (both acquired). He likes to build stuff, mostly companies, and in this episode, he tries to tell a story that goes beyond what the company does to how it’s changing markets.

Andrew has been featured in NYT, Forbes, WSJ, Inc.com, and Entrepreneur Magazine, as well as prominent industry blogs such as Mashable, TechCrunch, and VentureBeat.

Capri Wheaton is an avid thrifter and fashion fanatic, she is currently the CEO and Co-Founder at Thryft. She briefly studied political science and philosophy as a Freshman at UC Berkeley before dropping out to co-found Thryft with Sam Yang.

Thryft is Shopify for Instagram sellers, they turn Instagram feed into a website in 1 click. It helps Instagram sellers collect payments securely across drops, live streams & more, purchase shipping labels at the lowest rates, automatically send buyers tracking and manage all their orders and metrics in one place.