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Ryan Wardell is the CEO and cofounder of Startup Sauce, a private membership for SaaS founders outside of Silicon Valley doing $5k+ in MRR.


This community is special for a couple of reasons:


1. It's members are super accomplished CEOs who only have extremely nice things to say about the community


2. The guy who runs it, Ryan, is not a "startup expert". In fact, he has never even been a SaaS founder.


In this episode, Ryan shares his "magic sauce" that has allowed him to get there.


Resources:


  • Beginner Maps, our free email course containing the "magic sauce" of top communities - https://beginnermaps.com/
  • Startup Sauce, Ryan's community for founders doing $5k+ MRR - https://www.startupsauce.com/
  • Ryan's master list of 320+ places for SEO backlinks - https://www.startupsauce.com/list
  • Ryan's LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanwardell/
  • Nityesh's LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nityeshaga/


    • Chapters:


    0:00 Intro

    02:43 Startup Sauce stack

    05:47 Aha-moment masterminds

    07:58 Magic number for a mastermind

    10:23 Making introverts feel comfortable

    14:30 Magic sauce: matching people

    20:18 Facilitation tricks

    20:57 Tangent: Hiring a rockstar community manager

    23:06 Facilitation tricks contd.

    23:50 Giving people a reputation

    27:10 Don't pretend to be the expert

    28:26 Getting ridiculous retention

    30:45 But why $33/month???

    33:18 Screening calls for new members

    36:29 How he really makes money

    42:13 Ryan's future end game

    44:00 Why the 5k MRR barrier

    48:45 The idea

    52:12 First 20 customers

    01:01:05 Content marketing miss

    ...more
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