Kruze Consulting's Founders and Friends Podcast for Startups

Devon Tivona of Pana (https://pana.com) discusses how Pana combines mobile app technology and virtual travel assistants to make travel easy. Although Pana is for business travel, I used it on a recent vacation and loved it. Recently Pana added features for corporate recruiters to make coordinating candidate travel simple.

Sarah Schaaf of Headnote (https://headnote.com/) retraces her journey from Google Lawyer to legal industry startup founder. Headnote makes billing and collections easy for lawyers. It's a huge pain point for lawyers and the company has already handled over $1M in its very short life. We discuss the value of an incubator (NFX) and how it helped Headnote's team pivot to the right idea. Finally, we talk about working with your spouse and how rewarding and challenging that can be.

Jesse Freese of Sequoia Consulting Group discusses the PEO approach for employee benefits at startups. Sequoia is a highly regarded, full-service Benefits and Risk Management provider that delivers payroll, benefits and other compliance needs. Rapidly growing startups often turn to Sequoia’s PEO solution, Sequoia One, to help scale benefits and people management.

Jeron Paul of Capshare (https://www.capshare.com/) stops by to talk about Cap Table Management for Startups. Capshare is the leading software provider for Cap Table Management. It allows startups to escape unreliable excel reports and bring their Cap Table into the cloud.

Laurie Lumenti-Garty of Square One Bank (www.square1bank.com) joins Founders & Friends to explain the services that every startup should receive from its bank. Square One focuses entirely on startups and does an excellent job. Laurie walks through Cash Management, Venture Debt and other financial services that are helpful to startups. Laurie & Square One have been great partners of Kruze Consulting and we recommend them to our clients.

Peter Lai joins Founders & Friends to discuss his new company, Emburse (https://www.emburse.com/). Peter is a serial entrepreneur and sold his last company to Box. He shares his tips on attacking new markets, grinding out the product / market fit stage of a startup and explains how he came up with the idea for Emburse. Kruze Consulting recommends Emburse virtual cards and expense management and it was fantastic to have Peter on the podcast.

Mike Lederman runs the West Coast Region for Bridge Bank (https://www.westernalliancebancorporation.com/bridge-bank-home), one of the premier banks that serves startups. Mike explains venture debt and the other services that Bridge Bank provides to its startup clients.

Bridge Bank is a division of Western Alliance Bank, member FDIC.

Ronjini Joshua is the founder of The Silver Telegram (http://thesilvertelegram.com/), a PR agency for startups and crowdfunding campaigns. She walks us through the best practices for Startup PR, how to get the most out of your PR Agency and a few "what not to do" stories. :)

James Schramko of SuperFastBusiness (www.superfastbusiness.com) discusses building productive habits both personally and professionally. James has founded multiple successful businesses on the web and now focuses on SuperFastBusiness, an Executive Coaching service with international clientele.

James' podcast is excellent and a must listen (http://www.superfastbusiness.com/tag/podcast/)

Rene Lacerte is Founder & CEO of Bill.com (https://www.bill.com/), the leading online business payment provider and one of Kruze Consulting's favorite software tools. Rene discusses how growing up in an entrepreneurial family shaped him, the insights that led him to start Bill.com, the culture of customer service at Bill.com and where Bill.com is going next.