Leveling Up with Eric Siu

Today's interview is with Raven Tools co-founder Jon Henshaw. Jon's company made the transition from a service based company to a SaaS product and talks about the challenges he faced while making the pivot.  You'll learn about what participation marketing is and how you can acquire your first 300 users by doing it.  Lots more in this episode - enjoy!

Today’s interview is with Wistia CEO Chris Savage. Learn about how he hacked his spending habits to extend Wistia’s runway and why t-shirts are still a valid marketing tactic. You’ll also learn about the direction in which video is going and why it’s important to be using video as part of your content marketing strategy today.

Today’s interview is with Marcus Sheridan, also known as The Sales Lion – a sales, marketing and personal development blog. Marcus walks us through how he posted a profitable year even through the market crash in 2008.

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Today’s interview is with Qualaroo CEO Sean Ellis, who coined the term ‘growth hacker’ and founded growthhackers.com. Sean has a very impressive background growing startups such as Dropbox, Xobni and LogMeIn.

Hey everyone, today's interview is with Josh Reich, the CEO of Simple, a new bank that provides automated banking, budgeting, and savings for their customers.

Simple is growing faster than any other bank, has eliminated all the fees typically associated with traditional banking, and sold to BBVA for $117 million.

I'm a customer of Simple, and absolutely love they way they do things. Throughout the interview, Josh and I talk about what it was like for him to disrupt such a highly regulated industry, how they achieved their massive growth, and the basics of how they do business.

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Today’s interview is with David Hassell of 15five. He’s been labeled as the ‘Most Connected Man You Don’t Know In Silicon Valley’ by Forbes and he tells us how he got there. David is a serial entrepreneur and shares some tips for keeping himself sharp. 

Today’s interview is with Spencer Fry, CEO of Uncover, which is an employee rewards program for your company. Spencer previously co-founded TypeFrag (at age 19) and Carbonmade. All 3 of his companies were bootstrapped and Spencer talks about the benefits of bootstrapping.

Today’s guest is 26 year old Wade Foster, who is the Co-founder and CEO of Zapier, which is a tool that lets you easily connect web apps that you use.  Wade walks us through how the company started out as a remote team and how it has flourished by creating efficient internal processes.

Hey everyone! Today's interview is with Mamoon Hamid, co-founder and general partner of Social Capital, which is a venture capital firm that funds up-and-coming healthcare, education, financial services, mobile, and enterprise software companies.

In today's interview, we discuss Social Capital's mission to transform society with technology, the quick ratio he came up with to measure a company's financial health, the biggest mistakes people make when raising funds, and of course why sh*t gets funded by them!

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Hi everyone, today we've got Gabriel Weinberg back on the show as Growth Everywhere's first ever repeat guest.

To refresh your memory, Gabriel's a co-author of the book Traction (which has a great new updated version releasing tomorrow, October 6th), and is the CEO of the search engine DuckDuckGo.

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