Makerpad

Makerpad

By Ben TossellBusinessEntrepreneurship
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Makerpad episodes

  • Episode #14 - Tyler Tringas - Funding calm, profitable and stable companies from seed with Earnest Capital
    Tyler Tringas is the General Partner of Earnest Capital.
    Earnest ( Full disclosure - an investor in Makerpad) is creating a new way to help fund bootstrappers by combining venture and debt instruments that allow founders of profitable SaaS companies to leverage capital to grow without having to be set on the path of never ending capital raising and dilution.
    Tyler started Earnest after 5 years of bootstrapping my own SaaS business, Storemapper which he sold. You can read the whole story here.
    Ben and Tyler talk about the future of building profitable companies, no-code as a segment and all things SaaS.
    47 min
  • Episode #13 - Aron Korenblit - Automate all the things - Dinner, technology & solving everyday problems with no-code tools.
    Aron Korenblit is part of the teaching team at Airtable.
    Prior to joining Airtable Aron created the Essential Guide to Airtable, a popular course on Airtable. Aron is a master at figuring out how to ""Automate All the Things"" with the hopes to help people learn to automate the mundane so they can focus on what they love.
    Ben & Aron talk about automation, startups and how using no-code can simply make your life better, regardless of your profession.
    You can see a short backstory of AATT here.
    49 min
  • Episode #12 - Ward Sandler - Creating the access to build communities that scale with Memberspace
    Ward Sandler is the Co-founder of Memberspace.
    Memberspace allows you to turn any part of your website into members-only with just a few clicks. Simply lock access to any page of your website then choose what people pay to get in.
    Create memberships for anything you want like courses, video tutorials, member directories, and more while having 100% control over the look & feel.
    Ward and his team of designers & developers started Memberspace after realising how much of a need it was. Prior to building the Memberspace software they ran a web design agency who have built and supported over 400 websites, eCommerce stores, and web applications.
    Ben & Ward deep dive into all things member sites and the future of building communities online.
    44 min
  • Episode #11 - Mariam Hakobyan - Empowering the 99% to build software products without code.
    Mariam Hakobyan is the founder at Softr.io
    Mariam, an engineer/ ex-Director of Engineering turned entrepreneur.
    Prior to launching Softr.io she has built software products and led product engineering teams for most of her career.
    Softr is built to empower 99% of the world, who doesn’t know how to code, to build software products without having to learn how to code.
    Mariam is someone very passionate about the no-code space and on this episode Ben and Mariam speak about why she sees it as the future.
    19 min
  • Episode #10 - Graham Hunter - Helping build the future with the Segment Startup Program
    Graham Hunter is the head of Segment's Startup Program.
    Graham joined my first startup in the Wharton VIP (venture initiation program) Techstars alum, the first employee at a Techstars company that then sold to Intuit. Prior to joining Segment, he was Director of Marketing at Patreon
    Today Ben and Graham talk marketing, no-code tools & startups!
    Segment offers a Startup Program to enable early startups to track data correctly and easily test the marketing and analytics tools necessary to grow their business. The program is open to any early-stage startup that meets the following eligibility requirements:
    - Incorporated less than two years ago
    - Raised no more than $5MM in total funding
    - Located in Google Cloud eligible territory
    - haven’t previously received other Segment discounts
    You can find out more about it here: https://segment.com/
    30 min
  • Episode #9 - Vinay Patankar - Simplifying operational efficiency for enterprise middle market organisation with Process Street.
    Vinay Patankar is the co-founder & CEO of Process Street.
    Process Street is the simplest way to manage your teams recurring processes and workflows. Process Street makes it easily set up new clients, onboard employees and manage content publishing with Process Street.
    Process Street is a venture backed SaaS company and AngelPad alum with numerous fortune 500 clients. Salesforce, AirBnB, Yale, GAP and 1000's of other companies rely on Process Street to manage and automate repetitive work in their teams.
    Vinay was the youngest certified Cisco engineer in Australia at age 16, and is well-versed in IT, Finance, Startup Investment and Software Recruitment. Process Street is his fourth internet company.
    Ben & Vinay dive into no-code for enterprise and B2B customers, and how process & automation tools are changing the way we do business on scale.
    Vinay also blogs at Abstract Living about Startups, how to build a blog, Nomadic travel and all things marketing.
    36 min
  • Episode #8 - Evan Davies - Keeping it all together at work with Coda.
    Evan Davies is the Head of Solutions, Partnerships, Marketing, and Brand at Coda.
    Prior to joining Coda Evan was the founding team member of Box Consulting's Austin team, growing to 11 consultants managing over 400 deployment projects. He directly sold over $1.5M in consulting work, doubling attach rates to licensing deals and tripling bookings YoY.
    Prior to that was at Accenture where he designed and implemented trading operations and analytics products for Fortune Global 500 clients. Evan has a degree in Civil Engineering.
    Today Ben & Evan talk all things Coda, Partnerships and marketing solutions.
    44 min
  • Episode #7 - Mike Miello - Adding creativity to client projects with no-code tools
    Mike Miello is a designer, developer, marketer, and project manager. He specializes in turning ideas into deliverables you want.
    Currently based in Paris, France, (Rueil-Malmaison to be precise) Mike runs a remote consulting business that helps businesses get what they need faster, more cost-effectively and with less hassle.
    Ben & Mike talk about making things people want, building products and how no-code can be a superpower for business owners.
    19 min
  • Episode #6 - David Siegel - Perfecting the user experience with Glide.
    David Siegel is the co-founder and CEO of Glide.
    He previously worked at Microsoft. He also held positions at Xamarin, Futureproof, and X1 Technologies. David holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy and computer science engineering and has been dreaming up the future of visual programming and mixing code & nocode
    Glide turns spreadsheets into beautiful, easy-to-use apps, without code. Pick a spreadsheet or start with a template, customize your app, then share it instantly. Glide was in the Y Combinator Winter 2019 class
    David was working with his co-founders Jason Smith, Mark Probst and Antonio Garcia Aprea at Xamarin, a cross-platform mobile development company that Microsoft acquired for $500 million in 2016. There, they witnessed first-hand the difficulty that companies were having building mobile apps so the four founders decided to build a startup to solve the problem.
    Ben and David dig into all things glide & building real solutions, fast.
    49 min

About Makerpad

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At Makerpad we teach people how to build software solutions without writing code. In this podcast, we will be talking to the founders of the no-code tools themselves, people like Vlad from Webflow Emmanuel from Bubble, and the founders and makers, professionals who are using tools and no-code solutions in their business to automate workflows, set up processes, and increase their productivity to allow themselves to be more creative at work.