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Today’s guest is Enzo, the founder of June - a tool to visualize and measure the metrics for subscription businesses. In this episode, we’ll discover how they’re growing 10% month-over-month and why you should monetize as quickly as you can.

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Named in this episode: Sergio Mattei (Founder of Makerlog), Slack, June, Pieter Levels (aka Levels io), Spotify, Intercom, Rework the book, Des Traynor.

Vedran is the founder of Treblle. In this episode, we’re talking about how they scaled their software, which makes it super easy to understand your product’s API, to 6k MRR and how they are growth hacking their marketing through smart content strategies.

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Tim Leland is the founder of t.ly. And, in this episode we’re talking about how Tim scaled his business to now $5k MRR and some of the growth hacks he applied, such as building free separate tools to attract new leads!

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Today’s guest is Farzad Rashidi, and he’s the founder of Respona. Farzad initially joined the Visme team as the first marketing hire, helping the company reach over 2M monthly organic traffic and surpass 13 million active users. That journey led to the creation of Respona, which was, what they called, “the secret weapon” of their marketing team.  This awesome episode is brought to you by Upvoty - which are today’s sponsor. Upvoty is a user feedback tool which makes it really easy to collect and manage user feedback in order to decide what features to build next. If you want to give it a go, head over to https://upvoty.com and use the promo code PIRATES for a 10% discount.

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Brands: Ahrefs

Software: Ahrefs, Respona, Todoist

Person: Noah Kagan

Books: How Not To Be Wrong

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Today’s guest is Tadej, and he’s the founder of Cartboss. In this episode, you’re going to learn how they are scaling the business with a 150% month-over-month growth and how building and connecting with your audience upfront can actually benefit the launch of your new product.

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Brands: Wheelio

Software: Slack, HelpScout

Person: Karlo Bradica

Books: The Lean Startup

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Adam is the founder of Split Hero, and today, he’ll be sharing the story on how he bootstrapped his Wordpress plugin and how he’s leveraging the platform to acquire customers.

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Brands: Postmark

Software: Upvoty, Spark

Books:  Rich Dad, Poor Dad (https://amzn.to/3o43svB)

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Jane is the co-founder of Userlist, and today she’ll be sharing the story on how they launched their product, how they scaled their team, and how they’re using a mix of marketing channels to grow their user base. [DISCOUNT] Special discount for Userlist: Userlist.com/Pirates

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Brands: Postmark

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Software: Savvycal, Help Scout, Front

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David is the founder of Hotglue, and today, he’ll be sharing the story of how he and his co-founder, as two college sophomores, dropped out of school to work full-time on our product.

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Brands: Zapier

Person: Justin Kahn

Software: Spark

Books: Lean B2B (https://amzn.to/31hCDvk)

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Guillaume is the Founder of Lemlist, and in this episode he’ll be sharing the story of how he and two co-founders grew Lemlist into 10 million dollars ARR in just 2,5 years. Subscribe and you won't miss a thing!

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Brands: Webflow

Person: Russell Brunson

Software: Notion, Slack.

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