SaaS Startup Stories With Scott Dudley

In this episode I interview Tyler Kemp, who is based in Denver, Colorado. Tyler is the founder and CEO of LeadRoll.co. He’s been on the marketing advisory board of a 16 billion dollar finance company, and he’s helped build several 7 and 8 figure enterprises. He’s considered an expert in outbound high ticket sales, and he’s got hundreds of clients behind his belt. (www.LeadRoll.co)

In this interview we discuss Tyler's CLOSER system for high-ticket service providers & SaaS startups, the most important metrics that early SaaS founders should be monitoring daily, and the most effective customer acquisition channels for growing a young SaaS company in terms of ROI... plus a lot more.

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In this episode I interview Ankit Dudhwewala, who is based in India. Ankit is the founder and CEO of SoftwareSuggest (www.softwaresuggest.com), which is an online platform which helps Businesses, Organizations & Professionals, in selecting the best software solutions… and also CallHippo (callhippo.com), which is a business phone system that allows pre and post telephony automation.

In this interview we discuss how a non-tech founder can successfully run a SaaS business without knowing a line of code, how Ankit found the right people to take care of the tech side of the business, and how he uses SEO as his main customer acquisition channel... plus lots more.

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In this episode I interview Ankit Dudhwewala, who is based in India. Ankit is the founder and CEO of SoftwareSuggest (www.softwaresuggest.com), which is an online platform which helps Businesses, Organizations & Professionals, in selecting the best software solutions… and also CallHippo (callhippo.com), which is a business phone system that allows pre and post telephony automation.

In this interview we discuss how a non-tech founder can successfully run a SaaS business without knowing a line of code, how Ankit found the right people to take care of the tech side of the business, and how he uses SEO as his main customer acquisition channel... plus lots more.

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In this episode I interview Maddy Agrawal, who is based in Lausanne, Switzerland. Maddy is the founder and CEO of Startup to Scaleup, which is an agency that helps B2B & SaaS founders scale fast with a scientific approach to marketing funnels, tech automation, and sales team processes. (www.startuptoscaleupnow.com).

In this interview we discuss the pros and cons of both bootstrapping and accessing venture capital funding, how a young SaaS startup company can avoid running out of money, and the #1 metric a new SaaS company should be focusing on like a hawk every day... plus lots more.

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In this episode I interview Ed Vincent, who is based in Austin, Texas. Ed is the founder and CEO of festivalPass, which is the world's first live events subscription service across music, film, food & wine, theater, tech & innovation and more. (www.festivalpass.com).

In this interview we discuss how a combination of things in Ed's background led to him coming up with the idea of a marketplace for live events, how COVID made things difficult when the company started (but is now seen as an opportunity when it eventually dies off), and also the advantage of being the first business of it's type to enter the market.

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In this episode I interview Jeff Coyle, who is based in Georgia. Jeff is the Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at MarketMuse, which is an AI Content Intelligence and Strategy Platform that transforms how you research, plan, and craft your content. (www.marketmuse.com).

In this interview we discuss how Jeff got MarketMuse off the ground with the help of Angel Investors, how most marketers have no idea about the return on investment of their content (including a sunk cost), and also how they eat their own dog food by using their own platform for customer acquisition.

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In this episode I interview Joseph Fung, who is based in Ontario, Canada. Joseph is the founder and CEO of Uvaro (www.uvaro.com), which is a sales training platform that accelerate careers in Tech Sales, and also Kiite (www.kiite.ai), which is a platform to provide sales teams with the information they need to ramp up quickly and increase funnel velocity.

In this interview we discuss how Joseph has managed to come up with both B2B and B2C solutions for tech salespeople and tech businesses looking for talented salespeople, the importance of defining your company values at the very start, and the challenge of creating fair compensation for team members in a global marketplace.

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In this episode I interview Joan Melendez & Dawon Hawkins, who are based in Seattle, Washington. Joan is the founder of Xcelrate UDI, and Dawon is the COO. Xcelrate UDI is a SaaS company created to help more than 450 healthcare facilities to identify and prevent the use of unsafe medical devices, biologics and supplies (www.xcelrateudi.com)

In this interview we discuss the challenges of dealing with dishonest employees, how Xcelrate UDI prevents the use of unsafe medical devices and significantly improves accuracy, and how they have managed to become the market leader in their niche.

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In this episode I interview Bharat Kanodia, who is based In San Francisco. Bharat has valued over 2,000 businesses including companies like Uber, AirBNB, DoorDash, GE, Tesla. And he has signed off on over 4,500 valuations with $2.6 trillion in assets globally. Check out his YouTube channel here https://www.youtube.com/c/whatsitworth.

In this interview we discuss the most common reasons a business would seek a valuation, the most important things that affect a SaaS companies valuation, and at what stage of a businesses growth should you start considering getting a valuation.

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In this episode I interview James Mulvany, who is based in Manchester, UK. He's the Founder and CEO at Radio.co, Podcast.co, and MatchMaker.fm, which are a suite of programs created for podcasters and audio producers. (www.Radio.co, www.Podcast.co, and www.MatchMaker.fm).

In this interview we discuss how building one platform led to building the next platform to serve a market demand, how James first started off doing everything at Radio.co and progressed to focusing on the business and marketing side of things, and some super exciting plans for taking MatchMaker.fm to the next level.

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