On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, in collaboration with Bridgewhat, Paulo Morgado and Ana Paula Reis speak with Libby Dale and Mike Crooks, cofounders of SmartMeasures

Key takeaways:

- How to understand data from an engineering perspective

- Prediction is only the start of the process. Until you are actually retaining customers, you are not delivering

- Double down on delivering instead of promising

This podcast is a collaboration with Bridgewhat. Let's Scale!

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Ilhan Zengin, CEO at ShowHeroes Group.

Key takeaways:

1. How to leverage M&A to open and to scale aggressively in new markets

2 .From Showheroes CEO to Showeroes Group CEO

3 . How to adopt an investment banking lens to search new target businesses to be acquired

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Aaron Ross, Dad of 10 & GTM Advisor

Key takeaways:

1. How to increase your energy, maximize results and minimize effort

2. From Predictable Revenue to Adaptable Revenue

3. The hypergrowth ingredients of the book “From impossible to inevitable”, co-authored with Jason Lemkin

4. Why energy and trust are critical to succeed in today’s world

5. Emotional skills are the new hard skills

In this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Amir Kaplan, Co-Founder and CEO at Ifeel

Key takeaways

1. How to enable the best out of your team with an emotional wellbeing platform.

2. How to grow your Heads into VPs

3. How to build successful partnerships across different markets (Spain, France, LATAM)

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Larry Robertson, Author and Speaker.

Key takeaways:

- How to overcome the "superhero syndrome"

- How to thrive in uncertain times

- "Leadership keeps moving, it's a collective task"

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Ilkka Huotelin, CEO at Be Customer Smart

Key takeaways:

- Making the most of the existing data to take evidence-based decisions

- Try to put your assumptions wrong and revisit them often

- What matters to the customers in today’s new normal situation?

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Mason Harris, Author and Speaker.

Key takeaways:

- The importance of learning how to handle objections

- Uncovering need, pain and opportunity

- Zigzagging to achieve your goals. How to persevere and find an alternative way.

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, in collaboration with Bridgewhat, Paulo Morgado and Ana Paula Reis speak with John Brahim, Founder and CEO of Maistrering.

Key takeaways:

- Focusing on your existent customer as a way to scale

- The 5 powerful engines to construct a business journey: Insights, Creativity, Execution, Collaboration and Trust.

- How to help and define the strategic plan of a company: a case study

This podcast is a collaboration with Bridgewhat. Let's Scale!

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Rav Dhaliwal Investor at Crane Venture Partners

Key takeaways:

-The new model of continuous sales in a SaaS company as a sustainable way to scale

- The importance of the right metrics: Focusing on net revenue retention to keep growing.

- “You want to hire people that think that their job starts in the contract signature, not ends there”

-Incentive alignment over structure alignment: make sure that all the employers need to work together

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks Camilla Andersson, Investor and Founder at Feddie Distillery

Key takeaways:

- Leading by example. Being a role model as a leader.

- A company funded and invested entirely by women. What can we learn?

- What challenges do women face while scaling up?