Startup Competitors

Today we have a very interesting episode, as I am with Steve Jones who’s my co-founder of Startup Competitors. In this episode, we have a 'meeting-like' podcast as we talked about the possible pivot of our product to effectively grow more and have the right product-market fit.

250ok is an email analytics platform to help email marketers send better emails successfully. In this episode, I am talking with a repeat guest on the show, Greg Kraios, Founder and CEO of 250ok, who has had a recent change in his title, which is now Chief Ambassador at Validity.

Blind Zebra is a 23-year-old sales training and sales coaching firm based in Indianapolis. In this episode, I talk with Bryan Neale, CEO of Blind Zebra about how he started training and coaching salespeople on three aspects – thinking, action and language, and how that eventually led to developing a framework, predominantly in the B2B space. He also shares his journey of starting as a one-man operation to where it is now, and the growth he’s experienced over 20 years.

Regenstreif is a 50-year-old, independent think-tank founded by Sam Regenstreif, an institute that conducts research and development that aims to bring technology and innovation into healthcare.

Avail is a real-estate software company that offers services such as tenant-finding, lease signing, rent collection and property maintenance all through an online platform.

Rentgrata connects prospective renters with current residents of apartment communities so that prospects can ask questions and get feedback from their peers.

Ilya Rekhter is a repeat guest on the show. He previously was on in November 2018 to talk about his startup, DoubleMap. Since that time, DoubleMap merged with another company in their space, and they created a new company called Journey. That company was recently acquired by Ford and Ilya shares the process of going through both a merger and acquisition, what he has learned along the way, and what’s next for him, looking forward.

In this episode, I talk with Alison Martin, the founder, and CEO. She explains why mentoring is so important, and she addresses the concerns of poaching and confidentiality when mentoring is applied across many companies.

In this episode I talk with co-founder and CEO Resha Shroff, who shares the difficulties in the early phase of the start-up, how anxiety shifts and lessens over time, and still battling with founder burn out, over three years into the company.

In this episode, I talk with Kristen Cooper, founder and CEO of StartUp Ladies, a for-profit membership organization whose purpose is to increase the number of women who are starting up and scaling businesses.