TGS Podcast

In this episode, we speak to Iron Brands, Co-Founder of Simple Analytics, one of Europe’s most exciting bootstrapped stories. Iron and his co-founder Adriaan are on a mission to make analytics simple and privacy friendly, sharing their journey towards €1m ARR publicly.

Iron shared so many insights, you’re gonna have to listen to the whole thing, but some highlights include:

* How he felt he needed to raise until he discovered the bootstrapped way

* How he and his co-founder came together and built their partnership on trust

* The importance of finding channel-product fit

* A horribly awkward moment during an enterprise sales call 🫢

* The model he made for choosing whether to invest or collab on an idea

* And why he hates LinkedIn but uses it anyway.

And as always, we shared a “kudos” and a “facepalm” of the week and Iron answered some rapid-fire questions.

Follow Iron on LinkedIn and check out Simple Analytics: https://www.simpleanalytics.com/

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In this episode of Grow with the Flow, we speak to Jake Stainer, Co-Founder and CEO of Skale, a leading SEO agency specializing in b2b SaaS companies. Jake was previously the Head of Growth and Demand Generation at Typeform and the Head of Growth at Travelperk in addition to adivising several companies, including Hotjar.

Jake shared his story and we talked about a range of topics, including:

* What it was like to join Typeform early on and contribute to their hyper growth

* Why a lack of growth engineers is a major blocker to marketing success

* Building his own team at Typeform vs. “inheriting” a team at Travelperk

* How big keys to growth often lie in the smaller things

* Deciding to start a business over climbing the career ladder

* Learnings from starting his own agency, Skale.

* Why SEO isn’t free and why companies should kill their blog

And as always, we shared a “kudos” and a “facepalm” of the week and Jake answered some rapid-fire questions.

Follow Jake on LinkedIn and check out Skale if you need help with your SEO: https://skale.so/

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In this inaugural first episode of our new video podcast —or “vodcast” as some of the kids seem to call it— Ferdinand, Joliene and Clement tell you what you can expect and touch upon a number of subjects that are currently top of mind, including:

* How the marketing & growth community has declined since the pandemic

* The difference between working remotely and working from homr

* Understanding the dark funnel and the importance of demand generation

* How most companies don’t really know their ICPs

* Where to start when joining a company as the first marketing hire

And as will be the case for every episodes, we shared a “kudos” and a “facepalm” of the week and Joliene answered some rapid-fire questions.

Note: This was our first test pilot, but we hope it’s still a good listen! Future episodes will feature amazing guests, controversial opintions, a lot of fun banter, and a bit of vulnerability too.

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