Aater Suleman is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flux7, a cloud consulting firm that helps enterprise clients adopt new technologies.

In the interview, Aater shares the story of starting his company, how they acquired early customers, and more.

If you'd like to listen to my other show, Stories, please visit thestoriespodcast.com or search "stories shawn ketcham" in your favorite podcast app.

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Partners

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Mike Shultz is the Co-Founder and CEO of Cybernance Corporation, a SaaS company that helps equip organizations to manage their cyber risk.

In the interview, Mike shares the story of starting his company, his greatest challenge, and more.

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Partners

Wishpond – Wishpond offers a suite of tools to help businesses generate new leads. With Wishpond you can create beautiful landing pages, coupons, and social media contests, all of which can be customized using tailored forms to capture your leads’ name, email, phone number, and more. Wishpond also offers email and text message marketing tools so you can send out segmented communications to your customers. Get a free 14-day no-risk trial of Wishpond at TheFiveMinuteFounder.com/Wish.

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Michael Portman is the Co-Founder of Birds Barbershop, a chain of barbershops based in Austin.

In the interview, Michael shares the story of how he and his co-founder Jayson went from being a screenwriter and a wall street trader, respectively, to opening their first barbershop in Austin.

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Partners

Wishpond – Wishpond offers a suite of tools to help businesses generate new leads. With Wishpond you can create beautiful landing pages, coupons, and social media contests, all of which can be customized using tailored forms to capture your leads’ name, email, phone number, and more. Wishpond also offers email and text message marketing tools so you can send out segmented communications to your customers. Get a free 14-day no-risk trial of Wishpond at TheFiveMinuteFounder.com/Wish.

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Marc Smookler is the Founder and CEO of IdealSpot, which provides local data insights for businesses to make better decisions in commercial real estate.

In the interview, Marc shares how he got the inspiration to start IdealSpot, best practices on customer acquisition, and more.

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Partners

Wishpond – Wishpond offers a suite of tools to help businesses generate new leads. With Wishpond you can create beautiful landing pages, coupons, and social media contests, all of which can be customized using tailored forms to capture your leads’ name, email, phone number, and more. Wishpond also offers email and text message marketing tools so you can send out segmented communications to your customers. Get a free 14-day no-risk trial of Wishpond at TheFiveMinuteFounder.com/Wish.

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Tom Kieley and Clint McRee are the co-founders of SourceDay, a cloud-based supplier portal to help companies better manage their supply chains.

In the interview, Tom and Clint share how they got the idea for SourceDay, how they acquired early customers, and more.

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Partners

Wishpond – Wishpond offers a suite of tools to help businesses generate new leads. With Wishpond you can create beautiful landing pages, coupons, and social media contests, all of which can be customized using tailored forms to capture your leads’ name, email, phone number, and more. Wishpond also offers email and text message marketing tools so you can send out segmented communications to your customers. Get a free 14-day no-risk trial of Wishpond at TheFiveMinuteFounder.com/Wish.

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Diego De Stefano is the Co-Founder and CEO of Trip Loop, a mobile app that streamlines group travel communication for group travel managers.

In the interview, Diego shares how he got the inspiration to start Trip Loop, his greatest challenge, and more.

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Partners

Wishpond – Wishpond offers a suite of tools to help businesses generate new leads. With Wishpond you can create beautiful landing pages, coupons, and social media contests, all of which can be customized using tailored forms to capture your leads’ name, email, phone number, and more. Wishpond also offers email and text message marketing tools so you can send out segmented communications to your customers. Get a free 14-day no-risk trial of Wishpond at TheFiveMinuteFounder.com/Wish.

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Blake Garrett is the Founder and CEO of Aceable, which produces mobile educational courses with a focus on online driver's ed.

In the interview, Blake tells the story of moonlighting when he first started his company, why they pivoted from mobile games, tips on going through government approval processes, and more.

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Partners

Wishpond – Wishpond offers a suite of tools to help businesses generate new leads. With Wishpond you can create beautiful landing pages, coupons, and social media contests, all of which can be customized using tailored forms to capture your leads’ name, email, phone number, and more. Wishpond also offers email and text message marketing tools so you can send out segmented communications to your customers. Get a free 14-day no-risk trial of Wishpond at TheFiveMinuteFounder.com/Wish.

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Will Mitchell is the Co-Founder and CEO of Rabbet, whose software helps manage the construction finance process of real estate projects.

In the interview, Will tells the story of starting his company, his greatest challenge, and more.

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Partners

Wishpond – Wishpond offers a suite of tools to help businesses generate new leads. With Wishpond you can create beautiful landing pages, coupons, and social media contests, all of which can be customized using tailored forms to capture your leads’ name, email, phone number, and more. Wishpond also offers email and text message marketing tools so you can send out segmented communications to your customers. Get a free 14-day no-risk trial of Wishpond at TheFiveMinuteFounder.com/Wish.

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Matt Randall and Maria Miller are the co-founders of Life by Spot, which provides short-term episodic life and injury insurance.

In the interview, Matt and Maria share how they got started, how they acquired early customers, and how they overcame challenges in their industry.

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Partners

Wishpond – Wishpond offers a suite of tools to help businesses generate new leads. With Wishpond you can create beautiful landing pages, coupons, and social media contests, all of which can be customized using tailored forms to capture your leads’ name, email, phone number, and more. Wishpond also offers email and text message marketing tools so you can send out segmented communications to your customers. Get a free 14-day no-risk trial of Wishpond at TheFiveMinuteFounder.com/Wish.

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Lisa Falzone is the Co-Founder and CEO of Athena Security, which develops a gun detection technology using artificial intelligence that can alert authorities in real time while a crime is being committed.

In the interview, Lisa shares the inspiration behind starting her company, best practices on acquiring customers, her greatest challenge, and more.

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Partners

Wishpond – Wishpond offers a suite of tools to help businesses generate new leads. With Wishpond you can create beautiful landing pages, coupons, and social media contests, all of which can be customized using tailored forms to capture your leads’ name, email, phone number, and more. Wishpond also offers email and text message marketing tools so you can send out segmented communications to your customers. Get a free 14-day no-risk trial of Wishpond at TheFiveMinuteFounder.com/Wish.

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