The 5-Minute Founder

I'm currently in the process of starting a new company. This season I take you on a day-by-day journey of my progress.

I'm currently in the process of starting a new company. This season I take you on a day-by-day journey of my progress.

I'm currently in the process of starting a new company. This season I take you on a day-by-day journey of my progress.

Ryan Wong is the Co-Founder & CTO of Visier, a people analytics and workforce planning company.

In the interview, Ryan tells us how he acquired early customers, and that he wish he would have known that things always take longer than expected in a startup.

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Partners

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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.

Kenshi Arasaki is the Founder & CEO of A Thinking Ape, a mobile games company based in Vancouver.

In the interview, Kenshi tells their story about entering Y-Combinator, and also talks about why culture is so important to a startup's success.

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Partners

SEMRush – SEMRush is a suite of marketing tools that offers solutions for SEO, pay-per-click, content, social media, and competitive research and is trusted by over 3 million marketers worldwide. With their On Page SEO Checker, you can analyze Google ranking factors affecting your website's performance and get actionable recommendations based on collected data. Get a free 7-day no-risk trial of SEMRush at TheFiveMinuteFounder.com/Rush.

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.

Chris Nicola is the Co-Founder & CTO of WealthBar, an online wealth management platform in Canada.

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Partners

SEMRush – SEMRush is a suite of marketing tools that offers solutions for SEO, pay-per-click, content, social media, and competitive research and is trusted by over 3 million marketers worldwide. With their On Page SEO Checker, you can analyze Google ranking factors affecting your website's performance and get actionable recommendations based on collected data. Get a free 7-day no-risk trial of SEMRush at TheFiveMinuteFounder.com/Rush.

Rakesh Soni is the Co-Founder & CEO of LoginRadius, an enterprise SaaS Customer Identity Management platform based in Vancouver.

In the interview, Rakesh explains the importance of having your startup's team in the same location, and also provides key tips on raising venture capital.

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Partners

SEMRush – SEMRush is a suite of marketing tools that offers solutions for SEO, pay-per-click, content, social media, and competitive research and is trusted by over 3 million marketers worldwide. With their On Page SEO Checker, you can analyze Google ranking factors affecting your website's performance and get actionable recommendations based on collected data. Get a free 7-day no-risk trial of SEMRush at TheFiveMinuteFounder.com/Rush.

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.

Matias Marquez is the Founder & CEO Buyatab Online, a platform that helps brands sell gift cards online.

In the interview, Matias talks about the challenge of building a brand reputation for his company and also the personal challenges that come along with being an entrepreneur.

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Partners

SEMRush – SEMRush is a suite of marketing tools that offers solutions for SEO, pay-per-click, content, social media, and competitive research and is trusted by over 3 million marketers worldwide. With their On Page SEO Checker, you can analyze Google ranking factors affecting your website's performance and get actionable recommendations based on collected data. Get a free 7-day no-risk trial of SEMRush at TheFiveMinuteFounder.com/Rush.

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.

Flo Devellennes is the Co-Founder & CEO of Poparide, an app that allows people to rideshare between cities in Canada.

In the interview, Flo shares his experience on how to overcome the challenges of building a marketplace, and what he wish he would have known prior to starting his business.

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Partners

SEMRush – SEMRush is a suite of marketing tools that offers solutions for SEO, pay-per-click, content, social media, and competitive research and is trusted by over 3 million marketers worldwide. With their On Page SEO Checker, you can analyze Google ranking factors affecting your website's performance and get actionable recommendations based on collected data. Get a free 7-day no-risk trial of SEMRush at TheFiveMinuteFounder.com/Rush.

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.

Ian Crosby is the Co-Founder & CEO of Bench, which provides bookkeeping services for small businesses.

In the interview, Ian tells us how he acquired and turned his early free customers into paying customers, and why culture is the number one ingredient for success.

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Partners

SEMRush – SEMRush is a suite of marketing tools that offers solutions for SEO, pay-per-click, content, social media, and competitive research and is trusted by over 3 million marketers worldwide. With their On Page SEO Checker, you can analyze Google ranking factors affecting your website's performance and get actionable recommendations based on collected data. Get a free 7-day no-risk trial of SEMRush at TheFiveMinuteFounder.com/Rush.

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.