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  • How to Grow a Company 100% in 6 Months with Ethereum Advisor and Bitcoin Miner Shruthi Rao, Co-Founder of Vendia

    Ryan is joined in this episode by Shruthi Rao. Shruthi is the co-founder of Vendia, a serverless blockchain platform that collects and delivers data. Shruthi has an impressive history including working with the current Amazon CEO, creating crypto’s first mining operation and advising Ethereum. Shruthi talks to Ryan about her journey and reveals her 5-step framework for creating a successful start-up.

    KEY TAKEAWAYS

    • Vendia has seen the positive impact of having big-ticket clients such as airlines and BMW, it means that the mid-market clients are seeing this and wanting to work with them too.
    • A content-led approach is something Vendia are working on within their go-to-market strategy, particularly around ‘thought-leadership’ curated content.
    • After hearing about Bitcoin Shruthi decided mining it herself would suit her better, she then ended up setting up in a village in India and was so successful she broke the grid!
    • Work backwards from a customer. Figure out what they want/their problem is, whether it is widespread and if so, how you can solve it.
    • Vendia realised that their solution needed to work with customers wherever and whomever they already were with. It needed to be flexible across platforms and clouds.
    • Storytelling is something Shruthi believes is essential to building any new business, giving the how and the why.

    BEST MOMENTS

     “That’s what we created, a partner leader-sharing platform”

    “I was not making meth, I was hosting servers!”

    “The storytelling is the number one way we connect with pain”

    Do You Want The Closing Secrets That Helped Close Over $125 Million in New Business for Free?"  Grab them HERE: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

     

    Ryan Staley

    Founder and CEO

    Whale Boss

    312-848-7443

    [email protected]

    www.ryanstaley.io 

     

    EPISODE RESOURCES

    https://www.vendia.net/blog/author/shruthi-rao

    ABOUT THE SHOW

    How do you grow like a VC-backed company without taking on investors? Do you want to create a lifestyle business, a performance business or an empire? How do you scale to an exit without losing your freedom?
    Join the host Ryan Staley every Monday and Wednesday for conversations with the brightest and best Founders, CEO and Entrepreneurs to crack the code on repeatable revenue growth, leadership, lifestyle freedom and mindset.
    This show has featured Startup and Billion Dollar Founders, Best Selling Authors, and the World’s Top Sales and Marketing Experts like Terry Jones (Founder of Travelocity and Chairman of Kayak), Andrew Gazdecki (Founder of Micro Acquire), Harpal Sambhi (Founder of Magical with a previous exit to Linkedin) and many more.

    This is where Scaling and Sales are made simple in 25 minutes or less.

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

    43 min
  • Killing my consulting business to launch a SAAS startup during lockdown with Sunny Han CEO of Fulcrum

    Sunny Han is the CEO and founder of Fulcrum a SaaS manufacturing platform. Whilst building Fulcrum he spent a lot of time doing his due diligence and visited many factories and potential clients before settling on the best final product.

    He talks to Ryan openly about the difficulties he has faced in his journey including losing co-founders but also digs deep into what it takes to make success happen.

    KEY TAKEAWAYS

    • For Fulcrums go to market strategy, Sunny’s team focus on inbound, SDM and STRs that target people very specifically. It’s a low-volume approach but has a high yield.
    • Whether you are a start-up or a large corporate, you only have a limited amount of resources. You must decide what to focus your efforts on.
    • Fulcrum is a SaaS manufacturing platform, it aims to bring both modern & innovative concepts to small and mid-size production companies.
    • From consulting, Sunny not only learnt how to make the product great he also learnt how to build the company for greatness, particularly around culture.
    • Having a high standard as an individual can cause a poor environment for those who work closely with you. Sunny recognises this as one of his biggest mistakes in his early days in business.
    • Conflict helps improve the coverage of tasks that need to be done, it stops things from being missed and prevents mistakes.

    BEST MOMENTS

     “We just crossed the 4 million ARR threshold at the end of last quarter”

    “No matter what stage you’re at, you have a limited amount of resources”

    “People buy differently, even if they’re the same types of customers”

    “The creation of culture has more to do with removing things than adding things”

    “A lot of the time, people fire themselves”

    Do You Want The Closing Secrets That Helped Close Over $125 Million in New Business for Free?"  Grab them HERE: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

     

    Ryan Staley

    Founder and CEO

    Whale Boss

    312-848-7443

    [email protected]

    www.ryanstaley.io 

     

    EPISODE RESOURCES

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/yusunnyhan

    ABOUT THE SHOW

    How do you grow like a VC-backed company without taking on investors? Do you want to create a lifestyle business, a performance business or an empire? How do you scale to an exit without losing your freedom?
    Join the host Ryan Staley every Monday and Wednesday for conversations with the brightest and best Founders, CEO and Entrepreneurs to crack the code on repeatable revenue growth, leadership, lifestyle freedom and mindset.
    This show has featured Startup and Billion Dollar Founders, Best Selling Authors, and the World’s Top Sales and Marketing Experts like Terry Jones (Founder of Travelocity and Chairman of Kayak), Andrew Gazdecki (Founder of Micro Acquire), Harpal Sambhi (Founder of Magical with a previous exit to Linkedin) and many more.

    This is where Scaling and Sales are made simple in 25 minutes or less.

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

    31 min
  • Growth of $100 million in under 3 years followed by an exit of $1.3 billion – Speaking with founder and former CEO of Truebill Yahya Mokhtarzada

    Yahya Mokhtarzada is the founder and former CEO of Truebill. Yahya and his team created growth of over $100 million in just 2 ½ years and then managed to sell the company for $1.3 billion! In this episode, Yahya breaks down how he made this a reality and how you can apply his processes to your own business

    KEY TAKEAWAYS

    • Truebill is a personal finance app and Yahya has actually found that this market increases in times of financial uncertainty. People are more interested in getting their finances in order when times are harder.
    • Paid acquisition is Truebill’s most common strategy for growth. Their team are also very creative in getting the company name out there including e-commerce channels and podcast promotion.
    • Organic growth and referrals aren’t something that works for Truebill, Yahya believes this is because people don’t want to talk about money, especially if it can be suggested they may be struggling.
    • Unsatisfied with the market offerings of personal finance apps, Yahya set out to create Truebill, to make a personal finance simpler, putting money back into people’s pockets without telling them what to spend their money on.
    • Truebill has the ability to be able to cancel subscriptions etc in app, without the individual having to spend hours on the phone with various providers. Another unique feature is it’s ability to scan your bills and find you better deals.
    • Truebill becoming product-led, offering the most use and value for the customer is how they went from $1.5 million to $100 million in just 2 ½ years. They also allow their customers to choose their own price, from free tier up to $15 a month, depending on their individual needs.
    • There is some stigma surrounding the personal finance market, this meant it took Yahya and his team longer than usual to find each round of investment.
    • Yahya puts the continuous exponential growth of Truebill down to a few key things, such as having a great core product that people liked, their incredible marketing team and their investment in tracking and measurement.
    • Intelligent tracking and measurement of their app allowed Truebill to adapt and pivot to their users’ needs fast.

    BEST MOMENTS

     “Organic growth was never a strong suit for our company”

    “I really think it’s the best personal finance app out there, giving you a set of tools to understand your money and do better with it”

    “Most people are surprised to see how many things they are paying for each month and how much money is floating out of their account automatically”

    “Personal finance does not have the same engagement and user behaviour as you’d see in a game, photo sharing app or anything else”

    “We had a good core product that fundamentally people liked and found useful”

    “I’m really anti-survey, they can be really misleading and tell you the wrong thing”

    Do You Want The Closing Secrets That Helped Close Over $125 Million in New Business for Free?"  Grab them HERE: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

     

    Ryan Staley

    Founder and CEO

    Whale Boss

    312-848-7443

    [email protected]

    www.ryanstaley.io 

     

    EPISODE RESOURCES

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/karenwalker/2021/06/07/how-the-truebill-brothers-took-a-basement-idea-to-500m-valuation/

    ABOUT THE SHOW

    How do you grow like a VC-backed company without taking on investors? Do you want to create a lifestyle business, a performance business or an empire? How do you scale to an exit without losing your freedom?
    Join the host Ryan Staley every Monday and Wednesday for conversations with the brightest and best Founders, CEO and Entrepreneurs to crack the code on repeatable revenue growth, leadership, lifestyle freedom and mindset.
    This show has featured Startup and Billion Dollar Founders, Best Selling Authors, and the World’s Top Sales and Marketing Experts like Terry Jones (Founder of Travelocity and Chairman of Kayak), Andrew Gazdecki (Founder of Micro Acquire), Harpal Sambhi (Founder of Magical with a previous exit to Linkedin) and many more.

    This is where Scaling and Sales are made simple in 25 minutes or less.

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

    43 min
  • Growing a Marketplace worth $95 Million in just 5 years! with Brendan King of Vendasta.

    Brendan King is the CEO and founder of the number 1 digital solutions marketplace in the US, VendAsta. Brendan grew the marketplace from $5 million to $100 million in just 5 years. This is an insightful episode where Brendan talks to Ryan all about the evolution of the company as well as topics never previously discussed on The Scale Up Show!

    KEY TAKEAWAYS

    • VendAsta’s primary go-to-market strategy for revenue growth is an inbound model. They generate inbound demand and then qualify leads that they then close.
    • Small businesses are often time poor. VendAsta aims to help these small businesses with technology so they can operate in the same way a larger business would.
    • Brendan has always been an entrepreneur, he created his first business in university, resulting in a company which created over $15 million in sales.
    • Early on in Vendasta’s creation, Brendan realised that companies needed a lot more services than they could offer and although they could start to build and provide some, it wouldn’t be possible to provide everything. This is what gave him the idea to create a marketplace where these other products could be found.
    • Because Vendasta began in the marketing and advertising world, most of its vendors are media companies and website agencies. They in turn have focused on the products people would buy from these specific company types.
    • The number 1 growth strategy that Brendan would recommend for revenue growth is to attain channel partners, it creates a flywheel for more vendors which then leads to even more channel partners and becomes a continuous growth cycle.
    • The marketplace Vendasta creates has to be curated and trusted. It’s essential that they only allow quality vendors whilst creating the right amount of choice.
    • One of the biggest challenges Vendasta has faced and is still facing is to get the right talent needed for them to keep growing, particularly in senior management.

    BEST MOMENTS

     “The way to help them is to give them access to those products and services that all the vendors have and the folks that actually implement them”

    “Sometimes you’re telling the truth a little bit in advance when you’re a small company”

    “We’re a lot more specific about vendors we let on the marketplace because that’s our reputation on the line there”

    Do You Want The Closing Secrets That Helped Close Over $125 Million in New Business for Free?"  Grab them HERE: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

     

    Ryan Staley

    Founder and CEO

    Whale Boss

    312-848-7443

    [email protected]

    www.ryanstaley.io 

     

    EPISODE RESOURCES

    https://ca.linkedin.com/in/brendanking

    ABOUT THE SHOW

    How do you grow like a VC-backed company without taking on investors? Do you want to create a lifestyle business, a performance business or an empire? How do you scale to an exit without losing your freedom?
    Join the host Ryan Staley every Monday and Wednesday for conversations with the brightest and best Founders, CEO and Entrepreneurs to crack the code on repeatable revenue growth, leadership, lifestyle freedom and mindset.
    This show has featured Startup and Billion Dollar Founders, Best Selling Authors, and the World’s Top Sales and Marketing Experts like Terry Jones (Founder of Travelocity and Chairman of Kayak), Andrew Gazdecki (Founder of Micro Acquire), Harpal Sambhi (Founder of Magical with a previous exit to Linkedin) and many more.

    This is where Scaling and Sales are made simple in 25 minutes or less.

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

    35 min
  • How to Create 300% Growth in 12 Months – with Tamas Kadar, Founder and CEO of SEON

    Tamas Kadar is the founder and CEO of SEON. Founded in his dorm room at university, Tamas and his team managed to create 300% growth last year alone and are set to top that % this year. Tamas joins Ryan in this episode and breaks down, step by step, how to rapidly scale your business in the early stages and talks about why being customer-centric, collaborative and flexible has been the underpinnings of their success.

    KEY TAKEAWAYS

    • SEON helps online businesses prevent and mitigate fraud by screening customers based on their digital footprint.
    • SEON Are a product-led growth company. They offer free trials and are primarily led by content-based marketing.
    • SEON focuses on being customer-centric, creating a good user experience and being flexible to solve their individual business needs. Allowing them to focus on growing their businesses rather than losses.
    • It was after suffering losses in their own business that Tamas and his team felt unsatisfied with the current solutions out there. So they decided to build their own.
    • Hiring a CCO role was one of the first steps to accelerating SEON’s growth.
    • The world switching to digital gave SEON an advantage over its competitors during the pandemic. It allowed them to scale quickly.
    • Nail the lowest company revenue deals if you can, this means the sales chain is shorter and can allow you to grow at a much faster rate.
    • Creating and implementing friction-free processes from clients to investors is something Tamas and his team have focused on at SEON.

    BEST MOMENTS

     “The solution applies to all fraud types and all online businesses”

    “We allow them to concentrate on growing their business instead of focusing on losses”

     “The pandemic has really accelerated our growth”

    “We are reverse engineering our lead sources to invest in those channels and sources that are bringing in results”

    “I really try to optimise everything from being friction-free”

    Do You Want The Closing Secrets That Helped Close Over $125 Million in New Business for Free?"  Grab them HERE: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

     

    Ryan Staley

    Founder and CEO

    Whale Boss

    312-848-7443

    [email protected]

    www.ryanstaley.io 

     

    EPISODE RESOURCES

    www.seon.io

    https://medium.com/authority-magazine/cyber-defense-tamas-kadar-of-seon-on-the-5-things-every-american-business-leader-should-do-to-f10856d009b1

    ABOUT THE SHOW

    How do you grow like a VC-backed company without taking on investors? Do you want to create a lifestyle business, a performance business or an empire? How do you scale to an exit without losing your freedom?
    Join the host Ryan Staley every Monday and Wednesday for conversations with the brightest and best Founders, CEO and Entrepreneurs to crack the code on repeatable revenue growth, leadership, lifestyle freedom and mindset.
    This show has featured Startup and Billion Dollar Founders, Best Selling Authors, and the World’s Top Sales and Marketing Experts like Terry Jones (Founder of Travelocity and Chairman of Kayak), Andrew Gazdecki (Founder of Micro Acquire), Harpal Sambhi (Founder of Magical with a previous exit to Linkedin) and many more.

    This is where Scaling and Sales are made simple in 25 minutes or less.

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

    37 min
  • The Number 1 Thing I learnt at HubSpot! Speaking with Peter Caputa IV on Building $6million ARR in six years at Databox

    Peter is the former VP of sales at the CRM platform HubSpot, he reported directly to the CEO and started when they had just 100 customers! Listen in to this episode as he breaks down and shares the number 1 strategy he learned from Hubspot which he now uses at his current company, Databox. He also discusses the importance of data-driven decisions as well as how Databox differentiate its product from others on the market.

     

    KEY TAKEAWAYS

    • It has taken Databox just 6 years to go from zero to close to $6.2 million ARR
    • Databox’s go-to-market focus is around being a ‘freemium’ product. They rely on customers paying to upgrade to further services.
    • Demand for Databox’s product is mostly created via organic SEO and recently they have added some outbound and brand-building techniques such as Podcasting.
    • Companies produce so much data just from operating, Databox enables companies to have visuals of all their data on a central platform.
    • Performance focus in management is how Peter believes HubSpot scaled so quickly. He said the culture meant that almost everyone ‘had a number on their head’. There was always a process to check each and every thing that was being done throughout the organisation.
    • Empowering people to own their pieces of the business is one of the most important lessons Peter learnt at Hubspot and something he built Databox foundations on.

    BEST MOMENTS

     “The trick with our product -vs- other freemium products is customer-dashboard software, every customer set-up process is unique”

    “A big proportion of our customers are marketing agencies and consultants who use the software to report results to clients”

    “It was fairly bottoms up in terms of empowering people to own their piece of the business, that was a really valuable thing for me to learn”

    “Numbers are pretty important when it comes to finding those opportunities and whether they work or not”

    Do You Want The Closing Secrets That Helped Close Over $125 Million in New Business for Free?"  Grab them HERE: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

     

    Ryan Staley

    Founder and CEO

    Whale Boss

    312-848-7443

    [email protected]

    www.ryanstaley.io 

     

    EPISODE RESOURCES

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/pc4media

    ABOUT THE SHOW

    How do you grow like a VC-backed company without taking on investors? Do you want to create a lifestyle business, a performance business or an empire? How do you scale to an exit without losing your freedom?
    Join the host Ryan Staley every Monday and Wednesday for conversations with the brightest and best Founders, CEO and Entrepreneurs to crack the code on repeatable revenue growth, leadership, lifestyle freedom and mindset.
    This show has featured Startup and Billion Dollar Founders, Best Selling Authors, and the World’s Top Sales and Marketing Experts like Terry Jones (Founder of Travelocity and Chairman of Kayak), Andrew Gazdecki (Founder of Micro Acquire), Harpal Sambhi (Founder of Magical with a previous exit to Linkedin) and many more.

    This is where Scaling and Sales are made simple in 25 minutes or less.

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

    29 min
  • Selling Your First Company for $200,000 at just 17! Speaking with 2022 Best Global Platform Winner Pedro Goes, Founder and CEO of InEvent

    Ryan is joined by the founder and CEO of InEvent, Pedro Goes. Pedro became an entrepreneur when he was still in high school and by the time he had finished college he had created an event, marketing and sales platform which would go on to boast Forbes 2000 Global companies, including Amazon, Coca-Cola, Santander, Unilever and more!

    Pedro talks about the importance of resilience in business, why market fit is the key indicator of a company's success, how he utilises content marketing as well as growth in the tech space. He has some interesting thoughts and insights on how you can not only scale your business but how to do it sustainably too.

    KEY TAKEAWAYS

    • InEvent has grown to $5 million ARR since 2019, they currently stand at a team of 130 people
    • InEvent work with companies to employ an end-to-end event platform, from broadcasting to communication.
    • Pedro believes in trying multiple go-to-market strategies and matching them to each channel.
    • The decision for InEvent to go from bootstrapped to funding came from recognising where growth would come from next and listening to the features and developments customers wanted them to build.
    • A lot of companies are unable to complete their journey for a multitude of reasons. What is essential to survive and what Pedro believes allowed InEvent to thrive is his and his team’s resilience.
    • Adaptability and the ability to diversify are why InEvent was able to deal with difficulties in their journey and changes in the market wants and needs.
    • No problems or issues are big enough for you to fail if you have revenue. Sales are the most important aspect of your business and to do that you need to have a great market fit.
    • Content marketing is something InEvent find works well for them. Generally, they use current trends and mould them to their own vision.

    BEST MOMENTS

     “Our software is very cohesive, we have over 200 features”

    “One thing I do really well is resilience, the ability to survive in difficult conditions”

    “It all comes down to market-fit, there are no problems if you have revenue”

    “Capture the trends and post with them”

    Do You Want The Closing Secrets That Helped Close Over $125 Million in New Business for Free?"  Grab them HERE: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

     

    Ryan Staley

    Founder and CEO

    Whale Boss

    312-848-7443

    [email protected]

    www.ryanstaley.io 

     

    EPISODE RESOURCES

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/pedrogoes

    ABOUT THE SHOW

    How do you grow like a VC-backed company without taking on investors? Do you want to create a lifestyle business, a performance business or an empire? How do you scale to an exit without losing your freedom?
    Join the host Ryan Staley every Monday and Wednesday for conversations with the brightest and best Founders, CEO and Entrepreneurs to crack the code on repeatable revenue growth, leadership, lifestyle freedom and mindset.
    This show has featured Startup and Billion Dollar Founders, Best Selling Authors, and the World’s Top Sales and Marketing Experts like Terry Jones (Founder of Travelocity and Chairman of Kayak), Andrew Gazdecki (Founder of Micro Acquire), Harpal Sambhi (Founder of Magical with a previous exit to Linkedin) and many more.

    This is where Scaling and Sales are made simple in 25 minutes or less.

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

    30 min
  • 2x CEO Creates 115% NRR in under 2 years! with Justin Beals of Strike Graph

    Justin is a 2x CEO and the current CEO of Strike Graph. He shares the key strategies and frameworks he and his team have used to build success, including step by step how they created 115% NRR within 2 years of existence and how security can shrink a sales process down from 18 months to just 2-3 months!

    KEY TAKEAWAYS

    • Strike Graph aids companies in security measures so they can focus on getting the deals done with the right security in place.
    • Strike Graph offer flexibility, every one of their products is unique and the art of their technology is to create security that is both efficient and meets the standard.
    • Strike Graph use a variety of methods for attracting new customers including via conferences and direct sales.
    • The differentiation of Strike Graphs products means once a customer knows they need security measures and they have seen what they can do, they can close sales incredibly quickly, usually in under 30 days!
    • Creating a varied product that works for a business in all stages has been one of the winning solutions for Strike graph.
    • Justin mocked up the solution they thought would work, Justin believes using data models to test products is valuable to gather what customers want and need.
    • Operationally understanding what clients’ pain points were in security and anticipating what they might want next helped Justin and his team build a flexible and innovative solution.

    BEST MOMENTS

     “You are literally not going to get the deal over the line if you do not have these security measures”

    “We’ve worked really hard for our customers to scope the right security practice for their business”

    “Really we can close a customer in just a couple of calls”

    Do You Want The Closing Secrets That Helped Close Over $125 Million in New Business for Free?"  Grab them HERE: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

     

    Ryan Staley

    Founder and CEO

    Whale Boss

    312-848-7443

    [email protected]

    www.ryanstaley.io 

     

    EPISODE RESOURCES

    https://www.strikegraph.com/blog/author/justin-beals

    ABOUT THE SHOW

    How do you grow like a VC-backed company without taking on investors? Do you want to create a lifestyle business, a performance business or an empire? How do you scale to an exit without losing your freedom?
    Join the host Ryan Staley every Monday and Wednesday for conversations with the brightest and best Founders, CEO and Entrepreneurs to crack the code on repeatable revenue growth, leadership, lifestyle freedom and mindset.
    This show has featured Startup and Billion Dollar Founders, Best Selling Authors, and the World’s Top Sales and Marketing Experts like Terry Jones (Founder of Travelocity and Chairman of Kayak), Andrew Gazdecki (Founder of Micro Acquire), Harpal Sambhi (Founder of Magical with a previous exit to Linkedin) and many more.

    This is where Scaling and Sales are made simple in 25 minutes or less.

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

    35 min
  • 5x founder Fusing Fintech and SaaS to Fuel SMBs with Eric Youngstrom of Onramp Funds

    Ryan is joined by the CEO and founder of Fintech start-up Onramp Funds, Eric Youngstrom. Eric has extensive experience in the start-up world and has generated more than $400 million in shareholder returns in successful exits. He has created Onramp Funds, a platform to create a line of credit for SMBs via a truly unique business model of SaaS and Fintech.

    Listen in to this episode to hear his strategies and principles and how you can apply them to your own business.

    KEY TAKEAWAYS

    • Inbound and outbound sales are Onramp’s main go-to-market approach.
    • Onramp work with small business merchants, particularly e-commerce clients that sell physical goods. Their product is designed to solve the cash-conversion problems found in these businesses.
    • The mission of Onramp is to help small e-commerce merchants extract their profit sustainably, so they can continue to operate and receive better offers.
    • For an early-stage company, Onramp has a significant partner network based on their experience in the market, helping them match their clients with the best partner to help them.
    • Eric has built his start-ups around treating small businesses the same as bigger companies. Treating the CEO as a CEO, giving top-tier customer service and assistance, to aid them to grow and scale their businesses.
    • Testing new approaches is just as important as using tried and tested strategies too. This is something Eric and his team have always kept in mind, ensuring to leverage a variety of approaches.

    BEST MOMENTS

     “It’s almost like a line of credit that updates as soon as they pay it off”

    “Our merchants just came to know they were gonna get helped no matter what”

    “If your sales slow down, your payments slow down”

    “We’re looking at our business and making sure we’re well adapted to live in the world that is, not the world that was”

    Do You Want The Closing Secrets That Helped Close Over $125 Million in New Business for Free?"  Grab them HERE: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

     

    Ryan Staley

    Founder and CEO

    Whale Boss

    312-848-7443

    [email protected]

    www.ryanstaley.io 

     

    EPISODE RESOURCES

    https://onrampinvest.com/founder-spotlight/

    ABOUT THE SHOW

    How do you grow like a VC-backed company without taking on investors? Do you want to create a lifestyle business, a performance business or an empire? How do you scale to an exit without losing your freedom?
    Join the host Ryan Staley every Monday and Wednesday for conversations with the brightest and best Founders, CEO and Entrepreneurs to crack the code on repeatable revenue growth, leadership, lifestyle freedom and mindset.
    This show has featured Startup and Billion Dollar Founders, Best Selling Authors, and the World’s Top Sales and Marketing Experts like Terry Jones (Founder of Travelocity and Chairman of Kayak), Andrew Gazdecki (Founder of Micro Acquire), Harpal Sambhi (Founder of Magical with a previous exit to Linkedin) and many more.

    This is where Scaling and Sales are made simple in 25 minutes or less.

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

    30 min
  • Eric Youngstrom

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    30 min

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How do you grow like a VC-backed SAAS company without taking on investors? What are the secrets that SAAS CEOs have that the rest of us don't? Do you want to create a lifestyle business, a performance business, or an empire?  How do you scale to an exit without losing your freedom?

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