The Usual SaaS-pects with Ch Daniel

By Ch DanielBusiness Entrepreneurship

The Usual SaaS-pects with Ch Daniel episodes

November 16, 2021 🏅 27. Christian Friedland (ex Build.com)
Christian's bio (courtesy of Andrew Gazdecki, Microacquire)

Christian Friedland is a highly successful entrepreneur and EY Entrepreneur Of The Year nominee who founded, bootstrapped, scaled, and sold Build.com, the largest pure-play internet retailer in the home improvement space in the U.S.
During his 15-year tenure at Build.com, he led the company from $1M in annual sales to $1B in annual sales (1,000X+ growth), sourced and closed four strategic acquisitions, delivered consistent annual EBITDA growth, and created a unique, winning company culture.
Christian Friedland:
- https://twitter.com/chrisfriedland
- http://build.com/

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Links
Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas
My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel
My product: https://Simple.ink/
1 hr 36 min
October 28, 2021 🏅 26. Rob Walling (TinySeed, MicroConf, Drip.com)
Rob's bio (c/o Leadmore)
Rob Walling sees himself as a maker and serial entrepreneur. These days he leads with three things: Startups for the Rest of Us, a podcast about bootstrapping SaaS companies, MicroConf, the oldest and largest community for bootstrapped SaaS founders, and TinySeed, the first accelerator designed for bootstrappers.
Rob's Twitter: https://twitter.com/robwalling
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Links
Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas
My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel
My product: https://Simple.ink/
1 hr 25 min
October 25, 2021 🏅 25. Daniel Vassallo
Daniel's bio (c/o The Genuinely Interested Podcast)
Daniel Vassallo used to work for Amazon. By every measuring standard, he should have been happy & content. He was successful, making a high salary, getting promotions, working with great coworkers - all while working for one of the biggest companies in the world. However, over time, Daniel's motivation to work there decreased, and after a lot of internal deliberations, he decided to quit his high 6 figure job at Amazon to pursue the unknown.
He didn't want to live on someone else’s terms so he decided to take his independence into his own hands. What happened next was completely unexpected...
Daniel's Twitter: https://twitter.com/dvassallo
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Links
Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas
My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel
My product: https://usesignhouse.com/
2 hr 47 min
September 29, 2021 🏅 24. Andrew Gazdecki (MicroAcquire.com)
Andrew's bio (from their AmA)
Hi everyone,
Andrew here from MicroAcquire! Startup acquisition marketplace!
MicroAcquire helps startups find buyers. Simple as that. We’ll help you start conversations that lead to an acquisition in just 30 days – for free.
When my company Bizness Apps was acquired in 2018 by a PE firm, it was a bittersweet moment. On the one hand, I’d successfully bootstrapped my company to $10m/ARR+ and a life-changing acquisition. On the other, I’d sold something that took years of blood, sweat, and tears to build. Do I have any regrets? Far from it.
I'm here to answer questions about building your own business, bootstrapping startups, marketing, branding, sales, hiring, startup ideas, acquisitions, and anything else related to startups.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/agazdecki
MicroAcquire: https://microacquire.com/
Bizness Apps: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/technology/sd-fi-biznessapps-think3-story.html
Recent MicroAcquire press: https://www.businessinsider.com/microacquire-gets-funding-from-bessemer-to-help-founders-sell-startups-2021-7
MicroAcquire startup acquisition course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjl2Jl5M6-0&list=PLO30Q8WzVLKNAtUHELW4mVikad_K7UF4G&index=14
AMA!
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Links
Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas
My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel
My product: https://Simple.ink/
1 hr 29 min
September 27, 2021 🏅 23. Derrick Reimer (SavvyCal.com)
Derrick's bio (from their AmA)
Hey, I’m Derrick Reimer, a full-stack developer. I fell in love with the 37signals ethos back in 2009 and I’ve been bootstrapping ever since. I've built and sold StaticKit (acquired 2020), a toolkit of dynamic components for static sites, Codetree (acquired 2016), a way of managing development tasks across multiple repositories, and Drip (acquired 2016), a lightweight marketing automation tool that grew into a leading automation platform.
A year after writing the first line of code for SavvyCal in March of 2020, it passed $10k MRR and we've been growing healthily ever since. SavvyCal is mostly bootstrapped as we took funding from TinySeed back in 2019, before SavvyCal was a thing. We're a lean team of 3, with a marketer and support specialist in addition to myself, possibly soon expanding.
I also co-host the Art of Product podcast with Ben Orenstein (Tuple co-founder) where we've chronicled our journeys building products the last 4 years. It hasn't been all sunshine and roses, like when I spent a year building a Slack competitor and then shut it down.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/derrickreimer
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Links
Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas
My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel
My product: https://Simple.ink/
2 hr 13 min
September 23, 2021🏅 22. Spencer Fry (Podia.com): A how-to on founders and financial aims
Spencer's bio (from their AmA)
Hey everyone 👋
Excited to talk about all things startups and creator economy, and anything else.
A brief bit of bio:
I’ve been an entrepreneur my entire life, since my early teens. At 37 years old, I’ve never earned a paycheck from anyone other than myself. This is one of my proudest accomplishments.

Co-founded and exited 3 bootstrapped business between 2003 and 2014. Most notably Carbonmade, which was the first online portfolio company on the Internet. TypeFrag — he first VOIP product for video game players — is the other well-known one. Early Counter-Strike and World of Warcraft players will have heard of us.

Founded Podia in 2014. This was the first business I ever raised VC for. 7 years later, we’re a 28 person team, profitable since 2019, and the best all-in-one platform for creators today.

I’m a bootstrapper-turned-fundraiser. I hadn’t anticipated raising any money for Podia, but something very Silicon Valley happened to me: I met a VC for beers at a beer garden in Brooklyn just to say hi. He wrote me a check a couple days later. 🍻

At the start of this year, I wrote 10 bold predictions for the next 10 years for the creator economy. These are already playing out in the market today. Happy to discuss where this market is heading.

Just some random things: I love cooking and living by the ocean. My signature dish is an all-day bolognese with fresh pasta. 🍝

I moved to NYC right after graduating college over 15 yers ago. I grew up in the NYC tech community, having attended the very first NY Tech Meetup with under 20 people there. Been amazing to see NYC flourish over the past 15 years.

My number one predictor for a company’s success: persistence. Don’t give up too early!

I’m a solo founder at Podia after previously working with co-founders for my previous startups. Bad co-founder relationships kill more startups than anything else. Find early employees who are awesome instead. Happy to discuss the pros and cons.
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Links
Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas
My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel
My product: https://Simple.ink/
1 hr 42 min
September 13, 2021 21. Live AmA, AJ (Carrd.co): Accidentally bootstrapped Carrd to $1M ARR, 3m sites, and a funding round
AJ"s Bio, from their AmA

Hi folks! I'm AJ, the guy behind random projects like HTML5 UP, Pixelarity, and for the last few years Carrd, a platform for creating one-page sites for pretty much anything (from personal profiles to landing pages to ... well, a whole bunch of use cases I never anticipated ;)
Carrd began life back in 2015 as an experiment to see if I could tackle a big project (like a site builder) entirely on my own using skills I'd picked up from years of doing smaller projects. After months of work it finally launched on both Twitter and Product Hunt in early 2016 and despite having zero expectations it ... kind of blew up. Since then Carrd has grown into a platform that hosts over 3.3M sites (built by some 2.2M users), generates over $1M ARR, has become a popular tool in the no-code movement, and has even become something of a phenomenon among various subcultures. Despite all this, Carrd has remained lean (just me on product/dev and my now-cofounder Doni on operations/biz), profitable, and continues to grow organically without any paid marketing or advertising. We did, however, close on a small funding round earlier this year (which might sound weird given that we're profitable but we had our reasons -- happy to elaborate though).
Anyway, ask me anything!
PS: Use code RSAAS21 (or go to try.carrd.co/rsaas21) for 30% off your next Carrd Pro Upgrade or renewal

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Links
Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas
My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel
My product: https://Simple.ink/notion-website-builder
1 hr 25 min
September 08, 2021 🏅 20. James McKinven (Indie Bites): How to start a podcast + personal life chat
I'm a podcaster, video creator and marketer. By day, I'm part of the Growth Team at Welder. By night, I run various different side businesses.
Indie Bites is my podcast, Striqo is my podcast editing service and Whitstable Craft Co is what I do when I need to get away from the screen.

I love starting and building side projects (maybe too much) and I'll make some mistakes as I go. I like to share my thoughts on my blog, which contains candid updates on my progress, failures and general musings.

I also listen to a lot of podcasts, here's what I'm listening to currently.

The content I produce is fuelled by coffee, so if you're feeling generous you can buy me one here coffee here 🚀

I spend a lot of time on the internet, so send out a weekly (or so) email containing my finds for the week and updates from my blog. If you're interested in marketing, podcasting, technology and building side-projects, then I think you'll like my newsletter
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Links
Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas
My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel
My product: https://Simple.ink/
3 hr 38 min
August 24, 2021 🏅 19. Marie Prokopets (Nira.com)
Marie's Bio, thanks to the Life Profitability Podcast
Marie Prokopets has had a “wild ride” of a career. She is the co-founder of tech start-up FYI, recent recipient of Product Hunt’s Golden Kitty Maker of the Year award, former Diageo Director of Tequila, comedy screenplay writer, and avid meditator, crystal collector, and sage burner. In this episode Adii and Marie discuss making career changes, keeping a student mindset, taking risks, and the habits and attitudes necessary for success.
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Links
Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas
My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel
My product: https://www.simple.ink/notion-website-builder
1 hr 57 min
August 23, 2021 18. Live AmA, Brian Dean. Founded Backlinko (5.8M visitors last year), Exploding Topics
Brians' Bio, thanks to his AmA
Brian Dean has been called an "SEO genius" by Entrepreneur.com and a "brilliant entrepreneur" by Inc Magazine. Brian's award-winning blog, Backlinko.com, has been listed by Forbes as a top "blog to follow".
He is an SEO expert and the founder of Backlinko and Exploding Topics (SaaS).
Success Magazine has referred to Brian as "the world’s foremost expert on search engine optimization" due to the influence of his blog, which reaches over 5 million people every year.
Along the way, he's helped dozens of SaaS startups get more traffic, trials and customers from SEO and content marketing.
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Links
Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas
My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel
My product: https://www.simple.ink/notion-website-builder
1 hr 18 min

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