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SaaS District

476 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 60 ratings

Top Startup and SaaS Podcast for Startup Founders, Entrepreneurs and Investors.

Learn how to optimize your growth strategy a SaaS startup entrepreneur from beta all the way to exit. We cover topics such as raising capital, acquisitions, leadership, B2B sales, growth marketing, scaling, hiring, M&A, conversion optimization, productivity, bootstrapping, venture capital, private equity, and innovation.

By sharing industry lead expertise, we want you to implement the best-proven tactics to help you scale your SaaS company.

Top Podcast Industry Nominations:
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#8: Validating and Building your Startup through Industry and Corporate pain points with Thomas Petersen

May 19, 2020 14:00 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MB

In today’s episode, Thomas Petersen (https://twitter.com/Hello_World (@Hello_World))  joins us for a 1-on-1 interview on the SaaS District podcast. Thomas is a serial entrepreneur and startup expert in Service & Product Design, Innovation, Branding, UI/UX and just generally building great innovative Start-Ups from scratch. He has worked with hundreds of different organizations spanning from early stage startups all the way to large Fortune 500 companies. Thomas also co-founded Hello Group in...

Validating and Building your Startup through Industry and Corporate pain points with Thomas Petersen | Podcast #8

May 19, 2020 14:00 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MB

In today’s episode, Thomas Petersen (@Hello_World)  joins us for a 1-on-1 interview on the SaaS District podcast. Thomas is a serial entrepreneur and startup expert in Service & Product Design, Innovation, Branding, UI/UX and just generally building great innovative Start-Ups from scratch. He has worked with hundreds of different organizations spanning from early stage startups all the way to large Fortune 500 companies. Thomas also co-founded Hello Group in 2006 which was sold to NOA Group...

Bootstrapping Your Startup to Acquisition with Einar Vollset from TinySeed #7 [SDI]

May 14, 2020 20:50 - 31 minutes - 29 MB

Einar (https://twitter.com/einarvollset (@einarvollset)) is currently the Co-Founder and General Partner at Tinyseed, a remote-based startup accelerator designed for early stage, bootstrapped SaaS Founders which provides funding, community, guidance, advice and mentorship. He is also the Managing Partner of Discretion Capital,  a technology enabled Investment Bank focused on M&A, due diligence and strategic partnership development for tech & technology enabled services businesses. Einar was ...

#7: Bootstrapping Your Startup to Acquisition with Einar Vollset from TinySeed

May 14, 2020 19:50 - 31 minutes - 29 MB

Einar (https://twitter.com/einarvollset (@einarvollset)) is currently the Co-Founder and General Partner at Tinyseed, a remote-based startup accelerator designed for early stage, bootstrapped SaaS Founders which provides funding, community, guidance, advice and mentorship. He is also the Managing Partner of Discretion Capital,  a technology enabled Investment Bank focused on M&A, due diligence and strategic partnership development for tech & technology enabled services businesses. Einar was...

Bootstrapping Your Startup to Acquisition with Einar Vollset from TinySeed | Podcast #7 [SDI]

May 14, 2020 19:50 - 31 minutes - 29 MB

Einar (@einarvollset) is currently the Co-Founder and General Partner at Tinyseed, a remote-based startup accelerator designed for early stage, bootstrapped SaaS Founders which provides funding, community, guidance, advice and mentorship. He is also the Managing Partner of Discretion Capital,  a technology enabled Investment Bank focused on M&A, due diligence and strategic partnership development for tech & technology enabled services businesses. Einar was a professor of Computer Science a...

#7: Bootstrapping Your Startup to Acquisition with Einar Vollset

May 14, 2020 15:50 - 31 minutes - 43.6 MB

In today’s episode, Einar Vollset  (@einarvollset) joins us for a 1-on-1 interview on the SaaS District podcast. Einar is currently the Co-Founder and General Partner at Tinyseed, a remote-based startup accelerator designed for early stage, bootstrapped SaaS Founders which provides funding, community, guidance, advice and mentorship. He is also the Managing Partner of Discretion Capital,  a technology enabled Investment Bank focused on M&A, due diligence and strategic partnership developme...

How to Unlock your Potential and Become a More Effective CEO and Leader for your Startup with Mark Green #6

May 12, 2020 15:00 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MB

Mark (@MarkEGreen) is a Speaker, Author, Strategic Advisor and a Business & Leadership Growth Coach. He facilitates workshops with executive teams to help them stay on track, hit their goals and continue growing. He coaches CEOs and executive teams all over the world, where he’s worked with thousands of different business leaders, helping them unlock more of their potential and also teaching them how to do the same for their teams. Mark is also a Certified Behavioral Analyst, a Certified Va...

How to Unlock your Potential and Become a More Effective CEO and Leader for your Startup with Mark Green | Podcast #6

May 12, 2020 14:00 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MB

Mark (@MarkEGreen) is a Speaker, Author, Strategic Advisor and a Business & Leadership Growth Coach. He facilitates workshops with executive teams to help them stay on track, hit their goals and continue growing. He coaches CEOs and executive teams all over the world, where he’s worked with thousands of different business leaders, helping them unlock more of their potential and also teaching them how to do the same for their teams. Mark is also a Certified Behavioral Analyst, a Certified V...

#6: How to Unlock your Potential and Become a More Effective CEO and Leader for your Startup with Mark Green

May 12, 2020 14:00 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MB

Mark (@MarkEGreen) is a Speaker, Author, Strategic Advisor and a Business & Leadership Growth Coach. He facilitates workshops with executive teams to help them stay on track, hit their goals and continue growing. He coaches CEOs and executive teams all over the world, where he’s worked with thousands of different business leaders, helping them unlock more of their potential and also teaching them how to do the same for their teams. Mark is also a Certified Behavioral Analyst, a Certified Va...

Generating High Quality B2B Leads Through LInkedIn for Your Startup with Isaac Anderson #5

May 07, 2020 22:00 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MB

Isaac (@https://twitter.com/realzeeko (realzeeko)) has his LinkedIn Industry Top 1% SSI certification meaning. Meaning he is an all LinkedIn Expert. Including marketing, consulting, conversion optimization, and business strategy. He was the former COO at an online marketing agency, TEV Marketing, where they specialized in LinkedIn, Adwords, and SEO. Isaac is currently the CEO of Zeeko, a platform that uses LinkedIn to create real, meaningful relationships between clients and customers so that...

How to Validate and Launch a Successful Product in the Market with Mike Watts #4

May 07, 2020 21:52 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MB

In this episode, Mike Watts (@mike100w) joins us for a 1-on-1 interview on the SaaS District podcast. Mike is an experienced entrepreneur who has 6 startup companies under his belt including founding three consecutive multi-million dollar companies in the last 10 years. He has successful exits from three companies including one for over $6 million, and he had a business partnership with Shark Tank famous: Daymond John. He currently serves as Founder and CEO of https://www.lovehandle.com/ (Lov...

How to Run More Effective Growth Experiments with Your Startup with Emilia Chagas, CEO of Growth Hackers #3

May 07, 2020 21:47 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MB

In today's episode, Emilia Chagas joins us for a 1-on-1 interview on the SaaS District podcast. Emilia is an expert in online marketing, enterprise content management, content strategy, growth hacking, and entrepreneurship. She started her career as a content manager at a marketing agency, managing multiple projects for enterprises and SMB’s. In 2015, Emilia founded ContenTools, a streamline content creation software. Ever since then, she has been a full-time serial entrepreneur. Last year, C...

How to Manage your Startup Through Uncertainty with Arvind Jha #2

May 07, 2020 21:44 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MB

In this episode, Arvind Jha(@https://twitter.com/jalajboy (jalajboy)) joins us for a 1-on-1 interview on the SaaS District podcast. Arvind is the director and co-founder at Pariksha Labs, a software consulting and development company working with global start-ups and SMEs. He’s the founder of Partee Hai, a lead generation platform & marketplace for party services, and the founder of a cloud video startup, Movico, India's leading video asset management company. Arvind has built and led large s...

How to Create Sustainability in Your SaaS Business with Josh Patrick #1

May 07, 2020 21:42 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MB

In this episode, Josh Patrick joins us for a 1-on-1 interview on the SaaS District podcast. His specialty is helping private business owners grow and create more value in their business. He has over twenty years of experience as an adviser to private businesses. For nineteen years (1976-1995) he owned a vending and food service company, where he managed to take it from 1.5 to 90 employees before successfully selling the business. During that time he admits to having made a lot of mistakes, bu...

Episode Zero: Welcome to SaaS District

May 07, 2020 21:41 - 3 minutes - 3.07 MB

We're Live! Time to learn more about everything SaaS. In this episode, our host Akeel Jabber introduces himself and the new SaaS District Podcast. Akeel is a former petroleum engineer turned entrepreneur investor. He runs a micro private equity firm called HoriZen Capital focused specifically in SaaS businesses, where he is a general partner and investment director. Akeel started in the online business world five years ago building, selling, and building websites. He is a serial entrepreneur ...

Generating High Quality B2B Leads Through LInkedIn for Your Startup with Isaac Anderson | Podcast #5

May 07, 2020 21:00 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MB

Isaac (@realzeeko) has his LinkedIn Industry Top 1% SSI certification meaning. Meaning he is an all LinkedIn Expert. Including marketing, consulting, conversion optimization, and business strategy. He was the former COO at an online marketing agency, TEV Marketing, where they specialized in LinkedIn, Adwords, and SEO. Isaac is currently the CEO of Zeeko, a platform that uses LinkedIn to create real, meaningful relationships between clients and customers so that businesses can improve their...

#5: Generating High Quality B2B Leads Through LInkedIn for Your Startup with Isaac Anderson

May 07, 2020 21:00 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MB

Isaac (@https://twitter.com/realzeeko (realzeeko)) has his LinkedIn Industry Top 1% SSI certification meaning. Meaning he is an all LinkedIn Expert. Including marketing, consulting, conversion optimization, and business strategy. He was the former COO at an online marketing agency, TEV Marketing, where they specialized in LinkedIn, Adwords, and SEO. Isaac is currently the CEO of Zeeko, a platform that uses LinkedIn to create real, meaningful relationships between clients and customers so that...

#4: How to Validate and Launch a Successful Product in the Market with Mike Watts

May 07, 2020 20:52 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MB

In this episode, Mike Watts (@mike100w) joins us for a 1-on-1 interview on the SaaS District podcast. Mike is an experienced entrepreneur who has 6 startup companies under his belt including founding three consecutive multi-million dollar companies in the last 10 years. He has successful exits from three companies including one for over $6 million, and he had a business partnership with Shark Tank famous: Daymond John. He currently serves as Founder and CEO of https://www.lovehandle.com/ (Lov...

How to Validate and Launch a Successful Product in the Market with Mike Watts | Podcast #4

May 07, 2020 20:52 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MB

In this episode, Mike Watts (@mike100w) joins us for a 1-on-1 interview on the SaaS District podcast. Mike is an experienced entrepreneur who has 6 startup companies under his belt including founding three consecutive multi-million dollar companies in the last 10 years. He has successful exits from three companies including one for over $6 million, and he had a business partnership with Shark Tank famous: Daymond John. He currently serves as Founder and CEO of LoveHandle, a fast-growing Am...

#3: How to Run More Effective Growth Experiments with Your Startup with Emilia Chagas, CEO of Growth Hackers

May 07, 2020 20:47 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MB

In today's episode, Emilia Chagas joins us for a 1-on-1 interview on the SaaS District podcast. Emilia is an expert in online marketing, enterprise content management, content strategy, growth hacking, and entrepreneurship. She started her career as a content manager at a marketing agency, managing multiple projects for enterprises and SMB’s. In 2015, Emilia founded ContenTools, a streamline content creation software. Ever since then, she has been a full-time serial entrepreneur. Last year, C...

How to Run More Effective Growth Experiments with Your Startup with Emilia Chagas, CEO of Growth Hackers | Podcast #3

May 07, 2020 20:47 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MB

In today's episode, Emilia Chagas joins us for a 1-on-1 interview on the SaaS District podcast. Emilia is an expert in online marketing, enterprise content management, content strategy, growth hacking, and entrepreneurship. She started her career as a content manager at a marketing agency, managing multiple projects for enterprises and SMB’s. In 2015, Emilia founded ContenTools, a streamline content creation software. Ever since then, she has been a full-time serial entrepreneur. Last year,...

How to Manage your Startup Through Uncertainty with Arvind Jha | Podcast #2

May 07, 2020 20:44 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MB

In this episode, Arvind Jha(@jalajboy) joins us for a 1-on-1 interview on the SaaS District podcast. Arvind is the director and co-founder at Pariksha Labs, a software consulting and development company working with global start-ups and SMEs. He’s the founder of Partee Hai, a lead generation platform & marketplace for party services, and the founder of a cloud video startup, Movico, India's leading video asset management company. Arvind has built and led large software R&D teams for major...

#2: How to Manage your Startup Through Uncertainty with Arvind Jha

May 07, 2020 20:44 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MB

In this episode, Arvind Jha(@https://twitter.com/jalajboy (jalajboy)) joins us for a 1-on-1 interview on the SaaS District podcast. Arvind is the director and co-founder at Pariksha Labs, a software consulting and development company working with global start-ups and SMEs. He’s the founder of Partee Hai, a lead generation platform & marketplace for party services, and the founder of a cloud video startup, Movico, India's leading video asset management company. Arvind has built and led large s...

#1: How to Create Sustainability in Your SaaS Business with Josh Patrick

May 07, 2020 20:42 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MB

In this episode, Josh Patrick joins us for a 1-on-1 interview on the SaaS District podcast. His specialty is helping private business owners grow and create more value in their business. He has over twenty years of experience as an adviser to private businesses. For nineteen years (1976-1995) he owned a vending and food service company, where he managed to take it from 1.5 to 90 employees before successfully selling the business. During that time he admits to having made a lot of mistakes, bu...

1| Podcast #How to Create Sustainability in Your SaaS Business with Josh Patrick | Podcast #1

May 07, 2020 20:42 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MB

In this episode, Josh Patrick joins us for a 1-on-1 interview on the SaaS District podcast. His specialty is helping private business owners grow and create more value in their business. He has over twenty years of experience as an adviser to private businesses. For nineteen years (1976-1995) he owned a vending and food service company, where he managed to take it from 1.5 to 90 employees before successfully selling the business. During that time he admits to having made a lot of mistakes, ...

Episode Zero: Welcome to SaaS District | Newest SaaS Podcasts

May 07, 2020 20:41 - 3 minutes - 3.07 MB

We're Live! Time to learn more about everything SaaS. In this episode, our host Akeel Jabber introduces himself and the new SaaS District Podcast. Akeel is a former petroleum engineer turned entrepreneur investor. He runs a micro private equity firm called HoriZen Capital focused specifically in SaaS businesses, where he is a general partner and investment director. Akeel started in the online business world five years ago building, selling, and building websites. He is a serial entreprene...

Guests

Andrew Gazdecki
3 Episodes
Mubashar Iqbal
2 Episodes
Ruben Gamez
2 Episodes
Elizabeth Yin
1 Episode

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