SaaS Episodes

Oct. 5, 2023

On Usage-based Pricing and How to Run a Successful Design Partner Pro…

Why all SaaS companies should implement usage-based pricing and How to run a successful design partner program with your customers to build your early MVP

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June 22, 2023

From Serial Entrepreneur to Angel Investor to CIO of Estonia: Taavi K…

[2:16] - 20 years and starting a company in Estonia [5:08] - Angel investing and what to look for? [10:01] - First CIO of Estonia [16:59] - Koos - what is it and why is it important [29:04] - Advice …

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Nov. 24, 2022

Bootstrapped to $14M Seed Round with Nurasyl Serik, Co-founder of Rem…

Nurasyl bootstrapped the company to 7-digit revenues with five employees and then went on to close a $14M seed round, one of the largest in the UK. How did he do it?

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Oct. 20, 2022

What I Learnt from 4 failed Startups and 8 Rounds of Fundraising

With 8 rounds of fundraising under his belt, David Simonarson, founder and CEO of Smitten, shares his secret for doing successful fundraising. He also talks about his previous four failed startups and what he learned from each one of them.

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Dec. 15, 2021

Future of Workplaces; Pivoting The Whole Company During the Pandemic …

My guest today is Larry Gadea, founder and CEO of Envoy, a workplace platform that helps companies manage hybrid work. Envoy’s products are used in more than 14,000 offices around the world, including companies like Deliveroo, Monzo, Trainline in the …

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June 30, 2021

Mads Fosselius, CEO of Danish SaaS startup Dixa on Reimagining the Cu…

Can you really sell friendship as a value proposition to businesses? How do you successfully displace incumbent, well established solutions? How do you balance moving to a new category while maintaining your position in the old category? These are the

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June 9, 2021

Andrus Purde, Co-Founder and CEO of Outfunnel on: How to Build A Star…

Do we really need yet another marketing tool given the overcrowded Martech (marketing tech) space? That was the big question on my mind when I sat down to talk to Andrus Purde about his latest startup, Outfunnel. Andrus was head …

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May 26, 2021

Dan Garrett, Co-founder and CEO of Farewill, on using Technology to R…

My guest today is Dan Garrett, the CEO, and co-founder of Farewill. Farewill is UK’s largest Will writer, accounting for 1 in every 10 Wills written. How did Dan, someone with a design background end up re-inventing the death industry? …

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May 19, 2021

Malhar Kamdar, Chief Ecosystem Officer at Celonis, on Ecosystem Strat…

When you are thinking about your go-to-market strategy, when should you go direct and when should you build a partner strategy? My guest today is Malhar Kamdar, the Chief Ecosystem Officer at Celonis who sat down with me to talk …

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Feb. 10, 2021

Kair Käsper and Martin Kõiva, the Co-Founders of Klaus on: The Import…

Kair and Martin were leaders in Pipedrive, the most recent unicorn from Estonia. (Kair headed product marketing and Martin was head of customer success). Based in Tallinn, Klaus has raised money from Creandum of Sweden and most recently from Global …

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Jan. 21, 2021

Tim Kraska, co-founder and CEO of Einblick on Key Considerations for …

Tim Kraska is an MIT professor who is now the CEO of Einblick, a next-generation data analytics company based on research he and a team developed at MIT and Brown University. I sat down with Tim to learn more about …

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Dec. 3, 2020

Ola Sars, Founder and CEO of Soundtrack Your Brand on: Partnering Wit…

My guest today is Ola Sars, Founder of Soundtrack Your Brand, the world's fastest-growing music-platform for B2B, which he co-founded together with Spotify back in 2014. Ola is an expert in music-tech, having founded several music-tech businesses includi

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Nov. 11, 2020

Cristina Fonseca, VC at Indico Capital Partners, Co-Founder of Talkde…

I was so inspired by my guest today, Cristina Fonseca. Cristina was one of the founders of Talkdesk, a cloud-based help desk software that became Portugal's third "unicorn" after raising US$100M in series B funding at a valuation of over …

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Oct. 7, 2020

Jeetu Mahtani, SVP Sales and Managing Director, International for Hub…

All startups have to expand beyond their native country at some point. In this episode, I sat down to talk to an expert on this topic. Jeetu grew Hubspot’s operation to 7 countries which contributes to 40% of overall company …

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Oct. 1, 2020

Jan Hugenroth, founder and CEO of Next Matter, on: the future of work…

Jan Hugenroth, an ex-Mckinsey consultant turned entrepreneur, is building a no-code solution that allows organizations to automate the remaining manual processes that exists today outside of project management and ERP tools. They have attracted seed inve

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