It’s lonely being a software startup founder, even when you have a leadership team and 15 or 50 employees.
- Your family and neighbors have no idea what you really do.
- You can’t discuss your most challenging issues and deepest questions with your employees.
- You stopped going to local startup events with other founders and mentors because it was all about the funding.
You’re busy actually selling and serving customers, hiring leaders, managing people, and growing yourself too. You don’t get out much.
Local CEO peer groups are nice, but they don’t get the SaaS game at all.
Growing a company is always really hard. And it’s harder without the support of trusted advisors who have played your specific game before.
It’s harder without being part of a trusted group of peers who are going through the same crazy hard stuff you are experiencing.
Founders with big VC funding can buy advice and support from board members, consultants, and experienced executives.
There isn’t as much support for practical founders who didn’t raise outside capital.
That’s why I started Practical Founders CEO Peer Groups.
My peer groups are for bootstrapped and lightly funded SaaS CEOs on the road to $10M ARR.
There are currently 33 SaaS founders/CEOs with revenues between $1M and $20M in four different peer groups.
- They are all serious about growing their companies and want to be around other founders like themselves to accelerate their growth.
- They are all profitable (or nearly so) and growing at rates of 20% to 100% per year.
I curate these groups, moderate our monthly meetings, and serve as a one-on-one advisor to every founder.
For these SaaS founders who are turning into real CEOs, this is a journey to manage new internal challenges:
- hiring and developing leaders
- making the most of AI opportunities and threats
- scaling new growth channels
- evaluating practical funding and acquisition offers
- improving operations and visibility
- coordinating bigger teams with culture and some process
- and growing yourself as the CEO too.
We help you make progress on the hard stuff every month.
I’m looking for five more great-fit B2B SaaS CEOs who want to be part of a peer team to grow faster and build a valuable software company without big VC funding.
I’m not growing an infinite “community” of thousands of SaaS founders.
I am dedicated to helping these 40 awesome, practical founders achieve their unique visions and do it in their own way.
They will all be wealthy. And healthy, too. With real founder friends.
If you’re one of these founders in North America or Europe who want to work on your business with other practical founders like yourself every month…
Learn about Practical Founders Peer Groups and apply at https://practicalfounders.com/peer-groups.
The FAQs and member testimonials explain who is and isn’t a good fit and provide all the details.
