#109: Helping SaaS Startups Grow with Practical Funding and Operational Services – Kyle York

by shawn | Sep 5, 2024

Kyle York was the Chief Revenue Officer of Dyn, a bootstrapped cloud infrastructure company that he helped grow and sell to Oracle for over $600 million. He then led product strategy and acquisitions in Oracle’s cloud infrastructure group before going out on his...

#108: Grew His Vertical SaaS Business for 5 Years and Sold It for a Big Prize – Mike Kovarik

by shawn | Aug 30, 2024

Mike Kovarik is the founder and former CEO of Attribytes, a software company he started, grew, and successfully sold in just over five years. Mike was a data analytics leader at large food distributors, where he discovered a chronic challenge with low-quality product...

#107: Brothers Sold Their Bootstrapped Software Company for $40 Million – David and Chris Sinkinson

by shawn | Aug 23, 2024

Brothers David and Chris Sinkinson attended Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada, when David learned of the problems maintaining the blue emergency phones on campus. He proposed a location-aware mobile safety app, so Chris built it himself, and it worked great....

#106: SaaS Pricing Expert Shares Useful Strategies for Practical Founders – Dan Balcauski

by shawn | Aug 15, 2024

Dan Balcauski is the founder and principal consultant of Product Tranquility, a SaaS pricing consultancy. Dan shares the core building blocks of SaaS pricing, including customer segments, value, competition, and positioning strategy. Dan also describes the common...

#105: Husband and Wife Team Built Popular Software for Wedding Planner Pros – Rob Farrow

by shawn | Aug 9, 2024

Rob Farrow was an experienced marketing executive and his wife Christina Farrow was a successful professional wedding planner. They discovered there was no good software for wedding planner pros, so they decided to build software themselves. They invested their...