#124: From Services to SaaS Products to a Successful Acquisition in India – Sunando Bhattacharya
by shawn | Dec 26, 2024
Sunando Bhattacharya spent 13 years as a business leader in managed IT services companies in India before starting his own cloud tech services business. This company grew slowly and an opportunity arose to create a software product for one of their clients. Two...
#123: How Practical Founders Are Winning Big with Growth Equity Funding – Growth Street Partners
by shawn | Dec 19, 2024
Nate Grossman and Steve Wolfe are co-founders at Growth Street Partners, a growth equity firm focused on investing in early-stage B2B SaaS companies between $2M-$6M in ARR. They discuss how growth equity funding works for SaaS founders and how it allows entrepreneurs...
#122: Going Long With Profitable Embedded Accounting Software After 13 Years – Raj Bhaskar
by shawn | Dec 12, 2024
Raj Bhaskar is a successful two-time practical software founder with one exit. In 2000, he started his first software company, VisualHOMES, to provide comprehensive financial management software to public housing agencies. With no outside funding, the business grew to...
#121: Avoided a VC Round Using Royalty-Based Funding With No Equity Dilution – Vince Hsieh
by shawn | Dec 5, 2024
Vince Hsieh is a two-time entrepreneur who has grown and sold two industrial tech companies that included software and either an RFID or GPS device in the solutions. His second venture, Geoforce, raised a non-dilutive funding round to accelerate global growth before...