#137: Her Amazing Story of 0-$30M ARR with No Outside Funding – Rebecca Shostak

by PE Support | Mar 27, 2025

  Rebecca Shostak is co-founder and chief brand officer of Flodesk, the popular email marketing software for small businesses that care about beautiful branded emails. After prototyping the product and validating the problem, they launched in 2019 with a...

#100: She Scaled Her Software App as a Successful Franchised Service Business – Erin Fletter

by shawn | Jul 5, 2024

Erin Fletter had a long career in the restaurant business before starting an after-school enrichment program to teach kids how to cook at her daughters’ school in 2011. Her cooking program became popular, and she improved and expanded it to become a paid program...

#77: Bootstrapped and Winning in Season Ticket Management Software – Morgan Katz

by shawn | Jan 12, 2024

Morgan Katz is the founder and CEO of Ticketnology. Morgan was an enthusiastic athlete with a degree in sports management who started her career in ticket sales for sports teams and front-line venue management. Morgan saw how companies with season tickets had...

#76: Real Estate Investor Built Her Own CRM Solution and Created a Market Leader – Stephanie Betters

by shawn | Dec 29, 2023

Stephanie Betters was a practicing Nurse Practitioner in heart surgery and an active real estate investor when her frustration with disparate real estate CRM and marketing solutions hit a boiling point. Salesforce and a development partner proposed a project so...

#62: She Quit Her CPA Job to Create This Fast-Growing SaaS Startup – Kelly Mann

by shawn | Sep 22, 2023

Kelly Mann was a CPA and auditor for 15 years before leaving her employer to start her own CPA firm focused on 401K benefits audits. She discovered a need to automate this process, validated the market with other CPAs, and created the first AuditMiner software....