Last week, I hosted 25 SaaS CEOs at our first Practical Founders Summit, which lasted two days in Phoenix. It was awesome to meet in person with Practical Founders Peer Groups …
Practical SaaS founders who defy conventional startup wisdom usually win bigger with much better odds. They do the opposite of what their startup ecosystem echo chamber of investors, experts, and peers …
About half of the 40 SaaS founders I work with have shared that they are getting tired and can't shake their grumpy moods as quickly. Is this a mid-summer dip or …
Being the CEO of a growing SaaS company can be lonely, even with 15 or 50 employees. This is especially true when the company is bootstrapped or lightly funded without big …
Here are a few memories of my Dad on Father's Day. Jim Head was a lanky kid from Dearborn, Michigan. He grew up to serve as a Navy pilot for a …
“Our SaaS product works, we have happy customers, and we have enough leads—but our demo close rate is too low.” Every day, B2B SaaS founders tell me about the hard problems …
It can be overwhelming for SaaS founders to deal with so many different and complicated things every day. Some entrepreneurs run out of energy and get stuck on their startup …
Entrepreneurs tend to be generalists, but our talents and interests are not evenly distributed. We channel our superpowers to power our early startup progress. Most times, we are unusually good at …
This SaaS founder bootstrapped his first company and did pretty well when he sold it, but he didn’t want to go back to stressful 80-hour weeks again. So when he started …
Corporate refugees can make great entrepreneurs, especially when they were the frustrated doers who didn't fit the corporate mold. They are the ones who ask too many questions, break the rules, …
I talk to 500+ software founders and CEOs a year all over the world. I'm amazed that every entrepreneur's story is different. Different founder personalities and backgrounds Different times and …
Startups are glamorized. They can look pretty cool from the outside. This is not helpful to serious new founders. Sure, there are occasional breakthroughs and flashes of good fortune. But mostly it’s …
It's lonely being a software startup founder. Even when you have a leadership team and 15 or 50 employees. Your family and neighbors don't have a clue what you really …
How much of your health, your family and marriage, or your sanity would you sacrifice for the chance to win big with your crazy startup? Practical founder Lloyed Lobo describes this …
So you have an idea for a software product and you're thinking of starting a company to build it. I talk to hundreds of these folks a year, year after …
How many founder stories have you heard about grinding hard for a long time and then finally selling their company to “win a big prize?” But choosing your business OR …
Most founders who sell their companies eventually start another company or create a new project. Old habits die hard for most former founders. But there’s also a type of software company …
Successful software entrepreneurs are just abnormal people who do abnormal things. That’s not better or worse than anyone else. We just do things that “normal” people don’t do. That’s usually where the …
Every time I talk to a successful practical SaaS founder I hear about a different way to start, build, and scale a modern software company. Unlike the VC "Get Big Fast" …
In the last three weeks, I talked to 56 practical SaaS founders from all over the world about their products, businesses, and their visions. Since they aren't trying to raise outside …
There was a hidden secret in the rooms of two startup funding events I attended last week in Phoenix. The richest people in the rooms of both events were the founders …
Practical founders often tell me something that they don't talk about much: It's lonely being a software startup founder. Your family and neighbors don't have a clue what you really do. …
Most founders who sell their software companies don’t join the leadership teams of their acquirers. Or they don’t stay around any longer than they have to. But what if you sold …
I hosted a dinner with 15 founders last night at the SaaSOpen conference in New York. After an hour of great conversation, I realized I was talking with founders from Poland, …
Many new entrepreneurs hesitate to ask for help from experienced founders and savvy mentors. They are missing out on POWERFUL INSIGHTS that can help them overcome their big challenges or learn …
I interview successful SaaS founders every week on the Practical Founders Podcast. Every founder story includes the savvy bets by the founders, the extreme hard work for long years, and the …
February is here and it's reality time for our 2023 New Year's personal resolutions and the quarterly plans and goals in our businesses. I make personal and business plans, but I …
The best founders I know get the best advice from experienced entrepreneurs and other experts. Great advice is usually the result of the founder's investment of time in their network of …
I talked with a young startup founder who was more than a little panicked by the sour financial news in tech recently. Venture investment is down by almost 50% this year. …
It takes confidence to start and grow a company. It also takes a healthy dose of humility. It's strange how experienced founders can do both at the same time. Confidence helps you …
When my son graduated in 2017 with a degree in electrical engineering, he didn't join a big company for his first job. He created a tech startup with a friend. For the …
When you start a company, you do every job in the business. As you add employees, you stop doing a few things yourself and hire others to do them. For companies …
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