#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...

#120: Practical Founder Exits for $300 Million Cash with Identity Verification Platform – Bill Spruill

by shawn | Nov 28, 2024

Bill Spruill had a successful sales and executive career with two exits before he and his cofounder struck out on their own in the location verification market serving financial and e-commerce companies. Sales grew slowly for several years as they scraped by and kept...

#117: Bootstrapped to 9 Figure Exit in Online Education for Real Estate – Michael McAllister

by shawn | Nov 7, 2024

 Michael McAllister is the founder and former CEO of The CE Shop, the leading provider of pre-licensing and continuing education for real estate professionals in the U.S. Michael started The CE Shop in 2005 by distributing existing training materials from a...

#113: Grew and Sold a Simulation Learning Platform for Higher Education – Stu Draper

by shawn | Oct 4, 2024

Stuart Draper founded Stukent, an innovative ed-tech company that provides simulated internships for business students. Stukent started by focusing on high-quality digital marketing education for colleges and universities using up-to-date digital textbooks and...

#111: Bootstrapped Then Raised VC Funding Before Selling to Salesforce for $250 Million

by shawn | Sep 20, 2024

John Stewart created and sold an engineering services business, then grew a Salesforce integration services company before building some early software products. One of their software experiments allowed Salesforce customers to see and interact with their customer...