#135: Vertical SaaS Investor Shares Proven Paths to Scale Up Big – Dave Yuan

by shawn | Mar 13, 2025

 Dave Yuan is the founder of Tidemark, an active growth equity investor focusing on vertical SaaS companies with outsized advantages that can become “control points” in their markets and grow very big. Dave and Tidemark have invested in successful...

#134: When It’s Time to Close: Helping Founders Shut Down Right – Dori Yona

by shawn | Mar 6, 2025

Dori Yona is co-founder and CEO of SimpleClosure, a technology- and people-powered company that helps founders wind down and dissolve a startup or business that is no longer viable. Shutting down a business can be complicated, costly, and risky for founders....

#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...

#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...

#118: The Silent PLG Killers: Why Smart Founders Fail at Product-Led Growth – Wes Bush

by shawn | Nov 14, 2024

Wes Bush is CEO of ProductLed, a coaching and education company that has helped almost 500 serious SaaS founders to succeed with product-led growth strategies, tactics, and execution. These include freemium products and free trials, where the product itself creates...