#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...

#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...

#115: The SaaS Startup Success Where “Build It And They Will Come” Actually Worked – Quickli

by shawn | Oct 18, 2024

Eric Dill was a successful mortgage broker in Sydney, Australia, who struggled with the same painful problem as every other broker: manually checking with multiple banks to validate and price mortgages for homeowners. Eric and his good friend Angus Keatinge resolved...

#107: Brothers Sold Their Bootstrapped Software Company for $40 Million – David and Chris Sinkinson

by shawn | Aug 23, 2024

Brothers David and Chris Sinkinson attended Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada, when David learned of the problems maintaining the blue emergency phones on campus. He proposed a location-aware mobile safety app, so Chris built it himself, and it worked great....

#105: Husband and Wife Team Built Popular Software for Wedding Planner Pros – Rob Farrow

by shawn | Aug 9, 2024

Rob Farrow was an experienced marketing executive and his wife Christina Farrow was a successful professional wedding planner. They discovered there was no good software for wedding planner pros, so they decided to build software themselves. They invested their...