#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...

#116: The Do’s and Don’ts of Succeeding with Offshore Software Development – Matt Watson

by shawn | Oct 31, 2024

Last year I interviewed three-time software founder Matt Watson on this podcast about his successful practical founder journeys. Matt leveraged offshore software development talent in his last two SaaS companies to staff up quickly and grow efficiently. His top...

#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...

#108: Grew His Vertical SaaS Business for 5 Years and Sold It for a Big Prize – Mike Kovarik

by shawn | Aug 30, 2024

Mike Kovarik is the founder and former CEO of Attribytes, a software company he started, grew, and successfully sold in just over five years. Mike was a data analytics leader at large food distributors, where he discovered a chronic challenge with low-quality product...

#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....