What would you do if you were starting today? To help, here are half-baked startup ideas, growth marketing tactics, and stories from founders and creators - including my own journey as a bootstrapped business owner. All of the content is centered around helping founders, creators, and investors starting today.
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Bootstrapped Growth Podcasts
Entrepreneurship is about more than your income statement.
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This is Bootstrap, a podcast dedicated to entrepreneurs self-funding their businesses and growth.
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The original podcast for bootstrapped and mostly bootstrapped startups, this show follow the stories of founders as they start, acquire, and grow SaaS companies. Hear when they fail, struggle, succeed, and take you with them through the tumultuous life of a SaaS founder. If you like Mixergy, This Week in Startups, or SaaStr, you’ll enjoy Startup for the Rest of Us.
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Two entrepreneurs named Adrian with completely different approaches to building companies. One bootstrapped his way to success, the other raised venture capital and navigated the high-growth startup world. Each episode, they share raw, unfiltered conversations about the realities of entrepreneurship from opposite sides of the funding divide. Get insights you won't find anywhere else about what it really takes to build a business.
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JP Moery discusses the experiences which led his bootstrapped company to successful exit - and launching new enterprises including motorsports development. Fast, candid and authentic content weekly from JP Moery!
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Awarded Best of Apple Podcasts, The $100 MBA Show delivers practical business lessons for the real world. These no fluff episodes are packed with only the pure business building training you want. Omar Zenhom shares lessons, strategies and insights from 20+ years of entrepreneurship. He’s bootstrapped two multi-million dollar businesses (and several smaller businesses, too). Join him for short, actionable lessons on how to do everything from validating your idea, to audience-building and mar ...
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Founder Reality with George Pu. Real talk from a technical founder building AI-powered businesses in the trenches. No highlight reel, no startup theater – just honest insights from someone who codes, ships, and scales. Every week, George breaks down the messy, unfiltered decisions behind building a bootstrap software company. From saying yes to projects you don't know how to build, to navigating AI hype vs. reality, to the mental models that actually matter for technical founders. Whether yo ...
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On Rogue Startups we share the journey of startup founders as they're growing their businesses. We feature experts in the fields of sales, marketing, and product development to hear how they're growth hacking their productized services and SaaS products. If you're on the journey of an entrepreneur then tune and hear how we're tackling some of the same obstacles you may be facing, and how we're winning in the game of business. Listeners of Startups for the Rest of Us, My First Million, Mixerg ...
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From bootstrapped chaos to VC-backed scale, Built 2 Scale is your backstage pass to building high-growth startups at the edge of business, tech, AI, and robotics. Hosted by founders Matt Perrott and Scott Wilcox, this podcast dives into the raw, unfiltered reality of turning big ideas into scalable companies. Each week, we unpack the messy middle—fundraising, hiring, product-market fit, and the growing role of automation and AI in modern business. No hype. No jargon. Just real stories, hard ...
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DTC POD is a podcast about all things direct to consumer. We cover everything for starting, growing, and optimizing eCommerce stores and DTC (or D2C) brands. We talk with founders, marketers, platforms, creators and marketing & growth agencies to cover topics like brand building, social media, influencer marketing, website conversion, paid media, Facebook ads, consumer trends, email marketing, and more. If you're interested in the stories behind your favorite consumer brands, this podcast is ...
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Two agency owners and friends talk about cybersecurity, design, and the continuous small efforts it takes to build a business.
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Welcome to Bootstrapped Growth where you will get actionable, tactical steps you can implement immediately to get results. No latest tips or tactics. No mindset training or feelings. Myself and the guests I bring on are going to share with you the most effective sales, marketing and business skills, strategies, and frameworks so you can repeatedly build a business in any economy.
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The Entrepreneur's Logbook brings you inside the minds of today's most successful business leaders to uncover the strategies, decisions, and frameworks driving extraordinary growth. Each episode features founders and CEOs sharing their proven approaches to scaling teams, expanding market share, and building thriving companies. Our guests - from bootstrapped success stories to venture-backed innovators - break down the exact systems, processes, and strategies you can use to grow your company. ...
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UtahPreneur - Inside Utah's Most Iconic Businesses
Keaton Walker - Small Business Marketing Expert & Entrepreneur
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Think you know Utah? These iconic founders will change your mind. UtahPreneur is a storytelling podcast featuring real, unfiltered conversations with the people building Utah’s most impactful businesses. From bootstrapped startups to 8-figure brands, we share what it takes to grow in one of the top-ranked states for business innovation. Utah is exploding with talent, ideas, and opportunity. And behind every founder is a wild story worth sharing. This podcast gives you an inside look at those ...
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On Origin to Ambition, successful entrepreneurs and business owners share the untold stories and practical strategies that fueled their growth from a simple idea to a thriving enterprise. Founders, start-up leaders, and bootstrapped innovators join honest conversations about their journey with host Sean Dunne (Founder of Dominium Capital). From securing their first customers and navigating cash flow to the challenges of scaling a team and planning a profitable exit, Origin to Ambition provid ...
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Startuprad.io™ is your backstage access to Europe’s fast-moving startup scene, venture capital strategies, and the tech entrepreneurs building the future of business. Featured by Feedspot, F6S, MillionPodcasts, Forbes, Crunchbase, and Tech.eu, we rank among the world’s top startup podcasts—curating the most relevant voices in sales psychology, eco innovation, fintech trends, and AI-driven growth. 🎙️ Hosted monthly by Joe Menninger, Startuprad.io delivers raw, unfiltered conversations with Eu ...
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Discover the stories behind thriving businesses and the visionaries who built them. Insightful conversations on scaling companies, driving innovation, and fostering resilience. Hosted by Desi Velikova from Pony Studio.
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The Factory Floor is hosted by the three co-founders of Conversion Factory, the marketing agency at the forefront of SaaS growth, marketing, and tech trends. Episodes are released on Twitter one day early, @coreyhainesco. Every other week Corey, Zach, and Nick break down what’s working right now in SaaS marketing, share real-world lessons from the field, and give you the strategies you need to outpace the competition. You can also find us on YouTube, X, and everywhere you listen to podcasts! ...
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In this podcast, Finn Thormeier, Founder of Project 33, shares the best Founder-Led Marketing strategies & playbooks from CEOs & Founders. Prior guests include Jason Fried, Henry Schuck, Megan Bowen, Guillaume Moubeche, Josh Braun, Todd Busler, Peter Caputa, Chris Walker, Greg Head, Adam Robinson, Gal Aga, Alina Vandenbergh, Alec Paul, Melissa Kwan and many more. Key Topics: Demand Gen, SaaS Growth, B2B Marketing, B2B Content, Linkedin, Personal Branding, Founder Branding.
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A podcast featuring insightful conversations with diverse digital product industry leaders from around the world who share key lessons from every stage of their business journey. Listen to compelling stories from bootstrapped and VC-funded founders, C-suite executives, and developers across SaaS, software, video gaming, and mobile apps. Discover actionable growth strategies to elevate your own business. This podcast is brought to you by FastSpring. As the leading merchant of record payment p ...
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Hosted by Paul Deluca, each episode of "The Growth Game" features conversations with top CEOs, Owners, and Executives from Staffing Companies across the USA and Canada. Whether you're in the trenches of startup challenges or steering a mammoth corporation, this podcast is your compass to all things business. Expect a holistic journey with business strategies, leadership philosophies, and life lessons, all shared with a diverse lineup of guests each week!
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Your Brew of Business Wisdom - Coffee N5 is your ultimate guide to running, growing, and scaling a successful business in today’s competitive landscape. Hosted by award-winning marketing strategist Lara Schmoisman—a Forbes Next 1000 honoree and LA Times Inspirational Women finalist—this Podcast is your secret weapon for actionable strategies, insider tips, and real-world success stories. Every episode dives into the tools, tricks, and tactics that help businesses thrive, featuring insights f ...
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Dive into the dynamic world of digital marketing with Amanda Vandiver and Adam Landis in “How I Grew This,” where we invite leaders in the space to explore how they overcome industry challenges to achieve growth. Expect insightful conversations that uncover the secrets of our guest’s success in the ever-evolving landscape of digital marketing.
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The Get Sh!t Done Podcast teaches entrepreneurs & visionary business leaders how to successfully grow game-changing businesses. We're revolutionizing the rules of business success by featuring real talk from visionary entrepreneurs who’ve scaled $1M+ businesses on their terms. Hosted by Alex Batdorf, 3X entrepreneur & CEO of Get Sh!t Done, each episode reveals the stories, steps, & tools that powered badass business growth. This is a movement designing businesses that energize & empower you ...
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Oliver Cookson is the founder of the world’s number one sports nutrition brand Myprotein®. Starting out in a lock-up garage and an overdraft of just £500, Oliver bootstrapped Myprotein, selling it seven years later to The Hut Group as part of a total exit of around £350,000,000 in a cash and shares deal that saw him become a key shareholder and NED at The Hut Group. In each episode of 'Bootstrap Your Life', Oliver answers business questions sent in from listeners, covering the tools and habi ...
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Unique business problems call for genius solutions. Go behind the scenes with today’s world-class leaders who dared to bring revolutionary ideas to life. Learn how they met their challenges head-on and how you can translate their lessons into your own real-world business success—whether you’re leading a start-up or Fortune 500 company. Host Manuj Aggarwal is the founder of TetraNoodle Technologies. When not interviewing industry leaders for Bootstrapping Your Dreams, he provides revolutionar ...
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This is the show for people who are action-takers, not excuse makers. If you're a location-independent entrepreneur who's actively working on growing your business, then this podcast is for you. We'll be talking business, growth, strategies, mindset, and breakthroughs that can help you take things to the next level. Are you one of us? Come join the conversation at http://www.entrepreneursinmotion.com
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Actionable advice for bootstrapped SaaS founders from coaches and consultants about startup scaling challenges, building remote teams, leadership, getting unstuck, founder personal growth and more. Connect with me at natalieluneva.com
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Deep Tech Germany is your front-row seat to the boldest breakthroughs emerging from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland—the DACH region—where advanced research, scientific innovation, and venture capital converge. As part of the Startuprad.io™ network, we spotlight the founders, engineers, scientists, and investors fueling Europe’s deep tech ecosystems. 🌍 Hosted in English for a global audience, this show connects you to the people and platforms building the future of: AI, quantum computing, p ...
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The Offsite Podcast is a candid, behind-the-scenes catch-up with host Jordan Gal and the friends, founders, and thinkers he admires. Each episode kicks off with real talk about work—what’s hard, what’s going well, and what’s unfolding in the moment. But just as important is what’s going on outside the lines of work: personal growth, ambition, envy, burnout, and the chaos of building while being human. With a rotating cast of co-hosts, the show is as much about chemistry as it is about insigh ...
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Welcome to Founder 2 Founder, the ultimate podcast for entrepreneurs who refuse to settle for ordinary. Hosted by Sardor Umrdinov, founder and CEO of Home Alliance - a $100+ million tech-enabled home services platform operating nationwide. From bootstrapping his first business to building a horizontally and vertically integrated empire, Sardor brings you raw, unfiltered conversations with successful entrepreneurs, industry leaders, and game-changers who've turned their visions into multi-mil ...
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Welcome to the ultimate podcast for exploring *how to make money online*, *build a business on a budget*, and *leverage the best tools and resources* available in the digital marketplace! This show is your guide to understanding a variety of *online income streams*, including *affiliate marketing*, *eCommerce*, *freelancing*, *digital products*, and *passive income generation*. If you’re looking to start a side hustle, grow an entrepreneurial idea, or learn *proven strategies to boost your r ...
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Welcome to "The Only Things That Matters", where we deconstruct the path to product-market fit of successful founders and extract the principles and frameworks behind their success so that you can apply them too.
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The Marketing Growth Podcast reveals the most excellent growth marketing techniques used by the top marketers, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders in the world to generate sales and grow businesses! In every episode, Shane Barker will discuss with his guests the various challenges, pitfalls, and solutions to build a successful online business. If you want to learn what software, technologies, tips, tricks, and hacks the pros use, this is the podcast for you!
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Our weekly 30 minute podcast helps you, a small business owner with 5 to 30 team members, take your company to the next level. The Grow A Small Business community, weekly cast, blog and leadership email supports leaders get through the pain of growth. With insights, lessons learned, books and tools as well as habits these experienced small business owners suggest you develop, our interviews unearth tremendous value for anyone wanting to grow their business with less stress.
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Weekly interviews with successful eCommerce entrepreneurs brought to you by Capital & Growth. A good balance of both mega giants and smaller, bootstrapped success stories. Get your weekly dose of inspiration and instruction! Get notified when we publish new episodes by using this link: http://bit.ly/31M8yzF CapitalandGrowth.org Hosts: Elyse Hauser and Jasper Kuria
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Matt hosts enthusiastic guest operators to provide accessible actionable and relatable advice to bootstrapped founders & operators in the $0-25M range eCommerce & DTC. Learn how to grow your brand profitably across all areas: customer acquisition, financial management, product launches, customer retention, operations and more with expert guests who are actively in the trenches, not resting on their wins from years ago.
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Welcome to the REAL SaaS Podcast. Real talk with the builders behind the most innovative SaaS companies in real estate. We dig into product-market fit, team building, funding, failures, and the playbooks driving growth. No fluff—just raw insights on strategy, execution, and what’s coming next.
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Bootstrapping SaaS is a podcast where I document my attempts at getting to $10K in MRR with my SaaS products as a one-man show: designer, developer, marketer. I talk about recent updates with my SaaS', conundrums, lessons, successful outcomes, and a few personal things here and there. Once in a while, I bring in a guest and we talk. The show is roughly prepared with bullet points, but mostly a free rain of thoughts with whatever is going on that week. The first 40 episodes have been mostly a ...
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Explore the journeys of today’s most inspiring tech founders on The Engine – Founders Stories, hosted by Donna Owen, founder and fractional GTM leader at The Engine. Discover how visionary entrepreneurs overcame the “founder-led sales” trap to build predictable, scalable revenue engines - and learn how you can do the same for your business. Join Donna as she sits down with C-suite executives, startup pioneers and growth architects behind groundbreaking SaaS and fintech ventures. Each episode ...
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Founder’s Journey: Building a Startup from the Ground Up
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A weekly podcast by Josh Pigford, founder of Baremetrics, on his journey growing a startup.
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Salt-Free Water Softener: How AQON PURE Bootstrapped a Cleantech Startup
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What if fixing hard water could also save energy and rivers? That’s the question Maximilian Wilk, Co-Founder & CEO of AQON PURE, set out to answer. His team developed a salt-free water softener that prevents limescale, lowers energy bills, and avoids the chloride pollution caused by traditional salt-based systems. In this episode of Startuprad.io, …
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The Modern Executive’s Communications Playbook
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Ted Merz spent 32 years at Bloomberg. He started as reporter #15 and ended as Global Head of News Product. In this episode, Ted breaks down how storytelling became his next career. He shares the turning point after getting fired, the content habits he developed, and how that turned into Principals Media, a company helping executives build real audi…
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Accessibility, Compliance, and Conversions: Why Digital Inclusion Is a Business Imperative with Bet Hannon
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Send us a text Bet Hannon, web accessibility expert and founder of AccessiCart, joins Lara Schmoisman on Coffee Nº5 to break down what accessibility really means for websites, marketing, and global compliance. From ADA lawsuits to the EU Accessibility Act, Bet shares why inclusive design is not just about avoiding legal risks—it’s about unlocking a…
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E23: The Startup Playbook Just Changed: Three Stories That Reveal How to Build in 2025
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Three stories from this week reveal something fundamental changing about how you build businesses in 2025. The old VC playbook is dead - here's what's actually working now. Story 1: Founders walking away from traditional VC (and it's strategic, not desperate): Mercury surveyed 1,500 early-stage startups about funding in 2025 66% of founders changed…
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Episode 800 | The 12 Commandments of Startups for the Rest of Us
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What if you could get all 15 years of this podcast bundled up into one episode? In episode 800, Rob Walling goes solo for a special milestone installment of Startups For the Rest of Us. He covers the 12 foundational commandments that shape his approach to SaaS, hard-won lessons forged from years of building, investing in, and advising startups. Top…
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Ep #14: Comparing marketing for bootstrapped companies vs. VC backed companies
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In this episode of Factory Floor, hosts Nick Loudon, Corey Haines, and Zach Stevens discuss the distinct marketing approaches employed by bootstrapped and venture capital (VC)-backed startups. The conversation explores how these two types of businesses, often operating in similar industries, adopt contrasting strategies based on their funding model…
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1. Risk, Resilience, and a Successful Exit: The Entrepreneur's Journey with Chris Rossidis
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Ever wondered what it truly takes to leave the security of a corporate job and build a purpose-driven business from the ground up? In the very first episode of Origin to Ambition, host Sean Dunne sits down with seasoned entrepreneur Chris Rossidis. Chris shares the incredible story of his journey from a lab scientist to the co-founder of Emerge Hea…
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MBA2683 Give Me 10 Minutes and I'll Show You How To Accomplish Anything
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When it comes to tackling big goals, do you ever feel like you're stuck in neutral? You know what needs to happen, but somehow planning turns into procrastination, and the perfect strategy never quite feels ready to launch. If that sounds familiar, consider this episode your jumpstart cable. Omar shares a powerful mindset shift that can help you go…
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James France of Vanguard Luxury Brands grew from $13K sales to $28M before exiting to Lion. He reveals how focusing on ‘best brands for the best bars,’ overcoming setbacks, and a clear USP fueled his business ...
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In this episode of Grow a Small Business, host Troy Trewin interviews James France of Vanguard Luxury Brands, who grew his company from $13K in sales to $28M before exiting to Lion. James shares how focusing on “best brands for the best bars” and a strong USP fueled growth, opens up about setbacks like losing key brands and managing cash flow, and …
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Beyond Success: Gagan Biyani’s Inner Journey Building Udemy, Sprig, and Maven
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What does it take to build, lose, and rebuild as an entrepreneur—while staying true to yourself? In this conversation, host Dave Kashen sits down with Gagan Biyani (co-founder of Udemy, Sprig, and Maven) to explore the emotional and practical realities of entrepreneurship: co-founder dynamics, letting go of team members, navigating failure, and mov…
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#361 - From Ecuador to Your Table in 24 Hours: How UrbanStems Built a Time-Critical Supply Chain
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Meenakshi Lala is the CEO of UrbanStems, an online floral gifting company that designs, sources, and delivers high-quality, curated bouquets and gifts across the U.S. She brings over two decades of operational experience from leading brands in fashion and retail such as Alice + Olivia, Juicy Couture, and Elie Tahari. Her expertise in scaling comple…
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The Founder Brand Playbook Behind Recall.ai’s $38M Series B
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Amanda Zhu is the co-founder of Recall.ai, the API that lets SaaS tools access data from Zoom, Meet, Teams, and more. In just 8 months, Amanda grew her LinkedIn following to 40,000+ and turned content into a serious GTM channel, helping Recall land customers like HubSpot, Calendly, Apollo, and Datadog, while scaling past $20M ARR. In this episode, …
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E22: The $60 Million GitHub Move That Just Killed Startups (And Why That's Perfect for Bootstrap Founders)
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While everyone argues about which AI model is best, the smart money is building connectors that work with ALL of them. This week GitHub and Microsoft just made this approach inevitable - and if you're still building custom integrations for every AI tool, you're about to feel very stupid. What is MCP and why the scary name doesn't matter: MCP = Mode…
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Ep #13: Why “we’re focusing on sales” isn’t a good reason to stop doing marketing
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On this episode of the Factory Floor, we debunk "focusing on sales." We discuss why a focus on sales shouldn't halt marketing, and how the two fuel growth together, as two sides of the same coin. ... The Factory Floor is hosted by the three co-founders of Conversion Factory, the marketing agency at the forefront of SaaS growth. Episodes are release…
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MBA2682 How To Stop Fighting With Your Co-Founders
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Feeling like you and your co-founder just aren’t clicking lately? Whether it’s constant friction or quiet tension, those unresolved issues can slow down your business and wear down your team. If you’re ready to shift the dynamic, this episode offers a practical way forward. Omar shares a simple but powerful exercise that helped transform his workin…
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The Bootstrapped Playbook for Founders to Build a Global Logistics Business using AI - Leroy Lawrence
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Welcome to The Engine - Founders Stories Podcast. Host Donna Owen talks with Leroy Lawrence, the Founder of Pigee Inc, CEO of Quadron Capital Ltd, Angel Investor and Director at Lawrence Investment Holdings Ltd, and Chairman of Wellbeing of My Baby. Leroy shares how his travel struggles inspired Pigee, an AI-powered shipping tool that helps tourist…
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Autonomous Cars, Autonomous Tunneling and… Autonomous Homes?
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This week on Built 2 Scale, we explore Jensen's conquest of capitalism through circular AI investments, Meta's Ray-Ban AR breakthrough, and the device-less future where your home becomes the computer. Plus: why squirrels follow Scott around New York, Matt’s iPhone 17 Pro unboxing, and our updated Top 5 AI power rankings after Jensen's Intel play. B…
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QFF: Ryan Estes, Founder of Kitcaster, shares how he helped 800+ startup founders and CEOs turn fear into growth—raising millions, scaling businesses, and influencing AI training data through the power ...
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QFF: Quick Fire Friday – Your 20-Minute Growth Powerhouse! Welcome to Quick Fire Friday, the Grow A Small Business podcast series that is designed to deliver simple, focused and actionable insights and key takeaways in less than 20 minutes a week. Every Friday, we bring you business owners and experts who share their top strategies for growing your…
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Episode 799 | TinySeed Tales s5e6: $500k ARR!
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What's next for OutboundSync? In the Season 5 finale of TinySeed Tales, Rob Walling talks with Harris Kenny as OutboundSync blows past $500k ARR. Harris shares the wins and struggles of getting here, from choosing not to raise funding (for now), to planning a laser tag event no committee would approve, to what comes next on the road to $1M. Topics …
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Why Founders in Utah Are 70% More Likely to Build a Unicorn (Tim Culie)
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Utah calls itself the “Startup Capital of the World.” Bold claim, right? But according to the data, founders here are 70% more likely to build a unicorn than anywhere else in the country. In this episode of UtahPreneur, I sit down with Tim Culie, head of the Startup State Initiative under Governor Cox, to unpack why Utah is punching so far above it…
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The 95–5 Marketing Playbook to Build Future Demand w/ Kandji’s CMO
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Sylvia LePoidevin is the CMO at Kandji, where she helped grow the Apple device management company from employee #4 to 300+, scaling from the zero-to-one phase to a mid eight figure business valued at $850M. In this episode, Sylvia breaks down what it really takes to market to technical buyers, why her team now invests in the 95% of prospects who ar…
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Episode 139 - Business Experts Make Poor Claims and Limit Your Growth!
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If you like this podcast, could you review it on Apple Podcasts? Follow JP Twitter: twitter.com/jpmoery. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jpmoery YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@jpmoeryenterprisesstudio4551/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jpmoery Order his book Association Hustle: https://jpmoery.com/…
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What price are entrepreneurs willing to pay for presence? Jordan Gal, founder and host of Offsite, reconnects with Henry Poydar, CEO of Steady, to discuss the personal and professional transitions of being an empty nester entrepreneur. Henry, who recently dropped off his twin boys at college, reflects on the emotional journey while pivoting Steady …
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E21: Zero Meetings: How I Run Two Companies Without a Single Recurring Meeting
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I looked at my calendar this week: zero meetings. Last week: zero meetings. Most founders think this is impossible, but here's what six years taught me - meetings don't make you productive, they make you FEEL productive. The meeting theater that's killing startups: Pre-COVID: Weekly all-hands, daily standups, planning meetings felt "professional" P…
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RS352: AI Killed Traditional Marketing – Here's What's Next
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Ross Simmonds, founder of Foundation Marketing, has built a reputation for helping ambitious SaaS and B2B brands stand out online with data-driven growth strategies. In this episode, Craig sits down with Ross to dive into the future of marketing, SaaS growth, and social media in the age of AI. Marketing has transformed dramatically over the past de…
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MBA2681 Q&A Wednesday: How Do I Ask an Employee to go from Full-time to Part-time Hours?
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Need to reduce an employee’s hours but unsure how to approach the conversation without creating tension? It’s one of the trickier leadership moments, and if you’ve been hesitating, this episode will help you move forward with clarity and care. This week’s question comes from Terry, who asked how to shift a team member from full time to part time wi…
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Tired of the polished success stories that leave out the most important details? So are we. Welcome to Origin to Ambition, the podcast that pulls back the curtain on the entrepreneurial journey. Host Sean Dunne sits down with everyday business founders—the ones who started with a simple idea and turned it into a thriving enterprise—to uncover the u…
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Rosy McEvedy of IV League Drips shares how she grew a $5K idea into 200+ licenses across Australia, achieving 125% growth in 3 years while building a passion-driven health brand, strong culture, and loyal ...
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In this episode of the Grow A Small Business Podcast host Troy Trewin interviews Rosy McEvedy, founder of IV League Drips, shares her journey of turning a $5K savings into a fast-growing health business with over 200 licenses across Australia. She reveals how her passion for health, combined with grit and discipline, fueled 125% growth in just thre…
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How this Fashion Brand Pivoted from Wholesale to DTC & Built a Multi 7-Figure Brand - The Shopify Growth Show (#18)
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What do you do when wholesale feels like success but starts killing your brand? For the founders of Mestiza, it meant rewriting the playbook. In this episode, they share how they survived COVID, pivoted to DTC, and built a multi 7-figure fashion business - while raising kids and refusing VC money. Jim is joined by Luisa Takas and Alessandra Perez-R…
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Bootstrapped to Beauty Powerhouse: Scaling SUGARED + BRONZED with Courtney Claghorn
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Send us a text Courtney Claghorn, co-founder of SUGARED + BRONZED, joins Lara Schmoisman on Coffee Nº5 to share how she bootstrapped a beauty service out of her apartment into a nationwide brand. From $1,000 in startup capital to 10 stores before raising funding, Courtney reveals the lessons of growth, customer loyalty, franchising, memberships, an…
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Episode 798 | Lessons From 10 Years of SaaS Growth Without a Hockey Stick
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How do you bootstrap a SaaS to $1 million+ ARR? In this episode, Rob Walling chats with Colin Bartlett about how he and his co-founder Andy transformed a side project monitoring tool into a seven-figure ARR business that now serves as an early warning system for outages across 6,000+ services. From nearly abandoning the product during three stagnan…
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Ep #12: The things preventing you from being a better founder (pull from bad fit criteria)
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For this episode of the Factory Floor Podcast, we discussed what its like working with clients, and what sets the best SaaS founders we know apart. Topics include: the advantages of working async (less meetings, more shipping), what its like running a marketing agency, and how founders can 10x their ARR. ... The Factory Floor is hosted by the three…
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E20: Why I Ignored 60% of My Customers for 5 Years (Why Every Startup Should Go Global from Day One)
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For 5 years building SimpleDirect, 45-50% of our blog traffic came from UK, Germany, France, and South America. I turned away all those paying customers because I thought "global" meant "complex." I was dead wrong. Every founder should build globally from day one - it's easier than perfecting a single local market. The "focus" trap that costs milli…
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MBA2680 Business Breakdowns: Cup Noodles - How One Man's Simple Idea Became a $40 Billion Empire
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How does a humble cup of noodles become a global icon and a multi-billion dollar brand? The story behind Cup Noodles is packed with unexpected lessons, and this episode uncovers the business brilliance that made it happen. This is a special Business Breakdown episode, where Omar takes a deep dive into a real-world company to extract practical insig…
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Co-founder of Four Pillars Gin, shares how he turned a bold idea into a global brand, selling over 6M bottles and growing to 150 team members before a $100M exit, with insights on branding, leadership ...
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In this episode of Grow a Small Business, host Troy Trewin interviews Stu Gregor, co-founder of Four Pillars Gin, shares his journey of growing a bold idea into a global gin brand. Starting in 2013, he scaled the business to 150 team members, sold over 6M bottles worldwide, and achieved a $100M exit. Stu dives into the challenges of competing with …
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How to Change Without Willpower, Guilt, or Discipline
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Ever find yourself stuck in a cycle of self-discipline, shame, and yo-yo habits? In this episode of Heart of Entrepreneurship, Jesse and Dave dive deep into the psychology behind personal growth—and why punishing yourself into change doesn’t actually work. From fitness routines to leadership patterns, they explore how to unlock lasting behavior cha…
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