I always look at business through a couple different lenses: The revenue engine AND the people engine. But in order to have things humming along inside your biz… You need to understand these four roles on the “revenue engine” side. If you’re missing one of these four, it’s an opportunity lost.
Are you a non-technical founder? In other words, a SaaS founder who doesn’t know how to code…? As for me… I’m a code guy. BUT I’ve always been into the IDEAS too. The talk-to-customers guy. Even a figure-out-the-sales-and-marketing guy. Nowadays? Inside SaaS Academy, I’ve taught 700+ non-technical (aka, non-coder) SaaS founders
Stop letting life happen TO you! Look… If you’re feeling stuck or in a rut. I want to give you the same permission that a mentor gave me years ago… It’s the reason I pulled the plug on a 1.8M coaching business and started over from scratch…
If you’re trying to build a SaaS, you’re wasting your time. You should be building a TEAM. A team of talented developers, marketers, customer success agents and salespeople… Then that team will build your SaaS.
Paid ads… or publicity? Choose. For a bootstrapped startup with little-to-no cash in the bank trying to find their first thousand customers, this question should be a no-brainer. Publicity.
I have an exclusive interview for you… No matter how far I looked, I haven’t been able to find ANY other interviews anywhere with my latest Escape Velocity guest, Justin Shimoon. He just… doesn’t do them.
Don’t let anyone tell you it’s too late to change your direction. Emily Walsh went from being a ballet dancer… to a lead investor at Georgian, a VC firm that has raised $1.2B across 4 funds and recently added another $850M in early 2020.
“How many mermaid tails do you think are sold every year globally?” It wasn’t a question I expected to be asked by a SaaS founder. I guessed 50 million.
When I launched my company Clarity.fm in 2010, I gave a live demo to an audience showing how the service works. It was my Steve Jobs moment.
“Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not”. This is a quote from my latest Escape Velocity Podcast guest, Marvin Liao, formerly a partner at 500 Startups. 500 Startups is a venture capital fund that runs an accelerator in San Francisco and invests in seed rounds for tech startups.
