Futureproof Founder Podcast

In our SaaS Fuel™ Expert Series, Jeff is joined by Christopher Nelson, Principal, and Co-Founder of Wealthward Capital, a private equity firm helping Technology Employees build passive income through financial education and by creating recession-resistant passive income portfolios. We discuss the importance of doing due diligence on a company before joining, and how to think about equity compensat...

In today’s SaaS Fuel™ Founder Episode, Jeff is joined by Ibrahim Aissam, Founder of CourtDate, The Multilingual Communication Platform for Justice. Ibrahim shares his experience of transitioning from a web development agency to working with government customers, including the United Nations and defense contractors. He explains how he developed a process for pitching to state and local levels, as w...

In our SaaS Fuel™ Expert Series, Jeff is joined by The SaaS CFO Ben Murray to discuss the evolving landscape of SaaS metrics that matter in 2023 and beyond. We unpack Ben’s Five Pillar SaaS Metrics Framework to scale a thriving SaaS business with respectable growth, upside, and valuation. Come explore various SaaS revenue models like subscription, processing, variable revenue, SaaS plus, and profe...

Are the same old, boring interactions with your customers slowing down your sales cycle? If you’re not sure, this is for you – using AI may be the perfect way to step up your game! In today’s SaaS Fuel™ episode, Jeff talks with Drew D’Agostino, founder and CEO of Crystal, a SaaS company that offers personality AI technology and helps you to personalize communication with prospects and customers th...

Today in our SaaS Fuel™ Expert Series, we explore the challenges and opportunities of remote work with Sarah Hawley. Sarah, is the CEO and Founder of Growmotely , the world's first end-to-end platform that facilitates conscious companies in hiring equally-conscious remote professionals - of all nationalities - into long-term remote jobs. Sarah shares her insights on attracting the right people for...

On our SaaS Fuel™ Founder Episode this week, Jeff rides the wave with Nathan Miller, founder, and CEO of Rentec Direct. After struggling to manage his rental portfolio, Nathan set out to create software that would make his life easier and ensure nothing was missed or forgotten. He accomplished that goal not only for himself but for 25,000+ other landlords and property managers too! From an initial...

Join us today on our SaaS Fuel™ Expert Series as Jeff rides with waves with Becca Kay, a purple-haired marketing genius who boldly stands out from the crowd to make her company enchantingly unique. Becca is co-founder and COO of Dingus and Zazzy, an unlimited flat-rate marketing subscription that companies can hire month-to-month, contract-free. With her unique approach to standing out in the mark...

In today’s SaaS Fuel™ Founder Episode, Jeff rides the wave with Marcin Cichon, founder, and co-CEO of PriceFX.  Marcin Cichon saw an opportunity to disrupt the black-boxed and expensive pricing software industry, and he took a chance. With his passion and persistence, he and his team fought through significant challenges from large incumbent competitors to establish their presence in the US m...

Remember the days of “But wait! There’s more! ” “Hurry while supplies last!” Those old, classic sales pitches are long gone and evolved as we enter digital marketing. And that’s what our guest, Jeremy Miner shared with Jeff today. Through his background in behavioral science and human psychology, he realized that the classic sales techniques were no longer as effective in today's market. Tune in a...

What does it take to be safe from hackers and malware? In this “myth-busting” episode, Jeff is joined by Hugo Sanchez, co-founder, and CEO of rThreat, a cybersecurity firm on a mission to revolutionize the industry. Hugo Sanchez was determined to make a better life for himself, so he moved to Seattle and joined a technology company. There, he found his passion for helping people bring solutions an...

In this SaaS Fuel™ episode, Jeff rides the wave with Ervin Ang. Ervin discusses how to stay out of junk mail, engage your audience and deliver value through email marketing. We'll also be talking about how to leverage the power of email marketing to grow your SaaS business. We'll also be exploring the importance of having mentors in order to refine sales processes and increase success.  Disco...

In this SaaS Fuel™ episode, Jeff surfs the foam-topped waves with PK Agarwal the founder of The 5th Ingredient, maker of Beer30, a SaaS designed to help breweries manage their manufacturing process from grain to glass using data science. PK shared his journey as a SaaS founder and the biggest lessons he has learned along the way. He discusses learning to distinguish between signal and noise when i...

If you're good at your job, but it isn't fulfilling . . . if your gifts and talents are ready to break out, this latest episode of SaaS Fuel™ is for YOU! Today our guest Alexis Scott delivers insider marketing info and key advice. Alexis Scott is the Senior Manager of Growth Marketing at WorkSpan. She discusses her career transition from sales to marketing and gives expert tips on differentiating...

Ted Elliot is Copado’s, Chief Executive Officer. Ted joined Copado in November 2018 after 18 years as the CEO of Jobscience, one of Salesforce’s first five ISV partners. Ted faced the hurdles of releasing innovation on the Salesforce platform while at Jobscience and now works to alter customers’ DevOps processes with Copado. Ted joins the show today to talk about how trying to get people home for...

Alyssa Marshall chats all things Owwlish and how she created this tool to help fellow entrepreneurs create more profitable eLearning courses. Alyssa knows firsthand the struggle to put together courses and repurpose that content into a new product. This is the problem that many customers have faced over and over again. So, she developed an easy solution, and tune in to learn all about how she did...

SaaS Fuel™ latest episode featured an interview with Favrit CEO Edwin Fjeldtvedt. In it, he discussed company culture, creating a good customer experience, and surviving COVID-19—and he was very insightful and well-spoken! In this episode, you'll learn how to create a positive company culture that encourages innovation and collaboration. Edwin also talks about how Favrit has managed to keep its cu...

SaaS Fuel™ is joined this week by Thomas Smale, founder of FE International, a company that specializes in preparing businesses for acquisition. Tune in to learn more about the ins and outs of M&As from an industry expert. Episode Sponsor Champion Leadership Group –  https://championleadership.com/ Navigating Success Together 2023 Virtual Event Key Takeaways 1:48 The Beginnings of FE Inte...

In today’s SaaS Fuel™ episode, Ray Rike joins SaaS Fuel to discuss how he helped develop the industry's largest (and first) interactive, real-time benchmarking database, saaskpibenchmarks.com Episode Sponsor Champion Leadership Group –  https://championleadership.com/ Navigating Success Together 2023 Virtual Event Key Takeaways [1:51] The importance of metrics  [10:52] Customer CAC ratio...

Kurt Pichler is an investor, entrepreneur and founder of Viewpoint AI Inc, a company that helps capture and store institutional knowledge and decision-making processes to help organizations make better decisions. He has a love of technology and business and has a deep Interest in behavioural economics. It is seeing the world through the lens of psychology and economics that he believes helps us un...

Angelo Coletta is the Founder and CEO of Zakeke, a platform to help brands build engaging customer experiences through customization and personalization. They do this by using 2D, 3D, and augmented reality. What Zakeke is doing for the B2B customer journey is unreal. Today, Angelo joins the show to share his journey as a serial entrepreneur. He provides his thoughts on building a diverse team, inn...

Massimo Arrigoni is the CEO of BEE, a product-led scale-up that’s making email and landing page design easy and fast. BEE’s no-code visual builders are used over six million times a month, and are embedded in over a thousand SaaS applications. Massimo is also co-founder of Early Impact and created Product Cart, an early ecommerce system that still powers thousands of online stores today. Today, Ma...

Corina Ludwig is the President of FunctionFox, a leader in timesheet and project management software, specifically for creative professionals worldwide. Now in their twenty-second year, FunctionFox helps clients with productivity, profitability and workflow management. Organized, disciplined and focused, Corina is responsible for overseeing the FunctionFox engine, as she manages daily operations;...

David Bonney is the CEO and Founder of the world’s first SaaS platform specifically designed for Sales Trainers, FourtyFive.io. David has been focused on sales execution and process for fifteen years. That focus has spanned the entire Revenue Operations Lifecycle and has allowed him to create a powerful yet unique sales platform that helps companies with a proven sales process drastically improve...

Patrick Hill is the Founder and CEO of Disctopia, a streaming platform for creatives. Disctopia is a hosting and streaming service dedicated to curated artists, podcasters, film directors, and content creators seeking freedom with simple merchandising integration. Patrick is doing some amazing work combining original content, education, and merchandising not only in the U.S., but across the globe....

Alex Collmer is the Founder and CEO of VidMob, the world’s leading platform for data-driven, human creativity. Since founding the company in 2015, Alex has raised more than $95 million and led initiatives that earned VidMob official Marketing Partner badges from Facebook, Instagram, Google, YouTube, Snapchat, Twitter, Pinterest and LinkedIn, and recognition by Apple as one of the best apps of the...