Akeel Jabber | Horizen Capital
SaaS District
Top Startup and SaaS Podcast for Startup Founders, Entrepreneurs and Investors. Learn how to optimize your growth strategy a SaaS startup entrepreneur from beta all the way to exit. We cover topics such as raising capital, acquisitions, leadership, B2B sales, growth marketing, scaling, hiring, M&A, conversion optimization, productivity, bootstrapping, venture capital, private equity, and innovation. By sharing industry lead expertise, we want you to implement the best-proven tactics to help you scale your SaaS company. Top Podcast Industry Nominations:- 13 Best SaaS Marketing Podcasts | SaaS M...
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Akeel Jabber | Horizen Capital
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Jul 3, 2026
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Bootstrapping from $0 to $10M ARR: A Personalized Sales Automation SaaS with Guillaume Moubeche # 147 27.10.2021 50:26
Guillaume is an entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO at Lemlist, one of the coolest sales automation platforms on the market right now. Guillaume and his team bootstrapped in the past the “Lempire”, Lemlist + Lempod and exited Lempod to focus on Lemlist. During this interview we cover: 00:00 Oribi.io Smarter Data-Driven & Analytics Decisions 01:02 - Intro 01:57 - Most Effective Way to Reach Custom...
Top SMB SaaS Player in LATAM on How to Gain Visibility and Control over your SaaS with Matt Cole #146 22.10.2021 39:18
Matt Cole is the CEO of SUMA+ SaaS, a leading provider of financial management SaaS for small businesses in Latin America. Matt’s passionate about empowering entrepreneurs, making education accessible for all and conserving the environment for the future generations During this interview we cover: 00:00 Oribi.io Smarter Data-Driven & Analytics Decisions 01:02 - Intro 01:59 - What is a Gringo d...
Why Investors Love the SaaS Industry & Top Methods to Scale Your SaaS Business with Michael Bereslavsky #145 15.10.2021 41:52
Michael Bereslavsky is the founder and CEO at Domain Magnate, an M&A and micro-private equity firm with over 14 years of experience buying, optimizing and selling profitable online businesses. Michael has been working in the online businesses since 2004 which has enabled him to learn how to effectively build and monetize websites and grow online businesses. During this interview we cover: 00:0...
How to use AI software for the Perfect Content Marketing Strategy with Jeff Coyle # 144 06.10.2021 55:44
Jeff Coyle is the Co-Founder & CSO at MarketMuse, an AI-Powered Content Marketing service that collects and analyses your content and prioritizes the best opportunities based on Authority & ROI, and helps you build topic models for you to write and create the best content for your strategy. Prior to starting MarketMuse in 2015, Jeff was a marketing consultant in Atlanta and led the Traffic...
How to Build Your SaaS without Coding, SaaS Product Design Best Practices with Neil Shah # 143 01.10.2021 50:54
Neil Shah is CEO and co-founder at ThinkNimble, a software development and design agency focused on helping founders scope their tech builds and plan their strategy alongside a strong product plan. During this interview we cover: 00:00 Oribi.io Smarter Data-Driven Data & Analytics Decisions 01:02 - Intro 01:51 - Neil Background & Building Your Vision /Solution Into Reality 07:40 - How Crit...
How MicroAcquire is disrupting the M&A industry & a smarter way to exit your startup with Andrew Gazdecki # 142 [ Startups ] 24.09.2021 58:26
Today we have our guest, Andrew Gazdecki joining us once again in SaaS District. If you don’t know the backstory of Andrew and his past success, check out episode #31. Andrew Gazdecki is a serial entrepreneur, mentor, and founder of Microacquire, a StartUp acquisition marketplace that connects buyers and sellers and gets them into the right conversations. Andrew has been featured in NYT, Forbes, W...
How to Nail Your Product and Marketing with Customer Research with Aggelos Mouzakitis #141 17.09.2021 44:15
Aggelos Mouzakitis is a serial entrepreneur currently running his latest venture, Growth Sandwich, a Customer-led growth agency and product-growth lab helping B2B SaaS companies sell better, retain more, and avoid 6-figure GTM mistakes. His knowledge and expertise comes from 10+ years of consulting to global companies. During this interview we cover: 00:00 The Financial Due Diligence Framework Cou...
How to Make Smarter Data-Driven Marketing Analytic Decisions For Your SaaS with Iris Shoor #140 10.09.2021 41:56
Iris is a serial entrepreneur currently running her third startup Oribi.io, an all-in-one marketing analytics tool that empowers businesses of all sizes to make smarter and data-driven decisions. Iris is passionate about simple & powerful products, data-driven marketing, and leveling up creativity in the marketing process. During this interview we cover: 00:00 The Financial Due Diligence Frame...
High-Level SaaS Growth Challenges & Why Product and Help Content is Important with Akis Laopodis #139 03.09.2021 47:08
Akis is a serial entrepreneur, revenue and growth operations advisor, and founder at HelpfulDocs where they create knowledge base, help, videos, product, guides, and all the help documents users need. Akis is an expert on customer needs and designing impact solutions to the existing problems of the B2B and tech industries. During this interview we cover: 00:00 The Financial Due Diligen...
Top Reasons Why Your SaaS Startup Needs People Analytics Today with Ian Cook #138 [ Startups ] 31.08.2021 42:58
Ian Cook is the VP and Head of workforce solutions at Visier, people analytics and workforce solution that helps businesses with the best practices and enables HR professionals to answer the most relevant questions about your workforce strategy. Ian has been involved in driving forward the datafication of HR and is a speaker and blogger on the subject. Prior to Visier, Ian built Canada’s leading s...
The Dark Side of SaaS, SaaS Management, Security & Control #137 25.08.2021 48:26
André is the Co-founder and CEO at LeanIX, a SaaS for managing enterprise architecture and multi-cloud environments for better and faster, data-driven decision-making. André is passionate about enabling companies to build better products and transition to a modern IT architecture. He’s experienced as a management consultant and during his studies of information science, he built modern software ar...
Top Reasons to Start a Podcast for Your Business #136 20.08.2021 18:56
Just Start! The podcasting industry continues to grow and you should jump on board, long-form content, all the benefits of content marketing and more personal relationships with potential customers are a few of the benefits of having a podcast, no need to break the marketing budget and can be lucrative too!. This episode is taken from the “ Behind the Mic Podcast ”, go check them out now! Du...
SaaS Value Generation & Maximizing Your Exit Value with Jim Barnish #135 18.08.2021 52:29
Jim Barnish, has spent the last two decades as serial entrepreneur, operator, investor and M&A expert. He runs Orchid Black, a boutique growth services firm complete with serial entrepreneurs and growth experts, who are all accomplished operators and consultants with an investor mindset and a history of value creation and exits. Orchid Black’s business model not only accelerates this value, bu...
Why do Startups Fail? Lessons learned from a 500 Mentor with Dan McGaw #134 [ Startups ] 13.08.2021 18:29
Dan McGaw is an award-winning entrepreneur, speaker, and CEO of McGaw.io, an analytics and marketing technology consultancy as well as a SaaS platform, UTM.io. Dan is also a 500 Startups Mentor and has previously started the first business accelerator in Orlando. He’s a thought leader in the MarTech world and a CXL instructor on the topic. Dan previously served as the Head of Marketing at Ki...
Top Scalable Customer Acquisition Strategies After Developing Your SaaS Product with Dan McGaw #133 11.08.2021 34:56
Get a Free Copy of “ Build Cool Shit ” by Dan McGaw just by texting “martech” to the number 415 915 9011, Enjoy! Dan McGaw is an award-winning entrepreneur, speaker, and CEO of McGaw.io, an analytics and marketing technology consultancy as well as a SaaS platform, UTM.io. Dan is also a 500 Startups Mentor and has previously started the first business accelerator in Orlando. He’s a thought le...
The Future of AI Advertising, Disruptive Marketing & Slacktivism with Paul Cowan #132 06.08.2021 22:32
Paul Cowan is the CMO at FreshBooks, one of the top accounting software in the cloud for Owners, self-employed professionals, and their teams. Paul, with his 20+ year career, has held leadership positions at large corporations such as Shutterstock, Feast (where he was the co-founder), DIVE Networks, and Spin Master. He’s marketed phones, food, booze, toys, and more recently, SaaS...
How to Effectively Align Customer-Focused Marketing & Product Design with Paul Cowan #131 04.08.2021 27:23
Paul Cowan is the CMO at FreshBooks, one of the top accounting software in the cloud for Owners, self-employed professionals and their teams. Paul, with his 20+ year career, has held leadership positions at large corporations such as Shutterstock, Feast (where he was the co-founder), DIVE Networks and Spin Master. He’s marketed phones, food, booze, toys, and more recently, SaaS p...
Start-Up Funding, Money & How Harmful Is To Raise Too Much Capital #130 28.07.2021 27:06
Connor Hey, from Org3D, specialist recruiters in Cyber Security and Data & Analytics, speaks with Akeel Jabber - the start-up investor and host of SaaS District at Horizen Capital . Together, they outline some really valuable insights for start-ups looking to acquire funding; the importance of selling the story of the start-up, what are some of the funding alternatives, and how harmful it...
Building for Strategic Acquisitions & The Value of Relationships Over Time, Interview with Ray Rike | SaaS Webcast #129 22.07.2021 24:50
Ray Rike is the CEO & founder of RevOps Squared, a company that conducts benchmarking research across a wide variety of KPI categories in the B2B SaaS industry enabling SaaS companies to exponentially increase customer acquisition, customer expansion, and customer retention efficacy. Ray Rike has more that 30 years now of experience in the SaaS industry, his passion for data-driven & metri...
B2B SaaS Benchmarking and Its Impact on Go-To-Market Team Alignment, interview with Ray Rike, CEO at RevOps Squared | SaaS Webcast #128 20.07.2021 33:45
Ray Rike is the CEO & founder of RevOps Squared, a company that conducts benchmarking research across a wide variety of KPI categories in the B2B SaaS industry enabling SaaS companies to exponentially increase customer acquisition, customer expansion, and customer retention efficacy. Ray Rike has more than 30 years now of experience in the SaaS industry, his passion for data-driven & metri...
Conversion Rate Optimization & Great Opportunities in the Marketing Industry, interview with Neil Patel P2 | SaaS Webcast #127 15.07.2021 13:52
During this interview we cover: 00:00 Contentfy: Podcast Editing & Repurposing Services 01:03 - Intro 01:19 - Opportunities Neil Would Tackle & in the Marketing/Tech Industry 04:03 - How Neil is Measuring Success 05:09 - Self Worth Based on the Growth Value & Small Changes for Directioning 08:09 - Improvement in Conversion With 2 step over 1 step in the Checkout Page 09:21 - The Best P...
Scaling your Digital Agency, Unconventional Marketing Trends & Acquisitions of News and Media Companies, interview with Neil Patel P1 | SaaS Webcast #126 13.07.2021 25:53
Neil Patel is an entrepreneur, angel investor, and analytics expert who specializes in SEO and digital marketing, he has co-founded a few marketing technology companies such as KissMetrics, Crazy Egg, acquired and grew UberSuggest, and also manages his own successful agency NP Digital. During this interview we cover: 00:00 Contentfy: Your On-Demand Podcast Editing & Repurposing Team 01:03 - In...
How to be an Adaptive CEO & Successfully Pivoting your Product, Interview with Michael Beck P2 | SaaS Webcast #125 08.07.2021 26:29
Mike Beck is the founder and CEO of Reworking, a one way interview platform that’s revolutionizing how companies recruit. Michael has a strong background in trading and selling complex software before founding Reliving, a B2C software company focused on preserving people’s loved one’s life stories. After the COVID outbreak they pivoted towards what Reworking is today, from a B2C to a B2B one...
How To Use One Way Video Interviews For Hiring Top Talent with Michael Beck P1 | SaaS Webcast #124 06.07.2021 20:24
Mike Beck is the founder and CEO of Reworking, a one way interview platform that’s revolutionizing how companies recruit. Michael has a strong background in trading and selling complex software before founding Reliving, a B2C software company focused on preserving people’s loved one’s life stories. After the COVID outbreak they pivoted towards what Reworking is today, from a B2C to a B2B one...
How AI Is Transforming the Website Building Industry with Tigran Nazaryan | SaaS Webcast #123 02.07.2021 31:32
Tigran Nazaryan is an entrepreneur as well as a doctor in philosophy on Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recently Tigran took up a CEO position at 10Web, an automated WordPress platform for building websites with AI and superfast hosting, where he’s in charge of leading a team of over 70 professionals. As a CEO, he aims at building a strong company culture that allows for a successful trans...
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