SaaS District

Jöi Sigurdsson is the founder & CEO of CrankWheel, a bootstrapped B2B SaaS company that provides a screen sharing solution tailor-made for sales teams. In the past, Jöi spent 23 years in the software industry from which he spent 10 at Google and the rest working on various startups.  Jöi loves to write about entrepreneurship, technology, management, and whatever comes to mind on his perso...

Rossel is now the Co-founder and CEO at video gift startup VidDay , a group gift video solution where they bring in over 1 million video uploads from over 150 countries into their platform.  Rossel formerly helped scale SkipTheDishes, a seamless online food delivery and pickup app, from a small start-up to a team of over 2500 employees.  Russel thrives off of solving complex challenges a...

Immad Akhund is the co-founder and CEO of Mercury, a bank for startups, engineered in Silicon Valley and aimed for tech companies to help them succeed. Immad & Mercury had raised over $25 million from investors like Andreessen Horowitz and Charles River Ventures.  Prior to launching Mercury, he co-founded HeyZap which was acquired for $45 million by Fyber. During this interview we cover:...

Dave Schneider was the cofounder of an influencer marketing software NinjaOutreach, a bootstrapped company with 20 people and over 500 customers.  He’s also a graduate from Harvard with a degree in Applied Math, where in 2012 he quit his corporate job to travel the world with his wife, where during that time he launched and exited from his first SaaS company, NinjaOutreach, an influencer mark...

Max Kremer is an entrepreneur, technologist & previous Co-founder of Datastay Corp., an On demand web PLM Software for SMBs which got acquired by Autodesk,  Max is now the Co-Founder and CTO of Trialfire, a customer intelligence and web analytics platform that removes the barriers to being data-driven, a always-on data scientist. Max enjoys talking about startup success & failures, as...

Sydney Wong is the Founder and CEO of VenturX, a startup platform that prepares and connects startups with investor funding that offers startup tools for tracking product validation and business planning for early start entrepreneurs looking to reach revenue, new customers, or funding.  Inspired by a courageous and life altering experience in Silicon Valley, Sydney bootstrapped her vision to...

Darren is a business leader and security professional with over twenty years of experience as a CEO and CISO of companies that handle sensitive data. Having founded a non-profit organization, three service companies, and two tech startups in his career, he understands how to assess and manage risk in alignment with organizational goals.  Darren Gallop is also a tech entrepreneur, information...

Bryce is a tech founder, who’s originally from Australia, and moved to the UK in 2017 to expand an Australian workforce management application into the UK market. Bryce is currently UK General Manager at Tanda, now rebranded as Workforce, which is an award-winning workforce management software that provides clarity, control and tools for businesses to get the most from their workforce. ...

Stewart Townsend is the founder at Channel as a Service , a “ results oriented” consultancy service for startups & mature companies to enable them to increase revenue through the right growth channel via an indirect sales force.  Stewart has spent 20 years working in channel roles and has specialised in accelerating revenue at global SaaS companies through the building and running of indi...

Phillip is a product builder, software engineer, web developer & Digital consultant, the founder of Out Flash , a mass email service inside Outlook, Elementary Analytics a sense making platform for your website and social media analytics, Baitcamp , A log, planner and archive for fishing enthusiasts & Sensible Backup, a backup for your windows device made easy. He currently works full-time...

Naomi is an entrepreneur and the Executive Vice President at WixAnswers , an unified customer support solution focused on providing spot-on support for customers rather than spending time on making all channels work together. Before joining Wix, Naomi was the Co-Founder of 2 travel startups, Tripelia and iTravelJerusalem.  Naomi is passionate about helping companies and startups provide best-...

Leslie Zane is the president and founder of Triggers, a brand consultancy company that changes customer behavior to accelerate revenue growth. Her curiosity drives her search for the key to changing customer behavior and what some of the companies she works with call “the holy grail of marketing”.  As a former brand manager, Leslie discovered the effectiveness of indirect messaging rather tha...

Garrett is the CEO and Co-Founder at Directive, a next-gen performance marketing agency for software companies. Since its founding in 2014, Garret has led Directive in its expansion of five new locations in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City, Austin, Texas; and London, has led them to a 300% year-over-year growth rate and now boasts a team of more than 50 people over nine nationalities from...

Kieran Flanagan is an author, startup advisor mentor who runs his own podcast called the Growth TLDR - which you guys should also check out -  and is currently the VP of Marketing & Growth at Hubspot.  He is a thought leader on growth marketing and speaks at events across the globe. Kieran has a proven track record in helping SaaS businesses, from start-ups to enterprise-level grow t...

Eric Siu is the CEO of digital marketing agency Single Grain , a digital marketing agency focused on growing Saas businesses as well as helping Fortune 500 companies like Uber, Amazon and Salesforce acquire more customers through SEO and paid advertising. Eric Siu usually helps entrepreneurs with the tools and processes to help them grow both personally and professionally revealing secrets from th...

Kevin is a Marketing automation specialist with 21 years of experience working with companies like Charles Schwab and Wells Fargo, and had founder shares in a public company, On Assignment Inc (NYSE: ASGN).  Petersen’s SaaS experience includes growing a file sharing platform to seven-figure revenue in its first year, an award-winning music industry start-up, and several portfolio brands that...

Estefania Hernandez is CEO and founder of Mi Dulce Hogar, a formal alternative that facilitates cleaning services for homes of Mexican families, SMBs, and Airbnb hosts. It’s been praised by Forbes and many other publications.  Estefania is a modern pinnacle and example of what social entrepreneurship looks like here in Mexico. During this interview we cover: 00:00 - Intro 00:56 - Estefan...

Mubashar is the co-founder at Founderpath , a platform that helps SaaS Founders get capital without selling any equity. Mubs has been tinkering with computers since he was about 8 years old and  started building websites in 1995. He loves making many things, a perk that led him to be selected as ProductHunt's maker of the year for 2016, runner up in 2015 and 2017. At the beginning of his care...

Justin is a revenue operator, executive mentor, and SMB SaaS advisor with over 10 years’ of revenue leadership experience. He helps founders to drive scalable growth past $50M in recurring revenue. Most recently, Justin led PatientPop from $0 to $51M in recurring revenue and built the sales organization from 1 to 150+ people in just 4 years. He specializes in SMB SaaS sales and the go-to-market st...

Sujan is a data-driven marketer and entrepreneur & Co- Founder of Mailshake where they help people have more conversations, qualify more leads, and close more deals through Email. Sujan is also the managing partner at Ramp Ventures where he manages 8 SaaS companies including Mailshake, VoilaNorbert.com, RIghtinbox.com, ZoomShift among several others. As a veteran SaaS marketing leader with 15+...

30% Off in October for Orapa , Code = DISTRICT Stan is the CEO at Orapa , a platform that helps you find top sales talent, and get more sales calls with the right clients,  Stan’s  biggest dream is to be able to provide startups and companies a way to get more sales calls and introduce gig-economy to the sales world. During this interview we cover: 00:00 - Intro 00:49 - Story Behind Laun...

Hello everyone, welcome to a very special episode 50 today on the SaaS District Podcast Show In today’s episode, I’ll be talking about why we started this Podcast,  my favourite interviews, some unexpected things I've learned from building the podcast so far, why this podcast is important to you, me, for my brand, & what you can expect for the future of the SaaS District Podcast Show . Du...

Tom is the founder and Senior Consultant at Apex Privacy , a straight-talking GDPR compliance firm that crafts bespoke data protection programmes for your business and specializes in helping SaaS companies get GDPR compliant. Tom is an experienced data protection officer and legal compliance consultant specialising in IT, Finance and Health, he has a proven track record in delivering business-cent...

Joel is a conversion copywriter for B2B and SaaS at business casual copywriting and the founder of CaseStudyBuddy, a done-for-you case studies service we’re they help agencies, SaaS companies and B2B businesses like Moz, Unbounce, GatherUp, and  Hotjar capture and share persuasive customer success stories. Apart from being a conversion-focused copywriter and strategist, Joel is a  BComm...

Dylan Hey is the Co-Founder & CEO of HeyDigital , a creative PPC & CRO agency that focuses on helping SaaS & B2B Tech Companies scale revenue with PPC & Paid Social Advertising Campaigns. After successfully managing hundreds of thousands of dollars in spending on Google, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Capterra for a lot of customers, Dylan has built an effective SaaS specific ad...