Startup Strategies

In this episode of Startup Strategies, Juliana sits down with KJ Chen, the founder who abandoned a 3 million user AI novel platform to build Macaron, scaled to 300,000+ users in under 6 months with a $70M valuation, all while training custom AI models and creating a viral marketing engine that pays creators based on performance instead of upfront fees. KJ Chen shares how: He pivoted from 3 million...

In this episode of Startup Strategies, Ramsri Golla shares how he built two profitable AI SaaS products on the side while working full time as a lead data scientist. Starting with a $50 to $60 monthly hosting cost, Ramsri scaled Question.ai and Supermeme.ai to over $100K ARR without employees, paid ads, or venture capital. Ramsri shares how he: Built and launched Question.ai years before the techn...

In this episode of Startup Strategies, Juliana sits down with Jon Kazarian, the founder who bootstrapped Accelavent, a B2B event platform, to $374K ARR, then watched COVID turn his revenue negative overnight. He pivoted to virtual events and scaled to $10M ARR in just  Jon Kazarian shares how he: Pre-sold vaporware using InVision prototypes while his team coded 100-hour weeks. Convinced his d...

In this episode of Startup Strategies, Juliana sits down with Jared Zelman, founder of Othello, to uncover the brutal truth about enterprise sales that most reps refuse to accept: they're wasting months on deals that were dead from the first call, and they have no idea because they skipped proper discovery. After building Othello from zero sales experience to an AI coach that's improving win rates...

In this episode of Startup Strategies, Juliana reveals why most founders are losing to competitors they could easily outmaneuver if they just knew where to look. After analyzing competitors for clients across B2B and B2C, she breaks down the exact system she uses to extract competitive intelligence that most founders never find because they don't know what questions to ask the data. Juliana expose...

In this episode of Startup Strategies, Juliana sits down with Stefan Bader, the founder who sold his parking data company to Continental, spent three years inside enterprise, then raised $8.3M for Cello after watching product-channel fit collapse across B2B. Stefan was at Continental post-acquisition when he realized he missed the messy zero-to-one chaos, so he co-founded Cello and started trackin...

In this episode of Startup Strategies, Juliana sits down with Ish Jindal, the engineer-turned-entrepreneur who spent four years not knowing what MRR meant while bootstrapping TARS to $1M ARR. After discovering the internet in his second year of college, Ish went from building education websites in cyber cafes to travel hacking conferences across five countries, eventually stumbling into entreprene...

In this episode of Startup Strategies, Juliana breaks down the brutal truth about social media marketing that most content creators and founders refuse to accept - their content is poor, and that's exactly where they need to start. After scaling her client from zero to $2 million in revenue and 10 million users while generating millions across creators and companies in every niche, she reveals why...

In this episode of Startup Strategies, Juliana sits down with George Munguia, the serial entrepreneur who went from negative $200 in his bank account to raising $2 million for Harmony AI after his manager threatened to fire him for using AI tools. George was grinding through content marketing at a 500-person startup, spending weeks writing single blog posts when he discovered Jasper AI and started...

In this episode of Startup Strategies, Juliana sits down with Casey Woo, the reformed Wall Street finance professional who went from corner office overlooking Central Park to building one of Silicon Valley's most exclusive operator communities. After feeling miserable despite having everything Wall Street promised, Casey made the leap to startups and discovered he "loved eating glass" - but Silico...

In this episode of Startup Strategies, Juliana sits down with Gaurav Bhattacharya, three-time venture-backed founder and CEO of Jeeva AI, who proves that scrappy execution beats massive funding every time. After getting tired of complex enterprise sales cycles in his previous companies, Gaurav built an AI sales prospecting tool using tactics that sound insane until you see the results: sending two...

In this episode of Startup Strategies, Juliana breaks down the complete system behind scaling apps and software from zero to $200K+ monthly recurring revenue - and why most founders are approaching growth completely backwards. Instead of obsessing over perfect products and feature lists, she reveals the counterintuitive framework that turns downloads into recurring revenue by focusing on what actu...

Are you tired of SaaS marketing feeling like random experiments rather than a coherent, effective strategy? In this episode, Juliana Han of Gro Media breaks down her powerful method for viral SaaS growth - Unique Viral Propositions (UVPs). Juliana, who has spent nearly a decade scaling startups from zero users to millions, discusses the critical mistakes most founders make, like hiring inexperienc...

In this episode of Startup Strategies, Juliana sits down with 19-year-old Zyad Djouad, co-founder of Lens, who's rewriting the startup playbook from his college dorm room. After spending countless nights editing videos for his 370K subscriber YouTube channel, Zyad discovered a gap that would become his breakthrough - no AI tool existed for prompt-based video editing. What followed defies conventio...

Aydin is the co-founder of Fellow and he's today's guest on Startup Strategies with Juliana Hahn. From losing everything in the dot-com crash at age 13 to building a $30+ million SaaS platform, Aydin has navigated multiple pivots and a strategic exit that shaped his approach to AI-first product development. In this episode, he reveals how he and his 20-year co-founding team bootstrapped their way...

Juliana Hahn is the CEO & founder of Gro Media and Startup Strategies. In this episode, she breaks down the key differences in strategies between B2B Marketing and B2C Marketing. Typically this is overcomplicated unnecessarily. She shares a simple framework for deciding on the most suitable marketing strategies for the two different business models, depending on how long a startup company's sa...

Sheida Mirjahani, is the co-founder of Flowjin and she's today's guest on Startup Strategies with Juliana Hahn. Originally from Tehran and now based in Toronto, Sheida built a six-figure ARR video repurposing platform that helps B2B teams turn long-form content like webinars, podcasts, and sales calls into short, shareable clips for marketing and sales enablement. In this episode, she reveals the...

Grace Beverley and Jake Browne are the co-founders of Retrograde, and we’re finding out more about them on Startup Strategies with Juliana Hahn. Backed by $2M in pre-seed funding, they built Emma, an AI talent agent that’s redefining how creators manage brand deals. In this episode, we break down how their insider experience in the creator economy gave them a strategic edge, how they ignored surfa...

Juliana Hahn is the CEO & founder of Gro Media and the host of Startup Strategies. In this episode, she breaks down the key strategies behind growing SaaS startups from zero to over $1M ARR. From flipping the traditional SaaS funnel, to prioritizing your most aware users first, to engineering growth with stage-specific content that converts. Learn how to: Reverse-engineer your funnel to drive...

Juliana Hahn is the CEO & founder of Gro Media and the host of Startup Strategies. In this episode, she breaks down the key strategies behind growing SaaS startups from zero to over $1M in annual recurring revenue (ARR). From marketing a product that wasn't even close to being ready for launch, to building a waitlist, to engineering viral organic growth.  Learn how to: Market before your...

Mihailo Bozic is the founder of Migrate Mate, and he’s today’s guest on Startup Strategies with Juliana Hahn. What started as a personal struggle to stay in the U.S. became a bootstrapped business doing $500K ARR, all within just 3 months. In this episode, we break down how nearly getting kicked out of the country pushed Mihailo to build a platform helping job seekers find companies that offe...

Julia Enthoven is the founder of Kapwing, and she’s today’s guest on Startup Strategies with Juliana Hahn. She turned a simple meme maker into one of the most-used online video tools for creators and marketing teams, scaling it to over $10M in annual revenue. In this episode, we dive into how Julia spotted the rise of video while working at Google, and how that insight led to building one of the m...

Andrew Gazdecki is the founder of Acquire.com, and he’s today's guest on Startup Strategies with Juliana Hahn. He’s building the go-to marketplace for founders looking to sell their startups — and doing it with serious scale. In this episode, we dive into how Andrew used two unconventional startup experiences (including one he exited quickly due to legal gray areas) and the lessons he learned in s...

Selin & Karun are the co-founders of Delve. They’re today's guests on Startup Strategies with Juliana Hahn and they are building an AI automated platform that makes compliance effortless. How they’re making regulatory headaches disappear and proving that even the most mind-numbing work can be a growth engine. We chat about how they are scaling through organic word-of-mouth, why in-person meeti...

Troy Munson is the founder and CEO of Dimmo. He's today's guest on Startup Strategies with Juliana Hahn and he is building a platform that allows users to watch software demos without going through a sales cycle. How did he go from launching multiple side projects to selling startups and eventually building Dimmo. We chat about how he used unconventional strategies to grow his businesses—from DMin...