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SaaS District
Akeel Jabber | Horizen Capital
Frequency: 1 episode/7d. Total Eps: 233
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01/05/2025#86
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Leadership Mindset: Building High Performance Teams while Maintaining Cultural Integrity with David Anderson #233
Season 2 · Episode 233
jeudi 9 janvier 2025 • Duration 44:14
David Anderson is a global business leader with extensive experience as a C-level executive, board member, advisor, and executive coach at DWA Leadership.. He specializes in building high-performing teams, fostering a winning leadership mindset, and helping organizations navigate the complexities of growth as well as innovation.
David has a strong entrepreneurial background and has served on numerous boards, including as chair, bringing forward-thinking strategies to both non-profits and businesses. His approach focuses on empowering leaders to "Jump the S Curve" of growth and achieve lasting success.
In this episode we cover:
- 00:00 - Intro
- 01:35 - Cultivating Talent in High-Performing Teams
- 05:41 - Managing Diverse Global Teams
- 08:03 - Mindset Shifts for C-Level Transitions
- 10:55 - Cultivating an Environment for Open Dialogue and Feedback
- 13:48 - Strategies for Jumping the S-Curve of Growth
- 16:16 - Maintaining Cultural Integrity While Scaling
- 19:38 - Identifying Toxic Behaviors in Team Members
- 22:52 - Maximizing Board Member Engagement
- 25:46 - Getting the Most from Your Leadership Board
- 27:55 - Tailoring Leadership Coaching for Founders
- 33:41 - Key Traits for Leaders in a Rapidly Changing World
- 36:03 - David's Favorite Activity to Get Into a Flow State
- 36:37 - David's Piece of Advice for Your Younger Self
- 37:45 - Biggest Challenges and Goals for 2025
- 38:30 - Instrumental Resources for David's Success
- 40:06 - What Does Success Mean for David Today
- 42:08 - Get in Touch with David
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Creating Custom Digital Funnels to Raising Capital for your SaaS with Jagger Lucé #232
Season 2 · Episode 232
vendredi 5 avril 2024 • Duration 34:06
Jagger Lucé is the Head of Sales at Valynt Digital, a full-service digital marketing agency specializing in paid advertising, video production, copywriting, graphic design, and AI-driven automation.
At Valynt, have created a revolutionizing capital raising solution through innovative digital marketing funnels, including Series A - Series D advertising campaigns.
Valynt Digital's forward-thinking approach eliminates cold calling through advanced automation solutions powered by artificial intelligence, streamlining processes and enhancing efficiency in sales across diverse industries.
In this episode we cover:
- 00:00 - Intro
- 01:20 - Agency Background and SaaS Capital Raising
- 02:21 - Successful Techniques for Engaging Investors Online
- 05:58 - Challenges Facing SaaS Founders in 2024
- 07:38 - How Long the Campaign Process Takes to Work
- 08:42 - Strategies and Tools for Targeting Customers or Investors
- 13:18 - Integrating AI into High-Ticket Deal Sales and Investments
- 16:25 - Applying Automation to Sales and Onboarding Processes
- 18:52 - Insightful Metrics for Scaling Digital Sales Campaigns
- 23:18 - Aspects of Successful Raising Cases
- 25:18 - Jagger's Favorite Activity To Get Into a Flow State
- 26:47 - Jagger's Piece Of Advice For Your Younger Self
- 28:28 - Jagger's Biggest Challenges at Valynt Digital
- 29:39 - Valynt Digital IS HIRING!
- 30:40 - Instrumental Resources For Jagger's Success
- 32:06 - What Does Success Mean for Jagger Today
- 33:02 - Get In Touch With Jagger
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Exploring Investing, Trends and Fundraising in 2024 with Michael Treskow #223
Season 2 · Episode 223
vendredi 19 janvier 2024 • Duration 38:04
Michael is a Partner at Eight Roads Ventures based out of London, where they’re focused on venture and growth investments in technology companies across Europe and Israel.
Previously, Michael invested in technology companies at Accel in London, and Warburg Pincus both in San Francisco and New York. He received a BA from Yale University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
In this episode we cover:
- 00:00 - Intro
- 01:17 - Eight Roads Ventures' Investing Focus Today
- 03:37 - How to Stand Out in a Funding Pitch
- 05:55 - Market Tips & Strategies for Founders
- 08:59 - 2024 Industry Trends and Exciting Verticals
- 14:09 - Startup Fundraising in Public Market Valuations
- 20:55 - When to Consider a Exit
- 25:37 - Common Traits of High-Performance Entrepreneurs
- 31:45 - Michael's Favorite Activity To Get Into a Flow State
- 32:25 - Michael's Piece Of Advice For His 25-Year-Old Self
- 33:10 - Michael's Biggest Challenges at Eight Roads Ventures
- 34:21 - Instrumental Resources For Michael's Success
- 35:32 - What Does Success Mean for Michael Today
- 36:41 - Get In Touch With Michael
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Top Scalable Customer Acquisition Strategies After Developing Your SaaS Product with Dan McGaw #133
Season 2 · Episode 133
mercredi 11 août 2021 • Duration 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 leader in the MarTech world and a CXL instructor on the topic.
Dan previously served as the Head of Marketing at Kissmetrics as well as worked as a CMO consultant for a number of high-growth companies, implementing tools, offering support, and analyzing their data.
During this interview we cover:
- 00:00 The Financial Due Diligence Framework Course
- 01:02 - Intro
- 02:11 - Getting Your First 10 - 100 Clients
- 06:25 - 100K on Customer Acquisition VS Product Lead Growth
- 09:30 - The Relation of Time and Labour for CAC Improvement
- 12:05 - What is a Successful Customer Acquisition Campaign
- 14:02 - Top Mistakes to Avoid at Early Stages & the Importance of Mistakes
- 18:33 - Scalable Channels, The Right Time to Scale
- 23:50 - Still Content Marketing After PMF?
- 27:19 - SEO, Technical VS Content Quality
- 29:00 - Why SaaS Companies Fail to Build Tech Stack
- 32:40 - Top Tech Stack Tools
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- LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/horizen-capital
- Instagram https://www.instagram.com/saasdistrict/
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The Future of AI Advertising, Disruptive Marketing & Slacktivism with Paul Cowan #132
Season 2 · Episode 132
vendredi 6 août 2021 • Duration 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 products. He’s creativity and experience has allowed him to create award-winning marketing campaigns.
When he’s not brainstorming new ways to transform the ad industry with the Freshbooks global marketing team, you might find him building things at his cabin in Toronto or sliding down the side of a mountain on some fresh snow.
During this interview we cover:
- 00:00 The Financial Due Diligence Framework Course (CODE: SAASDISTRICT For $100 off)
- 01:02 - Intro
- 01:30 - Slacktivism, the Myth of Purpose Driven Consumerism
- 06:33 - Disruptive Marketing, The Future of AI Advertising
- 11:01 - Is Ai Ready to Overtake The Market?
- 12:05 - Paul’s Background & FreshBooks on Terms of Size Today
- 13:26 - How Does Paul Measure His Own Success
- 15:00 - Advice Paul Would Tell His 25 Years Old Self
- 16:17 - Biggest Challenges Paul’s Facing Right Now?
- 17:57 - Instrumental Resources for Paul Success
- 19:36 - What does Success Mean to Paul Today
- 21:09 - Get in Touch With Paul
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How to Effectively Align Customer-Focused Marketing & Product Design with Paul Cowan #131
Season 2 · Episode 131
mercredi 4 août 2021 • Duration 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 products. He’s creativity and experience has allowed him to create award-winning marketing campaigns.
When he’s not brainstorming new ways to transform the ad industry with the Freshbooks global marketing team, you might find him building things at his cabin in Toronto or sliding down the side of a mountain on some fresh snow.
During this interview we cover:
- 00:00 Contentfy, your On-Demand Podcast Editing & Repurposing Team
- 01:02 - Intro
- 02:25 - Customer Experience & Product Experience
- 04:28 - Branding byCreating Experiences
- 10:04 - Why Companies Focus on Ads & Not on Customer Experience
- 12:48 - Timeframe for Ads
- 15:42 - Adapt Product Development to Customer Expectations
- 18:00 - Who Really Owns Product Experience?
- 20:05 - ROI on Product Experience as a Growth lever
- 22:51 - Product-led GTM Strategy
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Start-Up Funding, Money & How Harmful Is To Raise Too Much Capital #130
Season 2 · Episode 130
mercredi 28 juillet 2021 • Duration 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 is to ask for too much funding.
This Episode is taken from the “Grow Tech Fast - The Org3D Podcast”, go check them out now!
During this interview we cover:
- 00:00 Contentfy, your on-demand podcast & video editing & repurposing service
- 01:23 - Getting into the SaaS Industry & Entrepreneurship through Acquisition
- 07:32 - Why To Raise Money & Why To Sell?
- 09:18 - Metrics to Evaluate When Making an Investment or Acquisitions
- 13:41 - Raising Exactly What You Need & Getting The Pitch Right
- 19:27 - How Harmful is To Ask Too Much Funding
- 21:05 - SaaS Valuations & The Metric That Matters
- 24:32 - Advice For New Entrepreneurs
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- Best Rated SaaS Podcasts
- Learn About Our SaaS Consulting
- Learn How to Value a SaaS Company
Building for Strategic Acquisitions & The Value of Relationships Over Time, Interview with Ray Rike | SaaS Webcast #129
Season 2 · Episode 129
jeudi 22 juillet 2021 • Duration 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 & metric-based decision making has helped him succeed across five SaaS company exits.
During this interview we cover:
- 00:00 Contentfy: Your Podcast Editing & Repurposing Team
- 01:02 - Intro
- 01:24 - Ray’s 5 Exits & Journey Up Until RevOps Squared
- 07:56 - Exit Strategy, Will Salesforce or Hubspot Buy My SaaS?
- 14:27 - Building for an Exit?
- 17:38 - Advice Ray Would Tell His 25 Years Old Self
- 20:54 - What does Success Mean to Ray Today
- 35:51 - Get in Touch With Ray
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- SaaS Consulting Services
- Learn How to Value a SaaS Company
B2B SaaS Benchmarking and Its Impact on Go-To-Market Team Alignment, interview with Ray Rike, CEO at RevOps Squared | SaaS Webcast #128
Season 2 · Episode 128
mardi 20 juillet 2021 • Duration 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 & metric-based decision-making has helped him succeed across five SaaS company exits.
During this interview we cover:
- 00:00 Contentfy, your On-Demand Podcast Editing & Repurposing Team
- 01:02 - Intro
- 02:08 - What exactly are Revenue Operations & Why You Need it
- 03:26 - Metrics & Benchmarks Helping SaaS Companies
- 07:01 - What’s the Strategy When Looking at the Overall Industry Performance
- 12:41 - Best Tools to Keep Track of Your SaaS Metrics
- 15:47 - Where RevOps Squared is Gething Insights & Industry Data
- 19:44 - Hard Decisions to Improve Your Performance Based on Metrics
- 26:36 - The Most Important SaaS Metrics and KPI’s
- 31:27 - How valuable is Your Product, What Investors Want to See.
- 33:00 - Outro
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Conversion Rate Optimization & Great Opportunities in the Marketing Industry, interview with Neil Patel P2 | SaaS Webcast #127
Season 2 · Episode 127
jeudi 15 juillet 2021 • Duration 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 Productivity Hack
- 09:45 - Advice Neil Would Tell His 25 Years Old Self
- 10:07 - Biggest Challenges Neil’s Facing Right Now?
- 10:24 - Instrumental Resources for Neil’s Success
- 12:04 - What does Success Mean to Neil Today
- 12:48 - Get in Touch With Neil
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