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Cat Noone, Co-Founder of Liberio, talks with us about their journey raising a seed round in Berlin. She shares strategies they’ve discovered in building their pitch deck, meetings with VCs, and the thought behind raising money in the first place.

Sean Ellis, Founder and CEO of Qualaroo and GrowthHackers talks about how he massively increased growth at Qualaroo just by changing up their pricing model. He also talks about his motivations behind creating and growing the community at GrowthHackers.com and the external benefits it brings to marketers.

Owais Peer, Co-Founder of Global App Testing, talks about his unique productivity hacks he uses with his entire team. We also discuss his bottom up approach to management and how they use the Pomodoro technique to measure just about everything on their to-do list.

Brian Zeurcher, Founder and CEO of Seen, talks about the challenges of building a SaaS app for large-scale brands to help promote their social marketing channels through powerful influencers and brand advocates.

Melanie Gordon, Co-Founder and CEO of TapHunter, shares the cold-calling and sales techniques they’ve used to scale to profitability within a year of taking a seed round of funding. She also talks about the challenges of selling a SaaS product to non-technical, brick-and-mortar businesses and how they’ve overcome them.

Carolyn Kopprasch, Chief Happiness Officer at Buffer, talks with us about how they’ve kept up quality as they’ve grown their support team, and the unconventional ways they’ve scaled. She also shared super actionable tips on how they use HelpScout to process hundreds of job applications every single month and how they find good culture fits for the team.

Robert Williams, Founder of LetsWorkshop.com, talks about how he focused on solving a huge pain point that he personally experienced, and grew it into a super successful startup. He shares his learnings from the 30x500 course and how he’s been able to grow so quickly by staying focused on helping his customers succeed.

Alex Moore, Founder and CEO of Boomerang, talks with us about viral tactics he used to grow a product that most people didn’t want others to know they were using. He also shares a hilarious story of how he got his first investor, Dave McClure.

Elliot Schneier, COO of Fundable, talks with us about the key factors that investors look for when deciding to invest in you. He shared incredibly thorough insights on topics ranging from idea to traction to funding. He also talked with us about their strategies behind acquiring companies like LaunchRock and what makes them opt to build something in-house.

Christine Lu, Co-Founder and CEO of Affinity China speaks out about mental health and founder depression. She not only shares her own personal story, but her perspective on why depression is so prominent among startup founders.

Conrad Egusa, former Venture Beat writer and founder of Publicize, shares his incredibly effective process for getting press in big publications. None of it requires hiring a pr firm, having existing relationships with journalists, or any other myths you thought to be true. Super actionable advice in this episode.

Garrett Dimon, founder of Sifter, talks about some of the silliest excuses people make to not start their own company (including his own). He also shares the unexpected benefits that came down the line from running his own business.

Nick O’Neill, Founder of Startup Stats, talks with us about event planning. He shares his process for deciding what kind of event to plan, lining up speakers and ticket sales. There’s an amazing amount of similarities to launching a product.

Jesse Mecham and Taylor Brown of You Need a Budget share their strategies for taking a product with broad appeal and segmenting it down to market to different verticals. They also talk about being deliberate in their hiring process and company culture, especially with a distributed team.

Colin Nederkoorn, Founder and CEO of Customer.io, talks about the tactics he used to build early traction and how they converted that traction to an unconventional round of funding that rocketed them to profitability.