

saas.unbound
Anna Nadeina
saas.unbound is a podcast where inspiring founders and experts share their stories of founding and scaling their businesses all the way to success and eternal love from their customers.At saas.unbound we have casual chats with entrepreneurs who have already walked from 0 to 1, to 10, and sometimes to a life-changing exit.They share their experiences, actionable insights, and mistakes to avoid.Your host is Anna Nadeina, Head of Growth at saas.group, passionate Growth Marketer, and a big believer in sustainable growth and the power of networking.saas.unbound is brought to you by saas.group
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Jul 13, 2023 • 53min
Justin Duke @Buttondown. Successful building in public strategy
saas.unbound is a podcast for and about founders who are working on scaling inspiring products that people love brought to you by https://saas.group/. In this episode #46, we are talking with Justin Duke, Founder of Buttondown (https://buttondown.email/), a lightweight email app that can be used to create and distribute newsletters. Justin shares his vision of launching a SaaS product. Why your Product Hunt or closed beta launch is never THE one and only. How every feature you add changes the product and adds to your launch cycle. He also talks about the journey of a solo-founder and how he structures work with contractors and aims for the business to ultimately grow to a much bigger company with a great culture. Justin also discusses the way he juggled day-job with building a startup and how he decided to go all-in with Buttondown. Subscribe to our channel to be the first to see the interviews that we publish twice a week - https://www.youtube.com/@saas-group Stay up to date: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SaaS_group LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/14790796

Jul 10, 2023 • 1h 3min
Ken Miller @Podium.page/@Fathom.fm. Growth is everybody's job in SaaS team
saas.unbound is a podcast for and about founders who are working on scaling inspiring products that people love brought to you by https://saas.group/. In this episode #44, we are talking with Ken Miller, Co-Founder of Podium.page (https://podium.page/), streamlining your podcast production with AI-powered tools for time-saving, high-quality content creation, and Fathom.fm (https://fathom.fm/), the AI-powered podcast player from the future. We discuss the roadmap for both Podium.page and Fathom.fm, how Podium was initially supposed t be a feature not a standalone product but took off so successfully that the team decided to grow it separately. Ken discusses the role of AI for SaaS businesses and why slapping an AI API on a product may not be the most sustainable strategy. Ken talks about Reddit and how it's often overlooked and feared because of the strict rules. He shares his approach to Reddit and how it helped Podium get traction and customers. He also shares his vision about growth being everyone's job and how drilling the growth strategy into team's members' brain is a great way to boost it. Subscribe to our channel to be the first to see the interviews that we publish twice a week - https://www.youtube.com/@saas-group Stay up to date: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SaaS_group LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/14790796

Jul 6, 2023 • 45min
Girish Redekar @Sprinto. Leading a rapidly growing security compliance SaaS
saas.unbound is a podcast for and about founders who are working on scaling inspiring products that people love brought to you by https://saas.group/ . I'm your host Anna Nadeina, Head of Growth for saas.group. In this episode #44, we are talking with Girish Redekar, the co-founder of Sprinto (https://sprinto.com/), a cloud-native platform, purpose-built to solve the security compliance needs of fast-growing cloud companies. Girish talks about the reasons a SaaS business would consider getting their security compliance sorted and the aspects that go into the decision-making process. Girish also shares his vision for doing demo calls for Sprinto and the reasons why demo calls are better than the best documentation. How it's easier for the users and the customers to share their questions and concerns about the product with a real person. And why it helps the team with growth. Subscribe to our channel to be the first to see the interviews that we publish twice a week - https://www.youtube.com/@saas-group Stay up to date: LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/14790796 Twitter - https://twitter.com/SaaS_group Website - https://saas.group/

Jul 3, 2023 • 39min
Alexander Stoffers @nextAudit. Bootstrapping an AI-powered audit SaaS
saas.unbound is a podcast for and about founders who are working on scaling inspiring products that people love brought to you by https://saas.group/. In this episode #40, we are talking with Alexander Stoffers, Founder of nextAudit (https://next-audit.de/), which develops software solutions for digitizing audit processes. Alexander talks about his passion for quality management and how it led him to founding nextAudit. He shares his vision on hybrid work setting and the things they life to do in a team to bring everyone together and build a really inclusive culture. Alexander explores the ways AI can be leveraged for SaaS audits and why it's safe to say auditors shouldn't be worried about being replaced by AI in the near future. Subscribe to our channel to be the first to see the interviews that we publish twice a week - https://www.youtube.com/@saas-group Stay up to date: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SaaS_group LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/14790796

Jun 29, 2023 • 1h 6min
Daniel Thulfaut & Rasmus Makwarth: Product Management for B2B SaaS
Everything you wanted to know about Product Management for B2B SaaS! Join Rasmus Makwarth, co-founder and CEO of Bucket (https://bucket.co/), and saas.group Brand CPO and Head of Product Growth, Daniel Thulfaut who together have over 25 years of experience in the industry 😳 for a Product Management AMA 🚀 We're talking about ways to keep up with the market and align with user expectations, prioritizing tech debt, strategic themes, and user requests, align teams to focus on shared goals, and much more!

Jun 26, 2023 • 44min
Martin Courau @Fincome. Converting 80% of SaaS demos
saas.unbound is a podcast for and about founders who are working on scaling inspiring products that people love brought to you by https://saas.group/ . I'm your host Anna Nadeina, Head of Growth for saas.group. In this episode #41, we are talking with Martin Courau, CEO & co-founder of Fincome (https://en.fincome.co/), he only platform dedicated to companies with a recurring business model that offers a 360° view of your company's performance in real time. Martin shares his vision on the way a startup should go about their marketing/growth strategies at the early stages, and why it's important to hit a few distribution channels at the same time. He talks about their staggering success of turning 80% of demo calls into paid subscriptions and why Fincome's roadmap is to become a dependable software for any SaaS business reaching over $700k ARR if they want to continue sustainable growth. Subscribe to our channel to be the first to see the interviews that we publish twice a week - https://www.youtube.com/@saas-group Stay up to date: LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/14790796 Twitter: https://twitter.com/SaaS_group

Jun 22, 2023 • 57min
Rob Rebholz @Superglue.io. Partnership strategy for b2b SaaS
saas.unbound is a podcast for and about founders who are working on scaling inspiring products that people love brought to you by https://saas.group/. In this episode #40, we are talking with Rob Rebholz, co-founder @Superglue.io (https://www.superglue.io/), a partner engagement platform that recommends and executes revenue-generating partnership plays on behalf of partner managers. Rob shares his vision for building a partnership management strategy that works, how to find partners that make sense for your business, and the value you can bring to each other. Subscribe to our channel to be the first to see the interviews that we publish twice a week - https://www.youtube.com/@saas-group Stay up to date: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SaaS_group LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/14790796

Jun 19, 2023 • 56min
Jane Portman @Userlist. Core positioning for b2b SaaS
saas.unbound is a podcast for and about founders who are working on scaling inspiring products that people love brought to you by https://saas.group/. In this episode #39, we are talking with Jane Portman, co-founder @Userlist (https://userlist.com/ ), an automation tool for sending behavior-based messages to your SaaS users. Email marketing is something Userlist leverages for its growth as well and Jane is sharing the tips that help activate the free users and upsell your paying customers if you have a freemium version of your business. Subscribe to our channel to be the first to see the interviews that we publish twice a week - https://www.youtube.com/@saas-group Stay up to date: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SaaS_group LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/14790796

Jun 15, 2023 • 56min
Christophe Pasquier @Slite. Building a lovable SaaS brand
saas.unbound is a podcast for and about founders who are working on scaling inspiring products that people love brought to you by https://saas.group/. In this episode #38, we are talking with Christophe Pasquier , founder & CEO of Slite (https://slite.com/ ), a modern knowledge base that helps teams escape the chaos of information overload. Slite attended YC in 2018, raised more than 15M$, and is serving tens of thousands of teams every month. Christophe talks about the way he and the team determined their product channel fit and made sure the right customers are able to find them easily. Christophe also discusses the up and downs of building a team and the recent layoffs they had to deal with. This is a difficult but important topic for the founders and an inevitable situation for any business. Chris is inspired by team dynamics, making it easier for customers to collaborate on projects and make meaningful connections. Subscribe to our channel to be the first to see the interviews that we publish twice a week - https://www.youtube.com/@saas-group Stay up to date: LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/14790796 Twitter - https://twitter.com/SaaS_group

Jun 12, 2023 • 54min
Moritz Dausinger @Refiner. Hacking SaaS customer support in a team of 3
saas.unbound is a podcast for and about founders who are working on scaling inspiring products that people love brought to you by https://saas.group/. In this episode #37, we are talking with Moritz Dausinger, Founder and CEO of Refiner (https://refiner.io/ ), a powerful survey tool that allows to precisely target user segments based on our data. Moritz shares his opinion about hiring for SaaS, keeping the team small and the way to make it work with freelancers. We also discuss the way Refiner deals with customer support with a team of 4 and why pushing customers back to try and and the solution works for them. Moritz talks about company culture and the importance of cultivating one even if there's just a handful of you. Subscribe to our channel to be the first to see the interviews that we publish twice a week - https://www.youtube.com/@saas-group Stay up to date: LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/14790796 Twitter - https://twitter.com/SaaS_group


