Interviews with startup founders in all sorts of industries and regions to expand our definition, thinking of what is a startup. Learn from their journey and apply it to your own startup.
S3E9 An interview with Jeroen Courthout, Founder at Salesflare
Jeroen Corthout is the Founder at SalesFlare, an intelligent CRM startups and small businesses love to use. It's a zero-input sales pipeline tool that thinks and works for its user, not the other way around. No more manual data entry. Salesflare fills out address book and keeps track of all interactions with the people users in contact with.
Jeroen loves building great experiences, tinkering with products, reading on diverse topics, optimizing health.
In this episode, we talked about:
Difference of SalesFlare in any other CRM
Jeroen’s background, interests and family background
Challenges in starting a new company
Jeroen talks about his previous company Doctura
The idea on how he started SalesFlare
What works and doesn’t work in building a successful business
How did they got their first early customers?
Partnering with Appsumo deal in getting more sales
Building and growing SalesFlare team
And MUCH MORE!
Links:
USE PEK25 code to get 25% for the first 3 months https://salesflare.com/ (https://salesflare.com/)
Connect with Jeroen (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeroencorthout/?originalSubdomain=be)
https://salesflare.com/ (https://salesflare.com/)
Zapier (https://zapier.com/)
4 Jan 2022
S3E8 An interview with Matthew Stephens, Cofounder of DeviantArt
Matthew worked at the intersection of design and technology for over 22 years, most recently as VP of Design at The Zebra. He builds high-performing teams and designs award-winning products and brands. Beyond that, he also writes about ethics, accessibility, diversity, and education within design.
At The Zebra, he scaled a Design Org from 3 to 22 in 3 years. His teams included product and marketing design, research, and design operations. They built a suite of products that increased revenue from $1M to $100M, along with a 100% retention rate on his team.
Before The Zebra, he was the Co-Founder of DeviantArt.com, the largest online art gallery in the world. With over 30 million works of art and 300 million users.
He’s also involved in the larger design community, both in Austin and abroad. He’s been a member of Invision’s Design Leadership Forum and is currently serving on the Advisory Board for Austin Design Week. He also donates his time and design skills to various non-profits, including American Cancer Society.
In this episode, we talked about
How did DeviantArt.com start?
Some feature Matthew designed in the early days
Deviant Art system
Dealing with copyrights and how did they manage it
Building and engaging with the community
Career after DeviantArt
Starting The Zebra
What is The Zebra and how it serves people
How did he scale design org
And MUCH MORE
Links:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewstephens/
https://matthewstephens.com/
https://www.deviantart.com/matteo
https://dribbble.com/matthewlarn
20 Dec 2021
S3E8 An Interview with Jane Portman, Cofounder of UserList and Host of UIBreakfast podcast
Jane Portman is a UI/UX consultant specializing in web application design, founder of UI Breakfast and Userlist. At Userlist, Jane's goal is to provide flawless onboarding and engagement for SaaS companies through a simple customer messaging platform.
Jane has also been running UI Breakfast Podcast since 2014.
In this episode, we talked about:
How did Jane get into design?
Software design and Saas Products
Life as UI/UX consultant
Productized Consulting
Jane’s workflow and process in writing a book
How to network?
Podcasting to build a network
What is Userlist and what designers need to think about as entrepreneurs
And MUCH MORE!
Links:
UI Breakfast Podcast
Better Done Than Perfect
https://userlist.com/
UI Audit by Jane Portman
Authority by Nathan Berry
Write Useful Books by Rob Fitzpatrick
Stacking the Bricks with Amy Hoy - https://stackingthebricks.com/
The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick
USE PEK300 as a code to get $300 OFF - https://userlist.com/
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