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Founder Chats

Founder Chats

74 Episodes • By Baremetrics • baremetrics.com
Each week we sit down with a different founder to talk shop. Get honest, insightful looks in to how other founders run their businesses.
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A Holistic Approach to Financial Forecasting with Bijan Moallemi
About Bijan Moallemi:A graduate of UCSD, Bijan Moall... more
Jul 12 2022 52m
Chapter 1 3 mins
start of Bijan Moallemi’s entrepreneurial journey
Chapter 2 8 mins
making the move to fast-growing tech sphere in the Bay area: facing new business challenges
Chapter 3 10 mins
the importance of building good financial foundations and structures
Chapter 4 12 mins
the iterative process of choosing a model for financial forecasting: testing and adjusting forecasting over the first couple of years
Chapter 5 8 mins
troubleshooting and dealing with the fallout of inaccurate financial models
Chapter 6 5 mins
attracting first customers early on and building the product around them to make sure that what you’re building matches their needs
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Escaping the Analysis Paralysis of Managing Personal Finances with Will Peng
About Will Peng:Will Peng is the CEO and Co-Founder ... more
Jun 14 2022 1h
Chapter 1 7 mins
Will Peng’s entrepreneurial journey
Chapter 2 5 mins
starting a career as a VC analyst
Chapter 3 11 mins
demonstrating proactivity when looking to switch careers
Chapter 4 3 mins
finding the right career direction through intuition and self-driven learning
Chapter 5 3 mins
most financial advice online is too broad to be effective personal financial advice should begin with thinking through an individual problem as a case by case
Chapter 6 9 mins
the importance of having difficult conversations
Chapter 7 59 sec
developing an interest in FinTech infrastructure as an Asian-American immigrant
Chapter 8 3 mins
combating the culture of shame around personal finances
Chapter 9 11 mins
understanding how to handle stock options and making other large financial decisions
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Ownership Mentality: How to Tackle Problems Proactively as a Growing Team with Jon Penland
About Jon Penland:With 6+ years of experience workin... more
May 24 2022 1h 18m
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The Advantages of Open Source Platforms with Douwe Mann
About Douwe Mann:Born and raised in the Netherlands,... more
May 3 2022 54m
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Cutting Time Wasters and Using Resources Efficiently with Bryan Clayton
About Bryan Clayton:Bryan is CEO and co-founder of G... more
Apr 19 2022 47m
Chapter 1 4 mins
Growing a high school job into a highly successful medium-size business
Chapter 2 44 sec
Hiring the right number of employees
Chapter 3 3 mins
Developing methods to minimize wasting time and other resources
Chapter 4 39 sec
Calculating how much profit every employee adds, and what the diminishing margin of return for manpower is
Chapter 5 2 mins
Working in the business vs. working on the business making time for strategizing
Chapter 6 1 min
Applying blue-collar business learnings to tech entrepreneurship
Chapter 7 1 min
Triaging problems and focusing 100% of resources on the current major issues, one at a time
Chapter 8 2 mins
Doubling down on what’s already working, rather than fixing what’s not working, especially when it comes to customer acquisition
Chapter 9 59 sec
Inviting frictionless feedback and doing customer support yourself as a founder: closing the gap between customer logic and founder logic
Chapter 10 4 mins
Thinking about what you can be the best in the world at, and focusing all business resources on that one thing
Chapter 11 2 mins
Understanding your value to your customers: sometimes it’s less about the actual service itself, and more about selling people back their time
Chapter 12 1 min
As a business that connects customers to contractors, catering to both sets of needs: customers want easy access to services, vendors want a sticky platform that enables fast payments, repeat business, marketing automation etc
Chapter 13 7 mins
Creating incentives for vendors to perform well starts with accountability: providing performance metrics such as number of repeat bookings, reliability and quality ratings etc
Chapter 14 8 mins
Identifying business problems and development goals, and implementing weekly strategies for success
Chapter 15 3 mins
Creating one or two highly specific goals and getting your whole team to commit to them
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How to Develop the Products Your Customers Actually Need with Aran Khanna
About Aran:Aran Khanna has been labeled many things.... more
Apr 5 2022 52m
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Selling Online Businesses and Growing a Global Team with Justin Cooke
Show Notes:00:46 Starting your first business03:30 A... more
Mar 23 2022 1h 13m
Chapter 1 2 mins
Starting your first business
Chapter 2 2 mins
As a company, how do you provide value to your employees? Is offering high commissions sustainable?
Chapter 3 2 mins
Losing a business isn’t the end of the world, there’s no shame in taking a job while you regroup
Chapter 4 2 mins
Outsourcing labor in the days before Upwork etc
Chapter 5 2 mins
Getting the mojo back: starting a second business after the first one failed
Chapter 6 1 min
Discovering a market for listing online businesses
Chapter 7 1 min
Collaborative team sales vs. individual sales sharing sales commissions across the whole team
Chapter 8 2 mins
How do you incentivize your team to act in the best interest of your company?
Chapter 9 10 mins
Using equity and open strategy meetings to encourage all employees to work towards your company’s long-term success
Chapter 10 3 mins
How to effectively implement sales goals: top down vs. bottom up approach
Chapter 11 1 min
Forecasting problems of the future to discover a new market niche
Chapter 12 1 min
Know what kind of entrepreneur you are and build a team with complementary skill sets and interests
Chapter 13 4 mins
Challenges of working with a remote team based across the globe
Chapter 14 7 mins
The value of community sharing successes and failures with trusted business peers
Chapter 15 3 mins
Making decisions on data vs. on gut
Chapter 16 1 min
Taking over an established business with an established team
Chapter 17 6 mins
Differences between a founder-led business vs. a private equity-led business
Chapter 18 13 mins
When to sell a SaaS business, why, and how
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Innovating the Translating Industry with Matija Kovač
About Matija Kovač:Matija Kovač is the co-founder an... more
Mar 8 2022 1h 4m
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Eliminating Passwords with Reed McGinley-Stempel
About Reed-McGinley-Stempel:Reed is the Co-Founder a... more
Feb 22 2022 59m
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How Leaders Should Use Data with Benn Stancil
About Benn Stancil: Benn Stancil is co­founder and C... more
Feb 8 2022 59m
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From 0 to 100K customers with Mike Potter
About Mike Potter: Mike Potter is the co-founder and... more
Jan 25 2022 1h 3m
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Serial entrepreneurship and customer development with Jeff Solomon
About Jeff Solomon:Jeff is a 6x founder and has been... more
Dec 15 2021 1h 23m
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Building a Better CRM with Jeroen Corthout
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Nov 23 2021 1h
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Building a Customer-Centric Brand with André Monteiro
About André Monteiro:André is the co-founder and CTO... more
Nov 9 2021 48m
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Writing a New Startup Narrative with Rand Fishkin
About Rand Fishkin: Rand Fishkin is cofounder and CE... more
Oct 20 2021 1h 1m
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Pivoting 2x to find product market fit with Spencer Coon
In this episode, we talk about Spencer's start in in... more
Oct 6 2021 1h 6m
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Scaling a values-led podcasting platform with Craig Hewitt
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Sep 23 2021 1h 18m
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The Road to SaaS From the Music Industry with Marc Brown
About Marc Brown:Marc Brown is the founder of Byta. ... more
Sep 8 2021 1h 14m
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Evolving a Fantasy Sports Business with Peter Schoenke
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Aug 24 2021 59m
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Santi Bibiloni (COR)
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Jun 24 2021 1h 4m
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Brian Parks (Bigfoot Capital)
Founder Chats is back! In this episode, we talk with... more
Jun 8 2021 1h 1m
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Jeff Sheldon (Ugmonk)
This week I talk with Jeff Sheldon, Founder of Ugmon... more
May 7 2019 59m
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Mike Cheung (Tinkering Monkey)
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Apr 9 2019 49m
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Ankur Nagpal (Teachable)
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Apr 2 2019 45m
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Nick Francis (HelpScout)
This week I talk with Nick Francis, Founder of HelpS... more
Mar 26 2019 1h 8m
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