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The show where a startup founder takes the hot seat, opens up their business, and explains their biggest challenge.
Then we dig in: a few other founders who have already solved that challenge in their own businesses.
This is not an interview. There's no script. This is the messy, uncomfortable process of solving a real puzzle faced by a real company.
No ads, no affiliate links, no heavy editing, no follow-on courses or consulting.
We're doing this for each other and for the love the game.
It's a workshop, but also it's therapy.
For founders, what's the difference?
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E12 w/ Tibo Maker: How can a $40K MRR SaaS be losing 20% of Its Customers
20% of Post Bridge's customers leave every month -- massive churn that puts a hard ceiling on growth. Jack Friks’s tool sends posts to many social platforms from one dashboard, and he built it in public on X, where his personality attracted
E11 w/ Mariya Delano: How to Fix a SaaS Trial-to-Paid Conversion Problem
About half of Userlist’s paying customers never fully set up the email automation they paid for. Jane Portman and Benedikt Deicke built Userlist over nine years for sophisticated SaaS marketers, but its onboarding is free and optional.How d
E10 w/ Jessica Malnik: Plateaued at six figures, but still hungry
Brett Lindenberg’s startup Mindstamp puts six figures of profit in his pocket every year, helping businesses create interactive videos for training and sales. But growth has leveled off, and he’s having trouble changing that.Does he niche d
E09 w/ Jon Sturgeon: AI changed his agency's model. Should he grow or sell?
Mario Peshev reduced his agency from 60 to 30 employees thanks to his own AI innovations. But almost nobody there is working on landing new clients.Pouring money into sales means building a machine he has never had. He could sell, but then
E08: Creating customer interview questions before you have customers
He built it, and they didn't come.Rison Simon built PainPointy to scan Reddit so that marketers could learn the pain points of their customers and come up with article ideas. The problem is he's never had more than six customers. So he has
E07 w/ Dan Martell: 1 big logo won't get him the next 10
How can George Paladichuk take his startup NaiL from 1 huge customer, to the next 100 customers? Cohost Dan Martell and I dig in: A candid working session including: - finding early adopters in public data - reading job postings to find you
E06 w/ Bryce Adams: Pivoting his strategy into his strengths
Carl Alexander built Ymir — a serverless AWS platform that deploys WordPress and PHP applications onto a customer's own AWS account — and the twenty-five customers who run production stores on it never leave. They also all pay $39 a month,
E05 w/ Laura Roeder: Scared to commit to his best customers
Hasan Cagli tripled PostPlanify to $3K MRR the month he started selling to agencies instead of indie hackers. The agencies use it every day, ask for features, and stay. Everyone else signs up, pokes around, and churns. Which means the niche
E04 w/ Dr. Sherry Walling: He built a great business, but it doesn't feel like it
Every founder faces this eventually. You spend every waking second just trying not to fail completely, so when it's actually working, you barely recognize it and don't know what to do with yourself. That's where Patrik Inzinger is. appointm
E03 w/ Craig Hewitt: Restarting growth after stuck at €16k/mo
Tiago Ferreira and João Amaro bootstrapped their AI podcast-repurposing tool Podsqueeze from zero to €16K/mo in less than a year, but then watched it sit flat for two years despite more features, better SEO, and free trials. Cohost Craig He
E02 w/ Rob Walling: $1M ARR, how to expand into a new market
DropInBlog's Jesse Schoberg has 2,000 happy customers, 2% monthly churn, a Bangkok-nomad life—and a growth curve that has plateaued. I and co-host Rob Walling tear into the real problem: a proven new cohort without a go-to-market plan. Two
E01: Restarting growth when stuck at $32K MRR
$32K MRR, 9% churn, flat growth, but we figured out a strategy for how to restart growth. The thought process behind the analysis and determining a strategy, not just knee-jerk answers. Subscribe to A Smart Bear on YouTube (https://www.yout
