SaaS – Advice from Experts

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Lianna Patch

New Orleans, LA

$250.0/min 5.0 1 $4.17/min

Conversion copywriter-at-large, helping businesses convert better + be less boring.

Jeff Durso

Greater Boston Area

$300.0/min 4.8 22 $5/min

INC 500 Serial Technology Entrepreneur - co-founder of 13 startups, 2 of which have had ~$10 million exits. Co-founder of DestinationWeddings.com, #149 on the INC 500 in 2008. Currently President of Native Brain.

Kareem Mayan

Vancouver

$200.0/min 5.0 2 $3.33/min

Full-stack PM. Co-founded SocialWOD (sold 2014) and eduFire (sold 2010). Ask me about bootstrapping a business, and activating and retaining customers.

Phil Freo

St Augustine, FL

$175.0/min 4.6 14 $2.92/min

I'm a product person, a programmer, and an engineering leader. I ❤ creating scalable web apps with amazingly great UI/UX. I'm interested in startups and entrepreneurship, and especially B2B SaaS. After nearly 7 years working in Silicon Valley, I'm now back in Florida where remote work is my jam. I’m currently Director of Engineering & Product at Close.com (which I helped start), building a product people love and growing our SaaS business to be something great. Previously I spent two years leading the Engineering team at Quizlet, building study tools that millions of students relied upon. I’ve also interned at Google and Yahoo! as a software engineer, and did lots of freelance website design while at the University of Florida. I write in JavaScript, CSS, Python, and PHP. I also can speak to databases and make servers do stuff. I like working on scalability, performance, design, and great user experiences. https://philfreo.com/ https://twitter.com/philfreo

Jonathan Cordeau

Tampa, Florida

$175.0/min 4.8 13 $2.92/min

Founder of LaunchTrack, online payments intelligence for Braintree, Stripe, PayPal, Balanced, Shopify & Eventbrite. Growth hacker by way of a traditional advertising and marketing background.

Nibras Stiebar-Bang

Sweden

$120.0/min 5.0 3 $2/min

A highly motivated Senior Engineering Manager with over 10 years of Leadership experience, Angel Investor and Mentor, with a background in Engineering, SaaS, Product Development and Sales. I am passionate about entrepreneurship and helping companies and people create impactful innovation for the future! I have a proven track record of leading managers, engineers and departments of up to 60 people, through complex and successful projects. My ability to work closely with Executives, Product, Design and stakeholders leads me to create and communicate technical strategy that enables my teams to provide high quality services to our customers. As a leader, my goal is to develop empowered teams and people to not only achieve great results but also to grow and to become better everyday. I am very passionate about strategy and organisational leadership and I always strive to set up my organisations more efficiently and scalable. I love innovation and I mentor, advise and invest in early stage startups! Call me to talk about engineering management, investing, start ups, SaaS, project management, agile development, developing the right team and understanding your customers!

Sean Ellis

Newport Beach, California

$1000.0/min 4.8 8 $16.67/min

First marketer at Dropbox, Lookout, Xobni, LogMeIn (IPO), and Uproar (IPO). Also interim marketing exec roles at Eventbrite, Socialcast, and Webs. Founder and CEO of Qualaroo through it's acquisition. Now founder and CEO of GrowthHackers.

Paul Ruderman

Greater New York City Area

$300.0/min 4.7 7 $5/min

2X tech startup founder / musician / podcaster / runner / perpetual innovator / husband + dad. Right now, I have just launched my new startup, UpdateZen (www.UpdateZen.com) to BETA. UpdateZen is a new way for executives to stay updated. Your team distills status updates to 250 characters so you see only what's absolutely essential for you to know. In one beautiful interface. UpdateZen includes lightweight task management (featherweight, really) to complement simple status reporting from your people. The net benefit is far greater efficiency and productivity, more time to focus on what you need to focus on, and the comfort of always knowing what's going on across your team's projects.

Clay Loveless

San Francisco, CA

$200.0/min 5.0 3 $3.33/min

Co-founder of Mashery (sold to Intel). Purveyor of fine strong opinions. Rocker of boats. API architect. Technical advisor to many. Father of two.

Sanket Nadhani

Pune, India

$150.0/min 5.0 4 $2.5/min

Want to validate your SaaS idea in a structured way? Want frameworks to come up with new opportunities endlessly? Want to know which among two opportunities makes more sense to go after? Or how to scale your product and go-to-market as you go from 0 to 1 in a logical way? That’s what I have been doing in my day job every day for 3+ years now as the Director of New Products at Wingify, the makers of the highly popular marketing SaaS products, VWO and PushCrew. Previously, I headed marketing for another multi-million dollar bootstrapped SaaS company FusionCharts.

Dave Paolicelli

Vienna, Virginia

$200.0/min 5.0 13 $3.33/min

I help organizations transform their operations, strategic position, and culture. I specialize in enabling transformation through technology and also have done a considerable amount of traditional business transformation work (identifying and selecting strategies, aligning processes with mission/vision/goals, positioning for innovation, etc.) over the past 20+ years. I founded Vivakos in 2001, an open source systems integrator, which was acquired in 2009. www.linkedin.com/in/paolicelli

Ben Sardella

San Francisco Bay Area

$175.0/min 4.8 46 $2.92/min

Co-Founder & CRO: @OutboundWorks *Mentor:@LaunchpadLA Recent Past: *Co-Founder: @Datanyze *Advisor: @Yesware *VP of Sales & Customer Success @KISSmetrics *Pioneered the SaaS sales model @NetSuite

Alex Gopshtein

Philadelphia, PA

$60.0/min 5.0 3 $1/min

Co-Founder of Pitchbox, Serial Entrepreneur, and SEO. Founded and managed digital marketing agencies and link building teams. I love automation and building processes to foster productivity. I have experience running digital agencies, managing SEO teams, and building SaaS products. I can give advice on how to build a link building team, improve SEO, and launch outreach programs. I can also provide insights on building an affiliate program.

Micah Horner

Kansas City, MO

$120.0/min 5.0 6 $2/min

You know you have the best product on the market. However, if you don’t know how to talk about it effectively, you will always struggle to sell it. Clearly explaining to customers what you do and why they should buy from you is critical. Yet, this is something most B2B companies get completely wrong. Year after year, the highly-influential advisory firm SiriusDecisions has reported that the #1 inhibitor to B2B sales is the inability to clearly communicate value. Most companies either: 1. Say too much and confuse their customers 2. Don't say enough to convince customers to buy 3. Say the wrong things entirely If your busy, distracted customers have to work hard to understand what you do and why they should buy from you, they will simply ignore you. Your marketing efforts will continue to bleed money unless your customers can quickly: 1. Understand exactly what you offer, with absolutely no confusion 2. Desire your solution, because it’s extremely relevant to their needs 3. Trust that you are a credible provider of the best solution available The wrong words will cripple your business. The right words, in the right order, will open the door to sales and growth. Not sure where to start? I help B2B companies craft powerful marketing and sales copy that moves customers to action. “Micah understands the psychology of sales and most importantly, knows how to write sales copy so it is effective at getting the customer to buy! He is professional and efficient. He delivered high quality, high converting sales copy ahead of schedule. Plan to hire him again for future projects!” – Julia Elliott, Nature Advanced I specialize in: - Website & Ad Copy - White Papers & Case Studies - Email Campaigns - Sales Letters & Videos If you have a solid product or service, but struggle to sell it, I’d love to help you communicate your value clearly, unite your team around your new message, and transform your business. Schedule a call today!

Aaron Zakowski

Los Angeles

$350.0/min 5.0 3 $5.83/min

Aaron is the CEO/Founder of http://ZammoDigital.com a Facebook and Instagram Ads agency that helps leading SaaS and E-Commerce companies to grow and scale customer acquisition and ROI. He has managed over $4 million in Facebook ads generating over 1,000,000 new customers, leads and signups for clients such as eBay, DigitalOcean, InVision, Cuisinart, Webydo, Treehouse and many more.

Gautam Gupta

Palo Alto, CA

$100.0/min 5.0 0 $1.67/min

I’ve been involved in startups my entire career as an entrepreneur or investor. I actively invest in companies – my portfolio of ~25 companies generates +$1B in annual revenue and includes companies like BigCommerce, GoodData, Honest Company, Grammarly, Imperfect Produce, Heap Analytics, Split.io, Pilot, and The Pill Club, among others. I invest in the early stages of a company and help with customer introductions, go-to-market, hiring, and fundraising. As an entrepreneur, I helped scale NatureBox to $50m revenue brand with over 40% awareness across the country. I learned many hard-earned lessons in management, scaling, raising capital, and dealing with “shit hitting the fan” moments. Prior to NatureBox, I spent 8 years at General Catalyst. I opened their west coast presence and was part of the team as it scaled from $600m to $3B under management. www.gautamg.com

Will Housh

Cincinnati, OH

$500.0/min 5.0 2 $8.33/min

President at HVAC Technologies. Transforming the contracting industry - HVAC, plumbing, electrical etc. Seed stage investor and startup advisor. 20+ years in heating & air conditioning. 15+ years in ecommerce, digital marketing, SEO, PPC, CRO, email marketing. Now building a SaaS business called Contractor Commerce (contractorcommerce.com).

Yuriy Dybskiy

San Francisco, CA

$120.0/min 5.0 9 $2/min

Community Engineer at Meteor. Worked with Cloudant, MuleSoft, playhaven.com, unbounce.com, fabric-engine.com, kik.com and attachments.me. Hobby photographer, tango dancer, cyclist and traveller. Happy to help!

Gary Smith

London, UK

$350.0/min 5.0 2 $5.83/min

UK: Specialist in early stage Venture Funding and Scale-up - Successfully raised over £50 million in venture capital (IPO, VC, Angel, Crowd). Gary has a proven track-record building high-growth software businesses from start-up through scale-up to IPO and £30 million in revenue. As a board level business leader and coach he is able to accelerate the fortunes of a business, drive sales and substantially improve shareholder value. Gary pioneered the ‘Software as a Service’ industry and launched Europe's first Cloud Computing service provider (NetStore plc). Within three years Gary’s strategic marketing ability and high level negotiation skills took the business from start-up to become the leading SaaS business in Europe taking NetStore through a number of venture funding rounds and a successful IPO on the London Stock Exchange.

Grey Garner

Nashville, Tennessee

$100.0/min 5.0 1 $1.67/min

Market Strategist at Emma email. Product guy, know the email and overall marketing space really well. Love helping startups and folks new to marketing understand lifecycle messaging and relationship-building across multiple channels.

glenn laumeister

Manhattan

$250.0/min 5.0 1 $4.17/min

INC 500 winner, Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of The Year area finalist, Deloitte Fast 50. 3x company founder with E-commerce, and marketplace expertise.

Allen Wo

San Francisco Bay Area

$200.0/min 5.0 1 $3.33/min

Product @Helpshift; former mobile PM at Eventbrite; product development and prioritization; asking why and understanding users; past lives as a VC analyst and Tesla engineer

Sal Matteis

London, United Kingdom

$600.0/min 4.9 9 $10/min

Mentor 500Startups + Techstars 100+ companies Managing Director Startupbootcamp - Ex display platform @Yahoo - Advisor Boddy.io, GoodAudience.com, Reedsy.com, Co-founder Milkster.com | I help with marketplaces, product, Ads, International Expansion

Jonathan Drake

Palo Alto, California

$1000.0/min 5.0 2 $16.67/min

It is me. Please find me around the web and see if it is a great fit.

Robert Hartline

Greater Nashville Area

$120.0/min 5.0 3 $2/min

CEO and Founder of CallProof.com an app for outside sales people. Robert owned and operated several successful businesses and gives good advice on starting a business and using technology to grow your business. If you are looking to hire your first salesperson reach out to me to walk you through the potential hiccups you will face on that journey.

Mark Slack

Taipei, Taiwan

$60.0/min 5.0 2 $1/min

Marketing Director at Taroko.io, a venture studio / agency with a SaaS focus. I drive millions of organic visitors w/ competitive keywords annually. If you're looking for advice and best practices about SEO, keyword research, content creation & marketing, conversion funnels, or editing & copywriting, I'd love to have a conversation with you.

Matt Mendelsohn

San Diego, CA

$150.0/min 5.0 1 $2.5/min

Matt has over 18 years experience selling Enterprise software and consulting services. Most recently Matt was an Enterprise Account Executive for InterWorks. InterWorks is Tableau Software's longest standing consulting partner. While at InterWorks he was responsible for driving revenue in the Pacific Northwest, including managing the company's largest enterprise account. In 2018 he generated over $5m in revenue selling InterWorks consulting services and software products, and reselling Tableau Software. Prior to InterWorks, Matt held Sales Leadership and Account Executive positions for SAAS startups in Portland, Oregon such as Zapproved, Nouvola, and Zembula. This is where Matt developed his process for "sales growth hacking" by utilizing cutting edge Sales Software to automate top of funnel sales activities. He was responsible for enterprise accounts wins with Nike, Staples, Cesar’s Entertainment, Best Western, The Marriott, and Verizon. Before his experience in Portland, Matt, a native New Yorker spent 10 years selling in New York City and the surrounding areas. He started out his career in 2002 at BlueWolf Group which was Salesforce.com's first consulting partner. He was hired as a Sales Development rep and developed a process to support Enterprise sales reps at Salesforce.com in the northeast before being promoted to an Account Executive.BlueWolf was acquired by IBM for $200m in 2016. Matt's last role in New York City was as a territory Account Executive for Thomson Reuters (Governance, Risk & Compliance division) where he was one of over 100 sales reps. Thomson Reuters has over 60,000 employees globally with revenue exceeding $5b annually. Wide knowledge of Account Based Sales Development, Sales Stack Tools, Salesforce.com Operations, Pipeline Management.

Anshu Aggarwal

Greater New York City Area

$600.0/min 5.0 1 $10/min

CTO at Skynet Labs (currently) CTO at Shutterstock VP of Engineering at Tumblr

Denis dymov

Vancouver, BC

$120.0/min 4.0 11 $2/min

CTO of PendoRent. Web, SaaS and MVP specialist in technology area. Entrepreneur.

Jonathon Moody

Ottawa, Canada.

$60.0/min 4.0 1 $1/min

VP Operations at Versature -- Jonathon has spent more than 15 years helping organizations change the way they do business through technology. With a background focused on the internet, hosted technologies and most recently 'cloud services' Jonathon now focuses on helping firms of all sizes see the business changing benefits of industry altering services such as Salesforce.com, Google Apps, Asana and of course hosted communications such as Versature's Hosted PBX. Jonathon is excited to share his passion for the business altering technologies of today and the future.

Jacob Lönroth

Malmö, Sweden

$200.0/min 5.0 12 $3.33/min

Founder of http://www.mokini.com & co-founder of http://www.ranktrail.se.

Brandon Bruce

Knoxville, Tennessee Area

$100.0/min 5.0 1 $1.67/min

Co-founder of Cirruspath. We make Cirrus Insight, the #1 app for integrating Salesforce and Gmail.

Stephen Jagger

Vancouver, Canada ~ Manila, Philippines

$60.0/min 5.0 1 $1/min

Co-Founder of PayrollHero.com (Singapore), Ubertor.com (Canada), OutsourcingThingsDone.com (Philippines), Combustion Hosting (Canada). Author, Speaker.

Karl Jacob

Tiburon, California

$100.0/min 5.0 1 $1.67/min

Entrepreneur Kiteboarding Startups

Zvi Band

Washington, DC

$200.0/min 5.0 2 $3.33/min

Founder and CEO of Contactually (SaaS CRM). Software developer. Relationship marketing expert. 12M+ in VC raised, millions in revenue, hired many, fired many.

Jon Manning

Worldwide, from Melbourne, AU

$300.0/min 4.0 9 $5/min

I'm an Australian-based, internationally experienced, advisor on pricing, monetization and business models. I have a full time gig in the tech industry (SaaS) and I help start-ups and entrepreneurs with their pricing strategy. I've also done my own start-up, and I'm the author of "Overcoming Floccinaucinihilipilification: Valuing & Monetizing Products and Services". Fancy a chat? Let me know your specific pricing challenges and questions when booking a call. I look forward to helping your soon.

Tom Markiewicz

Boulder, Colorado

$150.0/min 5.0 6 $2.5/min

Developer Relations at IBM Watson, former Co-Founder / CTO of Investify; former Co-Founder / CEO of StatsMix, a TechStars company; serial entrepreneur

Danielle Morrill

San Francisco, California

$120.0/min 5.0 4 $2/min

Entrepreneur. CEO and Cofounder of Mattermark, angel investor and software developer. Early Twilio employee, Y Combinator alumni (Summer 2012). Passionate about time travel.

Sina Shekou

San Francisco Bay Area

$250.0/min 5.0 6 $4.17/min

Early member of the team at Salesforce.com (CRM) Co-Founder of Propertyware, property management solutions for the real estate industry. President of LeaseStar at RealPage Inc. Product Designer, UX/UI Geek, technology enthusiast and photographer.

Rebecca Reeve

San Francisco, California

$250.0/min 5.0 3 $4.17/min

Rebecca Reeve is founder and principal of Rsquared Communication, a boutique tech PR consultancy based in San Francisco, CA. A seasoned digital PR and brand strategist, Rebecca has a proven track record for driving industry awareness, value, and momentum for her clients. Rsquared Communication takes companies from launch through mainstream adoption by securing top-tier media opportunities and implementing cohesive external communication strategies that employ a mix of influencer relationship building, timing, and passion. Our specialty is B2B and consumer-facing web applications. Founded in 2009, Rsquared Communication is based in San Francisco, CA.

Jeff Kostermans

San Francisco Bay Area

$200.0/min 4.8 4 $3.33/min

B2B SaaS Marketing Expert. Demand Generation / Funnel Optimization Specialist. Former Founder of LeadGeneys, a pioneering marketing automation SaaS firm. Former Director of Demand Generation at Taleo. Former Director of Marketing at Responsys. Former VP of Marketing at Wells Fargo.

John Hyland

Greater Boston Area

$100.0/min 5.0 12 $1.67/min

Specialties International start-ups, online businesses, international business development, partnership implementation, sales strategy, value proposition development, SaaS business models. Engagements Development of sales strategy and client segmentation plan for a $20M B2B business unit of a US based online recruitment company Created business and marketing plan for an internally developed SaaS product that was spun-out into a stand-alone commercial business Developed the plan and implemented the sales operations and sales performance management functions for a 50 person US domestic sales organization Advised US-based business on the launch plan for their Latin America focused business, including sales and monetization strategy, target market due diligence and the venture round funding plan Advised businesses in Greece and Brazil on their US market entry strategy

Mike Walsh

San Francisco, California

$250.0/min 5.0 1 $4.17/min

General Partner of structure capital founder of Leverage (sold in 2011), investor in salesforce, Uber, Surf Air, Curebit, advisor to many. I know how to sell, partner and some other stuff. I like to help out and give back. Here's more info. http://structure.vc and @mwalsh

Dara King

New York, NY

$120.0/min 5.0 1 $2/min

I sold my first business at 22, graduated from an accelerator at 27, and through my vast experiences have helped businesses grow. I currently work closely with Rohan Gilkes on Launch27, Innclusive, Enjoy Maids and other fun projects. I am currently running a SaaS business, a cleaning company and documenting it all while I learn and make money.

Nils Koppelmann (CRO / Conversion Rate Optimization)

Berlin, Germany

$150.0/min 5.0 2 $2.5/min

Founder of 3tech (eCommerce CRO & Experimentation Agency), eCommerce Expert, Experimentation Consultant, Shopify Plus, Growth Hacking, A/B-Testing

Scot Chisholm

San Diego, California

$200.0/min 5.0 3 $3.33/min

Founder/CEO of StayClassy. Hosts of the Classy Awards. Board of Team Rubicon. Investor in Lean Startup Machine, Puddle, PopExpert, Change.org, CaseText. Passionate about the Social Sector & impact investing.

Pierre Lechelle

Paris

$150.0/min 5.0 1 $2.5/min

You have a B2B SaaS companies? You need to grow your revenue? I can help you to acquire more and better leads. I've actually helped 150 businesses just like yours to achieve better goals.

Aaron Severs

San Francisco, CA

$100.0/min 5.0 11 $1.67/min

SaaS expert - SMB and Higher-Ed. CTO founder at Frederick. Previously CEO founder at CollegiateLink (Acquired '09). Also Product Management at Pivotal Labs and Constant Contact.

Jonathan Abrams

San Francisco Bay Area

$500.0/min 5.0 1 $8.33/min

Founder & CEO of Nuzzel, co-founder of Founders Den, previously founder of Socializr, Friendster, and HotLinks, software engineer at Netscape and Nortel.

Colin Kennedy

Stamford, CT

$120.0/min 5.0 2 $2/min

Seasoned tech entrepreneur with experience in fundraising, public speaking, content marketing, inbound/outbound, and customer success.