Founders with Pek Pek Pongpaet

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:

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Connect with Jeroen

https://salesflare.com/

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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

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




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Bryan Clayton is CEO and co-founder of GreenPal, an online marketplace that connects homeowners with local lawn care professionals. GreenPal has been called the “Uber for lawn care” by Entrepreneur magazine and has over 200,000 active users completing thousands of transactions per day.
Before starting GreenPal Bryan Clayton founded Peachtree Inc. one of the largest landscaping companies in the state of Tennessee growing it to over $10 million a year in annual revenue before it was acquired by Lusa holdings in 2013.
Bryan‘s interests and expertise are related to entrepreneurialism, small business growth, marketing and bootstrapping businesses from zero revenue to profitability and exit.
In this episode, we talked about:

How Bryan scaled his business into the most profitable landscaping business in the state of Tennessee
What led to launching GreenPal
Starting a tech company with no tech background
Hustling and reinventing into a tech entrepreneur
Common mistakes when starting a business
Learning skills from building a startup
Some of the big challenges with growing small business
And much MORE!

Links:
http://yourgreenpal.com/
https://www.facebook.com/greenpallawncare/
https://www.instagram.com/yourgreenpal/
https://twitter.com/YourGreenPal

Marie is the developer and designer of Llama Life, a tool that helps you work THROUGH to-do lists, not just make them. She's a 4th time founder (sold 2 companies) and previously designed an app that was featured by Apple and ranked in the Top 10 Productivity apps. Currently based in Melbourne, Australia, but spent 12yrs living in London and New York where she got her foundation in the Branding and Advertising world.

Marie shares her journey of starting up Llama Life helping thousands of people around the world be more productive and what it differs from other productivity apps. Co-founded an app praised by Apple as one of the "best new apps"

Wonderschool CEO and co-founder Chris Bennett saw too many parents who were anxious and scared about finding child care, as well as educators who couldn’t afford care for their own children while they were at work. He knew that there had to be a better way to address this issue for families and teachers alike.
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Chris’s appreciation for education goes back to his parents, Honduran immigrants who did whatever they could to ensure that he had access to an excellent education—from sending him to a quality preschool to supporting him through his graduation from the University of Pennsylvania. He was committed to making sure other children had the same opportunities to reach their full potential.
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The Wonderschool team designed the mission-driven company as a way to dramatically increase access to high-quality early childhood care for all families. Today, the platform empowers experienced educators and child care providers to run their own in-home business while providing a much-needed service to other families in their communities.