29 min
How to Grow a SaaS Product with Omar Zenhom The Strategic Solopreneur
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- Marketing
Brought to you by the Agency Expansion Retreat. Join Mike in sunny Mexico this November to learn how to create sustainability and growth in your agency. More details at mikemoll.co/eventsOmar Zenhom is co-founder and CEO of WebinarNinja, and host of the popular podcast The $100 MBA Show. With over a million webinar attendees to date, WebinarNinja has grown rapidly since its founding in 2014; Academy Ocean named WebinarNinja one of the fastest growing SaaS companies of 2018. The $100 MBA Show consistently ranks among the best business podcasts in over 30 countries, with over 190 million downloads over 2,100 + episodes.An educator at the secondary and university level for over a dozen years, Omar decided to apply his natural passion for teaching and learning to the business world. Between teaching classes, he studied and worked to finally make the transition to full-time entrepreneurship. From brick-and-mortar to e-commerce to SaaS, Omar learned the art of entrepreneurship from real-world successes and failures, ultimately dropping out of Wharton’s MBA program to build and manage his own companies.Now, through The $100 MBA Show and WebinarNinja, Omar has made it his business to help others learn, teach, and grow as entrepreneurs. Show Notes:0:30: Intro to Omar
5:25: How did you learn coding?
6:05: What is the $100MBA
8:55: How did you go about strategically bootstrapping?
13:10: How did you validate your new idea?
15:00: Making sure your message is clear
15:45: How much did the product change after you received feedback?
18:40: Funding
20:00: Growth vs Retention in saas
20:20: How to move to the next phase
23:25: What are some things you wish you knew, could do differently?
24:10: Omar’s thoughts on hiring someone for your business
27:00: Final thoughts: a great habit reading books
28:45: Goodbyes
Find Omar here:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheOmarZenhom
Website: https://100mba.net/
In this episode, Omar mentions:
*$100MBA podcast
*Webinar Ninja
*Green Lights by Matthew McConaughey
Brought to you by the Agency Expansion Retreat. Join Mike in sunny Mexico this November to learn how to create sustainability and growth in your agency. More details at mikemoll.co/eventsOmar Zenhom is co-founder and CEO of WebinarNinja, and host of the popular podcast The $100 MBA Show. With over a million webinar attendees to date, WebinarNinja has grown rapidly since its founding in 2014; Academy Ocean named WebinarNinja one of the fastest growing SaaS companies of 2018. The $100 MBA Show consistently ranks among the best business podcasts in over 30 countries, with over 190 million downloads over 2,100 + episodes.An educator at the secondary and university level for over a dozen years, Omar decided to apply his natural passion for teaching and learning to the business world. Between teaching classes, he studied and worked to finally make the transition to full-time entrepreneurship. From brick-and-mortar to e-commerce to SaaS, Omar learned the art of entrepreneurship from real-world successes and failures, ultimately dropping out of Wharton’s MBA program to build and manage his own companies.Now, through The $100 MBA Show and WebinarNinja, Omar has made it his business to help others learn, teach, and grow as entrepreneurs. Show Notes:0:30: Intro to Omar
5:25: How did you learn coding?
6:05: What is the $100MBA
8:55: How did you go about strategically bootstrapping?
13:10: How did you validate your new idea?
15:00: Making sure your message is clear
15:45: How much did the product change after you received feedback?
18:40: Funding
20:00: Growth vs Retention in saas
20:20: How to move to the next phase
23:25: What are some things you wish you knew, could do differently?
24:10: Omar’s thoughts on hiring someone for your business
27:00: Final thoughts: a great habit reading books
28:45: Goodbyes
Find Omar here:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheOmarZenhom
Website: https://100mba.net/
In this episode, Omar mentions:
*$100MBA podcast
*Webinar Ninja
*Green Lights by Matthew McConaughey
29 min