Mike McDerment - Co-Founder of FreshBooks - How To Not Kill Your SaaS Business The Growth Hub Podcast
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Mike McDerment is Co-Founder, former CEO, and Board Chair of FreshBooks, and in this episode we’re talking about how to not kill your SaaS business.
Mike went from accidental founder to CEO of a SaaS company with over 24 million users and he’s learned a lot of lessons along the way having almost killed the business on multiple occasions.
In this episode, Mike talks about:
- How he accidentally founded a SaaS company
- Why moving too fast almost killed FreshBooks early on
- Why he underestimated word of mouth as a growth driver
- Why raising at the wrong time can be very dangerous
- The counter-intuitive idea of why Mike decided to start a direct competitor company to FreshBooks called BillSpring
Links
FreshBooks >> https://www.freshbooks.com/
The E-Myth by Michael Gerber >> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81942.E_Myth_Mastery
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Mike McDerment is Co-Founder, former CEO, and Board Chair of FreshBooks, and in this episode we’re talking about how to not kill your SaaS business.
Mike went from accidental founder to CEO of a SaaS company with over 24 million users and he’s learned a lot of lessons along the way having almost killed the business on multiple occasions.
In this episode, Mike talks about:
- How he accidentally founded a SaaS company
- Why moving too fast almost killed FreshBooks early on
- Why he underestimated word of mouth as a growth driver
- Why raising at the wrong time can be very dangerous
- The counter-intuitive idea of why Mike decided to start a direct competitor company to FreshBooks called BillSpring
Links
FreshBooks >> https://www.freshbooks.com/
The E-Myth by Michael Gerber >> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81942.E_Myth_Mastery
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Advance B2B >> www.advanceb2b.com
Follow The Growth Hub on Twitter >> twitter.com/SaaSGrowthHub
Follow Edward on Twitter >> twitter.com/NordicEdward
37 min