Zero to Revenue

Robert Gelb

3 founders are taking a business idea from Zero to Revenue in 1 week and broadcasting it all live! We'll be updating our progress on this podcast every day, and bringing you the interviews with experts, founders, and investors we have along the way.

Episodes

  1. 04/22/2019

    How we learn from each other and the value of connecting with international ecosystems with Bruce Walker

    Bruce speaks with Gelb about why collaboration across different geographical ecosystems is important and how they're trying to incorporate impact within everything they do at FutureX. https://futurexinnovation.com More about Bruce 24 year old socially conscious entrepreneur, advisor and speaker. Co-Founder of FutureX a community of purpose driven entrepreneurs building companies with scale, profit and purpose, with a mission to redefine the role of business.  Find Bruce @brucewalker_ www.linkedin.com/in/brucewalker1/ — This was part of the Zero to Revenue Challenge where three founders took an idea, Briefing Room (https://briefingroom.co) from Zero to Revenue in one week in March of 2019. To find out more information,  access more videos, and join our open slack team go to https://zerotorevenue.com The founders: Lizzie Brough twitter.com/itslizziebrough Robert Gelb twitter.com/thisisgelb Ben Dell  https://twitter.com/bendell What we built: Briefing Room (https://briefingroom.co): A better way to keep investors, stakeholders, and prospects up to date with beautiful dashboards. For Founders by founders. Check Out Our Companies: Kindaba (https://kindaba.com) - The gathering space for families  Bold Village (boldvillage.com) - A village of women content writers, social media managers, and assistants that work with exciting companies while studying at university Missinglettr (missinglettr.com) - Missinglettr creates clever social campaigns for your best blog posts, that drive traffic for an entire year Helpshelf (https://helpshelf.co) - HelpShelf combines all of your support resources into one gorgeous widget and then makes sure that it's available when it matters the most. HeySummit (https://heysummit.com) - HeySummit helps you increase engagement, conversions and revenue for your online summits. The sponsors who supported Zero to Revenue Coda (coda.io) - Coda is a new doc that grows with your ideas. People have made Coda docs that do everything from launch products, to scale small businesses, to help them study for tests. Landbot (landbot.io) - Create lead generation strategies that engage and convert. Build personalized conversational chatbots. With Landbot, it’s easy, beautiful and FREE. Milanote  (https://www.milanote.com) - Milanote is an easy-to-use tool to organize your ideas and projects into visual boards. Seed Haus Accelerator (thisisseedhaus.com) We invest, at the pre-seed stage, in outstanding founders & pre-founders tackling real problems, in large markets. AnywhereWorks (https://anywhereworks.com) - Forget about commuting, polluting and grey cubicles. There is a more sustainable, inclusive and productive way to work. Work Anywhere.

    26 min
  2. 04/17/2019

    SaaS Pricing Strategy with Martin from Cobloom

    Martin talks to Gelb about how to go about thinking of how to price your SaaS product. Article about Pricing Options: https://www.cobloom.com/blog/saas-pricing-models Martin is an experienced business consultant, and learned his trade delivering off the shelf ERP software to the enterprise, including Diageo, Ingersoll-Rand and Rolls-Royce. With a passion for delivering value, and having seen huge business benefits from software led process improvements, co-founding Cobloom with Will was a natural fit. He understands how healthy, profitable software businesses should be run, and the impact a great consultant can have. At Cobloom, Martin uses this experience to diagnose growth problems. He works closely with prospective partners to help them identify which approaches are the best fit - for both the business, and their customers. When away from work, Martin is a keen tennis player, and an avid Wolverhampton Wanderers fan. — This was part of the Zero to Revenue Challenge where three founders took an idea, Briefing Room (https://briefingroom.co) from Zero to Revenue in one week in March of 2019. To find out more information,  access more videos, and join our open slack team go to https://zerotorevenue.com The founders: Lizzie Brough twitter.com/itslizziebrough Robert Gelb twitter.com/thisisgelb Ben Dell  https://twitter.com/bendell What we built: Briefing Room (https://briefingroom.co): A better way to keep investors, stakeholders, and prospects up to date with beautiful dashboards. For Founders by founders. Check Out Our Companies: Kindaba (https://kindaba.com) - The gathering space for families  Bold Village (boldvillage.com) - A village of women content writers, social media managers, and assistants that work with exciting companies while studying at university Missinglettr (missinglettr.com) - Missinglettr creates clever social campaigns for your best blog posts, that drive traffic for an entire year Helpshelf (https://helpshelf.co) - HelpShelf combines all of your support resources into one gorgeous widget and then makes sure that it's available when it matters the most. HeySummit (https://heysummit.com) - HeySummit helps you increase engagement, conversions and revenue for your online summits. The sponsors who supported Zero to Revenue Coda (coda.io) - Coda is a new doc that grows with your ideas. People have made Coda docs that do everything from launch products, to scale small businesses, to help them study for tests. Landbot (landbot.io) - Create lead generation strategies that engage and convert. Build personalized conversational chatbots. With Landbot, it’s easy, beautiful and FREE. Milanote  (https://www.milanote.com) - Milanote is an easy-to-use tool to organize your ideas and projects into visual boards. Seed Haus Accelerator (thisisseedhaus.com) We invest, at the pre-seed stage, in outstanding founders & pre-founders tackling real problems, in large markets. AnywhereWorks (https://anywhereworks.com) - Forget about commuting, polluting and grey cubicles. There is a more sustainable, inclusive and productive way to work. Work Anywhere.

    22 min
  3. 04/17/2019

    Day 5: The end of the line

    We did it! Success! Also, exhaustion. Instead of getting together and recording a dedicated call for the podcast, here's the raw audio of how we finished the day. — This was part of the Zero to Revenue Challenge where three founders took an idea, Briefing Room (https://briefingroom.co) from Zero to Revenue in one week in March of 2019. To find out more information,  access more videos, and join our open slack team go to https://zerotorevenue.com The founders: Lizzie Brough twitter.com/itslizziebrough Robert Gelb twitter.com/thisisgelb Ben Dell  https://twitter.com/bendell What we built: Briefing Room (https://briefingroom.co): A better way to keep investors, stakeholders, and prospects up to date with beautiful dashboards. For Founders by founders. Check Out Our Companies: Kindaba (https://kindaba.com) - The gathering space for families  Bold Village (boldvillage.com) - A village of women content writers, social media managers, and assistants that work with exciting companies while studying at university Missinglettr (missinglettr.com) - Missinglettr creates clever social campaigns for your best blog posts, that drive traffic for an entire year Helpshelf (https://helpshelf.co) - HelpShelf combines all of your support resources into one gorgeous widget and then makes sure that it's available when it matters the most. HeySummit (https://heysummit.com) - HeySummit helps you increase engagement, conversions and revenue for your online summits. The sponsors who supported Zero to Revenue Coda (coda.io) - Coda is a new doc that grows with your ideas. People have made Coda docs that do everything from launch products, to scale small businesses, to help them study for tests. Landbot (landbot.io) - Create lead generation strategies that engage and convert. Build personalized conversational chatbots. With Landbot, it’s easy, beautiful and FREE. Milanote  (https://www.milanote.com) - Milanote is an easy-to-use tool to organize your ideas and projects into visual boards. Seed Haus Accelerator (thisisseedhaus.com) We invest, at the pre-seed stage, in outstanding founders & pre-founders tackling real problems, in large markets. AnywhereWorks (https://anywhereworks.com) - Forget about commuting, polluting and grey cubicles. There is a more sustainable, inclusive and productive way to work. Work Anywhere.

    31 min
  4. 03/22/2019

    Day 4 Recap: Data Day and increasing value

    Today Ben added analytics, Gelb created landing pages, and Lizzie plotted Product Hunt — This was part of the Zero to Revenue Challenge where three founders took an idea, Briefing Room (https://briefingroom.co) from Zero to Revenue in one week in March of 2019. To find out more information,  access more videos, and join our open slack team go to https://zerotorevenue.com The founders: Lizzie Brough twitter.com/itslizziebrough Robert Gelb twitter.com/thisisgelb Ben Dell  https://twitter.com/bendell What we built: Briefing Room (https://briefingroom.co): A better way to keep investors, stakeholders, and prospects up to date with beautiful dashboards. For Founders by founders. Check Out Our Companies: Kindaba (https://kindaba.com) - The gathering space for families  Bold Village (boldvillage.com) - A village of women content writers, social media managers, and assistants that work with exciting companies while studying at university Missinglettr (missinglettr.com) - Missinglettr creates clever social campaigns for your best blog posts, that drive traffic for an entire year Helpshelf (https://helpshelf.co) - HelpShelf combines all of your support resources into one gorgeous widget and then makes sure that it's available when it matters the most. HeySummit (https://heysummit.com) - HeySummit helps you increase engagement, conversions and revenue for your online summits. The sponsors who supported Zero to Revenue Coda (coda.io) - Coda is a new doc that grows with your ideas. People have made Coda docs that do everything from launch products, to scale small businesses, to help them study for tests. Landbot (landbot.io) - Create lead generation strategies that engage and convert. Build personalized conversational chatbots. With Landbot, it’s easy, beautiful and FREE. Milanote  (https://www.milanote.com) - Milanote is an easy-to-use tool to organize your ideas and projects into visual boards. Seed Haus Accelerator (thisisseedhaus.com) We invest, at the pre-seed stage, in outstanding founders & pre-founders tackling real problems, in large markets. AnywhereWorks (https://anywhereworks.com) - Forget about commuting, polluting and grey cubicles. There is a more sustainable, inclusive and productive way to work. Work Anywhere.

    16 min
  5. 03/20/2019

    Day 3: Room Builder & More Sales

    Things we've done today for Briefing Room: Outreach to Accelerators (2 sales) Re-order items on the room dashboard Add a new content block to a room Send test email Include a title to content blocks Added markdown support so you can add lists and hyperlinks to the text component Created a dot visualiser Don't know what that means? Have a listen :) — This was part of the Zero to Revenue Challenge where three founders took an idea, Briefing Room (https://briefingroom.co) from Zero to Revenue in one week in March of 2019. To find out more information,  access more videos, and join our open slack team go to https://zerotorevenue.com The founders: Lizzie Brough twitter.com/itslizziebrough Robert Gelb twitter.com/thisisgelb Ben Dell  https://twitter.com/bendell What we built: Briefing Room (https://briefingroom.co): A better way to keep investors, stakeholders, and prospects up to date with beautiful dashboards. For Founders by founders. Check Out Our Companies: Kindaba (https://kindaba.com) - The gathering space for families  Bold Village (boldvillage.com) - A village of women content writers, social media managers, and assistants that work with exciting companies while studying at university Missinglettr (missinglettr.com) - Missinglettr creates clever social campaigns for your best blog posts, that drive traffic for an entire year Helpshelf (https://helpshelf.co) - HelpShelf combines all of your support resources into one gorgeous widget and then makes sure that it's available when it matters the most. HeySummit (https://heysummit.com) - HeySummit helps you increase engagement, conversions and revenue for your online summits. The sponsors who supported Zero to Revenue Coda (coda.io) - Coda is a new doc that grows with your ideas. People have made Coda docs that do everything from launch products, to scale small businesses, to help them study for tests. Landbot (landbot.io) - Create lead generation strategies that engage and convert. Build personalized conversational chatbots. With Landbot, it’s easy, beautiful and FREE. Milanote  (https://www.milanote.com) - Milanote is an easy-to-use tool to organize your ideas and projects into visual boards. Seed Haus Accelerator (thisisseedhaus.com) We invest, at the pre-seed stage, in outstanding founders & pre-founders tackling real problems, in large markets. AnywhereWorks (https://anywhereworks.com) - Forget about commuting, polluting and grey cubicles. There is a more sustainable, inclusive and productive way to work. Work Anywhere.

    18 min
  6. 03/19/2019

    Day 2: We get to revenue!

    It's the end of day 2, and we managed to get our first paying customer! On the product side, Ben's been hard at work building the database, and starting points for Updates, Rooms, and People. Lizzie and Gelb have been working on customer interviews, researching product hunt and speccing a strategy to approach accelerators. — This was part of the Zero to Revenue Challenge where three founders took an idea, Briefing Room (https://briefingroom.co) from Zero to Revenue in one week in March of 2019. To find out more information,  access more videos, and join our open slack team go to https://zerotorevenue.com The founders: Lizzie Brough twitter.com/itslizziebrough Robert Gelb twitter.com/thisisgelb Ben Dell  https://twitter.com/bendell What we built: Briefing Room (https://briefingroom.co): A better way to keep investors, stakeholders, and prospects up to date with beautiful dashboards. For Founders by founders. Check Out Our Companies: Kindaba (https://kindaba.com) - The gathering space for families  Bold Village (boldvillage.com) - A village of women content writers, social media managers, and assistants that work with exciting companies while studying at university Missinglettr (missinglettr.com) - Missinglettr creates clever social campaigns for your best blog posts, that drive traffic for an entire year Helpshelf (https://helpshelf.co) - HelpShelf combines all of your support resources into one gorgeous widget and then makes sure that it's available when it matters the most. HeySummit (https://heysummit.com) - HeySummit helps you increase engagement, conversions and revenue for your online summits. The sponsors who supported Zero to Revenue Coda (coda.io) - Coda is a new doc that grows with your ideas. People have made Coda docs that do everything from launch products, to scale small businesses, to help them study for tests. Landbot (landbot.io) - Create lead generation strategies that engage and convert. Build personalized conversational chatbots. With Landbot, it’s easy, beautiful and FREE. Milanote  (https://www.milanote.com) - Milanote is an easy-to-use tool to organize your ideas and projects into visual boards. Seed Haus Accelerator (thisisseedhaus.com) We invest, at the pre-seed stage, in outstanding founders & pre-founders tackling real problems, in large markets. AnywhereWorks (https://anywhereworks.com) - Forget about commuting, polluting and grey cubicles. There is a more sustainable, inclusive and productive way to work. Work Anywhere.

    20 min
  7. 03/18/2019

    Day 1: It Begins

    Brand? Check. Pricing? Check. Signup? Check. Ladies and gentlemen, we have the makings of a product. Say hello to Briefing Room. From not being able to get into the building, to finishing off their first day, Gelb, Lizzie, and Ben discuss how it went. — This was part of the Zero to Revenue Challenge where three founders took an idea, Briefing Room (https://briefingroom.co) from Zero to Revenue in one week in March of 2019. To find out more information,  access more videos, and join our open slack team go to https://zerotorevenue.com The founders: Lizzie Brough twitter.com/itslizziebrough Robert Gelb twitter.com/thisisgelb Ben Dell  https://twitter.com/bendell What we built: Briefing Room (https://briefingroom.co): A better way to keep investors, stakeholders, and prospects up to date with beautiful dashboards. For Founders by founders. Check Out Our Companies: Kindaba (https://kindaba.com) - The gathering space for families  Bold Village (boldvillage.com) - A village of women content writers, social media managers, and assistants that work with exciting companies while studying at university Missinglettr (missinglettr.com) - Missinglettr creates clever social campaigns for your best blog posts, that drive traffic for an entire year Helpshelf (https://helpshelf.co) - HelpShelf combines all of your support resources into one gorgeous widget and then makes sure that it's available when it matters the most. HeySummit (https://heysummit.com) - HeySummit helps you increase engagement, conversions and revenue for your online summits. The sponsors who supported Zero to Revenue Coda (coda.io) - Coda is a new doc that grows with your ideas. People have made Coda docs that do everything from launch products, to scale small businesses, to help them study for tests. Landbot (landbot.io) - Create lead generation strategies that engage and convert. Build personalized conversational chatbots. With Landbot, it’s easy, beautiful and FREE. Milanote  (https://www.milanote.com) - Milanote is an easy-to-use tool to organize your ideas and projects into visual boards. Seed Haus Accelerator (thisisseedhaus.com) We invest, at the pre-seed stage, in outstanding founders & pre-founders tackling real problems, in large markets. AnywhereWorks (https://anywhereworks.com) - Forget about commuting, polluting and grey cubicles. There is a more sustainable, inclusive and productive way to work. Work Anywhere.

    6 min
  8. 03/17/2019 ·  BONUS

    Intro: Rob

    Rob's the CEO of Kindaba, and the final third of this little experiment. — This was part of the Zero to Revenue Challenge where three founders took an idea, Briefing Room (https://briefingroom.co) from Zero to Revenue in one week in March of 2019. To find out more information,  access more videos, and join our open slack team go to https://zerotorevenue.com The founders: Lizzie Brough twitter.com/itslizziebrough Robert Gelb twitter.com/thisisgelb Ben Dell  https://twitter.com/bendell What we built: Briefing Room (https://briefingroom.co): A better way to keep investors, stakeholders, and prospects up to date with beautiful dashboards. For Founders by founders. Check Out Our Companies: Kindaba (https://kindaba.com) - The gathering space for families  Bold Village (boldvillage.com) - A village of women content writers, social media managers, and assistants that work with exciting companies while studying at university Missinglettr (missinglettr.com) - Missinglettr creates clever social campaigns for your best blog posts, that drive traffic for an entire year Helpshelf (https://helpshelf.co) - HelpShelf combines all of your support resources into one gorgeous widget and then makes sure that it's available when it matters the most. HeySummit (https://heysummit.com) - HeySummit helps you increase engagement, conversions and revenue for your online summits. The sponsors who supported Zero to Revenue Coda (coda.io) - Coda is a new doc that grows with your ideas. People have made Coda docs that do everything from launch products, to scale small businesses, to help them study for tests. Landbot (landbot.io) - Create lead generation strategies that engage and convert. Build personalized conversational chatbots. With Landbot, it’s easy, beautiful and FREE. Milanote  (https://www.milanote.com) - Milanote is an easy-to-use tool to organize your ideas and projects into visual boards. Seed Haus Accelerator (thisisseedhaus.com) We invest, at the pre-seed stage, in outstanding founders & pre-founders tackling real problems, in large markets. AnywhereWorks (https://anywhereworks.com) - Forget about commuting, polluting and grey cubicles. There is a more sustainable, inclusive and productive way to work. Work Anywhere.

    16 min

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3 founders are taking a business idea from Zero to Revenue in 1 week and broadcasting it all live! We'll be updating our progress on this podcast every day, and bringing you the interviews with experts, founders, and investors we have along the way.