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[SaaS Club] Struggling Bootstrapper to $10M+ SaaS CEO

In 2015 Ryan Fyfe was struggling to find a paying customer for the app that he'd built. And to make things worse he also fell out with his co-founder and found himself doing everything from building the product, marketing, and sales.
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Hey, this is Omer...

Here's a quick round up of what's been going on:
🎧 Podcast
We just published the latest episode of The SaaS Podcast:

294: From Struggling Bootstrapper to $10M+ SaaS CEO

In 2010 Ryan Fyfe was struggling to find a paying customer for the employee scheduling app that he'd built. He also fell out with his co-founder and found himself doing everything from building the product, marketing, and sales.

10 years later, he was the CEO of a $10M+ ARR SaaS company with 40,000 customers, 150 employees, and VC funding.

In this interview, you'll learn exactly how he did that, what mistakes he made, the lessons he learned, and what he's doing differently with his latest startup.

Listen to the full interview here or in your favorite podcast app.
📕 Book of the Week
This weeks' recommendation is: Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear.
💬 Join the Community
Want to join a community of early-stage SaaS founders and entrepreneurs? You can now join the SaaS Club community for free!
Join the community for free
🤙 Live Coaching Calls
Here are the topics we covered on the live coaching calls in August:

  • How to educate your prospects when you're not an expert
  • How to get the messaging right for cold outreach
  • How to create a B2B sales quadrant for your champions
  • Working on my SaaS product isn’t fun anymore
  • Building a remote ‘in-house’ or outsourced team?
  • Customer discovery and structuring problem interviews

If you're a Group Coaching member you can watch the video recordings here or listen to the audio versions in the group coaching private podcast.

If you're not a Group Coaching member, you can join here.

😍 Let's Get Social
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-- Omer

P.S. whenever you're ready, here are 3 ways I can help you with your SaaS:

1. Group Coaching: Do you need coaching for an affordable price? Join me for live coaching calls every 2 weeks, access the archive of recordings, and more.

2. 3-Month Bootcamp: Need more help getting to your first $10K revenue? You will get 10 weeks of training, live group coaching, email support and more.

3. Private Coaching: Want to work directly with me? We'll work together to help you get clarity and focus to execute confidently and get breakthrough results.























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