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Hosted by Greg Head · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 208 episodes
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Tune into the Practical Founders Podcast with host Greg Head for weekly in-depth interviews with founders who have built valuable software companies--without big funding.
Greg Head hosts Practical Founders Podcast, a business show with 208 episodes published.
Steve Oriola isn't the founder of Unbounce — he's the CEO that Crest Rock Partners brought in to run and transform it. A sales-and-marketing software veteran who spent a decade at Constant Contact, and even ran Act! for
Mike Lyon is the founder and managing director of Vista Point Advisors, a boutique sell-side investment bank he started almost sixteen years ago. A former chemical engineer at Exxon and BP who later joined Citigroup's te
Wayne Cartmel grew up on a small farm in the Lake District region of northwest England and was selling chickens by the age of four. He trained as a maths teacher in Bedfordshire and could not believe the process he had t
Eran Galperin is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt who had already had one VC-backed marketplace failure when he started Gymdesk . Originally called Martial Arts on Rails, it launched in 2016 as a naive version of what he
Cliff Sentell co-founded Compass Professional Health Services in Dallas in 2005, where he and two partners each put in $20,000 and bought a single server. They started in healthcare price transparency, reverse-engineerin
Matthew Bullis grew up in a mud-brick hut with no running water on a small island off South Korea, was adopted to the US at 11 speaking no English. After a dot-com near-miss, he took over his brother's struggling concret
Nick Olsen is the Head of AI Innovation at Mainsail Partners , where he works hands-on with 25 scaling vertical SaaS companies helping them adopt AI in engineering and product. Before joining Mainsail, Nick spent 20 year
Paul Hoeper founded InvoiceASAP after spotting a simple but painful problem in 2009: home service businesses couldn't easily create invoices or collect payments from the field using mobile devices. He started in New Orle
Jerry Alderman is the co-founder and CEO of Valkre Solutions , a SaaS platform built specifically for key account managers who oversee the largest and most strategic customers in global B2B companies. After careers in en
TJ Joosten is the co-founder of RevFixr , a pricing and monetization consultancy that helps SaaS companies improve pricing, packaging, and revenue growth. Before starting RevFixr, TJ spent a decade building and selling s
Rupert Mayer is the founder of IPfolio, a vertical SaaS platform built for corporate intellectual property teams to manage patents, trademarks, renewals, and innovation workflows. Originally from Austria, Rupert stumbled
Eric Ries is the entrepreneur and author of The Lean Startup, whose work helped software founders validate ideas faster and build companies without making huge bets upfront. After years helping startups, large companies,
Marc Sanderson is the founder and CEO of INNERGY, but he didn't start as a software founder. After earning his MBA and searching for a company to buy, he and partner Walter Wilkie acquired a small architectural woodworki
Blakely Graham co-founded TaskRay, a project management and customer onboarding platform built inside the Salesforce ecosystem. After years working with Salesforce implementations and operations teams, she and co-founder
Andy Alsop didn't start The Receptionist—he bought a small iPad-based visitor management app in 2013 for $250K and turned it into a real SaaS business. What began as a simple front-desk check-in tool evolved into a full
Sharon Nouh built ProSpend, a spend management SaaS platform for mid-market companies, after seeing firsthand how broken expense processes were in corporate travel. Starting with an expense tool, focused on her home mark
Perry Rosenbloom, founder of LaunchBay, previously built and sold Brighter Vision before starting his second SaaS company focused on onboarding. After running hundreds of onboarding processes per month, he saw a consiste
Dina Nagalla built EmpowerMX over more than a decade to digitize aircraft maintenance for major airlines like American, Southwest, and United. Starting from deep domain experience inside aviation IT, he tackled a complex
Chad Ingram is the founder of Distro, an AI recruiting software company that helps mid-market and enterprise companies automate candidate screening, vetting, ranking, and scheduling. He previously built Jump, a venture-b
Joseph Lee is the co-founder and CEO of Supademo, a fast-growing SaaS company solving a common pain: quickly creating new product demos. In just two and a half years, they built a modern, AI-powered solution that dramati
Eric Ries
creator of the Lean Startup method, founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange, author of Incorruptible · Long-Term Stock Exchange
1 appearance on this show
Marc Sanderson
founder and CEO · Málaga Open for Business Office
1 appearance on this show
Eric Wu
Gainful
1 appearance on this show
Steve Reynolds
President Emeritus and Senior Consultant · Baptist Memorial Healthcare
1 appearance on this show
Will Caldwell
CEO Snap
1 appearance on this show
Jordon Comstock
founder and CEO · BoomCloudapps
1 appearance on this show
Steve Oriola
Unbounce
1 appearance on this show
Mike Lyon
Vista Point Advisors
1 appearance on this show
Rupert Mayer
IPfolio
1 appearance on this show
Perry Rosenbloom
LaunchBay
1 appearance on this show
Chad Ingram
Distro
1 appearance on this show
Tanner Kovacevich
Lighter Capital
1 appearance on this show
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Practical Founders Podcast is hosted by Greg Head. The show is categorised under business (entrepreneurship) and has published 208 episodes.
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