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Scale Like a Startup CEO with Jeff Mains Founder and CEO at Intelligent Contacts

Scale Like a Startup CEO with Jeff Mains Founder and CEO at Intelligent Contacts

FromThe Scale Up Show


Scale Like a Startup CEO with Jeff Mains Founder and CEO at Intelligent Contacts

FromThe Scale Up Show

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Length:
30 minutes
Released:
Feb 28, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

As a serial entrepreneur behind 5 companies and over $200 million in revenue Jeff Mains is now helping other founders achieve rapid growth through an operating system for alignment, ROI-focused decision-making, and monopoly control of niche markets. Enjoy his key insights on avoiding dilution, tight focus, strategic use of AI, and indispensable tools like Reclaim.ai and Slack.
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KEY TAKEAWAYS

Avoid giving away too much equity too soon to co-founders or investors. This dilutes your ownership early on.
Founders often don't delegate enough as the business grows. Hire strong leaders and let them own areas.
Clearly define your ideal customer profile and niche down as much as possible to own the market.
Use AI strategically where it adds value to the user, not just because it's new and trendy tech.
To protect against fast copycats, shrink your niche and own the market rather than going broad from the start.
Having an operating system drives alignment on vision and consistent tracking of KPIs across the organization.
AI and Slack are indispensable tools for managing his schedule, communication and productivity.

BEST MOMENTS
"I don’t think I’ve ever given anything away without leaving claw marks all over it."
"You can only be as big as you are small, so if you want to get big, go small."
"Everybody in the organization has visibility, alignment. They understand their roles, their KPIs, and managing their own goals."
"If you think about, you know, we work with B2B SaaS companies, we don’t do B2C, we don’t do, you know, all of these other things and, and, and that’s it."
"When you can get into that community and, you can say, we’re one of you, you’re one of us, then it’s a lot easier to expand out from there."
Ryan Staley
Founder and CEO
Whale Boss
ryan@whalesellingsystem.com
www.ryanstaley.io Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets
Released:
Feb 28, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

How do you grow like a VC-backed SAAS company without taking on investors? What are the secrets that SAAS CEOs have that the rest of us don't? Do you want to create a lifestyle business, a performance business, or an empire?  How do you scale to an exit without losing your freedom? Join the host Ryan Staley every Monday and Wednesday for conversations with the brightest and best SAAS Founders, CEOs, and Entrepreneurs to crack the code on repeatable revenue growth, leadership, lifestyle freedom and mindset. This show has featured Startup and Billion Dollar Founders, Best Selling Authors, and the World’s Top Sales and Marketing Experts like Terry Jones (Founder of Travelocity and Chairman of Kayak), Gina Bianchini (Founder of Mighty Networks and prior Co-Founder with Marc Andreessen) and Harpaul Sambhi (Founder of Magical with a previous exit to Linkedin). This is where Scaling and Sales are made simple in 25 minutes or less. Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Sales, Business growth strategy, Founder, VP of Sales, CRO, Chief Revenue Officer, Technology, Leadership, CEO, Management, Hyper-Growth.