Oct 22, 2020
Here’s a word that either makes
you cringe… or sigh with relief:
“Networking”.
If you’ve had a bad
experience of it, you’ll get that icky feeling of trying to
schmooze through fake smiles for business.
But if you’ve had a
great experience, you’ll think of life-long friends sharing war
stories about their businesses and helping each other out.
Networking done right is invaluable.
You might have heard me say it before: Investors don’t want to meet
you… they want to be introduced to you.
That means you’ve got to get out there and network.
And the easiest and best way to do that… is at conferences made for
SaaS founders.
So, for this week’s episode of Escape Velocity Show, I’ve
interviewed Alex Theuma, the founder of
SaaStock, easily one of my favorite SaaS Conferences in
the world.
(In fact, Alex quotes
me on his website… and I’m not getting paid to say that!)
In this podcast
episode, Alex and I chat all about:
- How SaaStock has
grown in record time
- High-profile founders
that have talked at past events
- The process for
starting a networking event
- The audience-first
model of marketing (true for all business types!)
- Why SaaStock is a
great place for startups
- The afterparties
I love conferences. I
regularly attend them, I’m often speaking at them, and I’ve made
some life-long friends at
them.
Starting a business shouldn’t be a lonely venture, and that’s why
my SaaS Academy includes
multiple live events every year.
If you find networking difficult, Conferences are like shooting
fish in a barrel: It’s impossible not to make valuable connections and learn
something new.
This episode was a
pleasure to record. Alex is one of those guys that’s super easy to
talk to and
once you tune in
here, you’ll get his
vibe and see why SaaStock is worth checking out.
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Dan
Martell has advised more startups than his hometown has people and
teaches startup founders like you how to scale.
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