HeyJaredBootstrapped : The Lighter Side - The Podcast For B2B SaaS Founders
Bootstrapped: The Lighter Side shares fresh ideas ambitious B2B SaaS founders can use to build and scale their businesses while maintaining ownership and control. We explore essential topics like growth strategies, runway management, and innovative capital-raising methods.
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AI Is Deciding Which Startups Get Found. Here's How PR Helps You Win - With Annie Scranton and Rose Levy of Pace PR (opens the original)
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Your next customer probably won't Google you. They'll ask ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude, and if the models can't find you, you aren't in the conversation. Melissa Widner sits down with Annie Scranton and Rose Levy of Pace PR to unpack why more startups are turning to PR, and how a good firm can support you. That support has always come down to one core thing: earning you the third-party credibility you can't manufacture yourself. What's new is where it pays off. The trade coverage, founder though
Is AI Killing SaaS, or Making It Better? (opens the original)
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In early 2025, one word had the software world spooked: SaaSpocalypse. The fear that AI was about to gut traditional SaaS wiped out roughly $2 trillion in public market value and cut valuations in half almost overnight. So, is AI actually killing SaaS? Melissa Widner asks three investors who don't think so: Bill McAleer of Voyager Capital , Ron Weissman of the Band of Angels , and Ian Levine of Launchpad Venture Group . They dig into why the companies everyone expected AI to wipe out are growing
Good Companies Are Bought, Not Sold | How Founders Can Get Legally Ready for an Exit With Becky Mancero of SPZ Legal (opens the original)
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In this episode, Melissa Widner sits down with Becky Mancero, partner at SPZ Legal . SPZ is a law firm that works with technology companies from startup to exit. They discuss the cap table and equity mistakes that become expensive to fix later, like splitting ownership 50/50 by default and missing the strict 30-day window for an 83(b) election. Becky also shares her take on using AI as a companion rather than a replacement for lawyers, including the privilege risks posed by AI note-takers in sen
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