Episodes: 219
Frequency: Weekly
Rating: 4.9/5.0
Estimated listeners: 100 - 1,000
Listener location: USA
YouTube: 3.2k subscribers
Page updated: Nov 4, 2026 · How we check this data
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Greg Head - Host of a podcast focused on practical founders and the strategies used to build valuable software companies without big funding.
Vic Levitin - Distribution-first Company Building, Demand Validation Before Coding, AI Venture Studios, Influencer Partnerships, And Micro-niche Software.
Steve Oriola - Leading A Pe-backed Saas Company, Business Transformation, Post-acquisition Integration, Agentic AI, And Service-based Software Models.
Mike Lyon - Changing Saas Buyer Criteria, Gross Retention, AI Resilience, Systems Of Record, Data Moats, And Preparing For A Software-company Exit.
Wayne Cartmel - Bootstrapped Software Growth, Marketplace Distribution, Focused Execution, Education Technology, And Building Defensibility Through Difficult Markets.
Eran Galperin - Bootstrapped Growth, Low Churn, Profitability, Organic Customer Acquisition, Saas Valuation, And Private-equity Exits.
#220: You Can Skip Venture Capital and Still Raise Too Much - Jerry Nettuno
October 30, 2026
Jerry Nettuno started Schedulicity in Bozeman, Montana, in 2009 after struggling to book his own haircut as a single father. He recruited his first developers from Denver, paid for the build himself, and launched online scheduling for hairstylists, trainers and other small service businesses at $29 a month, starting with about a hundred customers around Bozeman. To fund a bigger team and faster growth, Nettuno raised millions from angels and one large private investor, never from venture capi...
#219: Vibe-Coded Isn't Validating: Rob Walling's Warning for AI-Era Founders - Rob Walling
October 23, 2026
Rob Walling has been publishing Startups for the Rest of Us every week since 2010 — he recorded episode 855 the morning of this interview — and has written five books on bootstrapped SaaS, with a sixth on the way. He started five companies before turning to investing, all of them bootstrapped, and sold Drip in 2016. In 2018 he and co-founder Einar Vollset launched TinySeed, the first accelerator built for SaaS bootstrappers. They aimed to raise $1-2 million for the first fund and closed almos...
#218: He Built Debt Collection SaaS While Paying Off $1M in Personal Debt - Josh Allen
October 16, 2026
Josh Allen is founder and CEO of Tratta, software for debt collection agencies and creditor rights law firms that gives consumers self-service payment tools and gives agents modern back-office tools. He started in merchant services, hired contractors to build a payment portal, and found out the hard way that nobody was waiting for it. That first platform landed five clients in about three years while Josh took on well over a million dollars in personal debt for the business. Tratta grew out o...
Rogue Startups · Medium booking difficulty · 100 - 1,000 listeners
Startups For the Rest of Us · Medium booking difficulty · 10,000 - 100,000 listeners
Top Founders · Medium booking difficulty · 10,000 - 100,000 listeners
Practical Founders Podcast is hosted by Greg Head. Its publicly listed email is greg@scalingpoint.com. For guest bookings, the host or producer is usually the best person to reach. Podseeker helps you find direct host and producer contacts and pitch from your own inbox.
The publicly listed email for Practical Founders Podcast: greg@scalingpoint.com.
Podseeker estimates Practical Founders Podcast reaches 100 to 1,000 listeners per episode. Only the publisher has exact numbers.
Practical Founders Podcast typically books industry leaders. Typical guest background: Founders, CEOs, and senior operators with firsthand experience building, scaling, transforming, selling, or acquiring software companies—especially bootstrapped or efficiently funded SaaS businesses. Common among recent guests: Built or scaled a software or SaaS company; Demonstrated revenue growth, profitability, retention, or distribution results; Completed a meaningful acquisition, merger, or private-equity transaction. Recent guests include Vic Levitin, Steve Oriola, and Mike Lyon.
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