"Find senior people who have financial stability and are willing to take risks because they want a career and lifestyle change."

Melissa Kwan, Cofounder and CEO of eWebinar, ProfitLed Podcast

Guest

Melissa Kwan, Cofounder and CEO

Company

eWebinar, ProfitLed Podcast

Location

Digital Nomad

Website

ewebinar.com

Industry

SaaS

Topics

Bootstrapping, Operations

About Melissa Kwan

Melissa Kwan is the Cofounder and CEO of eWebinar, an automated webinar solution that combines pre-recorded video with real-time interactions and live chat to deliver an engaging experience for attendees. Melissa and her team believe that by automating the repetitive and tedious task of giving the same onboarding, training, and sales presentations over and over, they free people up to focus their time on something else they value more.

Melissa is also the host of ProfitLed, a podcast that focuses on growth strategies for bootstrapped entrepreneurs from proven founders and strategists. If only 1% of startups get venture capital, then 99% of startups are ProfitLed. Melissa is passionate about telling the stories of those who have forged their own path and on their own terms to show founders around the world that it can be done, and that they are not alone.

S2E4 Building a Founding Team with Limited Resources

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About this episode

Contrary to popular belief, you don't need to have a cofounder to start a company. But, that may work for or against you if you're a business cofounder, depending on whether or not you have the technical chops (or lead on your side) to manage a development team.

After two previous startups, Melissa was sick of doing a poor job managing engineers and thought she could start eWebinar by hiring a dev shop to build their v1 before outsourcing to a team in Vietnam.

That experience was a disaster, but it led her to her now cofounder and CTO, David, who's also her life partner.

Melissa shares her perspective on what a great founding team looks like and how to go about convincing people to join you before there's even a product.

About ProfitLed

On Season Two of ProfitLed, Melissa (CEO and Cofounder of eWebinar) and Todd (COO) goes in-depth on one topic per episode on their "Journey to $1M" at eWebinar.

They share war stories, mistakes, and lessons learned as they grew the company to a million in ARR over 36 months. Their goal is to demystify bootstrapping by sharing their experience of it, and tell you what it’s really like to figure things out as you go.

ProfitLed is a podcast by and for founders brave (and crazy) enough to grow their startups to profitability without venture capital.

Learn more about your host, Melissa Kwan, and the ProfitLed podcast.

Learn more about eWebinar.

"Find senior people who have financial stability and are willing to take risks because they want a career and lifestyle change."

About Melissa Kwan

S2E4 Building a Founding Team with Limited Resources

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