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Tom Hunt has experience at building several startups and SaaS businesses from scratch. After graduating from the Imperial College in London, he decided to build Virtual Valley, a marketplace connecting online entrepreneurs and virtual assistants from scratch whilst travelling the world. He then sold 90% of the businesses in 2017. He then joined Repairly as the COO, which was on demand mobile phone repair delivery service.
He is now the Co-Founder of <a href="bcast.fm">BCast</a>, a podcast hosting platform for high growth businesses. Tom is also the Managing Director at SaaS Marketer, where they publish biweekly SaaS growth case study and runs his own podcast: Confessions Of A B2B Marketer. At SaaS Marketer, he also helps SaaS businesses grow with their own profitable podcast. Finally, Tom is an Angel investor at different companies, such as Gleam, Dusk Foundation, Taz.com, Ebsta, Parabola Labs and Stashbee.
During this interview we cover:
Exiting his first business after get burnt out
Deciding on moving forward on a startup vs. shutting down at Repairly
The value of launching your own podcast for your startup
Why he decided to start angel investing in startups
Underrated growth hacks that startup founders should consider and work really well
Links and mentions:
<a href="bcast.fm">BCast.Fm</a>
<a href="https://saasmarketer.io/blog/">SaaS Marketer</a>
Get in touch with Tom: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomhuntio/
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