For the 56th episode of our podcast, I interviewed Eric Groves, Co-Founder & CEO at Alignable.
Alignable is a venture-backed social network for small business owners. The company has over 2.5 million small businesses on their platform across almost 30,000 communities.
Eric is also known for being a key part of the early team at Constant Contact that helped the company scale to an IPO. He joined when they had just 10 customers and $100 in revenue. Yes, you heard that right $100 in revenue.
In this episode of our podcast, we cover:
- His early career progression from larger organizations to internet companies like AltaVista, where he actually met the brother of Steve Wozniak.
- The details behind Constant Contact’s go-to-market strategy, plus the secret behind how they converted trial users to being paid customers at mind-numbing rates.
- All about Alignable, and their mission to transform the small business economy one small step at a time.
- How they are building the Alignable network at a national scale all organically where they are adding over 50,000 businesses a week with a zero acquisition cost.
- The one piece of advice he wishes he had when starting a company.
- Plus so much more.
Are you interested in joining this company? Click here for job openings at Alignable.
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Keith Cline is the Founder of VentureFizz. Follow him on Twitter: @kcline6.