Hustler Talk #2 - Launched and Scaled SaaS Business in Vietnam
In this HustlerTalk #2, we welcome Nick Ippel.
Nick is an entrepreneur from America but has been building his career in Vietnam for the past 11 years. Nick has played a pivotal role in setting up the business in Vietnam for Ematic Solutions. He scaled the business from scratch to 150 employees and 500 customers. Lately, he quitted Ematic Solutions to found his own startup, TalkSocial.io. Unfortunately, the startup did not work out for Nick.
In this episode, Nick will be sharing his experience in working with Vietnamese and his thoughts on major changes in Vietnam startup landscape in the past 5 years. He will also share some lessons learned with his startup failure.
Tools & Resources
Nick was kind enough to share some of the tools that he was using in his job.
For sales resources, these are some of the tools that he typically uses for prospecting potential customers:
- similarweb: to look at web traffic
- builtwith: to see what technologies the company is using
- trello/gsheets for easy CRM tracking
- HubSpot is free or you can try a company called Apollo as well
Nick's favourite books
