Harris Kenny, founder of OutboundSync, reflects on his entrepreneurial background during the Season 5 finale of TinySeed Tales with Rob Walling.
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Competitor paid developer $2,000 to clone OutboundSync from a demo video
“Even a year ago, somebody did try to kind of, like, smother us in the crib when they requested a demo of App on Sync, took the recording, sent it to a developer, and said, rebuild this for me for 2000 bucks.”
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Kenney: SOC 2 Controls Provide Vital Business Continuity for Micro-Startups
“So, like, it's funny, but some say, oh, you're too small to do it right now. But because we're small, I look at these things, and I'm like, these are actually kind of, like, viability of the business. If we can resolve these, It actually kind of helps me sleep…”
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Kenney: Corporate teams will buy sales platforms directly over agencies
“If this keeps mainstreaming like I think it is, I also think that some of these teams are going to buy direct from the platforms and not just ask an agency to run it for them.”
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Kenney: HubSpot App Marketplace listing does not drive inbound demand
“Like in and of itself, it is not driving demand.”
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Kenney: Salesforce AppExchange partnership will outperform HubSpot listing
“I think when we become a Salesforce App Exchange partner, I think it will mean, it will move the needle more for us, just based on like how I'm seeing it.”
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Competitor scrapes OutboundSync's LinkedIn to poach leads
“I've got someone scraping every one of my LinkedIn posts and then emailing every single one of those people saying, hey, we built something that's better than outbound sync for this.”