How a techie dad built SellHack (while battling a life-changing diagnosis) – with Ryan ODonnell

Ryan O'Donnell, SellHack, B2B, Bootstrapping, Customer Acquisition, Mental Game

We’ve got with us Ryan O’Donnell. He’s a guy who says that he and his cofounder are two techie dads who prefer to spend a coffee break in the middle of the day with their kids than with coworkers. They want to build the kind of company that they enjoy working in and that supports their lives. The company that they built is called SellHack.

Sellhack is a browser extension that helps people find leads, build targeted prospect lists and verify email addresses so that they spend less time on data entry and more time talking to customers and closing deals.

I don’t think the description does the business justice, but we’ll bring it to life in the interview.

Ryan O'Donnell

SellHack

Ryan O’Donnell is the founder of SellHack, a browser extension that helps people find leads, build targeted prospect lists and verify email addresses so that they spend less time on data entry and more time talking to customers and closing deals.

Andrew: Hey, everyone. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy.com. It is of course home of the ambitious upstart.

You’ve heard me say that my goal here for these interviews is for you to listen to the interviews, to learn from them, use what you learn to build a successful company and then hopefully you will come back here and do an interview with me about how you did it. That’s what we’ve got here today.

More specifically, we’ve got with us Ryan O’Donnell. He’s a guy who says that he and his cofounder are two techie dads who prefer to spend a coffee break in the middle of the day with their kids than with coworkers. They want to build the kind of company that they enjoy working in and that supports their lives. The company that they built is called SellHack.

I don’t think I’m going to do it justice here with the description, but I’m going to read it and we’ll bring it to life in...

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