131. What’s Hot in B2B & Bootstrap or Raise? with Eva Nahari

Summary

In this episode, I welcome back Eva Nahari, a principal at DNX Ventures, an early-stage Venture Capital firm investing in B2B Startups.   Why am I bringing venture capitalists back to the program?   Eva is on the front lines of new technologies within the B2B space from which you can get potential business ideas or areas you can move your business into.    You’ll surely learn technologies that can help improve your business in efficiency and growth from everything that Eva shares in this episode.   Eva also gives her two cents on scaling through bootstrapping and raising which will help you decide on which between the two should you adopt for your business.   This episode is loaded with insights on the hottest B2B SaaS platforms and growing your startup so tune in now!   We’ll talk about: Introduction [00:00] Eva’s transition to B2B investing and mentoring [3:39] Squadcast and its workflow-based UI-guided tool [5:54] Quark.ai and how it provides better customer support [8:34] Macrometa: The Cloud for the Edge [14:07] What’s next on the horizon for Eva [17:13] Do you need to get salespeople when expanding? [21:47] Eva’s thoughts on bootstrapping and raising [25:05]  The best-case scenario for founders bootstrapping or raising  [28:37]  Should you bootstrap all the way to your first million? [32:52]  The biggest challenges that Eva sees from the founders she onboards [34:36]   Resource Links: Brett Trainor Website (https://bretttrainor.com/) Download Startup to Scaleup: A 4-Part Framework to Grow Your B2B Business to $10 Million (https://bretttrainor.com/resources/) DNX Ventures website (https://www.dnx.vc/) Squadcast Website (https://www.squadcast.com/) Quark website (https://quark.ai/) Macrometa website (https://www.macrometa.com/) About Our Guest: Eva Nahari is a Principal at DNX Ventures, a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage B2B companies. Prior to joining DNX, she spent 9 years at Cloudera, where she helped organizations scale by developing products and go-to-market strategies. Eva is interested in investing in firms that are developing SaaS, Cloud, ML-Enabled Enterprise Software, and DevOps solutions that potentially alter how IT is provided to businesses. Eva has also worked as a startup coach and angel investor.   Connect with Eva Nahari: Twitter: https://twitter.com/EvaNahari LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/evanahari/ Substack: https://substack.com/profile/26323472-eva-nahari\ Connect with me and learn more about growing your business: Email: BT@BrettTrainor.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bretttrainor/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCySoKsETeKxu-Fnf2VfE7Gg Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TrainorBrett Twitter: https://twitter.com/Brett_Trainor Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bretttrainor/ If you liked this episode, please don’t forget to tune in, subscribe, and share this podcast.