About Shalom Stark:
Shalom is a serial entrepreneur and currently the founder and CEO of Invoice Ninja, a SaaS platform helping over 200,000 small businesses to invoice clients, track payments & expenses, and time billable tasks.
You can connect with Shalom on LinkedIn
Episode Highlights
- Shalom discusses why he left his travel agency and how he launched Invoice Ninja (0:32)
- How Invoice Ninja embraced the Open-Source community and used their free plan to build product awareness (5:15)
- How Invoice Ninja integrated with 45 payment gateways and an open-source language library with 36 languages at launch (8:47)
- The countries with the largest number of users (13:26)
- How Invoice Ninja used aggressive pricing and a value packed free plan to disrupt the invoicing industry (15:58)
- How an intuitively designed product and an engaged community helps to reduce the subscription cost for users (17:11)
- Why Invoice Ninja adopted Flutter framework for v5 of the platform (21:36)
- The biggest challenge they are currently facing (24:14)
- Favorite book and business leader (27:15)
Resources Mentioned in the Show
- Invoice Ninja
- Invoice Ninja (self-hosted version)
- Gary Vaynerchuk
- Born to Run by Christopher McDougall (book)
- Crush It! By Gary Vaynerchuk (book)