🧠 Growth Capital Podcast - Episode 34 🧠

What if your biggest growth opportunity is hiding in plain sight—inside the customer experience?

In this episode of the Growth Capital Podcast, host Justin Dixon sits down with Evan Steele, Founder & CEO of Rater8, to explore how real-time feedback and reputation management are reshaping the way healthcare practices grow.

Evan shares his founder journey—bootstrapping two companies, scaling to thousands of clients, and building a fully remote team before it was mainstream. From the spark of a bad hotel check-in to managing 30+ million data points across healthcare practices, his story is a masterclass in turning insights into innovation.

🔍 What you’ll learn in this episode:

• How feedback became the foundation for a scalable SaaS business
• Why reputation is the most undervalued growth lever in healthcare
• The playbook for building culture in a remote-first company
• How Rater8 is using AI to turn raw feedback into actionable insights
• The shift from search engines to “answer engines”—and what that means for visibility

Whether you're scaling a SaaS company, investing in vertical software, or just trying to align product with real customer need, this episode delivers.

🎧 Available now on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify.

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💸 Growth Capital Podcast - Episode 33 💸

What separates a founder who pitches from one who closes?

In this episode of the Growth Capital Podcast, host Justin Dixon sits down with Jeffrey Fidelman, Founder & CEO of Fidelman & Co., to decode what it really takes to raise money from investors in today’s market.

From creating pitch decks that resonate, to navigating investor psychology and structuring effective calls, Jeffrey shares tactical insights from his years of experience in investment banking, family offices, and now as an advisor to founders raising early-stage capital.

🚀 Whether you're preparing for your seed round or looking to level up your Series A pitch, this episode will show you how to approach fundraising like a pro—from story, to structure, to strategy.

🎯 What you’ll learn: 🔹 Why most pitch meetings fail before they even begin 🔹 The investor psychology every founder needs to understand 🔹 How to structure your calls to turn interest into investment 🔹 The surprising danger of raising too much money 🔹 What $1.7 trillion in undeployed capital means for founders in 2025

🔗 Connect with Jeffrey: jeffrey@fidelmanco.com 🌐 Learn more: https://fidelmanco.com

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What if the key to productivity wasn’t doing more, but choosing less?

In this episode of Growth Capital Podcast, Justin Dixon sits down with Steven Puri—former Hollywood executive turned tech founder of The Sukha Company, a productivity platform designed to help people and teams find focus and flow.

Steven shares what he learned from two failed startups, how that pain reshaped his product philosophy, and how the idea of “doing less to finish more” became the foundation of his work. From lessons in listening to users, to designing a product around neuroscience and flow states, this episode is a goldmine for founders, operators, and investors alike.

🔍 What you’ll learn:

• Why most productivity tools encourage the wrong behavior
• How startup failure can lead to sharper product instincts
• The problem with overbuilding—and how to know when to stop
• What flow state really is, and how to design your workday around it
• Why users who pay are the ones worth listening to

🚀 Whether you're scaling a PE-backed company, building your MVP, or just trying to reclaim your workday, this episode will resonate.

📩 Connect directly with Steven: steven@thesukha.co 🌐 Try Sukha: TheSukha.co/?ref=justinfo (Free 7-day trial, no credit card)

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