🗓️ 23-25 September 2024
đź“Ť Raleigh, North Carolina
Business of Software Conference is a multi-day single-track conference for founders, CXOs, and emerging leaders in software companies from around the world.
Learn how great software companies are built at an extraordinary conference run since 2007 to help you build long term, profitable, sustainable businesses.
Summary of BoS USA 2023 in Raleigh, NC
Schedule
Sunday 22 September
AFTERNOON
Quiet Light Treasure Hunt & BoS Photo Walk. Any attendees arriving early are welcome to join in.
4:30 pm Meet at Marriott City Center Hotel foyer.
4:45 pm Walk to Crank Arm Brewing - Treasure Hunt/Photo Walk start location. The Treasure Hunt will take less than 60 minutes and you will be back in time for pre-registration. Thanks to our supporter, Quiet Light.
6-9 pm Pre-Registration Reception. Let us know you’re here, grab your badge and join us and fellow attendees for welcome drinks & buffet at Rye Bar, Raleigh Marriott City Center Hotel, 500 Fayetteville St, Raleigh, NC 27601, USA.
Monday 23 September
Venue: Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts
8-9 am Registration and Breakfast with Birds of a Feather conversation tables
9-9:15 am Mark Littlewood: Welcome!
9:15-10:15 am Zack Urlocker: Existential Moments in Company Building
10:15-10:45 am BREAK
10:45-11:45 am Matt Lerner: Goals, Metrics and Incentives
11:45 am-12:45 pm Joanna Wiebe: How Every Customer Interaction Can be Improved With a Framework
12:45-2 pm LUNCH and Birds of a Feather conversation tables
2-2:30 pm Inside the Mind of an Entrepreneur with Special Mystery Guest
2:30-4:15 pm Breakouts and Meet the Speakers
4:15-4:45 pm BREAK
4:45-6 pm Bruce McCarthy & Melissa Appel: Live Stakeholder Troubleshooting
6- 7 pm Attendee Networking Drinks in Lobby
7-10 pm Informal Sit Down Dinner in Lobby
Tuesday 24 September
It's "Wear Your BoS Shirt Day". Whether it's an old favorite or this year's, sport your BoS gear as we gather for a class photo of everyone.
8-9 am Registration and Breakfast with Birds of a Feather conversation tables
9-10 am Georgiana Laudi: Data-Rich, Insight-Poor – The Real Reason Your Growth Is Stalled
10-10:30 am BREAK
10:30-11:30 am Jim Benton: Building Iconic Teams: Achieving the Impossible Together
11:30-12:30 pm Austin Bouley: 3 Huge Levers That Got My SaaS To $500K ARR In 5 Months
12.30-2 pm LUNCH and Birds of a Feather conversation tables
2-3 pm Tania Katan: Human Ingenuity Beats Artificial Intelligence as the Core Driver of Great Companies
3-4 pm Guy Nirpaz: What Does AI Do to Business Models?
4-4:30 pm BREAK
4:30-4:45 pm Class Photo
4:45-5:45 pm Shawn Anderson: From Bootstrapped to a Billion – Five BoS Talks That Changed My World
5:45-6 pm Summary & Surprise Reprise
6-7 pm Attendee Networking Drinks in Lobby
7 pm onwards Self-propelled dinners in Raleigh. Feel free to ask your BoS mates to have dinner around the area.
Wednesday 25 September
8-9 am Registration and Breakfast with Birds of a Feather conversation tables
9-10 am Stephen Steers: Four Questions to Ask Before You Tell a Story That Sells
10-10:30 am BREAK
10:30-11:30 am Angil Tate: Leveraging Failure to Shape Winning Teams
11:30 am-12.45 pm Jeff Szczepanski: Why Isn’t Technology Making Us More Productive?
12:45-1 pm Conference Wrap-up
1 pm Conference Close
2-5 pm Workshop: Writing Onboarding Sequences That Drive Sales by Joanna Wiebe (this is sold separately. Secure your spot today.)
With a couple of exceptions, all talks, drinks and meals will be held at the conference venue: The Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts, 2 E South St, Raleigh, NC 27601, USA.
Speakers
Jim Benton
Partner, Alignment.io
Tania Katan
Creative Trespasser
Human Ingenuity Beats Artificial Intelligence as the Core Driver of Great Companies
Zack Urlocker
Author, Serial Scaler
Joanna Wiebe
Founder, Copyhackers
How Every Customer Interaction Can be Improved With a Framework
Shawn Anderson
co-Founder, CEO & Board, PDQ.com
From Bootstrapped to a Billion – Five BoS Talks That Changed My World
Georgiana Laudi
co-Founder, Forget the Funnel
Data-Rich, Insight-Poor – The Real Reason Your Growth Is Stalled
Matt Lerner
Founder & CEO, SYSTM
Angil Tate
Senior Product Designer, WillowTree Apps
Jeff Szczepanski
Founder & CEO, Reframe Technologies
Bruce Mcarthy & Melissa Appel
Founder & Product Coach, Product Culture
Guy Nirpaz
Founder & CEO, Perspective AI
Austin Bouley
Founder & CEO,
Options Auto Trader
Stephen Steers
Founder, Steers Consulting Group
What Attendees Say
“I’m not sure I could have done this* without the things I learned at BoS and from the BoS community.”
*Sold PrecisionLender for $510 million
Carl Ryden
Former Founder/CEO, PrecisionLender
Venue and Hotel Location
The conference will take place at the Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Raleigh.
The conference hotel, the Marriott City Center, is located across the square and will also be the location for pre-conference early registration and reception on Sunday evening, 22 September.
Why Raleigh?
We ran it for the first time for BoS USA 2023 in partnership with North Carolina’s Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED), the beating heart of tech entrepreneurship in the Research Triangle and beyond.
Raleigh is an amazing city and region filled with friendly, smart people, incredible food, lots to see and – most importantly – the home of an extraordinary cluster of SaaS and software companies just like yours.
You can read more about why we are partnering again with CED here.
BoS USA 2024 is supported by
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What's included in the ticket price?
- Pre-registration drinks and nibbles at Raleigh Marriott City Center on 22 Sep, Sunday
- Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Breakfast and Networking Drinks at Martin Marietta Center
- Monday and Tuesday Lunch at Martin Marietta Center
- Monday Dinner at Martin Marietta Center
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Workshop: Writing Onboarding Sequences That Drive Sales
📆 25 Sep 2024
đź•‘ 2-5pm
đź“ŤMartin Marietta CPA
An in-person workshop led by Joanna Wiebe (Founder, Copyhackers)
This workshop will give you and your team actionable insights and proven techniques to create onboarding sequences that effectively convert new users into loyal customers while reducing churn.
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