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Sep 2020
25m 15s

S3 E8: Jane Portman, Userlist

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO
About this episode

Originally from Russia, Jane Portman gained experience as a creative director for an agency. She has been involved in tech as a designer for 16 years, occupying different design jobs. In fact, product work and design is her hobby! Jane is Married, with 3 kids, and shares entrepreneurial love with her husband. Having a college degree in applied information technology to the legal side of business, she has a solid foundation baseline for understanding the tech world. A few years ago, Jane was selling her first SaaS product, and moved forward recruited some co-founders to work on a new idea - around a problem she was having with automated email, and in app messaging.


This is the creation story of Userlist.


Useful resource: Detailed Guide on SaaS User Onboarding


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