How 600+ SaaS CEOs Are Scaling From $1M to $100M ARR Together

We’re a big believer in Napoleon Hill’s concept of the mastermind where we all grow faster together.

Each week we host five mastermind calls where we help you solve your biggest business growth and exit prep challenges and get feedback from a group of experienced CEOs & founders.

Here’s the latest Summer 2025 mastermind schedule…

• Tue 1pm ET - Enterprise SaaS CEOs/Founder Mastermind with Ryan Allis, founder of iContact
• Tue 2pm ET - B2B Marketer Mastermind with Ryan Allis (GrowthRise)
• Wed 11am ET - SaaS CEO/Founder Mastermind with David Trachsel
• Wed 3pm ET - SaaS CEO/Founder Mastermind with Ryan Allis
• Thu 11am CET - Europe/Asia SaaS CEO/Founder Mastermind with Lee Radloff
  

Everyone in the SaasRise community is vetted and leads a software or internet firm with $1M to $100M in ARR, so it’s a group of very experienced folks.

Previously I built iContact to $50M in ARR and sold it for $169M and our co-facilitator David Trachsel is a digital ads expert -- directly managing over $7M/year in B2B ad spend -- so the facilitation is top notch and quality.

If you’re not yet a member, just apply below and we’ll get you in to the masterminds next week as a trial to see how you like them...

• Apply to SaasRise → For SaaS CEOs/Founders with $1M-$100M in ARR
• Apply to GrowthRise → For B2B Marketers & GTM Leaders (send your Head of Mktg)
  

We have 600+ members in the communities now and each week we have about 60 members live on the masterminds. If you’re already a member, you can see the full list of upcoming SaasRise masterminds here and GrowthRise masterminds here.

What Do We Usually Talk About in the Masterminds?

After personally hosting over 250 mastermind calls the last two years, here are the most common topics we talk about on our calls…

• Customer acquisition scaling
• Team growth + Hiring
• Ops & Systems building
• Using AI tools throughout your business
• Product UI/UX and Customer Onboarding
• PLG and ABM based customer growth
• Churn Reduction & NRR strategies
• Whether to keep bootstrapping or raise capital
• Whether to sell the firm or not
• Exit prep & achieving higher multiples

All the masterminds are optional → come when you want support from a group of experienced peers. All members get access to our weekly content and webinars, WhatsApp group, Slack channel, and Circle community platform.

I founded SaasRise and GrowthRise after spending ten years in Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) forums as CEO of iContact. Instead of a monthly group with just people in my area in different types of firms,

I wanted to offer a weekly mastermind group just for SaaS CEOs/Founders where we can help each other grow, scale, and build successful companies. It's been fun growing this over the last two years.

Have a truly wonderful summer and hope to see you soon on one of our masterminds.

All the best,

Ryan Allis
Austin, TX
SaasRise | GrowthRise

P.S. - My wife is giving birth to our second son in September so I’ll be off for the month of September on paternity leave. Our co-founder David Trachsel and Head of Sales Lee Radloff will be doing the masterminds that month.

P.P.S - I hope you enjoyed the B2B LinkedIn Strategy Guide I wrote last week. We got a lot of great feedback on it!

About The Founder

Ryan Allis built iContact as CEO/Co-Founder from startup to $50M in ARR, 70,000 paying customers, and an exit for $169M to a publicly traded company. At iContact, he raised over $50M in venture capital (including $15M in founder liquidity), and $5M in debt-capital. Today, Ryan is the CEO of SaasRise, the #1 community for experienced SaaS CEOs and Founders with $1M to $100m in ARR. Ryan is also a SaaS Growth & Exit Coach, and has coached the CEOs of of Instantly, Seamless.ai, Tatango, Pipeline, Revenue Accelerator, RNL, Retreaver, Clearstream, YouCanBookMe, Noteefy, RXNT, and many more growing SaaS firms ranging in size from $5M to $160M in annual revenue. He is passionate about helping SaaS firms have successful exits. Ryan holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Join the weekly masterminds Ryan leads at SaasRise for SaaS CEOs/Founders and GrowthRise for B2B Marketers and GTM Leaders.