Ryan Bednar
Founder/CEO at RankScience
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- RankScience Founder
- Tutorspree Founder
- Contentedge Team
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Hey 👋 I'm Ryan — a General Partner at Orange Collective, a YC alumni fund backing the next generation of YC founders. Along my startup journey, I became an SEO expert and have used it to help grow companies like Calm, Zapier, Rippling, and Shutterstock. Previously I was the CEO of RankScience (W17), Co-founder of Tutorspree (W11), and was the first employee at SeatGeek (valued at $1B+).
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- Role: Engineering
- Role: Investor
- Role: Marketing & growth
- Specialty: Investor / VC / Angel
- Specialty: No-code / Automation
- Specialty: SEO / GEO
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BoostmaticOptimize your business performance with AI automation |
RecastlyTransform videos into engaging social media content |
MyImageUpscalerCrisp AI upscaling, done in seconds. |
XreplyAIGrow your audience easily |
SpiryPowering the LinkedIn Creator Economy. |
FixMyLandingImprove your landing page and turn visitors into customers |
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Founder stories from Marketing & Content startups
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ConvertKit's $5,020 MRR in 2015 is not the 2020 ARR clockNathan Barry's March 2015 essay records ConvertKit at $5,020 monthly recurring revenue after 26 months and $55k invested; a later year-in-review he wrote for 2020 states ARR grew from $19.83 million to $25.85 million, a |
Justin Duke’s 2021 review peaked at $10,105 MRR, not a $392k yearJustin Duke’s 25 December 2021 year-in-review states Buttondown peaked at $10,105 MRR, ended the year south of that peak, and logged 23 million emails sent. He did not state $392,000 for the year in that post. The angle |
Damon Chen posted $100,000 ARR after nine months of building Testimonial in publicDamon Chen says he launched Testimonial.to on Product Hunt and Indie Hackers in December 2020 with a $199 lifetime deal, quit after hitting $1,000 MRR in March 2021, and on 5 October 2021 wrote that the project had just |
Tim Soulo says bootstrapped Ahrefs crossed $100 million ARR without a sales team stackTim Soulo, Ahrefs' first marketer and later CMO, has said in his own LinkedIn words that bootstrapped Ahrefs crossed $100 million ARR, and in a Dreamdata interview he described expert content, YouTube from his first mont |
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SEO & search visibility7,452 listed products |
Social media & influencer marketing1,526 listed products |
Writing & copywriting1,455 listed products |
Email & newsletter marketing1,166 listed products |
Content marketing & CMS839 listed products |
Advertising & campaign management579 listed products |
Reputation & review management485 listed products |
Conversion optimization444 listed products |
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