SaaS Executive · Product Leader · Builder

Nick
Fruscello

For nearly two decades, I built a B2B SaaS company from zero to strategic acquisition, without outside capital or an inherited market. I developed the product, established the category, and competed successfully against larger, better-funded competitors.

Now I bring that founder's instinct and product obsession to teams ready to build something that matters.

Nick Fruscello
$0
Outside funding taken
2,000+
Customers, two-person team
16
Profitable years, then an exit

Built from nothing.
Sold on purpose.

In 2007, I co-founded Mozeo with a simple belief: that small businesses deserved powerful communication tools without enterprise price tags. What followed was nearly two decades of building, surviving, and adapting in real time.

We grew a multimillion-dollar SaaS platform from inception to acquisition — completely bootstrapped, without outside funding. We navigated TCPA litigation, survived seismic shifts from mobile carriers, and kept customers happy through it all. Not with big teams and big budgets, but with relentless product thinking and an obsession with user experience.

In 2023, we sold Mozeo to Inunity and I stayed on as VP of Product. The job after a sale is different from the job before it: keep every customer through the transition, then reposition the product for the next phase. We rebuilt the go-to-market motion, with new ICPs and outbound playbooks. We also overhauled pricing and packaging, and cut down churn with an imoproved customer-success playbook.

"Running a bootstrapped SaaS doesn't just teach you product. It teaches you everything."

What I do well.

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Product Vision & Strategy

I see the full arc — from early insight to scaled product. I map what needs to be built, why it needs to exist, and how users will actually move through it. Not just features. Systems.

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Founder-Speed Execution

I vibe code. I prototype. I move fast and bring teams with me. We're not writing tickets and waiting. I'm in the product, shaping it, testing it, and pushing it forward alongside the people building it.

See how I built Kando →
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0→1 & 1→10 Building

I've lived both phases. The chaotic zero-to-one, and the harder work of scaling something that already works. I know the decisions that compound positively and the ones that silently kill momentum.

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Cross-Functional Leadership

I've been the product person, the ops lead, the customer success team, and the strategist — sometimes all in the same week. I know how to unite teams around a shared vision and keep people moving.

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Growth & Revenue Thinking

Product without revenue is a hobby. I built a multimillion-dollar ARR business and, post-acquisition, retained all top customers. I understand the relationship between user experience, retention, and sustainable growth.

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Resilience Under Pressure

Platform changes. Regulatory overhaul. Market shifts. I've navigated real existential threats without folding, and without losing the customer base.

The building doesn't stop.

Mozeo

0 → multimillion-dollar ARR → exit

2007–2023
16
Profitable years
2,000+
Customers
98%+
Customer satisfaction

SMS marketing for small businesses, built from a blank page before the category had a name. We competed against larger, better-funded players and won on product quality and customer trust: 2,000+ customers, 98%+ customer satisfaction, and 16 profitable years. The pricing, onboarding, support, and billing systems we built were kept by the acquirer. Sold to Inunity in 2023.

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Inunity

VP of Product

2023–present
3%
Reduced churn
97%
ARR retained
New
GTM motion

Post-acquisition product leadership. Rebuilt go-to-market from scratch (new ICPs, outbound playbooks, sales and product on one plan), overhauled pricing and packaging after a competitive analysis, and cut churn 3% with a proactive customer-success playbook. Zero customer disruption through the integration.

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Kando

How I build today

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6
Product surfaces
1
Builder
6
Months

A personal productivity system I use every day, with Kanban boards, notebooks, mind maps, and a Claude-powered assistant, that I designed and built solo using AI. Not a startup. A working answer to the question: what does one product person shipping with AI tools look like at production scale?

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I'm here to move things forward.

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I think in systems

I focus on finding the key point that will make the biggest difference, while keeping things as simple as possible.

02

I lead by making

Ideas get better when the leader is willing to get their hands dirty. I work closely with the team by sketching, prototyping, and coding together.

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I care about the outcome

I'm optimizing for users who love what we built, become raving fans, and a business that grows because of it. That's the scoreboard I love watching.

Straight from the people
who've seen it firsthand.

He truly embodies what makes Mozeo unique, with a genuine care for his customers and a passion that fuels his success. Alongside his warmth and dedication, he’s an exceptionally skilled professional who built Mozeo from the ground up, leveraging his broad skill set to shape the company.

— Jayla - Inunity

Nick has always been a true professional and a pleasure to work with and collaborate with. His ideas and approach are unique, fresh, innovative! He couples that with an ease and sincerity of communicating and partnering with for results that are quantifiable. Nick's integrity and capabilities are true assets to your organization!

— Angela - Fractional CMO

Nick and Mozeo have provided amazing services in gathering guests and clients that WANT to be informed about our product. He has always been one step ahead of us in development of the technology needed to represent us correctly, and is great to work with providing himself and representatives in order to get the job done timely and effeciently.

— Steven - Stealth Pipes Inc.
Let's Talk

Whether you need a product leader or a thought partner — I'm open.

If you're building something ambitious and need someone who's been in the trenches, let's have a conversation.

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