Build Your SaaS
By Transistor.fm
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Interested in building your own SaaS company? Follow the journey of Transistor.fm as they bootstrap a podcast hosting startup.
| Episode | Date |
|---|---|
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An update from Justin and Jon
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Sep 13, 2025 |
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"Justin, I built a SaaS!"
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Giuuunta! Motivating yourself when you're not in startup mode
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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Adam Wathan: how small startups hire employees (Tailwind CSS)
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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Is ONCE enough?
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Feb 10, 2024 |
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How Ben and David bootstrapped the Acquired podcast
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Nashville team retreat: scary birds, country music, and a photo shoot
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Paul Jarvis: gaining freedom by building an indie business
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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How Tim worked on side-projects for 10+ years, and finally went full-time (with kids)
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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Startup coaching: helping founders and team members realize their full potential
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Michele Hansen update: Section 174 and bootstrapping with kids
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May 16, 2023 |
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Should a parent with young kids try to bootstrap a new startup?
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May 09, 2023 |
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Why we hired someone new
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Act now before it's too late: Section 174
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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This would kill our company immediately
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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One pepperoni pizza please
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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Super Fun SaaS Sales Tax (Part Deux)
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Nobody wants to talk about this (SaaS sales tax)
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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The gang goes to Montréal
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Jon & Justin reveal everything (part 2)
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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Jon & Justin reveal everything (part 1)
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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Bootstrapping in France (Baptiste Jamin from Crisp)
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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What's it like getting acquired by Spotify? (Dave Zohrob from Chartable)
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Patrick Campbell: why ProfitWell sold to Paddle for $200M
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May 31, 2022 |
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Going from $0 to $2 million in ARR in 7 years (the Missive story)
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Taylor Otwell: the business of Laravel in 2022
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Why Customer Support = Startup Success
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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What's it really like to work at Transistor?
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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Founders' retreat
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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Reflecting on 2021
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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Brian Casel, of Bootstrapped Web, chats about his new app
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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What does my daughter think of the podcast industry?
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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A few questions
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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Why should we care about our customers' feelings?
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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This is a big step for us
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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Is venture capital bad?
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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Basecamp | Hiring | How to have a calm company
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May 04, 2021 |
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A good business will change your life (for real)
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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We're doing this and it's weird
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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Podcast companies losing money?
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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Jason Fried – you can't control the market
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Dec 29, 2020 |
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What happened after Simon went full time on his SaaS?
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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Landsman on software
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Nov 17, 2020 |
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How fragile is the prosumer SaaS market?
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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What it takes to launch a SaaS
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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THE FEAR
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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Do you really need to build an audience?
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Sep 08, 2020 |
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Break out
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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Talking about an acquisition
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Jun 30, 2020 |
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It's just too much
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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Waking up
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Jun 09, 2020 |
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Why there's no episode today
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May 26, 2020 |
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Building software for 2030
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May 19, 2020 |
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Simon is going full-time
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May 13, 2020 |
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They stole our idea!
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May 05, 2020 |
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Starting over again on our SaaS
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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What should we build next?
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Apr 21, 2020 |
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How coronavirus is impacting revenue
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Apr 14, 2020 |
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Giuuuuuuuunta
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Apr 07, 2020 |
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Pants-driven development
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Mar 31, 2020 |
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How are founders handling the pandemic?
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Mar 24, 2020 |
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Marie Poulin: Maybe you shouldn't start a software company
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Mar 17, 2020 |
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All that he wants
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Mar 10, 2020 |
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Should you start a startup with your spouse?
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Mar 03, 2020 |
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What's driving you now?
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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Clearing the air
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Feb 18, 2020 |
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Anxiety about what might happen with the business
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Feb 11, 2020 |
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A cloudy feeling of dread
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Feb 04, 2020 |
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Who gets paid, and who doesn't?
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Jan 28, 2020 |
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What's your sustainable competitive advantage?
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Jan 21, 2020 |
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The challenges of being in (the wrong) business
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Jan 14, 2020 |
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What happens tomorrow?
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Dec 31, 2019 |
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A Christmas Eve SEO scare
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Dec 24, 2019 |
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Should you build an audience first?
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Dec 17, 2019 |
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How did we do on last year's predictions?
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Dec 10, 2019 |
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What should we do in 2020?
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Dec 03, 2019 |
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Why we stopped sharing our revenue numbers
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Nov 26, 2019 |
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Throwing computers off a tall building
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Nov 19, 2019 |
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Why did this take so long?
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Nov 12, 2019 |
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Desktop life
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Nov 05, 2019 |
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Limitless growth!
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Oct 29, 2019 |
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"Launched" with quotation marks
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Oct 22, 2019 |
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What's threatening our business?
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Oct 15, 2019 |
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$30k in MRR – how does this feel?
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Oct 08, 2019 |
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How do you even sleep at night?
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Oct 01, 2019 |
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Bootstrapping loneliness
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Sep 24, 2019 |
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Is it a good idea to be a transparent startup?
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Sep 17, 2019 |
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How much MRR is enough?
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Sep 10, 2019 |
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Change is in the air
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Sep 03, 2019 |
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The constant feature release cycle
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Aug 27, 2019 |
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WHO DELETED MY CODE?!?!
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Aug 20, 2019 |
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How we're Shaping Up
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Aug 13, 2019 |
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Jason Fried wants to delete our backlog
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Aug 06, 2019 |
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No sleep 'till Brooklyn (what we learned in New York)
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Jul 30, 2019 |
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Once you launch, you're immediately behind
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Jul 23, 2019 |
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Your backlog is making me thirsty
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Jul 16, 2019 |
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What if there's an accident?
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Jul 09, 2019 |
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Jon's big announcement
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Jul 02, 2019 |
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I want to work at Transistor.fm
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Jun 25, 2019 |
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We took funding (from our customers)
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Jun 18, 2019 |
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"I can't believe you're using that in production"
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Jun 11, 2019 |
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How big of a market should you target?
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Jun 04, 2019 |
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Four different git branches in various unfinished states
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May 28, 2019 |
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You can't put me in a box
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May 21, 2019 |
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Wrestling with our company's growth
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May 14, 2019 |
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Burn it all to the ground
|
May 07, 2019 |
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Keeping the dream alive in Portland
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Apr 30, 2019 |
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The "charge more" debate
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Apr 23, 2019 |
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Taylor Otwell: "PHP (and a cheap laptop) changed my life"
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Apr 16, 2019 |
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The market for your startup matters
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Apr 09, 2019 |
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When should bootstrappers get paid?
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Apr 02, 2019 |
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Worst day ever
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Mar 26, 2019 |
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Pro athletes are mocking me on the internet
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Mar 19, 2019 |
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Do startups need specialists or generalists?
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Mar 12, 2019 |
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Full-on sweatpants mode
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Mar 05, 2019 |
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Did we solve our bandwidth cost crisis?
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Feb 26, 2019 |
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Counting beans and getting hit by a bus
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Feb 19, 2019 |
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Is this the best time to start a podcasting startup?
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Feb 13, 2019 |
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Getting real: sharing our founder struggles
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Feb 05, 2019 |
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How to grow your audience
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Jan 29, 2019 |
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Should startups worry about their competition?
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Jan 22, 2019 |
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Marketing tactics for your SaaS: how to get the word out
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Jan 15, 2019 |
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Our predictions for 2019
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Jan 08, 2019 |
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How to find the right customers for your software business
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Dec 19, 2018 |
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Let's chat about the podcast industry
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Dec 13, 2018 |
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Why does Jon need a co-founder?
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Dec 05, 2018 |
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How did you split equity in Transistor?
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Nov 27, 2018 |
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Interesting ways you can use a podcast
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Nov 20, 2018 |
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Insulating our recording studio
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Nov 13, 2018 |
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There's a new funding option for bootstrapped founders
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Nov 06, 2018 |
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Your startup's expenses are too high
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Oct 30, 2018 |
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How'd you get into computers? (Apple II, PC clones, BBSes, CYBERSPACE)
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Oct 23, 2018 |
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You forgot $20,000 in your snowboard pocket
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Oct 10, 2018 |
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You drew a prototype on that napkin from Portland
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Oct 02, 2018 |
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What's the most important metric for a web app?
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Sep 25, 2018 |
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We have some explaining to do
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Sep 18, 2018 |
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Your revenue forecast is wrong
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Aug 28, 2018 |
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The problem with podcasts
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Aug 21, 2018 |
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What's a good conversion rate for a web app?
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Aug 14, 2018 |
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Launch week hangover
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Aug 07, 2018 |
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The opposite of bored money
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Jul 24, 2018 |
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Startup advice from Justin Kan, Stephanie Hulburt, and Naval
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Jul 17, 2018 |
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Meet me in Chicago
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Jul 10, 2018 |
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I see Spots
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Jul 03, 2018 |
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Our Voltron needs fuel
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Jun 26, 2018 |
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Teaser: I don't want to get crushed by the VC monster
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Jun 19, 2018 |
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Bonus: building a SaaS on the side is hard!
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Jun 12, 2018 |
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SaaS pricing advice from Rob Walling and Patrick Campbell
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Jun 05, 2018 |
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What does Nathan Barry think of podcast hosting pricing?
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May 29, 2018 |
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How should we price our SaaS?
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May 22, 2018 |
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Should we make our revenue numbers public?
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May 15, 2018 |
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How to validate your product idea
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May 08, 2018 |
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Live from Las Vegas
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May 02, 2018 |
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How to organize your time when your startup is your side-hustle
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Apr 24, 2018 |
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Startup money
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Apr 17, 2018 |
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We need to talk
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Apr 10, 2018 |
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My teenager wants to play Dungeons & Dragons
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Apr 03, 2018 |
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Six screens and a power glove
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Mar 27, 2018 |
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What are you scared of?
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Mar 20, 2018 |
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I want Castle Grayskull
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Mar 13, 2018 |
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How to find a cofounder (our story)
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Mar 06, 2018 |
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What does it take to build a SaaS these days?
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Feb 17, 2018 |