Talking Businessly
By Daniel Coulbourne & John Drexler
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We (John and Daniel) are co-founders of a small software development agency. This is a recording of our weekly "state of the company" call where we discuss the nitty gritty details of running our business day-to-day.
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87: tidyup.agency
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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86: Holacracy, if you can keep it
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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85: Our billion dollar theory of the future
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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84: You are here
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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83: Do a good job ™
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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82: AI fatigue
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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81: We set up pay bands
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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80: Late fees are unenforceable
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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79: The wire:live retro (empaneling Caleb Porzio)
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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78: Empaneling Matt Stauffer
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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77: Silly season takes no prisoners
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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76: Pitching our next conference talks
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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75: The good kind of scary
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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74: Radical truth telling
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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73: Be a sustainable business
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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72: wire:live
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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71: No dogs, no ponies
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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70: A deeply unserious Laracon recap
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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69: We'd be richer if we lied more
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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68: The pitch to the "lower middle market"
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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67: We fire Daniel (from project management)
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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66: Empaneling Erin Antcliffe
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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65: Being uncomfortably explicit
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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64: Kapow!
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May 27, 2025 |
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63: We sent invoices from the client app
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May 12, 2025 |
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62: Useful anxiety
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May 05, 2025 |
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61: Empaneling Ian Landsman
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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60: Our biggest client yet
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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59: We lost a client for good reasons
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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58: Finding the real decision maker
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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Bonus Episode: PHP × NYC Chaos-Cast™
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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57: Sunsetting Papercuts
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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56: Chunks of work
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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55: Vertical Slices
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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54: Building without a blueprint
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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53: Be a great place to work (empaneling Bossman Chris)
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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52: Coaching clients to have more urgency
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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51: John built the client management app 🤫
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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50: Growing our product team
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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49: What does success look like in 2025?
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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48: Holiday party
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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47: Killing Harvest
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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46: We want to buy your business (maybe)
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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45: The client onboarding checklist
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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44: Clarifying roles for Silly Season v2
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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43: Getting personal about working styles
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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42: Celebrating $1M in revenue!
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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41: Un-profitable software that helps people
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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40: Pricing saga (part 3)
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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39: Aaron said to put it out no matter what
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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38: Laracon recap
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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37: International man of mischief
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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36: Thunk Pyramid Scheme (the super secret Laracon project)
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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35: The problems that Papercuts solves
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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34: Go to papercuts.io
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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33: This too shall pass
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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32: Monday morning scrutiny
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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31: Buying our time back
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May 27, 2024 |
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30: Strategy brainstorm (empaneling Luke Roush)
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May 21, 2024 |
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29: Awkward money conversation
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May 06, 2024 |
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28: Short term profit vs. long term strategy
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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27: Silly Season (empaneling Steve Smallman)
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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26: The leads are weak? YOU'RE weak!
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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25: ❤️ Devs seeking new obsession ❤️
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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24: Cohort 2™ (working title)
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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23: SaaS opportunity knocks again
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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22: Mentees keep becoming clients
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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21: Our new pricing model (empaneling Joel Clermont)
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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20: The FULL Stack Developer
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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19: We're building a SaaS app
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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18: Setting fewer, better goals for 2024
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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17: Empanelling Allison Lacker
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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16: Brainstorming our first SaaS product
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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15: What kind of clients we do (and don't) want
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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14: Monday morning baseball
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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13: Launching Verbs at Laracon AU
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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12: Colossi + Verbs (it's shill day)
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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11: Trust issues
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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10: Daniel is Going to Laracon AU!
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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9: The Dawn of The Pricing Saga
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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8: Progress!
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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7: Our Great Shame
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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6: How Thunk Will Die
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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5: Empanelling Aaron Francis
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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4: Who Are Your Guys?
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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3: The Sales Funnel is Working
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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2: Vision, Mission, Values
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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1: The FG Scale
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Aug 18, 2023 |