Bootstrapped
By Steve McLeod
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This is the archive of Bootstrapped.fm. A seminal Bootstrapper-oriented podcast started in 2013 by Ian Landsman and Andrey Butov. The first iteration ran for 104 episodes. In 2019, Steve McLeod took over for another 139 episodes. We've set this podcast to release order so you can experience it as it was initially presented.
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#243: The End
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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#242: Boredeom
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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#241: Podcasting
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May 14, 2025 |
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#240: Why I repositioned Feature Upvote to the video game industry
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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#239: Our Business Heroes with The Gross Profit Podcast
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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#238: B2B SaaS design with Nathan Powell
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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#237: Michael Koper, founder of Nusii
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Mar 12, 2023 |
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#236: Steve McLeod, founder of Feature Upvote
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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#235: Maeva Cifuentes, founder of Flying Cat Marketing
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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#234: Ed's marketing catchup
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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#233: Running a lifestyle business and proud of it
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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#232: Running a WordPress agency, with Marc Jenkins of 16by9
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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#231: Bad support loses customers, and payment failures
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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#230: Introducing Pushing to Production
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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#229: Saying no to a generous acquisition offer, with Simon Bennett of SnapShooter
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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#228: How to get backlinks (without feeling dirty)
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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#227: Joining TinySeed with Nick Swan of SEOTesting.com
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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#226: Sponsoring events, podcasts, and newsletters with Peldi @ Balsamiq
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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#225: BoS Europe 2022 retrospective
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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#224: Recalibrating prices, and Postmark got acquired
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May 20, 2022 |
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#223: When customer payments fail
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May 06, 2022 |
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#222: Pierre de Wulf, co-founder of ScrapingBee
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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#221: Brian Sierakowski of Baremetrics
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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#220: Adventures in Abandonware and WordPress
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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#219: Leaving bootstrapper life to be an employee again, with John Ndege
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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#218: London, in-person events, crowded pubs
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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#217: Brian Casel of ZipMessage
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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#216: Trademarking your bootstrapped business
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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#215: The domain name change that didn't go as planned, with Robert Brandl of ToolTester.com
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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#214: I hired a marketer
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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#213: Charles Perry, founder of RelaNet
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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#212: When, if ever, should we refuse a customer?
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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#211: Strengthening company culture in a remote team with Peldi of Balsamiq
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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#210: 50 tips for running a stress-free SaaS part 2
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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#209: 50 tips for running a stress-free SaaS part 1
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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#208: The dismal deeds of a desperate competitor
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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#207: Our goals for 2022
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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#206: Looking back at our goals for 2021
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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#205: A rapid Saber Feedback update
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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#204: Ed can speak again
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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#203: A recap of the interview mini-season
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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#202: Bridget Harris, co-founder of YouCanBookMe
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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#201: Running an email newsletter business, with Peter Cooper of Cooperpress
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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#200: Positioning for bootstrappers with April Dunford
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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#199: Creating a successful podcast with Jane Portman of UI Breakfast
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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#198: Backing up 170 Petabytes of customer data, with Simon Bennett of SnapShooter
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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#197: Life is unpredictable, and a pricing experiment
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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#196: Our Mental Wellbeing as Bootstrappers, with Robin Warren
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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#195: Back to School
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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#194: We talk about our vacations
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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#193: The fine details of the Saber Feedback acquisition
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Sep 03, 2021 |
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#192: How the pandemic overturned my business, with Mark Littlewood of Business of Software
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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#191: On quietly successful SaaS businesses, and saying goodbye to our forum
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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#190: Resellers and product-based podcasts, with Peldi of Balsamiq
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Aug 13, 2021 |
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#189: The agony of the enterprise sale process, with Ed Freyfogle
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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#188: Switching from Bootstrapped to Investor-Funded, with Craig Hewitt of Castos
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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#187: A Saber Feedback update
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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#186: Marketing to Developers with Adam DuVander
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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#185: Selling a small stake of your company, with Moritz Dausinger of Refiner.io
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Jun 27, 2021 |
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#184: When team members quit, with Ed and Steve
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Jun 18, 2021 |
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#183: Feeling bored and stuck in your business? With Peldi and Ed
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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#182: Responsible product design with Trine Falbe
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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#181: Conducting customer interviews for the reluctant, with Asia Orangio of DemandMaven
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May 28, 2021 |
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#180: Managing the mental ups and downs with Geraldine DeRuiter and Rand Fishkin
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May 21, 2021 |
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#179: (Peldi) The GDPR 3 years later with Aleth Gueguen of GDPR for SaaS
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May 15, 2021 |
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#178: The Hungry Time, with Ed Freyfogle
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May 07, 2021 |
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#177: When life is turned upside down, with Nick Swan of SEOTesting
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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#176: Tips for self-publishing a book, with science fiction writer Aidan Doyle
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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#175: Riskiness of being a side project's customer
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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#174: Corey Haines, founder of the Swipe Files community
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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#173: Reducing the support workload with Ed Freyfogle
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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#172: Getting rid of Google Analytics, with Alex Yumashev
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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#171: Nick Franklin, founder of ChartMogul
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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#170: "Be so good they can't ignore you", with Peldi of Balsamiq
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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#169: Email newsletter or no email newsletter? The great debate.
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Mar 05, 2021 |
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#168: Twitter for Marketing, and Zombie Customers
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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#167: The blog gets posts once every 13 years
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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#166: Making an Open Source business work with Allan Jardine of DataTables
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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#165: Finding and hiring freelancers
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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#164: A Saber Feedback update 9 months after acquisition
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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#163: Our goals for 2021
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Jan 04, 2021 |
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#162: Reviewing our 2020 goals
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Dec 30, 2020 |
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#161: The inglorious launch of my first product
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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#160: Creating great email onboarding sequences, with Liz Painter of Comma Comma
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Dec 11, 2020 |
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#159: Enterprise sales hell, SEO frustration and self-doubt
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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#158: Not 1, not 2, but 3 bootstrapped SaaS successes with Moritz Dausinger of refiner.io
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Nov 27, 2020 |
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#157: Dealing with your business's endless administration burden
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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#156: "May I have a discount?"
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Nov 13, 2020 |
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#155: Competing in a crowded market with Alex Yumashev of Jitbit
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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#154: Finding and recruiting freelance developers with Robin Warren of Corrello
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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#153: "What should I do with Saber Feedback?"
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Oct 23, 2020 |
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#152: Practical knowledge sharing for bootstrappers
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Oct 17, 2020 |
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#151: Advice on validating and building a bootstrapped B2B SaaS
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Oct 09, 2020 |
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#150: How to solve my SEO problems, with Robert Brandl of ToolTester Network
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Oct 02, 2020 |
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#149: A Saber Feedback update six months after acquisition
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Sep 27, 2020 |
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#148: Hrishi Mittal, founder of Learnetto, on the struggle to get traction
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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#147: "You get to do this however works for you" with Laura Roeder, founder of MeetEdgar
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Sep 04, 2020 |
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#146: Selling your business at any revenue level, with Kevin McArdle of SureSwift Capital
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Aug 29, 2020 |
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#145: The Hacker News front page experience, 5-hour workdays and 4-day workweeks
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Aug 22, 2020 |
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#144: Patrick Hathaway, cofounder of Sitebulb on selling a desktop app with subscription pricing
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Aug 14, 2020 |
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#143: When should you refactor your product's code?
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Aug 02, 2020 |
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#142: Revisiting our pre-pandemic yearly goals
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Jul 26, 2020 |
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#141: A Saber Feedback update three months after acquisition
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Jul 17, 2020 |
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#140: How NOT to handle customer payment problems
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Jun 26, 2020 |
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#139: Selling to Developers with Peter Suhm of Branch CI
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Jun 19, 2020 |
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#138: "Epic Guide" Marketing
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Jun 12, 2020 |
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#137: Derrick Grigg - Founder of PageProofer
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Jun 04, 2020 |
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#136: Website security for bootstrappers
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May 30, 2020 |
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#135: How to improve Saber Feedback's website content, with Hannah Adcock of Contented Strategy
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May 21, 2020 |
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#134: Why I chose to acquire Saber Feedback
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May 15, 2020 |
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#133: Why Matt Bearman chose to sell his bootstrapped product, Saber Feedback
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May 07, 2020 |
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#132: COVID-19 and our businesses
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May 01, 2020 |
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#130: A brief hiatus
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Mar 27, 2020 |
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#129: Driving to Mongolia while running a mission-critical SaaS
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Mar 19, 2020 |
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#128: Dealing with bootstrapper stress
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Mar 06, 2020 |
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#127: SaaS products we use to run our businesses
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Feb 28, 2020 |
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#126: Why Dave Rodenbaugh acquired an existing business instead of starting from scratch
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Feb 20, 2020 |
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#125: Tracking what you spend on your business
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Feb 14, 2020 |
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#124: Goals for 2020
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Jan 31, 2020 |
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#123: "Why I sold my SaaS" - with Courtenay Farquharson, founder of Parserr
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Jan 23, 2020 |
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#122: My desktop app got acquired!
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Jan 18, 2020 |
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#121: Handling cancellations in a subscription product
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Jan 10, 2020 |
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#120: Small team habits part 2: Steve's turn
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Dec 20, 2019 |
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#119: Small team habits part 1
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Dec 13, 2019 |
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#118: Should your product go Freemium?
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Dec 06, 2019 |
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#117: Selling to Developers
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Dec 01, 2019 |
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#116: Pricing your product in multiple currencies, with Ed Freyfogle from OpenCage
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Nov 22, 2019 |
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#115: Living Abroad While Bootstrapping, with Craig Hewitt
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Nov 15, 2019 |
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#114: "The Tables are Turned", with Craig Hewitt
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Nov 10, 2019 |
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#113: "The idea of public speaking fills me with unspeakable terror", featuring Craig Hewitt
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Nov 01, 2019 |
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#112: Three ways to use podcasts for marketing. Featuring Craig Hewitt, founder of Castos
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Oct 25, 2019 |
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#111: "Should I apply for TinySeed?" with Craig Hewitt, founder of Castos
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Oct 18, 2019 |
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#110: "Living the Bootstrapper dream" with Robin Warren, founder of Corrello
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Oct 11, 2019 |
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#109: Andy Brice - Founder of EasyDataTransform
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Oct 04, 2019 |
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#108: Hannah Adcock - Owner of Contented Strategy
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Sep 27, 2019 |
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#107: Robert Brandl - Founder of WebsiteToolTester
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Sep 20, 2019 |
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#106: Sylvestre Dupont - Co-founder of Parseur
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Sep 13, 2019 |
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#105 - A new iteration of Bootstrapped
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Sep 13, 2019 |
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#104 - I Don't Want To Talk About GDPR The Whole Time w/ Natalie Nagele from Wildbit
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May 31, 2018 |
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#103 - There's No Scarcity On Piñatas
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May 22, 2018 |
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#102 - I'm Running On Fumes
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Apr 15, 2018 |
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#101 - All About Landsman
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Feb 05, 2018 |
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#100 - All About Butov
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Jan 29, 2018 |
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#99 - Star Wars: The Last Jedi w/ Taylor Otwell (SPOILERS!)
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Dec 16, 2017 |
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#98 - The Landsman Game Challenge
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Dec 04, 2017 |
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#97 - ButovOrBust.com
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Nov 23, 2017 |
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#96 - It's All Possibility.....And Work
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Oct 09, 2017 |
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#95 - I Started Fresh, and It's Glorious
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Oct 02, 2017 |
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#94 - Franchise Friends
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Sep 12, 2017 |
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#93 - Thinner, Leaner, Meaner
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Sep 05, 2017 |
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#92 - Elevator Algorithms
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Aug 21, 2017 |
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#91 - I'd Wear A Full Face Mask
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Aug 14, 2017 |
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#90 - Butov Plus Plus
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Jun 09, 2017 |
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#89 - It's The Open Desert That Got Me
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Apr 25, 2017 |
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#88 - Charles Perry (Part 2) - Founder of Metakite
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Feb 06, 2017 |
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#87 - Charles Perry (Part 1) - Founder of Metakite
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Jan 30, 2017 |
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#86: Garrett Dimon (Part 2) - Founder of Sifter, Currently at Wildbit
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Jan 23, 2017 |
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#85: Garrett Dimon (Part 1) - Founder of Sifter, Currently at Wildbit
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Jan 17, 2017 |
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#84: You’re on an Air, Butov - an Air!
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Jan 09, 2017 |
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#83: Brian Casel (Part 2) - Founder of Audience Ops
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Jan 02, 2017 |
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#82: Brian Casel (Part 1) - Founder of Audience Ops
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Dec 26, 2016 |
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#81: Brandon Kelly (Part 2) - Founder and CEO of Craft CMS
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Dec 19, 2016 |
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#80: Brandon Kelly (Part 1) - Founder and CEO of Craft CMS
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Dec 12, 2016 |
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#79: (Part 2) Patrick Pohler on Starting an API Based Real Estate SaaS
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Dec 06, 2016 |
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#78: Patrick Pohler (Part 1) on Starting an API Based Real Estate SaaS
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Nov 29, 2016 |
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#77: "... is somebody being bombed?"
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Sep 21, 2016 |
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#76: "Cleo"
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Sep 06, 2016 |
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#75: "Don't you worry about Dave. You worry about Butov!"
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Aug 09, 2016 |
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#74: "Nobody ever got fired for hiring Vector Media Group" with special guest Matt Weinberg
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Jul 15, 2016 |
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#73: ”If you can find an agreeable parrot, ...”
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Jun 20, 2016 |
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#72: "It's all going to $0, but in the meantime, we can make some money"
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Jun 08, 2016 |
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#71: "Jane Portman from UI Breakfast"
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May 09, 2016 |
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#70: "I made a lot of money off Twitter"
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Apr 18, 2016 |
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#69: "You always pay for sticking to your principles."
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Mar 28, 2016 |
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#68: "Butov's Brooklyn"
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Feb 29, 2016 |
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#67: Stuff
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Feb 08, 2016 |
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#66: I'm Done Doing
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Feb 03, 2016 |
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#65: Star Wars is the 'Dora the Explorer' of science fiction.
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Dec 30, 2015 |
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#64: A Carl Sagan Joint
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Dec 03, 2015 |
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#63: How Are Sales Today?
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Nov 19, 2015 |
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#62: I have the flu
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Nov 05, 2015 |
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#61
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Oct 22, 2015 |
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#60: Pump the hotness
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Oct 13, 2015 |
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#59
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Oct 07, 2015 |
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#58
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Sep 30, 2015 |
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#57
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Sep 18, 2015 |
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#56: Rated R
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Apr 29, 2015 |
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#55: It’s all part of the game
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Mar 16, 2015 |
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#54: This is worse than Seinfeld
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Feb 02, 2015 |
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#53: $1000 join
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Dec 18, 2014 |
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#52: Dead Man’s Switch
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Nov 07, 2014 |
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#51: Special Guest: Matt Stauffer
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Oct 20, 2014 |
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#50: 50
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Oct 14, 2014 |
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#49: A new product from scratch
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Sep 12, 2014 |
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#48: Gabriel Weinberg of DuckDuckGo
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Aug 25, 2014 |
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#47: Anchor Celebrities
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Aug 18, 2014 |
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#46: Jeffrey Way of Laracasts
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Jul 28, 2014 |
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#45: Adventures in Hacker News
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Jul 21, 2014 |
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#44: I’m Recording Now
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Jul 14, 2014 |
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#43: The Userscape Developers
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Jul 01, 2014 |
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#42: Let’s get Wil Wheaton
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Jun 05, 2014 |
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#41: 90% good looks. 10% ideas.
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May 29, 2014 |
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#40: Andrey Butov’s Fizzilization
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May 07, 2014 |
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#39: Take them to Hooters
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Apr 22, 2014 |
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#39: After Dark
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Apr 22, 2014 |
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#38: Special guest: Eric Miller
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Apr 09, 2014 |
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#37: Hush! The grown-ups are talking.
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Mar 27, 2014 |
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#36: White hat growth hacker
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Mar 24, 2014 |
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#35: Hate the SaaS!
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Mar 10, 2014 |
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#34: Don’t Shake the SaaS Tree
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Feb 24, 2014 |
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#33: This is what happens to growth hackers.
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Jan 30, 2014 |
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#32: The Full Stallman
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Jan 21, 2014 |
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#31: We are Joel, together
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Jan 09, 2014 |
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#30: Special Guest: Gavin Bowman
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Jan 07, 2014 |
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#29: There’s always one more year
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Dec 30, 2013 |
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#28: Special Guest Ruben Gamez
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Dec 19, 2013 |
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#27: Everybody Gotta Hustle
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Dec 04, 2013 |
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#26: Party All the Time
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Nov 25, 2013 |
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#25: Devil’s Advocate
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Nov 13, 2013 |
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#24: Batman Voice
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Nov 08, 2013 |
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#23: Clichély doing the cliché thing
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Oct 16, 2013 |
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#22: Meh
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Sep 30, 2013 |
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#21: Special Guest: Andy Brice
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Sep 23, 2013 |
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#20: Hard Stop
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Sep 11, 2013 |
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#19: No Red Candy!
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Sep 04, 2013 |
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#18: Special Guest: Chase Clemons on Bootstrapped Support
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Aug 27, 2013 |
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#17: Special Guest: Rachel Andrew
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Aug 06, 2013 |
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#16: Meat and Attitude
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Aug 01, 2013 |
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#15: Patrick McKenzie (patio11) on Selling Software
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Jul 24, 2013 |
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#14: Now you have to do stuff
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Jul 11, 2013 |
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#13: Boiler Room
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Jun 26, 2013 |
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#12: The Analogy
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Jun 19, 2013 |
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#11: Bootstrapping a Software Consulting Company
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Jun 12, 2013 |
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#10: Gymboree
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Jun 05, 2013 |
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#9: Uberdeck
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May 22, 2013 |
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#8: Bizarro Week
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May 07, 2013 |
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#7: Just wasting my time!
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Apr 30, 2013 |
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#6: Authorize This
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Apr 23, 2013 |
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#5: Let’s all go to the movies!
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Apr 17, 2013 |
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#4: The customer is seldom right
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Apr 10, 2013 |
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#3: Pivoting all over the place
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Mar 31, 2013 |
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#2: Lollipop Sticks
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Mar 25, 2013 |
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#1: Bootstrapped and Profitable
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Mar 19, 2013 |