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1 Understanding Taxes as a Newly Formed Small Business - Part 2 of the Small Business Starter Kit 28:24
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In our second installment of the Small Business Starter Kit series - we’re tackling a topic that’s sometimes tricky, sometimes confusing, but ever-present: taxes. Hosts Austin and Jannese have an insightful conversation with entrepreneur Isabella Rosal who started 7th Sky Ventures , an exporter and distributor of craft spirits, beer, and wine. Having lived and worked in two different countries and started a company in a heavily-regulated field, Isabella is no stranger to navigating the paperwork-laden and jargon-infused maze of properly understanding taxes for a newly formed small business. Join us as she shares her story and provides valuable insight into how to tackle your business’ taxes - so they don’t tackle you. Learn more about how QuickBooks can help you grow your business: QuickBooks.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…
Community Business on Your Own Terms w/ Daniel Vassallo (Small Bets)
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What a fascinating episode with Daniel Vassallo, creator of smallbets.com. From leaving Amazon to become self-employed, to experimenting and iterating on business models, software, books, courses, and finally his flagship community, Small Bets.
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What a fascinating episode with Daniel Vassallo, creator of smallbets.com. From leaving Amazon to become self-employed, to experimenting and iterating on business models, software, books, courses, and finally his flagship community, Small Bets.
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1 Community Business on Your Own Terms w/ Daniel Vassallo (Small Bets) 1:21:44
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What a fascinating episode with Daniel Vassallo , creator of smallbets.com . From leaving Amazon to become self-employed, to experimenting and iterating on business models, software, books, courses, and finally his flagship community, Small Bets.
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1 Evolving Developer Education w/ Joel Hooks (egghead.io & badass.dev) 56:48
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Had a fascinating conversation today with Joel Hooks who runs egghead.io and badass.dev . We talked about about the evolving landscape of online education in the developer space. Recorded on September 5th, 2024.
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1 Optimizing For Sanity w/ Chris Oliver (GoRails) 1:20:17
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Chris Oliver, the creator behind GoRails , Jumpstart , HatchBox and his new product, SellRepo , joins me to talk bootstrapping his Ruby on Rails training business and related tools with only a team of 3! A great wide-ranging conversation. Recorded on September 4th, 2024 Note: Sorry! My short intro audio is left speaker only... But that's fixed after the first minute!…
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1 Programmatic SEO Projects With Josh Pigford 52:03
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I caught up with Josh Pigford today, founder of Maybe , ToolStash , and many other projects . We covered a lot of ground across many of his different projects, but spent the bulk of this chat geeking out about programmatic SEO. The strategy, the technical approach, and exactly what (and how) he built some of his AI-generated content marketing strategies for his projects. We recorded this interview on August 6th, 2024.…
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1 Bringing Great Design to WordPress with Mike McAllister 33:09
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Mike McAllister is a designer of brands, websites, products, and WordPress goodness... Here in part 2 of our conversation, we dive into Mike's current work on OllieWP , a new product that brings great design to the WordPress ecosystem. We also talked about the balance of working on products with taking on selective design consulting partnerships with clients. This conversation was recorded on March 6th, 2024…
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1 From Designing Products to Acquihired with Mike McAllister 27:25
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Mike McAllister has an incredible track record as a designer of brands, websites, products, and WordPress goodness... In part 1, we talked about Mike's experience building a successful WordPress products business that was acquired by WPEngine, and what he learned from the transition between indie product founder to acquihired in a large organization. In part 2, we'll dive into Mike's current work on OllieWP , a new product for designing in blocks in WordPress. This conversation was recorded on March 6th, 2024…
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1 From Products to Product Agency with Shawn Adrian of Input Logic 1:07:09
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Here's my conversation with Shawn Adrian, co-founder of Input Logic , a product design and development agency. They're also launching their own product in 2024 in the AI journaling space, called Stilo.ai . This conversation was recorded on March 5th, 2024.
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1 The 80/20 Software Consultancy Model with Daniel Coulbourne 1:05:23
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Daniel Coulbourne is the cofounder of Thunk.dev and the co-host of the Talking Businessly podcast. We had a great conversation about the "80/20 model" in software development consulting, striking a balance between working with clients and building your own products and projects. This conversation was recorded on February 27th, 2024.…
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Jack McDade is the creator of the new course, Radical Design . He's also the founder of Statamic CMS. In this contuation of our conversation, we talked about Jack's unique approach to designing things and how he strikes a balance between fun refreshing projects like this, and running a successful product company. Brian and Jack's conversation was recorded on February 20th, 2024.…
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Jack McDade is the founder of Statamic CMS and the creator of the new course, Radical Design . In this conversation, Jack shared his story of going from film maker to full stack designer and developer to building a website CMS product. Brian and Jack's conversation was recorded on February 20th, 2024.…
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1 Software founder life in NYC with Sam Selikoff 18:03
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Sam Selikoff , cofounder of BuildUI , returns to the show and we talk all about NYC! New York City, one of my favorite places. Brian and Sam’s conversation was recorded on December 15th, 2023. (00:00) - Software founder life in NYC with Sam Selikoff (02:59) - What is the crowd like? (05:08) - New York's downfall - sports teams (06:56) - Working remotely in NYC (10:47) - City life vs. Suburb life (12:39) - NY energy (crazy and all!) (14:27) - Cost of living…
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1 Building a Courses Business with a YouTube audience with Kevin Powell 23:27
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Kevin Powell returns to the show where we talk about the business side of his work as a YouTuber and teacher of front-end development and CSS. Brian and Kevin’s conversation was recorded on December 7th, 2023. (00:00) - Building a Courses Business with a YouTube audience with Kevin Powell (01:34) - Kevin's ideal customer journey (03:18) - Using call-to-action cards on YouTube (05:35) - Kevin's channels of revenue (09:23) - Running a Discord community (12:27) - Pricing and course organization (16:53) - Once off vs Memberships (18:54) - Deciding what to create next (20:45) - Kevin's 2024 resolutions…
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1 How Lianna Patch Reinvented Her Copywriting Business 28:49
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Lianna Patch wasn’t thrilled with the work she was doing, who she was doing it for, and the lack of fun she was having as a professional copywriter. So she changed everything and relaunched her Punchline Copy business with a focus on comedic copy. Brian and Lianna’s conversation was recorded on December 13th, 2023. (00:00) - How Lianna Patch Reinvented Her Copywriting Business (01:48) - The evolution of Pubchline copy (07:02) - Lianna's main client base (08:26) - How to be an ideal client (11:03) - How Lianna structures her business (15:44) - Offering productized services (19:02) - ..And larger projects? (20:06) - 2024's roadmap (24:05) - Moving from consulting to "passive" revenue…
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1 Fractional Product Management to SaaS Cofounder with James Lewis 33:33
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I invited James Lewis on to help understand the idea of a “fractional product manager” (and we covered that) but it turned into James’ story of how we transitioned from that into cofounder of a new SaaS, Lemon , in the payments space. Brian and James’ conversation was recorded on December 8th, 2023. (00:00) - Fractional Product Management to SaaS Cofounder with James Lewis (02:13) - James' current day to day (05:04) - Transitioning from dev to project management (08:10) - The first big move and early learnings (13:50) - Working as a fractional product manager for lemon (16:10) - How James landed the lemon role (18:02) - Dusting off the dev hat (21:05) - What is lemon? (22:55) - ...And how does it work? (26:15) - lemon's current roadmap…
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1 From Founder to Coaching Founders with Justin Ferriman 21:19
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Justin Ferriman returns and we discuss his post-exit transition to becoming a business coach for other founders. Brian and Justin’s conversation was recorded on November 10th, 2023. (00:00) - From Founder to Coaching Founders with Justin Ferriman (01:26) - Justin's coaching story (03:09) - The Know/Like/Trust list (04:13) - Ideation to execution (05:38) - How Justin is structuring his coaching offerings (11:58) - Keeping room for growth (13:35) - Justin on marketing his coaching business (15:31) - Being active in a community > Hard sell (18:20) - Using quality content to build trust…
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