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November
- Episode 524 | Bootstrapping a Commodity SaaS
- Episode 523 | Breaking Through Plateaus, Entrepreneurship for Kids, Common Bootstrapper Mistakes, and More Listener Questions
- Episode 522 | Revisiting Castos, One Year Later
- TinySeed Tales S2E9 | Playing the Long Game
- Episode 521 | A Roundtable Discussion about a Potential Recession, Working from Home, Google Anti-trust, and More
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October
- TinySeed Tales S2E8 | Upmarket Starts to Pay Off
- Episode 520 | Why a Million Dollar Agency Quit It All and Moved to SaaS
- TinySeed Tales S2E7 | A Global Pandemic
- Episode 519 | Profit Sharing, Stock Options, and Equity (A Rob Solo Adventure)
- TinySeed Tales S2E6 | Best Growth Month Ever
- Episode 518 | A Live LinkedIn Ads Consult with Anthony Blatner and Scatterspoke
- Episode 517.5 | The 2nd State of Independent SaaS Survey is Live
- TinySeed Tales S2E5 | The Gamble of Raising Prices
- Episode 517 | Married Co-founders Who Turned a Free Tool Into a Fast-Growing SaaS Product
- TinySeed Tales S2E4 | Being Married and Being Co-Founders
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September
- Episode 516 | When to Re-write Your SaaS Codebase
- TinySeed Tales S2E3 | Is This All Worth It?
- Episode 515 | Finding a Co-Founder, Getting Better at Sales, and More Listener Questions
- TinySeed Tales S2E2 | Moving Upmarket
- Episode 514 | An Inside Look at MicroConf Remote
- TinySeed Tales S2E1 | Introducing Gather
- Episode 513 | SaaS Valuations + Dos and Don'ts When Selling A SaaS
- Episode 512 | The Power of Options (A Rob Solo Adventure)
- August
- July
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June
- Episode 503 | Idea Validation, Expanding Internationally, Affiliate Programs, and More Listener Questions
- Episode 502 | Accelerating Growth and a Failed Product Hunt Launch
- Episode 501 | A Bluetick Update from Mike #Taber
- Episode 500
- Episode 499.5 | The (First) Six Stages of SaaS Growth - Part 2
- Bonus | The Struggle for Lasting Change
- Episode 499 | The (First) Six Stages of SaaS Growth - Part 1
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May
- Episode 498 | Selling During a Pandemic with Steli Efti
- Episode 497 | Documenting SaaS for a Sale, Email Harvesting and Spam, and More Listener Questions
- Episode 496 | "The Press Covers Exceptions, Don't Compare Yourself to Slack or Zoom"
- Episode 495 | Advice, Competition, Marketing, and Managing Developers (A Rob Solo Adventure)
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April
- Episode 494 | A Bluetick Update From Mike Taber
- Episode 493 | A Roundtable Discussion about COVID-19, Working From Home, Payroll Protection and More
- Bonus Episode: What Courtland Allen Has Learned Interviewing 155 Startup Founders
- Episode 492 | From Zero to $55k MRR to Exit (in 2 Years) with Feedback Panda
- Episode 491 | Hard Lessons Learned, Reaching High-Touch Prospects, Finding Advisors, and More Listener Questions
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March
- Episode 490 | How Founders Should Be Thinking About the Current Crisis
- Episode 489.5 | It All Started 10 Years Ago Today
- Episode 489 | 15 Years to a SaaS Exit (Plus Why Forecasting is Crucial)
- Episode 488 | A Bluetick Progress Update from Mike Taber
- Episode 487 | Startup Roundtable Discussing Hey.com, Leadpages’ Acquisition, and More Hot Topics
- Episode 486 | The Shocking Collapse of Zirtual and Maren Kate’s Next Act (plus How to Hire Well)
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February
- Episode 485 | Catching Up with Rob (An Interview by Dr. Sherry Walling)
- Episode 484 | Marketing That’s Working Today, Moving from 5 to 10 Employees, SaaS Longevity, and More Listener Questions
- Episode 483 | Building a Mindset for SaaS Growth with Andy Baldacci
- Episode 482 | The Value vs. Stress of Twitter, Pros and Cons of Remote Work, and Digital Minimalism - A Discussion Show with Derrick Reimer
- January
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November
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December
- Episode 477 | Assessing Product-Market Fit, How to Find a Mastermind, and More Listener Questions with Brian Casel
- Episode 476 | “We Went from Hundreds of Free Trials to a Few Dozen...On Purpose” with Jordan Gal
- Episode 475 | A Bluetick Update from #Mike Taber
- Episode 474.5 | The Future of MicroConf
- TinySeed Tales 8 | Success and the Ongoing Struggle
- Episode 474 | Overcoming a 40% Decline in MRR with Brian Casel
- TinySeed Tales 7 | The Growing Pains of Delegation
- Episode 473 | Managing Annual Subscriptions, Low-price vs. High, Being a Non-Developer Founder, and More Listener Questions with Laura Roeder
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November
- TinySeed Tales 6 | The No Credit Card Trial
- Episode 472 | From Amazing Launch to Near Bankruptcy to Profitability with Shai Schechter
- TinySeed Tales 5 | Building a Business That Runs Itself
- Episode 471 | Fighting to Gain Traction in a Crowded Space with Jane Portman of Userlist
- TinySeed Tales 4 | A Bug in the Funnel and Giving Up Control
- Episode 470 | A Bluetick Update from Mike Taber
- TinySeed Tales 3 | The Best News Ever and the Slog
- Episode 469 | Key Takeaways from MicroConf Europe 2019
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October
- TinySeed Tales 2 | Riding the Startup Wave
- Episode 468 | Tables Are Turned As Tracy Osborn Interviews Rob About the Past Year
- TinySeed Tales 1 | A Non-Technical SaaS Founder
- Episode 467 | “A Life-Changing Exit” with Adii Pienaar of Conversio
- TinySeed Tales | Season 1 Trailer (Castos)
- Episode 466 | Answering Listener Questions With Craig Hewitt
- Episode 465 | A Bluetick Update from Mike Taber
- Episode 464 | Highs, Lows, and Building Your First Sales Process with Steli Efti
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September
- Episode 463.5 | Be Part of “The State of Independent SaaS”
- Episode 463 | Troubleshooting Enterprise Sales (A Founder Hotseat with David Heller)
- Episode 462 | Competing Against an 800 lb. Gorilla, Splitting from Your Co-founder, and More Listener Questions (with Jeff Epstein)
- Episode 461 | Doubling Down on Bluetick
- Episode 460 | Funded Competition, Growing an Email Newsletter Audience, White-Labeling and More Listener Questions
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August
- Episode 459 | From Day Job to Productized Service to Fast-Growing SaaS as a Non-Technical Founder
- Episode 458 | The Return of Mike Taber
- Episode 457 | Starting a Marketplace, Marketing Channels, Resellers, and More Listener Questions
- Episode 456 | Launching a 2nd Product + Revisiting Freemium with Ruben Gamez
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July
- Episode 455 | “Things I Would Have Done Differently” with Tracy Osborn of WeddingLovely
- Episode 454 | Overcoming Fear (Throwback Episode)
- Episode 453 | How a Non-Technical Founder Built and Sold a Multi-million Dollar SaaS Startup with Jeff Epstein
- Episode 452 | LinkedIn Outreach, New Features vs. Fixing Bugs and More Listener Questions with Jordan Gal
- Episode 451 | Stellar Growth, Platform Risk, Layoffs and Powering Through Roadblocks with Laura Roeder
- June
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May
- Episode 446 | How to Build More Successful Integrations
- Episode 445 | Why Absolute Thinking Is ALWAYS Bad
- Episode 444 | Our Biggest Regrets, Feelings of Isolation, Impact of Management Tasks on Deep Work and More Listener Questions
- Episode 443 | Determining Which Signals Matter, Staying on Task Without Extrinsic Motivation, and More Listener Questions
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April
- Episode 442 | Corporate Structures and How the Choice You Make Now Can Impact You Years Down the Line
- Episode 441 | Revisiting 2019 Goals, Why Remote Companies Grow Slower, and A Couple Listener Questions
- Episode 440 | How to Build Case Studies That Don’t Suck
- Episode 439 | 9 Key Takeaways from MicroConf 2019
- Episode 438 | Casual Conversations with Rob & Mike
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March
- Episode 437 | Monetizing B2C, Selling a Small SaaS, and More Listener Questions
- Episode 436 | How to Respond to Customer Suggestions
- Episode 435 | The Value of Startup Accelerators, Better Onboarding, Liability Insurance, and More Listener Questions
- Episode 434 | SaaS KPIs You Should Focus on From Day 1
- February
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January
- Episode 429 | Building a Launch List of 5,900 and Grinding Out Customer Development
- Episode 428 | Building Relationships with Agency Partners, Determining Equity Splits, and More Listener Questions
- Episode 427 | Scaling a Software Product, Raising Prices, When to Consider CRM, and More Listener Questions
- Episode 426 | Getting Started with Event Tracking
- Episode 425 | How to Launch a Product Into a Mature Market
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December
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- December
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November
- Episode 420 | An Alternative Form of Startup Funding
- Episode 419 | VC Prospecting Emails, Building Features vs. Integrations and More Listener Questions
- Episode 418 | Creators Versus Fans
- Episode 417 | Pulling Out Profits, Building Features vs. Integrating, Marketing a Podcast, and More Listener Questions
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October
- Episode 416 | MicroConf Europe 2018 Recap
- Episode 415 | Product-Founder Fit, Stairstepping, Free Trials vs. Money Back Guarantees, and More Listener Questions
- Episode 414 | Content Promotion Tactics
- Episode 413 | How Lucidchart Grew to 13 Million Users with Freemium
- Episode 412 | The Pitfalls of Several Commonly Recommended Marketing Tactics
- September
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August
- Episode 407 | A SaaS Pricing Conundrum, Subdomains, Building an Affordable MVP, and More Listener Questions
- Episode 406 | Should Bootstrappers Raise Money?
- Episode 405 | Minimum Viable Security, Moving on from AuditShark, and More Listener Questions
- Episode 404 | How to Dissect Your Business Competitors
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July
- Episode 403 | Should You Love What You’re Working On?
- Episode 402 | Tactics for Minimizing Disruptions to Your Vacation
- Episode 401 | Why You Shouldn’t Listen to Your Customers (And What You Should Do Instead)
- Episode 400 | The Importance of Consistency
- Episode 399 | How Derrick Reimer is Validating His Ambitious Third SaaS Application
- June
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May
- Episode 394 | Soft Skills for Entrepreneurs
- Episode 393 | Marketing and Growth Questions Answered
- Episode 392 | 10 Key Takeaways from MicroConf 2018
- Episode 391 | The 5 Stages of Your Sales Funnel & Tools to Use At Each One
- Episode 390 | SaaS Pricing, Sponsoring Events, Subscription Boxes and More Listener Questions
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April
- Episode 389 | Pro Tips for Attending Conferences
- Episode 388 | GDPR, Why You Should Strive For High Prices, and More Listener Questions
- Episode 387 | Before You Run Any Facebook Ads, Listen to This
- Episode 386 | Balancing Feature Development with Marketing, the Cost of Technical Debt, and More Listener Questions
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March
- Episode 385 | GDPR, Preparing to be Acquired, Technical Debt, and More Listener Questions
- Episode 384 | Bluetick Marketing Plan Teardown
- Episode 383 | Considering Monetizing SaaS with Ads, Should a WP Plugin Company Consider SaaS, and More Listener Questions
- Episode 382 | Fixing Onboarding, Marketing a Low LTV Product, and More Listener Questions
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February
- Episode 381 | SaaS Marketing from Square One
- Episode 380 | Allocating Your Marketing Budget, Minimum SaaS Documentation and More Listener Questions
- Episode 379 | There and Back Again, a Founders Tale of Services to Product to Services
- Episode 378 | Billing Systems Suck, Here’s How to Make Yours Suck Less
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January
- Episode 377 | Staying Sane While Starting Up With Dr. Sherry Walling
- Episode 376 | SaaS Revenue Patterns, Increasing Annual Renewals, and More Listener Questions
- Episode 375 | How to Evaluate Per-Seat and Tiered Pricing Models
- Episode 374 | Text vs Video, Finding a Mastermind, Joint Ventures, and More Listener Questions
- Episode 373 | How to Craft Your Homepage with Lianna Patch
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- December
- November
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October
- Episode 364 | Plateauing at $1k MRR, When to Spend on SaaS apps, and More Listener Questions
- Episode 363 | Building Outbound Sales Processes
- Episode 362 | Calculating Lifetime Value (Not as Boring as it Sounds)
- Episode 361 | Planning for Better Productivity
- Episode 360 | The One Where Rob Takes Over the Show
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September
- Episode 359 | The 3 Tenets of Fulfillment at Work
- Episode 358 | Bootstrapping into the Enterprise, Avoiding Death by Google, Selling to Outside the U.S. and More Listener Questions
- Episode 357 | Courtland Allen - Indie Hackers
- Episode 356 | Finding Pricing for a New SaaS App, Small Business Banking, Selling to Companies Outside the U.S. and More Listener Questions
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August
- Episode 355 | How to answer the question: Build or Buy?
- Episode 354 | The Art of Product with Guests Derrick Reimer and Ben Orenstein
- Episode 353 | Noah Kagan’s Post-Launch Advice for Bluetick
- Episode 352 | Housing Multiple Products Under One Brand, Stair-Stepping, Pricing Tiers, and More Listener Questions
- Episode 351 | Harnessing the Power of Your Marketing Data
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July
- Episode 350 | Launching Books, Compensation for a Side Project, Starting with A Lot of Runway, and More Listener Questions
- Episode 349 | Things to Consider When Building Your Launch Plan
- Episode 348 | Finding Product/Market Fit, Organizing Notes for Maximum Effect, Growing from $100k to $1M, and More Listener Questions
- Episode 347 | How to Recover From Coding for Months Without Talking to Customers
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June
- Episode 346 | Lessons Learned from Requiring Demos for New Customers
- Episode 345 | How to Get Your Emails Delivered to the Gmail Primary Tab
- Episode 344 | 9 Summertime Productivity Tactics
- Episode 343 | Growing from $1k to $5k MRR, Projecting SaaS Revenue Growth, Refining Your Sales Process, and More Listener Questions
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May
- Episode 342 | SaaS Development Shortcuts
- Episode 341 | How to Deal With Toxic Customers
- Episode 340 | Hiring VAs, Struggling with Engineering, Bootstrapping vs. Raising Funding, and More Listener Questions
- Episode 339 | Updates on Bluetick, Drip and Other Madness
- Episode 338 | How To Rank #1 for a High-Volume Organic Keyword in Under 3 Months
- April
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March
- Episode 333 | The Ultimate Guide to Email Sequences
- Episode 332 | A Prioritization Framework to Deal With Task Overload
- Episode 331 | Transitioning from Productized Services to SaaS with Brian Casel
- Episode 330 | Switching from Enterprise to the SMB Market, Staying Small Indefinitely, Dealing with Raises, and More Listener Questions
- February
- January
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- December
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November
- Episode 316 | Subscription Pricing Models? Challenge Accepted.
- Episode 315 | On Attending Conferences, Opening a Bank Account, and Project Management Tools
- Episode 314 | Management Lessons for Founders
- Episode 313 | The Viability of SaaS, Cutting-edge Technologies, and More Listener Questions
- Episode 312 | 9 Ways to Introduce New Ideas into Your Business
- October
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September
- Episode 307 | Is the Micropreneur Dream Still Alive?
- Episode 306 | Mixing Subscription and One-time Pricing, Angel Investing, Options for Recurring Payments, and More Listener Questions
- Episode 305 | Strategies for Taking Pre-orders for a New Product
- Episode 304 | From Bootstrapped to Funded and Back to Bootstrapped with Simon Payne
- August
- July
- June
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May
- Episode 291 | Freemium, Asking for CC Up-front, and a Big Mistake First-time Founders Make (with Guest David Cancel)
- Episode 290 | Public Speaking as a Sales Channel with Rachel Andrew
- Episode 289 | A Short Guide to Online Presales for SaaS & Software
- Episode 288 | How to Choose and Test a Paid Marketing Channel
- Episode 287 | 5 High Leverage Areas Bootstrappers Should Focus On
- April
- March
- February
- January
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- November
- October
- September
- August
- July
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June
- Episode 243 | The Tools We Use to Run Our Startups
- Episode 242 | Startup Accelerators, Working On vs Working In Your Business and Hiring a Developer as a Non-Technical Founder
- Episode 241 | Why Entrepreneurship Is the Logical Path With Guest Taylor Pearson
- Episode 240 | Podcasts for Startup Founders
- Episode 239 | Email List Building From Zero to 1,000: Part II
- May
- April
- March
- February
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January
- Episode 221 | Updates on HitTail, Drip, AuditShark and More
- Episode 220 | Our Biggest Failures in 2014, Pros and Cons of Domain Expertise, and Documenting Your Company Roadmap
- Episode 219 | The 10 Advantages of the Start Small, Stay Small Approach
- Episode 218 | Our 5-Step Process for Answering Emails, Managing Your To Do List and Staying Productive
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- December
- November
- October
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September
- Episode 204 | 9 Tactics for Aggressive Time Management
- Episode 203 | How to Build A Marketing Calendar
- Episode 202 | Outbound Sales for Startups with Guest Steli Efti
- Episode 201 | Dealing with Crunch-Time Stress, Balancing Life and Work and More Listener Questions
- Episode 200 | Customer Acquisition Plans for Bootstrappers
- August
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July
- Episode 195 | How to Craft a Great Story for Your Product or Service
- Episode 194 | Should You Charge Before Product/Market Fit?
- Episode 193 | Distributed Team Collaboration for Startups
- Episode 192 | How to Make Your SaaS App More Contagious
- Episode 191 | Brian Tracy's ABCDE Method For Setting Better Priorities
- June
- May
- April
- March
- February
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January
- Episode 169 | Getting Testimonials, Getting Inspired and Competing on Price
- Episode 168 | Things That Don’t Scale (And Why You Should Do Them)
- Episode 167 | How to Organize & Run a Startup Mastermind
- Episode 166 | Quitting Your Job When You Have a Mortgage, How to Get 1,000 Pages of Content Indexed in Google, and More Listener Questions
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December
- Episode 165 | Our 5 Biggest Mistakes From the Past Year
- Episode 164 | 50 Mobile Apps That We Use to Run Our Businesses
- Episode 163 | Our Goals for Next Year (And Why You Should Set Your Own)
- Episode 162 | Our Predictions for 2014
- Episode 161 | 6 Steps for Building an Effective Content Marketing Strategy
- November
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October
- Episode 156 | Leveraging Services to Increase Cash Flow using a Hybrid SaaS Model
- Episode 155 | Six Key Takeaways from MicroConf Europe 2013
- Episode 154 | Tools For Testing Your Sales Funnel, Reseller Strategies, Integration Marketing and Other Listener Questions
- Episode 153 | SaaS Pricing Tactics
- Episode 152 | Strategies For Loading Up Your Pre-launch Email Lists
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September
- Episode 151 | Getting Paid Before You Build, Dealing with Entrpreneurial Angst, Figuring Out How Much to Charge and More Listener Questions
- Episode 150 | Ten Ideas for Things You Can A/B Test
- Episode 149 | AuditShark and Drip Updates
- Episode 148 | Online Marketing Trends with Special Guest Clay Collins
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August
- Episode 147 | SaaS Pricing, Segmenting Customers, Selling Before Coding, and More Listener Questions
- Episode 146 | Product Companies Vs. Service Companies
- Episode 145 | Does Lean Startup Work for Bootstrappers?
- Episode 144 | The Viability of Inbound Marketing, Challenges for Non-Technical Founders and VOIP Options for Entrepreneurs
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July
- Episode 143 | How To Hire Like a Bootstrapper With Special Guest Laura Roeder
- Episode 142 | Does Startup Validation Work?
- Episode 141.5 | MicroConf Europe Ticket Announcement
- Episode 141 | The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking (and How to Apply Them to Your Startup)
- Episode 140 | Gorilla Fighting 101, Cost of Creating Content, Selling to Offline Customers and More Listener Questions
- Episode 139 | 6 Questions You Should Ask In Your Customer Development Survey
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June
- Episode 138 | More Tips for Identifying Startup Ideas
- Episode 137 | Startup Feedback, Finding Better Consulting Gigs, and More Listener Questions
- Episode 136 | AuditShark, Drip, and HitTail Updates
- Episode 135 | Five Year Startup Plan, What the Best Podcasts Get Right, How to Spend $10k on Marketing, and More Listener Questions...
- May
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April
- Episode 130 | Capitalizing on Your Unfair Advantage
- Episode 129 | 7 Tips For Becoming a Better Manager
- Episode 128 | 9 Steps for Finding Startup Ideas
- Episode 127 | 7 Tips for Finishing Your Product
- Episode 125 | Optimizing Your Productivity By Working Outside of the Office
- Episode 126 | Introducing Our New hosts, Dan and Ian
- March
- February
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January
- Episode 116 | Moving Teams From Good to Great
- Episode 115 | The Pros and Cons of "Proposition HN"
- Episode 114 | The 5 Stages of a Bootstrapped Startup
- Episode 113 | Choosing Conferences & Meetups, .NET vs. Open Source, Ideas for Low-Risk Businesses, and More Listener Questions...
- Episode 112 | Startup Metrics for Pirates
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December
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December
- Episode 111 | Co-founders and Equity, Personal Branding, Advice for a Recent Graduate, and More...
- Episode 110 | Predictions for 2013
- Episode 109.5 | MicroConf 2013 Announcement
- Episode 109 | 6 Facts About Your Brain Chemistry That Can Help You Achieve Peak Productivity
- Episode 108 | 11 Software Startup Myths Debunked
- November
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October
- Episode 103 | Nurturing Leads in Your Funnel, Planning for Growth and How to Buy a Website
- Episode 102 | 4 Levels of Income Generating Web Apps
- Episode 101 | Key Takeaways from Business of Software 2012
- Episode 100 | Startup Advice From 9 Successful Founders
- Episode 99 | Outsourcing a New UI, Two-Sided Markets, Handling Incoming Calls, and More...
- September
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August
- Episode 94 | Handling Phone Support, Finding Market Validation, Gauging Price Sensitivity and Other Listener Questions
- Episode 93 | 5 Things You Must Know Before Starting A Joint Venture
- Episode 92 | 12 Rules for Building Your First Profitable Startup
- Episode 91 | Screencasts for VAs, Subscription Billing, Launch Day Tactics, and More Listener Questions...
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July
- Episode 90 | How to Shut Down a Product, Raising Capital Without Investors, Generic or Product Domain Name, and Other Listener Questions
- Episode 89 | Marketing First Steps, To Code or Not To Code, To Cloud or Not To Cloud, and Other Listener Questions
- Episode 88 | At Last...the AuditShark Beta Date Announced
- Episode 87 | Whether to Build Multiple Websites, Creating Residual Income and How to Run a Beta
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June
- Episode 86 | SaaS Pricing, Accountability Partners and a Micropreneur Success Story
- Episode 85 | 21 Free And Low Cost Solutions For Running Your Business
- Episode 84 | Five Traits of Successful Founders
- Episode 83 | HitTail & AuditShark: Integration Marketing, Logo Design, Survey Analysis and Leaky Funnels
- May
- April
- March
- February
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January
- Episode 66 | Six Reasons it's Hard to Ship a Product (and How Mike is Going to Overcome Each One)
- Episode 65 | Six Things We Learned In The Past Year
- Episode 64.5 | MicroConf 2012 Announcement
- Episode 64 | Hiring and Managing Remote Developers
- Episode 63 | Listener Questions: Generic Product Names, Offline Marketing Techniques, and More...
- Episode 62 | Listener Questions: Landing Pages, Questions to Ask a Web Designer, and More...
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