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In this episode of Startups For The Rest Of Us, Mike interviews Sean Ellis, CEO at GrowthHackers, about hacking customer acquisition. Sean defines his coined term "growth hacker" and talks about some topics in his upcoming book that draws from experiences fro…
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Your query for "hiring" returned 357 episodes.Episode 336 | Key Takeaways from MicroConf Vegas 2017
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In this episode of Startups For The Rest Of Us, Rob and Mike reflect back on MicroConf Vegas 2017 and give you their key takeaways from both the starter and growth edition talks.
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MicroConf Recap
DigitalMarketer
Rub…
Episode 334 | Why some products fail and others succeed
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In this episode of Startups For The Rest Of Us, Mike and Rob talk about why some products fail and others succeed. Based on a listener question they lists reasons for both sides while also revealing some old failed product ideas of their own.
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Episode 331 | Transitioning from Productized Services to SaaS with Brian Casel
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In this episode of Startups For The Rest Of Us, Mike interviews Brian Casel, Founder of AudienceOps, about transitioning from productized services to SaaS. Brian discusses what AudienceOps was like 6 months into development, he touches on team management and ho…
Episode 328 | Updates on Drip and Bluetick
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In this episode of Startups For The Rest Of Us, Rob and Mike give updates on Drip and Bluetick. Based on listener interest Rob dives into details on the continued growth and scaling and Mike talks about what areas he is focusing on to increase the number of pay…
Episode 327 | Supporting 700+ services w/ Wade Foster
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In this episode of Startups For The Rest Of Us, Mike interviews Wade Foster of Zapier, about supporting over 700 services. Wade gives a brief history of Zapier as well as how they went from zero to 1.5 million users in 5 years. He also shares some early marke…
Episode 326 | Building a Local vs. a Remote Team
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In this episode of Startups For The Rest Of Us, Rob and Mike talk about the pros and cons of having a remote versus local team. They also discuss a hybrid approach that Rob used with Drip that he believes is superior to either methods.
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Episode 325 | Building a Killer Email Launch Sequence
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In this episode of Startups For The Rest Of us, Rob and Mike talk about building a killer email launch sequence. Drawing from their collective experiences launching various books, software products, SaaS apps, and membership websites they discuss their though…
Episode 323 | Funding, Acquisitions, Firing and More Listener Questions
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In this episode of Startups For The Rest Of Us, Rob and Mike talk about getting funding or acquisition offers, when to fire someone, and more listener questions.
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Portfoliolounge
Bluetick.io
Indie.vc
Stripe
Sk…
Episode 322 | Sex & Software (An Interview with Brianna Wu)
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In this episode of Startups For The Rest Of Us, Mike interviews Brianna Wu, founder of Giant Spacekat, about sex and software. They discuss many racial and gender issues that face the software community.
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MicroConf
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