Today Dave and Craig catch up on their businesses with a few new developments on both fronts. Dave has been completing several integrations for Recapture, including Carthook, EDD and several other shopping cart solutions. Interestingly some of the integrations that they’ve done are now waiting on approval from the integration partners…something good for us all … Read more
This week both Dave and Craig are podcasting on the road. Craig his family have been on vacation for the past week visiting Marrakech, Morocco and is now in Barcelona for a few days hanging out with other bootstrappers. Dave is in California and got up at 6:00 am this week to record this podcast … Read more
Today Dave and Craig catch up after Dave was out at Big Snow Tiny Conf west last week at what is now his annual mastermind retreat. They also talk through how to find mental stability on this rollercoaster that is a startup. What things we (and you) do to help cope with the wins and … Read more
On today’s episode, Craig speaks with his guest Ed Freyfogle about freemium software and services. Ed is a developer and Co-Founder of OpenCage Data. Today, he explains the day-to-day challenges of running a business and why freemium is an important facet of OpenCage’s success. Topics: Geocoding services and why it’s important to be able to … Read more
Today Dave and Craig talk about the difficulties of finding product/market fit in a business. The ‘desert’ in business is that time where you’ve ventured out to try something new, have an inkling of where it might lead, but still have a long way to go before you realize that vision. Thanks to Jordan Gal … Read more
This week Craig has on the show a special guest, Courtenay Farquharson from Parserr. Courtenay is a fellow bootstrapped founder who has grown Parserr (an email parsing and processing SaaS app) from zero to well into the 5 figures MRR largely through integrations in popular marketplaces like Zapier, Microsoft Flow, and other B2B connectivity platforms. … Read more
Today Dave and Craig catch up about a few new developments in their businesses, discuss how they do pre-dunning and deal with failed payments. First up is dunning and dealing with failed payments. Question for you the audience, how do you deal with failed payments after your customers have gone through something like a Stunning … Read more
Today Dave and Craig sit down with James Kennedy to talk LinkedIn outreach. As opposed to the overly saturated cold email outreach many consultants, productized services, and agencies have seen tremendous results by using LinkedIn to find highly qualified leads for their business. In this episode James talks through the process he follows, tools he … Read more
Instead of the typical “2018 Review and 2019 Goals” Dave and I decided to mix things up a bit here with our end of the year episode. 2018 overall was a great year for us both, but as we gained more experience, and a few bruises along the way, it’s taught us what’s really important … Read more
Both Dave and I have few developments within our businesses this week. With the end of the year coming Dave has seen a steadying of business over the last few months as opposed to the ups and downs that he saw previous years. He attributes this to content marketing and steady advertising on several select … Read more