RS053: Rose Colored Glasses after MicroConf (and how we’re implementing what we learned!)

After MicroConf we’re getting back into our businesses, and into our WordPress projects, and really digging in to how we can implement the things we learned. Going to a conference like MicroConf is such a great experience.  On one hand you have all of the friendships and connections that you’ve made during that week, and … Read more

RS048: Giant Warning Signs Early – WordPress Plugin Development Project #3

An early warning sign from our previous plugin topic leaves us back at the drawing board.  With a few lessons learned now it’s time to have a better way of identifying problems, and solving problems. Our previous topic of an on-page user analytics tool similar to a CrazyEgg, KissMetrics type analogy, specifically for WordPress came … Read more

RS047: Solving Tough Problems – WordPress Plugin Development Project #2

In this episode we talk through several different approaches to finding tough problems to solve, good markets to get into, and how we’re going about choosing both of them. Good markets are ones that you can either get quick traction in, or are large enough for you to take a small corner of the market … Read more

RS046: Live WordPress Plugin Development Project #1

Today Dave and I begin the first of a multi part series around developing a WordPress plugin, live on the air.  We will go from problem statement, to product validation, to preselling, to outsourcing development, and finally to launching and selling the plugin. As with most things in the bootstrapped startup world this will be … Read more

RS027: Brad Touesnard on Building a WordPress Empire

On this episode of the Rogue Startups Podcast we welcome fellow WordPress guru Brad Touesnard to the show.  Brad is founder of the custom web application firm Delicious Brains, co-host of the Apply Filters Podcast, and owner of WP Migrate DB Pro.  As Brad discusses he has always leaned towards entrepreneurship as a path in … Read more

RS022: Changing Lives, One Plugin at a Time with Pippin Williamson

Welcome to Episode 22 of the Rogue Startups Podcast.  Today Dave and I are excited to catch up with Pippin Williamson.  Pippin is the founder of PippinsPlugins.com and creator of Easy Digital Downloads, Restrict Content Pro, and AffiliateWP, to name a few.  In the world of WordPress Pippin is a giant. In the episode we … Read more