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#243: The End

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#242: Boredeom

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#241: Podcasting

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#240: Why I repositioned Feature Upvote to the video game industry

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#239: Our Business Heroes with The Gross Profit Podcast

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#238: B2B SaaS design with Nathan Powell

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#237: Michael Koper, founder of Nusii

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#236: Steve McLeod, founder of Feature Upvote

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#235: Maeva Cifuentes, founder of Flying Cat Marketing

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#234: Ed's marketing catchup

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#233: Running a lifestyle business and proud of it

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#232: Running a WordPress agency, with Marc Jenkins of 16by9

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#231: Bad support loses customers, and payment failures

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#230: Introducing Pushing to Production

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#229: Saying no to a generous acquisition offer, with Simon Bennett of SnapShooter

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#228: How to get backlinks (without feeling dirty)

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#227: Joining TinySeed with Nick Swan of SEOTesting.com

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#226: Sponsoring events, podcasts, and newsletters with Peldi @ Balsamiq

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#225: BoS Europe 2022 retrospective

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#224: Recalibrating prices, and Postmark got acquired

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#223: When customer payments fail

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#222: Pierre de Wulf, co-founder of ScrapingBee

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#221: Brian Sierakowski of Baremetrics

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#220: Adventures in Abandonware and WordPress

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#219: Leaving bootstrapper life to be an employee again, with John Ndege

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#218: London, in-person events, crowded pubs

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#217: Brian Casel of ZipMessage

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#216: Trademarking your bootstrapped business

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#215: The domain name change that didn't go as planned, with Robert Brandl of ToolTester.com

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#214: I hired a marketer

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#213: Charles Perry, founder of RelaNet

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#212: When, if ever, should we refuse a customer?

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#211: Strengthening company culture in a remote team with Peldi of Balsamiq

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#210: 50 tips for running a stress-free SaaS part 2

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#209: 50 tips for running a stress-free SaaS part 1

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#208: The dismal deeds of a desperate competitor

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#207: Our goals for 2022

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#206: Looking back at our goals for 2021

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#205: A rapid Saber Feedback update

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#204: Ed can speak again

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#203: A recap of the interview mini-season

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#202: Bridget Harris, co-founder of YouCanBookMe

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#201: Running an email newsletter business, with Peter Cooper of Cooperpress

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#200: Positioning for bootstrappers with April Dunford

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#199: Creating a successful podcast with Jane Portman of UI Breakfast

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#198: Backing up 170 Petabytes of customer data, with Simon Bennett of SnapShooter

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#197: Life is unpredictable, and a pricing experiment

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#196: Our Mental Wellbeing as Bootstrappers, with Robin Warren

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#195: Back to School

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#194: We talk about our vacations

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#193: The fine details of the Saber Feedback acquisition

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#192: How the pandemic overturned my business, with Mark Littlewood of Business of Software

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#191: On quietly successful SaaS businesses, and saying goodbye to our forum

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#190: Resellers and product-based podcasts, with Peldi of Balsamiq

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#189: The agony of the enterprise sale process, with Ed Freyfogle

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#188: Switching from Bootstrapped to Investor-Funded, with Craig Hewitt of Castos

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#187: A Saber Feedback update

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#186: Marketing to Developers with Adam DuVander

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#185: Selling a small stake of your company, with Moritz Dausinger of Refiner.io

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#184: When team members quit, with Ed and Steve

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#183: Feeling bored and stuck in your business? With Peldi and Ed

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#182: Responsible product design with Trine Falbe

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#181: Conducting customer interviews for the reluctant, with Asia Orangio of DemandMaven

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#180: Managing the mental ups and downs with Geraldine DeRuiter and Rand Fishkin

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#179: (Peldi) The GDPR 3 years later with Aleth Gueguen of GDPR for SaaS

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#178: The Hungry Time, with Ed Freyfogle

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#177​: When life is turned upside down, with Nick Swan of SEOTesting

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#176: Tips for self-publishing a book, with science fiction writer Aidan Doyle

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#175: Riskiness of being a side project's customer

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#174: Corey Haines, founder of the Swipe Files community

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#173: Reducing the support workload with Ed Freyfogle

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#172: Getting rid of Google Analytics, with Alex Yumashev

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#171: Nick Franklin, founder of ChartMogul

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#170: "Be so good they can't ignore you", with Peldi of Balsamiq

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#169: Email newsletter or no email newsletter? The great debate.

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#168: Twitter for Marketing, and Zombie Customers

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#167: The blog gets posts once every 13 years

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#166: Making an Open Source business work with Allan Jardine of DataTables

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#165: Finding and hiring freelancers

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#164: A Saber Feedback update 9 months after acquisition

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#163: Our goals for 2021

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#162: Reviewing our 2020 goals

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#161: The inglorious launch of my first product

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#160: Creating great email onboarding sequences, with Liz Painter of Comma Comma

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#159: Enterprise sales hell, SEO frustration and self-doubt

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#158: Not 1, not 2, but 3 bootstrapped SaaS successes with Moritz Dausinger of refiner.io

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#157: Dealing with your business's endless administration burden

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#156: "May I have a discount?"

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#155: Competing in a crowded market with Alex Yumashev of Jitbit

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#154: Finding and recruiting freelance developers with Robin Warren of Corrello

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#153: "What should I do with Saber Feedback?"

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#152: Practical knowledge sharing for bootstrappers

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#151: Advice on validating and building a bootstrapped B2B SaaS

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#150: How to solve my SEO problems, with Robert Brandl of ToolTester Network

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#149: A Saber Feedback update six months after acquisition

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#148: Hrishi Mittal, founder of Learnetto, on the struggle to get traction

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#147: "You get to do this however works for you" with Laura Roeder, founder of MeetEdgar

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#146: Selling your business at any revenue level, with Kevin McArdle of SureSwift Capital

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#145: The Hacker News front page experience, 5-hour workdays and 4-day workweeks

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#144: Patrick Hathaway, cofounder of Sitebulb on selling a desktop app with subscription pricing