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Bootstrapped — 243 episodes · page 1 of 3
#243: The End
#242: Boredeom
#241: Podcasting
#240: Why I repositioned Feature Upvote to the video game industry
#239: Our Business Heroes with The Gross Profit Podcast
#238: B2B SaaS design with Nathan Powell
#237: Michael Koper, founder of Nusii
#236: Steve McLeod, founder of Feature Upvote
#235: Maeva Cifuentes, founder of Flying Cat Marketing
#234: Ed's marketing catchup
#233: Running a lifestyle business and proud of it
#232: Running a WordPress agency, with Marc Jenkins of 16by9
#231: Bad support loses customers, and payment failures
#230: Introducing Pushing to Production
#229: Saying no to a generous acquisition offer, with Simon Bennett of SnapShooter
#228: How to get backlinks (without feeling dirty)
#227: Joining TinySeed with Nick Swan of SEOTesting.com
#226: Sponsoring events, podcasts, and newsletters with Peldi @ Balsamiq
#225: BoS Europe 2022 retrospective
#224: Recalibrating prices, and Postmark got acquired
#223: When customer payments fail
#222: Pierre de Wulf, co-founder of ScrapingBee
#221: Brian Sierakowski of Baremetrics
#220: Adventures in Abandonware and WordPress
#219: Leaving bootstrapper life to be an employee again, with John Ndege
#218: London, in-person events, crowded pubs
#217: Brian Casel of ZipMessage
#216: Trademarking your bootstrapped business
#215: The domain name change that didn't go as planned, with Robert Brandl of ToolTester.com
#214: I hired a marketer
#213: Charles Perry, founder of RelaNet
#212: When, if ever, should we refuse a customer?
#211: Strengthening company culture in a remote team with Peldi of Balsamiq
#210: 50 tips for running a stress-free SaaS part 2
#209: 50 tips for running a stress-free SaaS part 1
#208: The dismal deeds of a desperate competitor
#207: Our goals for 2022
#206: Looking back at our goals for 2021
#205: A rapid Saber Feedback update
#204: Ed can speak again
#203: A recap of the interview mini-season
#202: Bridget Harris, co-founder of YouCanBookMe
#201: Running an email newsletter business, with Peter Cooper of Cooperpress
#200: Positioning for bootstrappers with April Dunford
#199: Creating a successful podcast with Jane Portman of UI Breakfast
#198: Backing up 170 Petabytes of customer data, with Simon Bennett of SnapShooter
#197: Life is unpredictable, and a pricing experiment
#196: Our Mental Wellbeing as Bootstrappers, with Robin Warren
#195: Back to School
#194: We talk about our vacations
#193: The fine details of the Saber Feedback acquisition
#192: How the pandemic overturned my business, with Mark Littlewood of Business of Software
#191: On quietly successful SaaS businesses, and saying goodbye to our forum
#190: Resellers and product-based podcasts, with Peldi of Balsamiq
#189: The agony of the enterprise sale process, with Ed Freyfogle
#188: Switching from Bootstrapped to Investor-Funded, with Craig Hewitt of Castos
#187: A Saber Feedback update
#186: Marketing to Developers with Adam DuVander
#185: Selling a small stake of your company, with Moritz Dausinger of Refiner.io
#184: When team members quit, with Ed and Steve
#183: Feeling bored and stuck in your business? With Peldi and Ed
#182: Responsible product design with Trine Falbe
#181: Conducting customer interviews for the reluctant, with Asia Orangio of DemandMaven
#180: Managing the mental ups and downs with Geraldine DeRuiter and Rand Fishkin
#179: (Peldi) The GDPR 3 years later with Aleth Gueguen of GDPR for SaaS
#178: The Hungry Time, with Ed Freyfogle
#177: When life is turned upside down, with Nick Swan of SEOTesting
#176: Tips for self-publishing a book, with science fiction writer Aidan Doyle
#175: Riskiness of being a side project's customer
#174: Corey Haines, founder of the Swipe Files community
#173: Reducing the support workload with Ed Freyfogle
#172: Getting rid of Google Analytics, with Alex Yumashev
#171: Nick Franklin, founder of ChartMogul
#170: "Be so good they can't ignore you", with Peldi of Balsamiq
#169: Email newsletter or no email newsletter? The great debate.
#168: Twitter for Marketing, and Zombie Customers
#167: The blog gets posts once every 13 years
#166: Making an Open Source business work with Allan Jardine of DataTables
#165: Finding and hiring freelancers
#164: A Saber Feedback update 9 months after acquisition
#163: Our goals for 2021
#162: Reviewing our 2020 goals
#161: The inglorious launch of my first product
#160: Creating great email onboarding sequences, with Liz Painter of Comma Comma
#159: Enterprise sales hell, SEO frustration and self-doubt
#158: Not 1, not 2, but 3 bootstrapped SaaS successes with Moritz Dausinger of refiner.io
#157: Dealing with your business's endless administration burden
#156: "May I have a discount?"
#155: Competing in a crowded market with Alex Yumashev of Jitbit
#154: Finding and recruiting freelance developers with Robin Warren of Corrello
#153: "What should I do with Saber Feedback?"
#152: Practical knowledge sharing for bootstrappers
#151: Advice on validating and building a bootstrapped B2B SaaS
#150: How to solve my SEO problems, with Robert Brandl of ToolTester Network
#149: A Saber Feedback update six months after acquisition
#148: Hrishi Mittal, founder of Learnetto, on the struggle to get traction
#147: "You get to do this however works for you" with Laura Roeder, founder of MeetEdgar
#146: Selling your business at any revenue level, with Kevin McArdle of SureSwift Capital
#145: The Hacker News front page experience, 5-hour workdays and 4-day workweeks
#144: Patrick Hathaway, cofounder of Sitebulb on selling a desktop app with subscription pricing