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Talking Businessly — 101 episodes · page 1 of 2
100: Daniel fires himself
99: Cosmetically holed
98: John fires himself
97: Introducing Crux
96: Neither great, nor drunk
95: We get hired to resolve unpleasantness
94: How to get paid
93: Be a good guy
92: The trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead
91: The agency's agency
90: You have to pre-launch before you launch
89: The zero risk agency (empaneling Justin Jackson)
88: Setting pass/fail criteria on our projects
87: tidyup.agency
86: Holacracy, if you can keep it
85: Our billion dollar theory of the future
84: You are here
83: Do a good job ™
82: AI fatigue
81: We set up pay bands
80: Late fees are unenforceable
79: The wire:live retro (empaneling Caleb Porzio)
78: Empaneling Matt Stauffer
77: Silly season takes no prisoners
76: Pitching our next conference talks
75: The good kind of scary
74: Radical truth telling
73: Be a sustainable business
72: wire:live
71: No dogs, no ponies
70: A deeply unserious Laracon recap
69: We'd be richer if we lied more
68: The pitch to the "lower middle market"
67: We fire Daniel (from project management)
66: Empaneling Erin Antcliffe
65: Being uncomfortably explicit
64: Kapow!
63: We sent invoices from the client app
62: Useful anxiety
61: Empaneling Ian Landsman
60: Our biggest client yet
59: We lost a client for good reasons
58: Finding the real decision maker
Bonus Episode: PHP × NYC Chaos-Cast™
57: Sunsetting Papercuts
56: Chunks of work
55: Vertical Slices
54: Building without a blueprint
53: Be a great place to work (empaneling Bossman Chris)
52: Coaching clients to have more urgency
51: John built the client management app 🤫
50: Growing our product team
49: What does success look like in 2025?
48: Holiday party
47: Killing Harvest
46: We want to buy your business (maybe)
45: The client onboarding checklist
44: Clarifying roles for Silly Season v2
43: Getting personal about working styles
42: Celebrating $1M in revenue!
41: Un-profitable software that helps people
40: Pricing saga (part 3)
39: Aaron said to put it out no matter what
38: Laracon recap
37: International man of mischief
36: Thunk Pyramid Scheme (the super secret Laracon project)
35: The problems that Papercuts solves
34: Go to papercuts.io
33: This too shall pass
32: Monday morning scrutiny
31: Buying our time back
30: Strategy brainstorm (empaneling Luke Roush)
29: Awkward money conversation
28: Short term profit vs. long term strategy
27: Silly Season (empaneling Steve Smallman)
26: The leads are weak? YOU'RE weak!
25: ❤️ Devs seeking new obsession ❤️
24: Cohort 2™ (working title)
23: SaaS opportunity knocks again
22: Mentees keep becoming clients
21: Our new pricing model (empaneling Joel Clermont)
20: The FULL Stack Developer
19: We're building a SaaS app
18: Setting fewer, better goals for 2024
17: Empanelling Allison Lacker
16: Brainstorming our first SaaS product
15: What kind of clients we do (and don't) want
14: Monday morning baseball
13: Launching Verbs at Laracon AU
12: Colossi + Verbs (it's shill day)
11: Trust issues
10: Daniel is Going to Laracon AU!
9: The Dawn of The Pricing Saga
8: Progress!
7: Our Great Shame
6: How Thunk Will Die
5: Empanelling Aaron Francis
4: Who Are Your Guys?
3: The Sales Funnel is Working
2: Vision, Mission, Values