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239: Things That Kill The Village

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238: Brian Sierakowski — Leading an Acquired Business

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237: Eventual Reciprocity

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236: Tony Dinh — Ups and Downs of an Indie Hacker Journey

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235: The Bad Kind of Attention

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234: Jason Cohen — Two Exits & Two Unicorns

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233: Entrepreneurship isn't genetic. It’s memetic.

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232: Andrew McIntosh — First-Generation Entrepreneurs

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231: Responding Fast to Customers — A Good Idea?

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230: Moritz Dausinger — Serial Indie Entrepreneurship

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229: Utility, Pricing, and Entrepreneurship

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228: Kevin McArdle — The Man Who Changed My Life (and Could Change Yours)

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227: Self-Censorship on Twitter

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226: Paul Millerd — Walking The Pathless Path

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225: Twitter Teardowns: 3 Low Hanging Fruit to Massively Improve Your Twitter Presence

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224: Dr. Julie Gurner — Founder Mental Health 101

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223: How to Build in Public Without Revealing Too Much

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222: Joe Masilotti — Building in Public and Monetizing Open Source

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221: Why Entrepreneurs are Choosing 'Short-Lived Businesses' Over 'Forever Businesses

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220: Simon Høiberg — Building a SaaS That Works for You

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219: ∀𝑦∃𝑥 ≠ ∃𝑥∀𝑦: The Dangerous Misconception Founders Have About Their Market

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218: Evelyn J. Starr — The Evolution of a Brand

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217: The Flip Side: When Not to Build in Public

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216: Jack Ellis — Taking on Google as a Bootstrapper

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215: In Pod We Trust: How Creators Can Best Juggle Credibility & Sponsored Content

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214: Fatih Kadir Akın — Selling a Global Sticker Business

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213: The Rubber Band Effect

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212: Dagobert Renouf — The Emotional Journey of Entrepreneurship

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211: Writing with a Nemesis: Using ChatGPT to Strengthen Your Arguments

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210: Dr. Sherry Walling — The Reality of Burnout for Entrepreneurs

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209: MicroConf US '23 Recap — What Happens When 250 SaaS Founders Meet

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208: Louis Nicholls — Growing Your Newsletter

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207: ChatGPT: Goldmine or Minefield for Indie Hackers?

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206: Marie Poulin & Benjamin Borowski — Digital Permaculture

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205: Artificial Scarcity Damages the Creator Economy

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204: Josh Spector — Saying Less and Making More

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Bonus: Arvid on "First Class Founders" by Yong-Soo Chung

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203: The Art of Naming Your Business

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202: Peter Askew — Domain Expertise

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201: How I Stay Consistent

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200: Justin Jackson — Bootstrapping Transistor.fm on Open Standards

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199: The SaaS Solution-Workflow Fit

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198: Rob Fitzpatrick — Tinkerers, Thinkers, and Teachers

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197: Securing your SaaS

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196: Troy Hunt — Securing Your SaaS

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195: Don't Fall for the Follower Count Trap

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194: Matt Wensing — Publish Your Juicy Thoughts

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193: Stair-Stepping with Plugins: Platforms to Build On

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192: Colleen Schnettler — Stair-Stepping into SaaS

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191: Writing for Founders

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190: Hassan Osman — Writing on the Side

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189: Be The Kindest Person in the Room

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188: KP — Building an Authentic Personal Brand

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187: Negative Reviews are Good for You

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186: Brennan Dunn — Mastering Email Marketing

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185: The Monkey and the Pedestal

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184: Laura Elizabeth — Building Software Products As a Non-Technical Founder

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183: Expanding Your Opportunity Surface

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182: Daniel Fayle — Door-to-door to $2M ARR

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181: The Role of Trust in Remote Work

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180: Marissa Goldberg — Running a Remote-First Business

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179: Founder Mental Health Pitfalls

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178: Patrick Campbell — Life After a $200mil Exit

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177: Diversify Your Creator Portfolio

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176: Jay Clouse — Creative Commitments

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175: Realistic Building in Public for Introverted Founders

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174: Ana Bibikova — The Introvert Superpower

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[Bonus] Sahil Lavingia — Gumroad’s Pricing Disaster

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173: Build a Defensible Indie Business

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172: Andrew Gazdecki — Building a Sellable Business

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171: Avoid Vanity Metrics

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170: Rosie Sherry — Building Profitable Communities

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169: Paying the Bills While Building Your First Indie Business

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168: Jakob Greenfeld — Writing Your Way to Clarity

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167: Find Business Ideas on Social Media

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166: Daniel Vassallo — Building a Portfolio of Small Bets

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165: Why You Shouldn’t Sell Your Business

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164: Damon Chen — Building a $400k/year SaaS

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163: When Should You Go from Side-Project to Full-Time?

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162: Michele Hansen — Moving from Side Project to Full Time

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161: Calm Business Misconceptions

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160: Operating a Calm SaaS Business

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159: Pricing for Calm SaaS Businesses

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158: Product Development for Calm SaaS Businesses

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157: Solution Exploration for Calm SaaS Businesses

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156: The Toxicity of Growth Hacks

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155: Problem Discovery for Calm SaaS Businesses

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154: Market Analysis for Calm SaaS Businesses

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153: On Art and Artifice — When AI creates Masterpieces We Can't Ignore

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152: Infrastructure of a Calm SaaS Business

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151: Entrepreneurial Strategies & Anti-Patterns for a Calm SaaS Business

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150: Business Models for a Calm SaaS Business

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149: Fundamentals of a Calm SaaS Business

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148: Fundamentals of a Calm Business

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147: How NOT to Use Twitter DMs

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146: Don't blame the market; blame your marketing

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145: On Saying "No"

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144: The Risks and Illusions of the "Post-Exit Retirement"

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143: Permission to Follow Up

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142: Consulting in Public