All episodes
141: Founder Stories are Powerful Assets
140: The Forever Transaction
139: Building in Public and Legacy
138: Parasocial Relationships
137: Should Freelancers Offer Free Trials?
136: Choose Your Own Adventure: Creator, Curator, Commentator, or Connector
135: Scalable Customer Service for Bootstrappers
134: Managing Expectations: Making Good (on) Promises.
133: You Don’t Need to be an Extrovert to Build in Public — an Introvert’s Perspective
132: Why Founders End Up Unemployable
131: Seven Kinds of Entrepreneurial Debt
130: Entrepreneurial Anti-Patterns — What to Avoid When You're Starting a Business
129: What Founders Can Learn from Professional WoW Gamers
128: How I Find Twitter Content Ideas
127: How I (Fortunately) Failed to Launch an NFT Collection
Bonus: A Conversation with Michele Hansen (on the Software Social Podcast)
126: The SaaS Market Maturity Paradox
125: The Power of the Narrative when Building in Public
124: Building in Public and Negativity
123: Purchasing Power Parity Pricing
122: Being Imperfect in Public
121: The Performative Nature of Building in Public: A View From the Inside
120: Fear-Setting
119: The Power of Repetition
118: Building in Public: Maintaining a Positive Self-Image
117: What Founders Can Learn From Web3 Community-Building (And What They Can't)
116: Twitter: The Gathering. How and Where to Find the Right Followers
115: Make it Easy to Cancel
114: Building in Public: How to Build a Minipoly
113: Building in Public: How Radical Transparency Hurts Founders
112: Building in Public: Oversharing
111: Passive Income and Entrepreneurship
110: Building in Public: What to Share at Which Stage of Your Journey
109: Building in Public: Taking Breaks
108: Building in Public: Balancing Building and Sharing
107: Too Little, Too Much: Advice and How to Take It
106: Burnout
105: What Founders Can Learn From the Facebook Outage
104: Copycats and Endurance
103: Audience-building is not Community-Building
102: Pivoting in Public: Risks and Opportunities
101: Why Reading Fiction Is Important for Entrepreneurs
100: Consistency, Accountability, and Perseverance
99: Of Tangibility and Lawnmowers
98: The Creeping Nature of Stress for a SaaS Founder
97: Why Competition is Good For Business
96: Hyrum's Law
95: What Watching Gamers Fail for Days Can Teach You About Entrepreneurship
94: How to Kill Your Business
93: Conversations are at the Core of Engagement
92: The Myth of the Immediate Payoff
91: Say Thank You
90: Competition Isn't Always a Business
89: Selfish vs. Selfless: Self-Promotion in Communities
88: Properties of an Interesting Problem
87: The Line Between Stealing and Being Inspired
86: Audience-Building and Relatable Content
85: Platform Risk and the Three Kinds of Audiences
84: Impostor Syndrome and Building Capital
83: Entrepreneurship, Job Security, and Wealth Creation
82: Accountability Systems for Founders
81: All That Glitters Is Not Gold: Navigating Bootstrapping Advice
80: SaaS, Self-Talk, and Many Small Bets
79: Audience Graduation
78: Lifetime Deals and SaaS Businesses
77: The Goals of Audience-Building
Bonus: A Conversation Between Michele Hansen, Colleen Schnettler, and Danielle Simpson, Co-Founder of Feedback Panda
75: The Shape of a Problem in the Wild
74: On Re-Using Content
73: Audience Discovery: The Importance of Budget
72: What founders can learn from Twitch streamers about building in public
71: Fear of Disappointing Your Customers
70: When Your Business Gets Cloned
69: Jargon and Community
68: The Grief and Loss of Selling a Business
67: The Two Goals of Audience-Building
66: How I Use Twitter
65: On Offering Public APIs for Your SaaS
64: Motivation Will Eventually Go Away: Build Accountability Systems Instead
63: Audience-Building through Podcasting
62: Avoiding the Validation Trap
61: Open-Source and Bootstrapping
60: Tech Stacks and Indie Hacking
59: Rewards and Perils of Being Your Own Customer
58: When Privacy and Customer Value Clash
57: How I Approach Pricing for a Brand New SaaS
56: Sunk Cost Fallacy Engineering
55: Customer Lock-In and "Insurance Features"
54: Limiting Beliefs
53: Early Tech Choices and Analysis Paralysis
52: "Audience-First" Is Not Just "Building an Audience"
51: Finding an Audience for Your Side Business
50: Priming Your Business for Due Diligence
49: Preparing for the Sale From Day One: Getting the Documentation Right
48: At a Crossroads: The Different Kinds of Exits
A Unified Voice: Staying Consistent When You Grow
How I Self-Published Zero to Sold, a Bestselling Book on Bootstrapping
45: Positioning Is Where It's At
44: You Want a Tribe
43: When You Reach Your Limits: Growing a Company Beyond the Founder(s)