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141: Founder Stories are Powerful Assets

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140: The Forever Transaction

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139: Building in Public and Legacy

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138: Parasocial Relationships

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137: Should Freelancers Offer Free Trials?

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136: Choose Your Own Adventure: Creator, Curator, Commentator, or Connector

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135: Scalable Customer Service for Bootstrappers

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134: Managing Expectations: Making Good (on) Promises.

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133: You Don’t Need to be an Extrovert to Build in Public — an Introvert’s Perspective

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132: Why Founders End Up Unemployable

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131: Seven Kinds of Entrepreneurial Debt

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130: Entrepreneurial Anti-Patterns — What to Avoid When You're Starting a Business

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129: What Founders Can Learn from Professional WoW Gamers

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128: How I Find Twitter Content Ideas

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127: How I (Fortunately) Failed to Launch an NFT Collection

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Bonus: A Conversation with Michele Hansen (on the Software Social Podcast)

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126: The SaaS Market Maturity Paradox

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125: The Power of the Narrative when Building in Public

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124: Building in Public and Negativity

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123: Purchasing Power Parity Pricing

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122: Being Imperfect in Public

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121: The Performative Nature of Building in Public: A View From the Inside

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120: Fear-Setting

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119: The Power of Repetition

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118: Building in Public: Maintaining a Positive Self-Image

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117: What Founders Can Learn From Web3 Community-Building (And What They Can't)

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116: Twitter: The Gathering. How and Where to Find the Right Followers

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115: Make it Easy to Cancel

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114: Building in Public: How to Build a Minipoly

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113: Building in Public: How Radical Transparency Hurts Founders

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112: Building in Public: Oversharing

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111: Passive Income and Entrepreneurship

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110: Building in Public: What to Share at Which Stage of Your Journey

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109: Building in Public: Taking Breaks

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108: Building in Public: Balancing Building and Sharing

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107: Too Little, Too Much: Advice and How to Take It

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106: Burnout

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105: What Founders Can Learn From the Facebook Outage

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104: Copycats and Endurance

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103: Audience-building is not Community-Building

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102: Pivoting in Public: Risks and Opportunities

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101: Why Reading Fiction Is Important for Entrepreneurs

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100: Consistency, Accountability, and Perseverance

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99: Of Tangibility and Lawnmowers

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98: The Creeping Nature of Stress for a SaaS Founder

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97: Why Competition is Good For Business

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96: Hyrum's Law

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95: What Watching Gamers Fail for Days Can Teach You About Entrepreneurship

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94: How to Kill Your Business

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93: Conversations are at the Core of Engagement

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92: The Myth of the Immediate Payoff

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91: Say Thank You

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90: Competition Isn't Always a Business

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89: Selfish vs. Selfless: Self-Promotion in Communities

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88: Properties of an Interesting Problem

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87: The Line Between Stealing and Being Inspired

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86: Audience-Building and Relatable Content

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85: Platform Risk and the Three Kinds of Audiences

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84: Impostor Syndrome and Building Capital

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83: Entrepreneurship, Job Security, and Wealth Creation

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82: Accountability Systems for Founders

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81: All That Glitters Is Not Gold: Navigating Bootstrapping Advice

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80: SaaS, Self-Talk, and Many Small Bets

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79: Audience Graduation

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78: Lifetime Deals and SaaS Businesses

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77: The Goals of Audience-Building

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Bonus: A Conversation Between Michele Hansen, Colleen Schnettler, and Danielle Simpson, Co-Founder of Feedback Panda

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75: The Shape of a Problem in the Wild

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74: On Re-Using Content

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73: Audience Discovery: The Importance of Budget

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72: What founders can learn from Twitch streamers about building in public

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71: Fear of Disappointing Your Customers

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70: When Your Business Gets Cloned

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69: Jargon and Community

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68: The Grief and Loss of Selling a Business

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67: The Two Goals of Audience-Building

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66: How I Use Twitter

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65: On Offering Public APIs for Your SaaS

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64: Motivation Will Eventually Go Away: Build Accountability Systems Instead

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63: Audience-Building through Podcasting

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62: Avoiding the Validation Trap

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61: Open-Source and Bootstrapping

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60: Tech Stacks and Indie Hacking

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59: Rewards and Perils of Being Your Own Customer

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58: When Privacy and Customer Value Clash

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57: How I Approach Pricing for a Brand New SaaS

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56: Sunk Cost Fallacy Engineering

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55: Customer Lock-In and "Insurance Features"

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54: Limiting Beliefs

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53: Early Tech Choices and Analysis Paralysis

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52: "Audience-First" Is Not Just "Building an Audience"

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51: Finding an Audience for Your Side Business

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50: Priming Your Business for Due Diligence

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49: Preparing for the Sale From Day One: Getting the Documentation Right

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48: At a Crossroads: The Different Kinds of Exits

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A Unified Voice: Staying Consistent When You Grow

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How I Self-Published Zero to Sold, a Bestselling Book on Bootstrapping

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45: Positioning Is Where It's At

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44: You Want a Tribe

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43: When You Reach Your Limits: Growing a Company Beyond the Founder(s)