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Earlier this week, fellow creator and podcaster Jay Clouse renamed his podcast from “Creative Elements” to “Creator Science.” That podcast isn’t a new project: it has been live for 140 or so episodes already. But the name needed to change t
Read the essay →Peter knows how to get good domains and turn them into businesses. He’s selling onions, helps dude ranchers get clients, and will share his approach to monetizing domains as well as purchasing them on the cheap side. Peter’s been building o
Read the essay →This week marks the 200th episode of my podcast. For over three years now, I’ve been sharing my thoughts with my fellow founders, creators, and makers — every single week, without fail. Today, I want to share how I stay consistent: how I ha
Read the essay →Justin Jackson has been successfully bootstrapping Transistor.fm with a small team throughout the ups and downs of a shifting economy. He even rejected massive clients to be able to keep running a calm and self-funded business. Find out jus
Read the essay →Every single founder out there quickly hears about the product-market fit. But many entrepreneurs go for years before thinking about another such “fit” that is pivotal in how well your market responds to your product. Let’s talk about the S
Read the essay →Rob Fitzpatrick is a serial entrepreneur, a writer, a community leader, and a very curious human being. I talk to Rob about building an incredibly complicated business, the world of self-publishing, what AI tools can and will do for humanit
Read the essay →When acquirers consider purchasing your Software-as-a-Service business, they want to see many things: an impressive customer base, a promising growth trajectory, and solid financials. But no matter how good these numbers look, you’ll never
Read the essay →Troy Hunt (of HaveIBeenPwned fame) is a cybersecurity expert who has been around long enough to be able to give actionable and pragmatic security advice without complicating things. In our conversation, we chat about best practices for secu
Read the essay →“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” These are the famous words of economist Charles Goodhart, who introduced this concept in 1975. The idea is that when a particular metric is used to describe progress toward
Read the essay →Today, I’m talking to Matt Wensing — the founder behind Summit and tweeter of many often controversial things. We talk about bootstrapping a financial SaaS, how to deal with integrations, and when to take funding. Here’s Matt. What We Talk
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