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This week, I celebrated the podcast reaching 250 episodes with my most recent interview with Amanda Goetz. Just last week, the podcast hit 250,000 overall downloads. These are numbers I never…
Read the essay →Let’s talk about planning fallacies for bootstrapped founders. As a founder, especially if you’re starting a business alone, planning is important. But you have to get it right. There are a few…
Read the essay →Today, I want to discuss a problem some founders face when they discover someone else has already created their idea. I certainly felt deflated when my cool idea was already being done by someone…
Read the essay →Recently, I had a great conversation with Kevin McArdle, an accomplished investor who essentially operates in the private equity space. He’s also the person who acquired my first successful SaaS…
Read the essay →Entrepreneurship is not something we inherit or solely a matter of genetics. As a first-generation founder, I believe that it is profoundly influenced by the ideas and values we adopt. When we…
Read the essay →Utility isn’t just “being a Swiss Army knife.” In fact, this might be one of the biggest misconceptions in entrepreneurship. Too many founders conflate the value of their products with the amount of…
Read the essay →Back when our economy allowed most of us to eventually be able to afford a house, we developed the phrase “starter home.” It describes the first careful introduction to homeownership for young…
Read the essay →Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis week, I got on my first post-COVID trip and headed to Denver, Colorado for MicroConf 2023. It. Was. Awesome. Unsurprisingly, being in the same room with 250 other…
Read the essay →Everybody in the indie founder community is talking about ChatGPT. Some founders discover how powerful it is as a writing tool, others have it build their products, and some entrepreneurs are even…
Read the essay →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…
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