All Episodes

44 mins #42 Jan 22, 19

Should startups worry about their competition?

Are your SaaS competitors keeping you up at night?

33 mins #41 Jan 15, 19

Marketing tactics for your SaaS: how to get the word out

Looking for ideas on how to promote your software product?

58 mins #40 Jan 08, 19

Our predictions for 2019

Why we're not drinking booze this year, and some new year's predictions for tech, podcasting, and startups

32 mins #39 Dec 18, 18

How to find the right customers for your software business

There are different tiers of customers: B2C, B2B, B2Enterprise. Which is right for you?

43 mins #38 Dec 12, 18

Let's chat about the podcast industry

Justin is interviewed by Harry Duran on the Podcast Junkies show.

43 mins #37 Dec 04, 18

Why does Jon need a co-founder?

Jon is tired from all the Black Friday madness. Justin is drinking flavored light beer.

20 mins #36 Nov 27, 18

How did you split equity in Transistor?

Justin answers listener questions on founder equity splits and more!

46 mins #35 Nov 20, 18

Interesting ways you can use a podcast

Ideas on why you should podcast, and how you can use your podcast to reach your goals

40 mins #34 Nov 13, 18

Insulating our recording studio

Bootstrappers are extending their runway with a new type of funding.

48 mins #33 Nov 06, 18

There's a new funding option for bootstrapped founders

Jon and Justin consider a new early-stage fund called Earnest Capital

57 mins #32 Oct 30, 18

Your startup's expenses are too high

It's easy to get carried away with the "you gotta spend money to make money" meme.

73 mins #31 Oct 23, 18

How'd you get into computers? (Apple II, PC clones, BBSes, CYBERSPACE)

Nostalgia! Jon and Justin talk about their "tech origin stories."

59 mins #30 Oct 10, 18

You forgot $20,000 in your snowboard pocket

Want to hear a crazy story? Here's a crazy story.

50 mins #29 Oct 02, 18

You drew a prototype on that napkin from Portland

Follow-up on "what's the best metric for a new web app?"

46 mins #28 Sep 25, 18

What's the most important metric for a web app?

When you're building a SaaS, you don't have the bandwidth to focus on everything. So what's the one thing you should focus on?

45 mins #27 Sep 18, 18

We have some explaining to do

Making software in public – how big is your market?

46 mins #26 Aug 28, 18

Your revenue forecast is wrong

Responses from Des Traynor, Jason Cohen, Natalie Nagele, on the Bootstrapper's Paradox.

53 mins #25 Aug 21, 18

The problem with podcasts

To make our customers successful we have to help them create entertaining audio. Is that even possible?

30 mins #24 Aug 14, 18

What's a good conversion rate for a web app?

Also: should you ask for credit card upfront? How many signups have we had since launch?

28 mins #23 Aug 07, 18

Launch week hangover

Still overwhelmed from their launch week hustle, Jon and Justin recorded a phone call to talk about their experience.