• 54 minutes 36 seconds
    60 : Mike Hauptman - When the platform you're built on goes bankrupt overnight

    Sponsored by Fetch Truck Rental. Truck rental made easy.

    To learn more about AdLib.

    Twitter: @HauptmanMichael

    • Remote workspaces
    • Recent business woes
    • Media Math as AdReforms first customer
    • Mike's connection to MediaMath
    • What happened when MediaMath went down
    • Recovery, options
    • Repercussions
    • Possible next steps
    • Ways to stay in the game
    • Gaining and keeping Momentum
    25 July 2023, 4:00 am
  • 43 minutes 31 seconds
    59: Section 174 with Michele Hansen

     Sponsored by Fetch Truck Rental. 

    Goal: precipitate the repeal of 174 changes

    But how? Get 1,000+ signatures on the Small Software Business Coalition Letter to Congress by April 10th

    30 March 2023, 4:00 am
  • 1 hour 1 minute
    58 : Chris Reedy, Big Band Software

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    • Big Band Software
    • how you run multiple businesses and hiring
    • How do you structure this from an entity standpoint
    • What can founders do to prepare for sale
      • What metrics, P&L line items matter
    • SaaS acquisition market during these tougher times
    • Niches that are doing well
    • Sect 174
    28 March 2023, 4:00 am
  • 1 hour 50 seconds
    57 : The Year So Far and Looking Ahead
    • Personal updates
    • Retreats and Conferences, Kyle at Big Snow, Tiny Conference
    • Kicking off 2023 and the year ahead
    • Exploring adjacent use case and tailoring products to new needs
    • Podcast repurposing
    • Tip of the week - high yield savings rates
    21 February 2023, 5:00 am
  • 58 minutes 29 seconds
    56 : A few of our favorite (software) things
    13 December 2022, 10:00 am
  • 57 minutes
    55 : Landon Chats with Bethany Stachenfeld of Sendspark

    https://www.sendspark.com/

    • Bethany breaks down Sendspark
    • The problem of stale content in help center
    • Bethany discusses integration into Intercom
    • Bethany explains origins of Sendspark, was in marketing at another company when she and co-founder realized the need
    • Bethany as a Userfeed customer
    • Fundraising for Sendspark, product usage metrics and activation
    • Initial product Dev strategies, funding and spending
    • Bethany working in NYC
    • Energy of NYC and getting sick
    • Grind during the week, weekends for sleep
    • Landon asks “who is harder to market to - developers or sales people?”
    • Struggles of email marketing, the need for more human connection in marketing
    • Landon using Notion, problem of lack of context
    • Sendspark marketing channels, organic traffic
    • How-to-SEO
    • Sendspark partnerships
    • Landon testing rankings, name changes
    • YouTube vid SEO tips from Bethany
    • Landon using Intercom for Userfeed
    • Bethany using vid email for lead generation on website

     

    14 October 2022, 4:00 am
  • 1 hour 2 minutes
    54: Building a 7 & 6-figure SaaS at the same time with Tom Jacquesson of Tweethunter and Taplio

    Sponsored by Punchlist: Close the loop on creative feedback and get your projects done. 

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    Notes:

    • Helping people sell more things is the right place to be
    • Taplio: 6-figure ARR
    • Tweethunter: 7-figure ARR
    • Why build two separate products when they could potentially be under one roof?
    • Why its important to build a brand on LinkedIn and tips to building an audience
    • Why is LinkedIn different from Twitter?
    • How much time do you spend on each business?
    4 October 2022, 7:50 pm
  • 1 hour 13 minutes
    53: Figuring out how to grow our hiring business

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    Notes:

    • Growing our candidate pipeline for Hire with Grit
    • What we look for in candidate interviews
      • Video setups
      • Energy/enthusiasm 
    • Marketing experiments for the podcasts 
      • Repurposing content for social channels
      • Video
    • Moving the Hire with Grit site to Typedream
    • Crappy accounting software
    • Using a services business as hunting ground for software ideas 
    11 September 2022, 3:39 pm
  • 26 minutes 11 seconds
    52: Landon's first solo update on the new businesses

    Episode Notes

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    ---

    Notes:

    • Our first solo pod. Weird? We're also on YouTube now! Weirder? 😜
    • Hire with Grit update
      • Already placing folks and seeing some good demand from non-friendly customers
      • Setting up an internal process and CRM with Notion DB and Tally form
      • Figuring out what our value to the market is
    • Why an entrepreneur need to do the work first before you can build process and delegate
    • Throw everything at the wall to see what sticks then pick a niche
    • Why it's more simple than a SaaS business
    • "Get paid to learn"
    • Start with service before building tech
    • Previewads.com free tool for Ad Reform
    • Docs Fresh (Intercom app)
    • Switching from a simple website builder (Carrd) to Webflow (Using Punchlist.com to help us collab on the changes)
    • Trying to figure out what to do first on the marketing side
    • You have to get through the failed marketing experiments to get to the ones that work
    • Default to action
    12 August 2022, 4:38 pm
  • 1 hour 7 minutes
    51: Starting a couple of new businesses

    Sponsored by Punchlist: Close the loop on creative feedback and get your projects done. 

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    ---

    Notes:

    • Starting multiple new ventures
    • Why are we starting more businesses, especially as the macro-economy crumbles
    • Things we're doing different this time around
    • How to set up operations to run multiple businesses and why it's important to separate all revenue and accounting accounts
    • Why we're building Hire with Grit, a headhunting business out of the Philippines
    • Getting our first few deals under our belt and figuring out our lane
    • Building Docsfresh and why we're starting on Intercom
    • Why working on multiple things gives you energy and learnings you can't get through one business
    • Starting sponsorships for the pod
    • Landon starts continuous glucose monitoring with Levels
    • Snapchat drone cam: Pixie
    27 July 2022, 2:50 pm
  • 51 minutes 5 seconds
    Building a fast-growing video-based SaaS (with Matt Barnett, founder at Bonjoro)

    Links

    Notes

    • Landon tells Matt about his funny Bonjoro story
    • Landon talks about Docs Fresh, a new Intercom app their about to launch
    • How Matt stair-stepped to Bonjoro through a video insights agency
    • SaaS Virality (Bonjoro videos)
    • How they've grown to multiple millions in revenue without an outbound sales team
    • Workday schedule with kids
    • How they scale support with 60k users
    • Finding talent overseas (ie. Hire with Grit)
    • Bootstrapping vs funding 
    30 June 2022, 4:15 pm
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