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    EP101 – Scott Young: teach yourself how to program, finally!

    EP101 – Scott Young: teach yourself how to program, finally!

    I've been trying to learn how to program since 1985. This past year, at 38 years old, I finally figured out how.

    Questions we discuss in this episode:

    • Is there only "one" way to learn how to code?
    • Why is getting started SO HARD?
    • How did Justin finally figure out a way to learn programming?

    Show notes

    The latest from Justin:

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    Product People
    en-usAugust 07, 2019

    EP100 – James Clear: improving your life in 2019 with Atomic Habits

    EP100 – James Clear: improving your life in 2019 with Atomic Habits

    James Clear describes how you can improve your life, using small incremental steps that add up to big wins.

    Questions we discuss in this episode:

    • How does "what you repeatedly do" affect your identity?
    • How does someone’s context affect their ability to set and maintain good habits? Are good habits only for people of privilege? 
    • How can you maintain habits for people with depression, anxiety or attention deficit?
    • How to form habits when your schedule is not in your control? (if you have kids, etc...)
    • If you do fall out of a habit, what should you do? Revive it, or let it go?
    • What systems and tools can you use to help automate, facilitate or help ingrain healthy habits?

    Show notes

    • Get the book: Atomic Habits
    • Get the habits journal
    • Steven Pressfield: "Stevie Wonder’s territory is the piano. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s is the gym. When Bill Gates pulls into the parking lot at Microsoft, he’s on his territory"
    • Seth Godin: "Who is it for, and what is it for?"
    • Seth Godin: “People like us do things like this.”
    • James Clear's AMA on Reddit
    • Read James' blog: JamesClear.com
    • James Clear: "Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become."
    • Nir Eyal shuts off his internet every night
    • James Clear: "When you're struggling with a new habit, your effort's not wasted, it's just being stored."

    The latest from Justin:

    ★ Looking for a community of bootstrappers?


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    Product People
    en-usJanuary 24, 2019
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    james clear
    motivation
    habits
    resolutions

    EP99 – Ben Orenstein's new startup is focused on pair programming

    EP99 – Ben Orenstein's new startup is focused on pair programming

    Ben is the co-founder of Tuple.app and is running a new course called Habits for Hackers.

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    Product People
    en-usJanuary 02, 2019

    EP98 – The hard truth about bootstrapping startups (Part 2 with Jason Cohen)

    EP98 – The hard truth about bootstrapping startups (Part 2 with Jason Cohen)

    Jason Cohen asks Justin Jackson hard questions about his startup, Transistor.fm, and what it's going to take to go full-time.

    This is the second half of our chat. Part 1 was really just setting the stage. Part 2 digs into the real-life challenges of bootstrapping a business.

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    Show notes

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    Product People
    en-usDecember 17, 2018

    EP97 – Can you bootstrap a company on the side? (Part 1 with Jason Cohen)

    EP97 – Can you bootstrap a company on the side? (Part 1 with Jason Cohen)

    When you're building a startup you have these questions:

    • Should I work on my startup on the side, and grow it slowly?
    • Should I take investment and go full-time sooner?

    These are the questions that have been circulating in my head over the past few months.

    Which is why when Jason Cohen, founder of WPengine and someone I respect, replied to my tweet, I took note:

    "It’s difficult to find successful companies where founders didn’t work 80+ hours and took longer than four years to get to $1M ARR. If you're two years in and you still need a day job then by definition it doesn’t have good fundamentals. I usually think of "$10k/month/founder" as a rough measure of whether you're ready for full-time. Saying that should take three years is wrong. It's hard to find that companies that live and took that long."


    Today we'll be digging into that! (Check back next week for Part 2)

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    Show notes

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    Product People
    en-usDecember 14, 2018
    growth
    startups
    bootstrapping
    funding
    startup

    EP96 – My secret phone call with Hamish

    EP96 – My secret phone call with Hamish

    Hamish Macpherson is an engineer at Buffer, and was one of the first people to join MegaMaker.

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    Product People
    en-usNovember 23, 2018

    EP95 – "Programming's gateway drug" with Samantha Geitz

    EP95 – "Programming's gateway drug" with Samantha Geitz

    This is a great chat with Samantha Geitz, a Senior Developer at Tighten, and the founder of BetaFish.

    Topics in this episode: 

    • Should "business/marketing" people learn programming?
    • What's the difference between messing around and being a serious programmer?
    • Do regular programmers Google for answers?
    • Why English Majors can make great programmers.
    • If you want to learn hard things, do you need to be in a classroom?
    • Why should take a mental health day when you need it.

    Announcement:

    • Want to speak at a tech conference? I'm doing class called "public speaking for geeks." More info here.

    Show notes

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    Product People
    en-usNovember 05, 2018

    EP94 – Does the old SaaS playbook still work in 2018?

    EP94 – Does the old SaaS playbook still work in 2018?

    So many great topics in this episode: 

    • Should developers learn design?
    • Derrick's "viral signup" trick
    • How important is a personal brand?
    • How to promote your project (while you're still building it)
    • Do software companies need to become more service oriented?

    Announcement:

    Show notes

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    Product People
    en-usJune 11, 2018
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    viral
    launch

    EP93 – SaaS pricing with Patrick Campbell

    EP93 – SaaS pricing with Patrick Campbell

    I'm building a new SaaS in 2018 with my buddy Jon Buda called Transistor.fm. Now, we're trying to figure out our pricing. We're trying not to pretend we know everything there is to know about running a SaaS.

    So, we wanted to reach out to some experts and get outside opinions about how to create our pricing tiers. So I asked Patrick Campbell, from Price Intelligently, to help give us some direction. He blew my mind. This conversation is incredible, you're going to get so much out of it.

    Two announcements:

    Show notes

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    Product People
    en-usJune 01, 2018
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    saas
    pricing

    EP92 – 2018 MicroConf guide with Mike Taber

    EP92 – 2018 MicroConf guide with Mike Taber

    Mike Taber (Bluetick) and Rob Walling (Drip) started MicroConf in 2011 as a conference for self-funded startups. It's gone from just over 100 attendees to nearly 500. It's become the place for bootstrappers to hang out.

    Get $100 off MicroConf Starter Edition

    Go to megamaker.co/microconf or text "microconf" to (424) 247-5762.


    Show notes


    Stuff from Justin...


    Thanks to...


    ★ Thinking about how to validate your product? megamaker.co/validate ★


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    Product People
    en-usMarch 15, 2018
    bootstrapping
    self-funded
    bootstrappers
    microconf

    EP91 – Josh Nielsen from Zencastr: software for podcasters

    EP91 – Josh Nielsen from Zencastr: software for podcasters

    Josh started out trying to build a "GitHub for music." When that idea didn't pan out, he still wanted to do something with Web Audio and WebRTC. So he started building Zencastr, which gives podcasters the ability to record "double-ender" interviews in the browser.


    Get all the Mega Profitable case studies

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    ★ Sign up here. ★


    Show notes

    "I asked a podcaster I knew how much he'd pay, and he said '$20 / month' so that's what I used for a price."


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    Product People
    en-usJanuary 06, 2018

    EP90 – "Give yourself time." Building a profitable business on the Shopify apps platform

    EP90 – "Give yourself time." Building a profitable business on the Shopify apps platform

    6 years ago, Bjorn Forsberg built an app called OrderlyPrint for Shopify. His goal was to increase his freedom, and to spend more time with his family. Was able to achieve it? (This is the 5th case study in the Mega Profitable series)

    We should measure profitability in other ways. It's not just "financial profitability." There's also "freedom profitability," and "time profitability." Because profitability is really about "getting ahead." So where else are you getting ahead?

    Get all the Mega Profitable case studies

    Don't miss any of the future Mega Profitable interviews!

    ★ Sign up here. ★

    Show notes

    "People don't give themselves enough time. They think they're going to build a unicorn in 6 months."

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    Product People
    en-usNovember 18, 2017
    profitability
    shopify
    profit
    bootstrapping
    forsberg

    EP89 – "We never wanted to fire anyone," Natalie Nagele on Wildbit's journey

    EP89 – "We never wanted to fire anyone," Natalie Nagele on Wildbit's journey

    Back in the early 2000s, Wildbit was an agency building Flash websites for Philly nightclubs.

    Then, in 2007, they launched their first product, Beanstalk. Two years later, they quit doing consulting. Natalie Nagele takes us through their story!


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    ★ Sign up here. ★


    Show notes


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    Product People
    en-usOctober 28, 2017

    EP88 – Pippin Williamson from beer money to over $1 million in revenue with WordPress plugins

    EP88 – Pippin Williamson from beer money to over $1 million in revenue with WordPress plugins

    Pippin Williamson started out like a lot of us do: building websites for whoever would pay him. He decided to try selling one of his WordPress plugins. Now, Pippin's Plugins earns over $1 million in revenue a year. This Mega Profitable series aims to help founders, like you, get profitable!


    Get all the Mega Profitable case studies

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    ★ Sign up here. ★


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    Product People
    en-usOctober 21, 2017

    EP87 – How Nick Disabato built a profitable productized service

    EP87 – How Nick Disabato built a profitable productized service

    It's time for another Mega Profitable interview! This series aims to help founders, like you, get profitable. Learn how Draft went from having $21 in the bank (in his first year) to creating a solid, profitable solo-founder business.


    Get all the Mega Profitable case studies

    Don't miss any of the future Mega Profitable interviews!

    ★ Sign up here. ★


    Show notes


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    Product People
    en-usOctober 04, 2017

    EP86 – Mega profitable with Brennan Dunn

    EP86 – Mega profitable with Brennan Dunn

    Introducing a new series: Mega Profitable. What's the difference between a founder who is mega profitable, and a product person who's just making a living? Brennan Dunn joins me to talk about his journey.


    This episode sponsored by...

    I've just updated my most popular product: the Marketing for Developers book.

    ★ Grab a sample chapter here. ★


    Show notes


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    Product People
    en-usSeptember 20, 2017
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    product
    saas
    company
    online business

    EP85 – Facing your launch fears with Mike Taber of Bluetick.io

    EP85 – Facing your launch fears with Mike Taber of Bluetick.io

    You'll recognize Mike from Startups for the Rest of Us and the MicroConf conference. He's launching a new product called Bluetick.


    This episode sponsored by...

    ★ I'm updating my most popular product: the Marketing for Developers book.

    Relaunches end of August 2017. Grab a sample chapter here.


    Show notes


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    Product People
    en-usAugust 11, 2017

    EP84 – Contrarian bootstrapper Ian Landsman

    EP84 – Contrarian bootstrapper Ian Landsman

    "Charge more!" "Use content marketing!" "Start with an ebook!"

    There's a lot of folklore in the startup and bootstrapping community. Do they all stand up to scrutiny?

    This is my interview with long-time SaaS entrepreneur, Ian Landsman.


    Show notes


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    Product People
    en-usMay 16, 2017

    EP83: Laura Elizabeth – unmistakable product validation

    EP83: Laura Elizabeth – unmistakable product validation

    How do you find product ideas that resonate?

    Hear how Laura knew there was demand for her project, Client Portal.

    Everyone was like: "I want that."

    (This is my special MicroConf 2017 episode!)


    Show notes


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    Product People
    en-usApril 08, 2017
    startups
    design
    validation
    startup
    microconf

    EP82: Adam Wathan is back with a new launch story

    EP82: Adam Wathan is back with a new launch story

    When we last chatted with Adam Wathan he'd just launched his first book.

    His next project is a course called Test Driven Laravel. You won't believe his launch results!

    You'll hear how he built the course, all his launch numbers, and why he thinks it was such an incredible success.

    Happy holidays everyone!


    Show notes


    Get the full video interview

    This interview is also available as a bonus video in the new Marketing for Developers course.

    “★★★★★ What can I say – amazing! A specific checklist on how to market and launch your product” – Vadim Demedes

    Get $50 off by using this coupon →


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    Product People
    en-usDecember 23, 2016
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