8 mins #7 Aug 28, 19 Creating an emotional connection between your customer and your product Customer service has become one of my favourite parts of running a small SaaS company. You learn so much about your product and what people are feeling when they use it. Here are a few examples how to turn an angry customer into a true fan or just truly churned.
7 mins #6 Aug 27, 19 Growing a startup and a young family and learning to take my time seriously I’ve been doing a poor job lately of being present while with my family. In this episode I talk about some of the pressures of having a young family and trying to start a company as well as some of the benefits.
11 mins #5 Aug 23, 19 Why annual plans are a win win and I’m building features for nobody In this episode I talk about my phone call with Corey Haines from Baremetrics (https://baremetrics.com) and how he showed me how I’ve been building a bunch of features no one needs (as well as how to fix this). Then I really nerd out like a number-one-fan about bootstrapping SaaS.
8 mins #4 Aug 20, 19 The downside to this “No Code” fad and lessons from a millionaire This No Code fad has been huge. Tools like Bubble, WebFlow, etc. are killing it and changing the way we launch and build products. But there may be a cost I think most people aren’t thinking about. I also talk about a conversation I had with a multi-millionaire business man (who shall not be named) about “learning whatever it takes”.
8 mins #2 Aug 19, 19 Why MRR is a deceiving metric and my 2 year old thinks I don’t love him Balancing a day job, a family, and a side project can be a rollercoaster of emotion. So are revenue analytics. I talk about these (while trying to say “umm” less), how founders are addicted to checking their baremetrics dashboard, and a more (not a lot more).