Arvid Kahl talks about starting and bootstrapping businesses, how to build an audience, and how to build in public.
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Behind the scenes stories of how we're building bootstrapped companies
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Entrepreneurship is about more than your income statement.
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This is the archive of Bootstrapped.fm. A seminal Bootstrapper-oriented podcast started in 2013 by Ian Landsman and Andrey Butov. The first iteration ran for 104 episodes. In 2019, Steve McLeod took over for another 139 episodes. We've set this podcast to release order so you can experience it as it was initially presented.
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Brief insights into bootstrapping a software company between standups and bedtime stories.
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This is Bootstrap, a podcast dedicated to entrepreneurs self-funding their businesses and growth.
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Discover how world-class entrepreneurs, elite thinkers, and peak performers master success in business, body, and brain. Every week, I sit down with extraordinary people to explore how they build thriving businesses, maintain peak physical health, and cultivate sharp, resilient minds. Together, we’ll discover the habits, systems, and experiments they use to create their unique formulas for success. Join me as you learn how to build like a founder, train like an athlete, and think like an art ...
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WP-Tonic is a podcast for WordPress professionals, Bootstrap SaaS startup entrepreneurs, and anyone looking to build a business online. We cover a large number of areas with our main show. We interview creative WordPress and startup entrepreneurs, plus online experts who share insights to help you build your online business. Jonathan Denwood and Kurt von Ahnen host and produce the WP-Tonic podcast, which is one of the longest-running WordPress podcasts. Each episode brings you valuable insig ...
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Brian Casel (@casjam) and Jordan Gal (@jordangal) share their raw and real behind-the-scenes of their entrepreneur journeys. From bootstrapping software startups to raising money to selling and exiting businesses, to growing teams and the emotional rollercoaster that is startup life. It's all here in Brian and Jordan's weekly(ish) updates.
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The original podcast for bootstrapped and mostly bootstrapped startups, this show follow the stories of founders as they start, acquire, and grow SaaS companies. Hear when they fail, struggle, succeed, and take you with them through the tumultuous life of a SaaS founder. If you like Mixergy, This Week in Startups, or SaaStr, you’ll enjoy Startup for the Rest of Us.
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Jeremy and Jess interview indie developers who have a passion for the Rails framework and bring their hustle and creativity to building a business. They strive to understand the challenges these developers face and how they are overcoming them to create successful businesses.
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Podcast by Rakshith Halevoor Prabhachand
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Two founders talk about how to build software businesses that are meant to last. Each episode includes a deep dive into a different topic related to starting, growing, and sustaining a healthy business.
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🚀 Welcome to the Underdog Ecom Podcast—the raw, unfiltered podcast for ecommerce founders actually in the trenches. Tired of the same 9-figure guru success stories? We’re talking real highs, lows, and struggles of running an underdog ecommerce brand—from cash flow crunches to ad meltdowns and everything in between. 🔥 What You’ll Get: - Honest conversations about building a brand without venture capital. - What’s working (and what’s not) in DTC, Amazon, and wholesale. - The latest industry sh ...
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Welcome to Bootstrap Connect, a place for all things business, tech and entrepreneurial in Africa!
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Modern Business is a fully loaded Bootstrap 4 website starter template. It includes 17 HTML pages along with a working PHP contact form.
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A show about life-changing business acquisitions and founders who don't follow the Silicon Valley narrative. These stories will inspire you to think differently about how you build your business. And if an exit is in your future, you'll learn practical tips about how to get there. Hosted by Alexis Grant, founder & CEO of They Got Acquired, and produced by Laura Boach.
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How to Build a Self Funded Startup in Hawaii
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A limited series from EdSurge and Open Campus about merit, myths, and how "pulling ourselves up" shapes education.
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Two agency owners and friends talk about cybersecurity, design, and the continuous small efforts it takes to build a business.
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Marketing without a huge budget? Bootstrap Marketing is the podcast that helps your business by showing you free tools that are available online! Short and to the point, you can listen to one episode and immediately go and test out these new tools and tips to boost your Business or freelancing knowledge. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bootstrap-marketing/support
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Three bootstrappers talking weekly about building a software business together.
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Founder Views is a podcast for SaaS builders who want real conversations, not recycled playbooks. Hosted by Kosta Panagoulias, a 2x SaaS founder, the show features in-the-trenches conversations with SaaS CEOs, operators, and experts. Each episode digs into the decisions, strategies, wins, and struggles that shape real companies - practical insights from people actively building, not theorizing. While the core focus is SaaS growth, leadership, and execution, the podcast also leaves room for b ...
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A Chronicle of Starting a Podcast
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The MAFFEO DRINKS Podcast is a leading drinks business podcast delivering frontline insights for drinks leadership. For founders, directors, distributor MDs, and hospitality leaders navigating the tension between bottom-up reality and top-down expectations. 20+ years building brands across 30+ markets. Each episode features drinks builders: founders, distributors, commercial directors, sharing how the drinks industry actually works. Not the conference version. Honest conversations. Insights ...
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Bootstrapped Unicorns: Entrepreneurship with Josh Pies About the Podcast Bootstrapped Unicorns is dedicated to Examining the Journey of Entrepreneurship. Interviews of entrepreneurs – finding out their back story, how they discovered their business, and how they overcame the challenges they faced, will help you – our viewers, friends, and peers – move forward with confidence. Josh Pies (Host), serial entrepreneur and guy who has hit both good and hard times, never gives up. What has fueled h ...
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In this show I document my journey to an independent MBA-type education focussed on building bootstrapped businesses. Over the course of the next 12 month I will try to learn everything I can about ideation, software development, and marketing and then I will apply what I've learned by launching a new product each month.
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Short, bite-sized conversations with indie hackers that have started small, profitable and bootstrapped businesses. You'll learn how they come up with ideas, what they do to validate, find those first customers and make a sustainable income. Episodes every Tuesday.
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Two bootstrappers building SaaS apps on Shopify, sharing their experiences along the way. TBX is a weekly podcast by Jack Kowalski of NeatShift and Bjorn Forsberg of FORSBERG+two.
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Founder Reality with George Pu. Real talk from a technical founder building AI-powered businesses in the trenches. No highlight reel, no startup theater – just honest insights from someone who codes, ships, and scales. Every week, George breaks down the messy, unfiltered decisions behind building a bootstrap software company. From saying yes to projects you don't know how to build, to navigating AI hype vs. reality, to the mental models that actually matter for technical founders. Whether yo ...
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NEW EPISODES EVERY TUESDAY, SUBSCRIBE FOR UNBEATABLE ECOM RECON – Every Tuesday since 2014, host Kurt Elster shares the Shopify success stories that nobody tells you about, straight from the entrepreneurs living it. Subscribe for a raw look at what it really takes to succeed on Shopify.
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A transparent account of bootstrapping an insurance business as a solo founder.
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My name is Tiago and I am a full time Indie Maker. I build startups without any external investment and my goal is to perfect my entrepreneurial craft and reach $100K ARR (Annual Recurrent Revenue) Join me as I narrate my story and interview other entrepreneurs. Join our community
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Welcome to Bootstrapped Growth where you will get actionable, tactical steps you can implement immediately to get results. No latest tips or tactics. No mindset training or feelings. Myself and the guests I bring on are going to share with you the most effective sales, marketing and business skills, strategies, and frameworks so you can repeatedly build a business in any economy.
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Two entrepreneurs named Adrian with completely different approaches to building companies. One bootstrapped his way to success, the other raised venture capital and navigated the high-growth startup world. Each episode, they share raw, unfiltered conversations about the realities of entrepreneurship from opposite sides of the funding divide. Get insights you won't find anywhere else about what it really takes to build a business.
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Bend Break Hack
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Bootstrap Farmer Radio is a podcast that focuses on empowering growers and gardeners with the knowledge and resources they need to be successful, whether they are backyard gardeners, flower farmers, or market farmers. We interview farmers from all walks of life to share their experiences and give helpful tips to growers, no matter where they are in their journey. If you're just starting your gardening business, an experienced market farmer or home gardener, or growing your first plants in th ...
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The Pestle: In-depth Movie Talk, No Fluff | Film Review | Spoilers
Wes Evans: Actor, Filmmaker, Director, Writer; Todd Sapio: Actor, Producer, Musician, Athlete
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Cinema lovers unite! Two actors and filmmakers decided to cut through all the fluff and start a movie podcast where they actually discuss the film and not a million other things you don’t care about. Covering the obvious (did you like the movie?) while diving a little deeper (what is Interstellar really about? is there a bootstrap paradox?) we are having an in-depth conversation about movies and see if they hold up to scrutiny, and maybe even inform us about life or moviemaking itself. Becau ...
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This podcast will follow my journey as I create https://www.reviewiply.com my latest bootsrapped SaaS. I will keep you updated on everything that goes on. How many customers, how many free trials, what is the MRR? All of the details you could want about my latest SaaS product.
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114 | Bootstrapping Global Brands While Keeping 100% Ownership: Steve Perez on What Rally Driving Can Teach You About Focused Business
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Merry Christmas & Happy 2026. This Episode is hosted by Chris Maffeo and brought to you by MAFFEO DRINKS. Steve Perez reveals how he bootstrapped Global Brands (Owner of VK Vodka Kick and Franklin & Sons) from £200k to £65 million in four years without giving away equity. Starting with zero salary while working nights as a waiter, he funded growth …
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428: Marketing for Founders Who Hate Marketing
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Most technical founders I know understand marketing matters—they just hate doing it. They'd rather spend their time building features than fumbling through outreach and content strategies. I get it. I've been there for years. So today I'm sharing what's actually worked for me: letting machines do the heavy lifting. From programmatic SEO that turned…
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#989 - WP-Tonic Show: Lessons Learned Launching a Successful WordPress Service Plugin
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Lessons Learned Launching a Successful WordPress Service Plugin Discover key lessons learned launching a WordPress service plugin. Avoid costly mistakes and accelerate your plugin's success today. With Special Guest Ben Sibley, Co-Founder of Independent Analytics https://independentwp.com/ #1 - Ben, can you give the tribe more info on how you got i…
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Hey! Back in your feed for our bi-annual updates! It's December 2025 and that means it's time for our year-end recap and year-ahead outlook. What Jordan's up to: Rosie Offiste Podcast Jordan on X What Brian's up to: Builder Methods YouTube Agent OS & Design OS Panel Podcast Brian on XBy Bootstrapped Web
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⏱ Episode Breakdown 00:00 – Andrew’s gym story: fear that it won’t last 01:30 – “Are you either a gym person or you’re not?” 02:15 – The emotional wound of not achieving your fitness goal 03:30 – Jesse challenges Andrew: are you willing to feel it? 04:30 – The difference between thinking vs. feeling 06:00 – Jesse’s story: the P90X cycles and obsess…
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Embracing Imperfection In Entrepreneurship
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Bootstrapped Unicorns Podcast | Embracing Imperfection In Entrepreneurship | Episode 71 with Laura Patac Empower Your Entrepreneurial Journey: Reinventing and Reclaiming with Laura Patac! 🎙️ Welcome to the Bootstrapped Unicorns Podcast! Take a dive into the world of entrepreneurship with host Josh Pies, hippie capitalist and owner of C47 Digital St…
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Jared Brown - From Indie to 33 million in ARR
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In this episode of IndieRails, Jess and Jeremy interviewed Jared Brown, co-founder and CEO of Hubstaff. The conversation began with a serendipitous meeting at XO Ruby, where an early-morning parking deck encounter turned into a deeper discussion about SaaS, engineering, and long-term company building. What started as a casual conference conversatio…
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We extract Ben Affleck’s “Argo” and discuss: Cinematography, camerawork; Story & Writing, mini-movie method; and other such stuff and things and stuff. “God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you’ll know I’ve lost all my money.“ – Ben Affleck Notes & References: Supports us …
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After funding 210+ B2B SaaS companies, what patterns have emerged? In this episode, Rob Walling shares the 2025 State of TinySeed, from its first fund in 2018 to a global portfolio of over 210 B2B SaaS companies. He reflects on TinySeed’s growth, what the data reveals about today’s founders, funding trends, and the rise of AI-first startups. Topics…
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Native A/B Testing Hits Shopify: What You Need to Know
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"It's really about helping merchants become more informed, helping them make more bold decisions." Aaron Glazer, Product Lead at Shopify, reveals two features from Winter '26 Edition that change how merchants test and optimize their stores. Rollouts brings native split testing directly into the admin. SimGym deploys AI agents trained on billions of…
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Year In Review: Ecom Trends and Challenges
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As we wrap up the year, we sat down to break down the highs, lows, and hard truths from a chaotic ride in ecom—shifting social platforms, product flops, and what actually moved the needle. Plus: what we’re doubling down on in 2026 and why “newness” might be your biggest growth lever next year. 📢 Enjoyed the episode? Thanks for listening! Leave a re…
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Easy Zapier AI Automations - ft founder Wade Foster
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Episode highlights: [00:00:00] Businesses built entirely on Zapier [00:01:30] The roofer-turned-automation-agency story [00:03:54] What AI enables that wasn’t possible before [00:07:12] OpenAI Agents vs. Zapier workflows [00:11:15] Connecting AI agents to real business tools [00:13:03] Building a meeting-prep agent live [00:18:00] Why AI is great a…
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What Founders Say is the Hardest Part of Selling Their Business
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We’ve interviewed nearly 300 founders, and the same challenge keeps surfacing as the most demanding part of selling a business. Here’s what they wish they’d known sooner. What you’ll learn: What buyers really look for once the LOI is signed Why this phase can unexpectedly impact revenue How founders can delegate and prepare before entering this sta…
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EE471 - Live Podcast Special: Aine Kennedy, Nadia Adan, and Jack Pierse: Building Brands in Public
Recorded live at The Sugar Club, this special edition of The Entrepreneur Experiment brings three standout Irish founders on stage for an honest, high-energy conversation about building modern businesses in public. Aine Kennedy, founder of The Smooth Company and newly crowned EY Entrepreneur of the Year, shares how she launched her first product wi…
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Quanta landed $20 Million for AI Accounting
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🎧 Highlights: [00:00:00] Humans doing the work of AI — before AI existed [00:01:12] Why accounting is mostly about language, not numbers [00:02:33] Shadowing bookkeepers to find automation opportunities [00:06:00] Manual work Quanta knew software had to replace [00:07:30] Why building on top of legacy systems wasn’t enough [00:08:24] Rebuilding the…
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Shopify just dropped their "Renaissance Edition" with 150+ product updates. We cut through the noise. Sidekick finally works—I use it daily now for reports, segments, and Flow automations. Native A/B testing arrives with Rollouts and SimGym. The new Product Network let one early adopter earn $1,400 in commission in 30 days. And Shop App? #1 in the …
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Episode 811 | When to Delegate the "Core Four SaaS Skills," Freemium Retention Rates, and More Listener Questions (A Rob Solo Adventure)
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How do you step back from daily decisions without losing control of your SaaS? In this episode, Rob Walling answers listener questions about when to delegate key founder skills, whether great founders can succeed with any idea, and the limits of no-code or “vibe-coded” apps. To help answer one question, he calls up Ruben Gamez to get his insights o…
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#367 - We Just Moved In To Our Own Office
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I share the story behind getting our first dedicated Podsqueeze office in Portugal. I talk about the challenges of moving from a co-working space, hunting for a budget-friendly place, and doing DIY renovations with my co-founder. I explain how we furnished the space cheaply, set up a gym and podcast studio, and optimized for productivity. I cover o…
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Why Acceptance Might Be the Fastest Way to Scale
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What if accepting things as they are could make you more successful — not less? In this episode, Jesse Pujji and Dave Kashen explore one of the most misunderstood ideas in personal growth and entrepreneurship: acceptance. Most founders believe that if they stop pushing, they’ll lose their edge. But what if that constant resistance — the belief that…
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How do you build a powerful business network when you’re starting with no members, no brand, and no shortcuts? In this Mentor Moment, Trevor McFarlane, founder and CEO of EMIR, shares how he built one of the Middle East’s most influential private CEO networks — starting with a single event, a lot of nerve, and an obsession with trust and curation. …
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Full steam ahead, building 12 integrations for the new product and already three features deep, I decided to give the new idea a chance! (Sorry for the bad audio!)By Ben Mann
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The "vibe coding will kill SaaS" narrative is everywhere right now, and I think it's completely wrong. Yes, anyone can spin up a Lovable or Bolt.new project in an afternoon. But there's a fundamental confusion happening: people are mistaking software products for software businesses. SaaS was never really about the software — it was always about th…
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Nadav Boaz: How VoiceDrop Hit $150k MRR in 18 Months (SEO + Cold Email)
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How do you take a niche SaaS product from zero to $150k MRR in under two years — without venture capital? In this episode of Founder Views, Kosta Panagoulias sits down with Nadav Boaz, co-founder of VoiceDrop, to break down exactly how they scaled fast by combining cold email mastery, SEO execution, and ruthless operational discipline. This isn’t t…
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Two days before closing the sale of her business, a founder called me in a panic. She wasn’t sure if she should take the deal — or walk away. Here's what I shared with her: • How to compare a “low” multiple with unusually strong deal terms • Why all-cash offers are rare — especially for agencies • When running a full process can increase price • Wh…
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In this episode of The Entrepreneur Experiment, Gary Fox welcomes back Matthew Coffey, co-founder of Squid, Ireland and the UK’s largest local loyalty network with 550,000+ users and nearly 2,000 independent businesses. What began as a simple tap-for-coffee reward app has evolved into a powerful loyalty and payments infrastructure - and now Squid h…
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#988 - WP-Tonic Show:We Look At Our Most Powerful Interviews In 2025
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We Look At Our Most Powerful Interviews In 2025 Our most powerful interviews in 2025 revealed: Game-changing conversations with visionaries you need to hear. Don't miss these stories. In 2025, we dive deep into the most impactful interviews that shaped our understanding of key issues. This episode features extraordinary discussions with influential…
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After more than two years, Ernesto Tagwerker returns to IndieRails to chat about the changing industry landscape and running an agency in the age of AI. Ernesto is the founder of OmbuLabs, makers of FastRuby.io, and maintainers of many open source projects in Ruby and Rails. We talk about upgrading Rails apps with the help of LLMs, their fixed-cost…
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We carve up Tarantino’s “Inglorious Basterds” and discuss: Review at 17:00 Cinematography, camera movement, the Bob Richardson special; Story & Writing, conflict through character wants; and other such stuff and things and stuff. “Joan of Arc: “You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because …
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Why Your Creative Strategy Is Burning Cash
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"Do you care enough about new customer acquisition? What you care about shows up based off of your actions, not your thoughts or your words." Meta's Andromeda update broke everyone's brain and most brands still haven't recovered. Nehal Kazim, CEO of Ad Pros, argues that the industry overcorrected by wildly overproducing content, burning through bud…
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Episode 810 | The Best A.I. Coding Stack, Shipping Fast, and More Listener Questions (With Derrick Reimer)
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How much design polish is really enough? In this episode, Rob Walling is joined by fan favorite Derrick Reimer for a new round of listener questions. They dig into the best AI coding stacks right now, how to ship fast without losing polish, whether AI is changing the kind of risk founders face, and when to start taking security seriously. Episode S…
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🎧 Highlights: [00:00:00] Benedict Evans and “AI Eats the World” [00:01:30] Will startups unbundle ChatGPT? [00:05:00] Why vertical specialization wins [00:07:03] Every startup is now “AI-first” [00:07:48] The trillion-dollar AI consulting wave [00:10:57] Is AI a new plateau or the next exponential curve? [00:12:00] The pyramid of progress: computin…
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🎧 Highlights: [00:00:00] From Makerpad to Factory — Ben Tossell’s journey [00:01:33] Life after acquisition and redefining work [00:05:06] Why AI might make things harder, not easier [00:07:30] No-code lessons and the illusion of simplicity [00:10:42] From teaching no-code to debugging workflows [00:12:00] Learning to code with AI as your translato…
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113 | Scaling Ultra-Premium Gin: Alex Watson on Growing Renais from London's Cocktail Bars to National Retail & International Distribution
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Merry Christmas & Happy 2026. This Episode is hosted by Chris Maffeo and brought to you by MAFFEO DRINKS. The family had been making wine in the Chablis region for 35 years. Looking at that grape pomace every harvest, Alex Watson saw what everyone else missed: repurposing it making Gin. In this conversation, Alex (who co-founded Renais with his sis…
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We survived Black Friday… and somehow had our best months ever. In this one, we break down what worked, what we totally screwed up (like accidentally turning off pop-ups), and how we pulled off big wins with scrappy offers, mystery boxes, and way too many emails. If you're already dreading next Q4, this one's for you. 📢 Enjoyed the episode? Thanks …
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2026: Welcome to The MAFFEO DRINKS Podcast: Industry & Leadership Insights
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Welcome to MAFFEO DRINKS. For many years, I've been known as the "built bottom-up" guy. But many people misunderstand what bottom-up actually means. Bottom-up means building at a pace that doesn't jeopardize your future. Doing the right things on the ground while managing expectations from above. That's it. It doesn't matter if your brand is small …
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What happens when a founder opens the company’s books to every single staff member — salaries, P&L, everything? In this episode, Eoin Cantwell, founder of Fitt Meals, shares the bold move that transformed his culture, boosted performance, and created true ownership across his team. Eoin opens up about: why he embraced full financial transparency wi…
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