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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Let's learn from all projects, not just the biggest hits! A podcast about messy beginnings, small bets, and overnight successes that were decades in the making.
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Agency Lessons | Interviews with Founders, Owners, and Operators about Growth and Operations
Jakob Greenfeld
What if you could uncover the secrets behind the fastest growing agency businesses today? Join me as I’m interviewing agency founders, owners, and operators. You’ll learn how they kick-started their businesses and drove them to success. The guests range from owners of fresh, up-and-coming agencies to seasoned operators managing well-established firms. Tune in for insights and inspiration from the front lines of the agency world.
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Scott Weisman: Balancing Agency and Software Development, Exploring AI Opportunities, Global Hiring Strategies, Maintaining Remote Team Culture, Using CRM for Growth.
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Scott Weisman on Twitter Scott's agency LaunchPad Lab 00:00:00 - Introduction to today's key topics: Balancing Agency and Software Development, Exploring AI Opportunities, Global Hiring Strategies, Maintaining Remote Team Culture, Using CRM for Growth. 00:02:30 - Discussion on balancing agency work with software development. Key challenges and stra…
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Agency Breakdowns: Why you should ignore most business advice (Growth Ninja, Design Joy, Closer Cartel)
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Andre Hayak: Evolving Agency Offers, Incentive Alignment, Hiring Top Talent, Building a SaaS with a Personal Brand, Operationalizing with Typeforms
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* Andre Haykal on Twitter 00:02:15 - Agency Offers Evolution Explained 00:07:45 - The Role of Incentive Alignment in Success 00:13:30 - Proven Strategies for Effective Hiring 00:18:50 - Journey of Building a Successful SaaS 00:24:20 - Power of Personal Brand in Business 00:29:55 - Boosting Operations Using Typeforms 00:35:10 - Overcoming Challenges…
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Tom Critchlow's website
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Andrew Pierno: Cold email agency margins, market fluctuations, offer evolution, using cash flow to buy businesses
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Andrew's company Andrew's Twitter Jakob Greenfeld's website 00:00:00 - Andrew Pierno talks about his career in venture-backed companies and how he started his cold email agency, Cold Email Studio. 00:02:45 - Andrew Pierno discusses the challenges and lessons learned from running a cold email agency and the importance of finding the right market, me…
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Thibault Loius-Lucas: platform risk, hunting opportunities, what works on Twitter right now, mini tool SEO strategy
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- Tibo's Twitter - Tweet Hunter The nomad lifestyle (00:00:00) Discussion about the pros and cons of working as a nomad and the preference for having a dedicated workspace. Starting the podcast conversation (00:00:24) Small talk about their current locations (Paris and Denmark) and setting the casual tone for the conversation. Past startup experien…
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Sam Floy - operationalizing your agency, finding your best clients, vertical vs. horizonal responsibilities
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Phil Lehoux: getting rejected from YC, bootstrapping a million-dollar SaaS, managing mental health as a founder
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Phil is the co-founder and CEO of Missive. (By far my favorite team inbox software)
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Nick Abraham: lead gen metrics, performance vs retainers for agencies, client due diligence, shadow funnels
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Nick Abraham's Twitter Nick Abraham's agency My Twitter My agency Sales.co
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Andy Walker: Getting an agency off the ground, adjusting to market sophistication through specialization
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Andy Walker on Twitter Andy's agency Stryker Digital
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Grant's Twitter profile Grant's Agency Hampton community Sales.co agency
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Dangers of Building in Public, Course Creator Charlatans, Agency Secrets & Higher Testosterone = Higher Revenue?
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Show Notes: (00:01) - Discussion on the state of 'building in public' (02:10) - Mention of the success of Peter Lebel's methods (13:30) - The potential correlation between testosterone and business success (17:40) - Reflections on how advice can become outdated quickly (20:22) - Acknowledging operational secrets as a real source of competitive adva…
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BusinessBrainstorms.com Michael's Twitter account. Michael's services and businesses are listed here.
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Vikas' Twitter profile Vika's business
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Jake's website Jake's book
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This episode is brought to you by Founder Flywheel. Sagiv's website Sagiv's Twitter profile Sagiv's summary of our conversation
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Brainstorming Business Ideas with David Kofoed Wind: Figma for X, Capterra automations, and travel adventures
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David's Twitter account David's company Eduflow
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Brainstorming Business Ideas with Andrew Lynch: The opposite of the metaverse, living in nature with friends, Zero to Wine, and Primal Weekends
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Andrew's Twitter account Andrew's website Andrew's thread on the opposite of the metaverse.
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Abandoned Assets, "be ready when they slip", and finance tracking with Tom Dekan
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Brainstorming indie maker ideas with Xavier Coiffard (job boards, form builders, ...)
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Xavier's Twitter account. Xavier's community. Xavier's info product.
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Brainstorming Data Products, Jungle Scout for X, and Airtable Alternatives with Jordan Hansen
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🤖 Brainstorming GPT-3 Business Ideas with Harish Garg
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Harish is a GPT-3 consultant, founder of MynaOne, and author of the "Definite Guide to building products with OpenAI".
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Get access to Daniel's private Shopify app store database here. You can connect with Daniel on Twitter. Daniel's website He's currently running App Store Analytics ('Google Search Console for Shopify apps').
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Brainstorming Shopify for SaaS with Travis Fischer
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This podcast is brought to you by Opportunities.so. Right now Travis is building Senpai, an asynchronous video platform that allows creators to monetize their expertise. Travis is pretty active on Twitter and you should also check out his amazing blog where he's sharing all the lessons from his ventures.…
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Unearthing Opportunities with Alejandro Navia (Psilocybin, Microdosing, and Transformation)
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Opportunities in real estate with Peter Fabor
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This podcast is brought to you by Opportunities.so. Summary of the episode. Peter's website. Peter's Twitter account. Peter's thread on travel niches are growing like crazy.
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This podcast is brought to you by Opportunities.so. Matt's Twitter Account, Matt's Newsletter
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Brainstorming opportunities in the WordPress ecosystem with Iain Poulson
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This podcast is brought to you by Opportunities.so. Resources mentioned in the episode: Iain's website Iain's Twitter account Plugin Rank (Iain's SaaS tool for plugin creators) Integrate (Iain's WordPress-Instagram plugin) WP Trends (Iain's Newsletter) WP User Manager (the plugin Iain acquired) WPContent.io (Iain's WordPress community) WP Rocket (t…
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Keevin's Twitter account Keevin's Newsletter Brainstorms.io It's Under the Radar Newsletter by Rob Sullivan
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Amaan reached out to me on Twitter since he wanted to learn more about my Bootstrap MBA experiment and we ended up talking about a wide range of topics.
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Andrew's Twitter profile. Andrew's idea list 3. Design Assessment Platform (enterprise Coderbyte but for UX/UI Designers) 4. Speed Runs of Non-Games (GamesDoneQuick but for other digital activities) 1. Homeschooling Extracurricular activities (have homeschooled kids socialize more) 5. Piggyback Distribution. Micro influencer marketing. (get slack/d…
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Keevin's Twitter account Keevin's Newsletter Brainstorms.io Sidemail.com
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Keevin launched Brainstorm.io on November 5 and already gained 3,359 subscribers in just one month. Keevin discussed two things about the process of how he made his previous newsletter successful: 1) be conscious of where you put your stuff out. 2) Think about what you really like to write about. To increase the value proposition; 1) make readers/c…
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Jakob explains how and why he reached out to Max (01:20) Max describes and enumerates what they do on a live show and in business (02:13) Jakob and Max discusses more about the latter’s business model and its sustainability (04:51) Max talks about the tools he uses as his primary sponsorship source and eventually scaling it up (05:04) Max tells Jak…
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Unearthing Opportunities with Andrew Kim
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Andrew's Twitter profile. Andrew's ideas: 1. Productize my ProductHunt profile as a "Good Luck Charm" because I have the lucky of being user #777777 2. Negotiation Practice or interviewing.io for negotiations (not just salary) 3. Start with a "Why So Expensive" product, and build something around that 4. Collabs GAN (Generative Adversarial Network)…
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Luke's Twitter Profile Luke's Newsletter David Perell Bot Birdy Bots Hypefury Colony.io Urbit APIs all the way down
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Unearthing Opportunities with Aswin John
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Aswin's website Learn then Apply Aswin's Twitter profile.
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#3: Helen Ryles
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Helen's Twitter profile Her insane side project review which contains links and comments to all projects we talked about.
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Unearthing Opportunities with Andrew Kamphey
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Andrew's Twitter profile Resources we talked about: List of 100 business ideas by Andrew 7 Newsletter Product Ideas for Indie Hackers by Andrew 9 Podcast Product Ideas for Indie Hackers by Andrew Better Sheets Twitter templates by Andrew A tool I built based on the ideation framework shared by Andrew…
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Resources we talked about Product Byte Trends.co Trends.vc Keevin O'Rouke's profile and Product Byte updates on Indiehackers Software Ideas by Kevin Conti Rappi app
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Resources we talked about: Capiche.FM My First Million podcast Agency Course How I built this podcast Dickie Bush's Ship 30 for 30 challenge David Perell's Write of Passage Course https://twitter.com/brandonthezhang (his first essay was indeed shared by David Perell) The Day You Became A Better Writer by Scott Adams Writing Guide by Julian Shapiro …
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We talk about: Launching on Product Hunt Deals for indie makers why private communities don't really solve the problems that public communities have. Painpoints.io Indie Hackers Trends.vc IndieDrops.com Product Explorer Gum Spy IndieThinkers.org Nesslabs https://jakobgreenfeld.com/gut Trends.co Kaggle Peter Askew RanchWork.com https://www.deepsouth…
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Episode 8: Helen Ryles, the queen of side-projects
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#2: Rob Hope
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Rob Hope is a maker from South Africa and the project he's most famous for is a site called One Page Love. But he also recently published a great book titled Landing Page Hot Tips, he has a podcast and curates beautiful emails. We talk about all the projects he worked on in the past, why every side project he launched provided lessons for the next …
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#1: Mubashar Iqbal
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I got the chance to talk one of the people I admire the most in the maker world. Mubashar Iqbal ("but you can call me Mubs") is an incredibly prolific maker with decades of experience building things. We talk about his process for coming up with product ideas, his experience collaborating with other makers, and the learnings from his past and curre…
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Picasso, Jack Kerouac, and Idea Mazes.
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