Starting & Sustaining Podcast
1) Brennan Dunn, Co-founder of RightMessage
Brennan and I explore the trajectory of businesses and learning that led him to create RightMessage. Since founding his first SaaS application, Planscope, in 2011. Brennan began producing courses to ...Show More
2) Mathias Meyer, Co-founder and Former CEO of Travis CI
After helping found Travis CI and grow into the CEO role over six years, Mathias recently left Travis and starting helping other companies with their growth challenges. We talked about the difficulty ...Show More
3) Jaimee Newberry, Co-founder of Picture This Clothing
Picture This Clothing went viral immediately. From the outside, it looked like every entrepreneur's dream. But the reality of holding together a business that just went viral is completely different. ...Show More
4) Steve McLeod, Founder of Feature Upvote
After years running a company based on a consumer product, Steve made the decision to switch to a business-focused product in Feature Upvote, and he's never looked back. We explore the implications of...Show More
5) Ben Curtis, Co-founder of Honeybadger
Ben and I discuss the origins of Honeybadger, what it's like bootstrapping, and the sleepless nights brought on by running an infrastructure product. We also talk about Ben's experiences automating th...Show More
6) Scott Nixon - Co-founder of Happy Herbivore/Meal Mentor
Scott and I discuss the hybrid nature of running a business where software merely facilitates a primarily offline interaction. How do you measure engagement? How do you know if the customer succeeds? ...Show More
7) Matt Goldman, CEO of Churn Buster
Matt and I talk about running a SaaS business after acquiring it, the mistakes they made early after taking over Churn Buster, and the common ways that SaaS businesses get dunning wrong and how they c...Show More
8) Rachel Andrew, Cofounder of Perch
Rachel and I talk about what it's like supporting self-hosted software, juggling a busy travel schedule to make time for work. She's been working on Perch with her husband Drew for eight years, and th...Show More
9) Tracy Osborn, Founder of Wedding Lovely
Tracy and I talk about her experience building and running Wedding Lovely, raising some funding for it, losing a co-founder, and even going through a heart-breaking acquisition process with Etsy. Thro...Show More
10) Josh Williams, Founder of Gowalla
Josh and I discuss what it's like going from a bootstrapped small team to a team of 30 in a funded startup. We touch on what it's like going from being a lifelong business owner to being an employee o...Show More