Keep Going... with Arrows.to Podcast
1) Our first team retreat (Ep. 51)
Things have been busy here at Arrows HQ, but we made time to get the team together for the first time. Most of us had never met each other before. On this episode, we have Kim and Matt on discuss the ...Show More
2) It takes a team to create Happy Customers (Ep. 50)
Arrows is launching its second podcast today, called Happy Customers. So we have Stuart Balcombe on the show, the host of Happy Customers and the head of product marketing at Arrows. We talk about why...Show More
3) Launching our ebook, with Shareil Nariman (Ep. 49)
We're joined this week by the first Arrows employee, Shareil Nariman. Last week we launched the ebook that was written by Shareil, and it was a smashing success. Much better than we'd expected. Sharei...Show More
4) Var Talk with Justin Duke (Ep. 48)
Today we're joined by our friend (and Arrows angel investor) Justin Duke. We talk about building Arrows, how we try to balance building features vs foundations, and what we get anxious about when ...Show More
5) Why we need a product marketer (Ep. 47)
We've always cared about marketing at Arrows.to, and really think it's critical to our success. But we've never had a full-time marketer who can help us really excel at everything we're doing. In this...Show More
6) Letting an employee go for the first time (Ep. 46)
We recently realized one of our early employees was in the wrong role in the wrong environment for them. Neither of us was happy. So what do we do to fix it? How do we communicate it to them? To the r...Show More
7) Ben Orenstein asks us hard questions (Ep. 45)
Today our internet friend and listener of the podcast, Ben Orenstein (CEO of Tuple.app), asks us questions he wished we talked about on Keep Going. He asks why we chose to take VC funding, what our eq...Show More
8) Everybody's one big thing (Ep. 44)
After a couple of weeks off, we discuss why "working in bets" feels like it's not working for us as well as it used to when we were smaller... and how we're trying to focus everybody on the team aroun...Show More
9) Everything is a funnel (Ep. 43)
This week we talk about all of the Arrows funnels and the tools we use to organize them... our sales funnel, our marketing funnel, and our product development "funnel".
10) Impossible for every employee to know everything (Ep. 42)
Growing the team brings new challenges that we hadn't expected. How do we stay open and allow people to be involved in decision-making while still staying focused?