After a month hiatus, Brian and Jordan are back with stories about trips, waking up in pain, and prepping for competition. They also talk about growth in terms of profitability versus milestones, the newest developments with ZipMessage, and introducing “common, everyday tools” to people outside of the SaaS community.

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Here are today’s conversation points:

• The relationship between founder and VC
  • Headcount versus profitability as growth
  • Hiring a recruiter
• ZipMessage goals
  • Prioritizing requests
  • Setting up new features
  • Opening it up to the public
  • The Shipped podcast
  • Brian’s new technical marketer
• Introduction of technology to others
  • Niche tools
  • Summit, whiteboards that do math. The easiest way to create, test, and present your logic.
• Taming the chaos

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Rally On 

ZipMessage

SunriseKPI 

Productize 

Audience Ops

ProcessKit  

Carthook  

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