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Brian's new product (Instrumental.dev).  Comparing the open-source leadership styles of Matt, DHH, and Taylor.  Building products for builders.  Components.  Tightening the team.  Scaling consulting from 1 to...?  Let's Go Mets.

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Brian and Jordan's expert (lol) takes on WordPress-land.  Car shopping.  Netflix rec's.  Funnel tracking.  Customer observations.  Over-building.

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If you're wondering "what's happening in WordPress?", our friend Matt Medieros published this excellent "just the facts" timeline.

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Optimizing our onboarding funnels.  Calls to action.  Lead ads.  ARPU.  API plans.  Pearl Jam.  Sleep (or lack thereof).

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Q4 energy.  Signup funnels.  Self-serve vs. not.  Building assets vs. building cashflow.  Membership business models.  

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Why makes SaaS more difficult than other business models?  Rosie first customers!  Brian's pricing experiment update.  Training businesses.  AI waves.  Profitability at $1-2m.  College Football.  US Open Tennis.

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What if we bootstrapped?  Funnel projects.  Pricing experiments.  Software speed.  Tech-enabled services.  Listener conversations on Ripple.

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Asking the hard-hitting questions like...

Coconut pastries... for or against?  Is anyone actually able to log into the black hole that is Meta ads?  Publishing a 1-page HTML landing page shouldn't be difficult.  Should it?

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Ripple.fm is live and open.  Rosie is live for self serve signups.  Niche social networking.  Advertising using video.  Cold outreach playbooks.  And a special guest joins the show

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Brian launches built and launched something new.  2 things actually.  Jordan changes pricing strategy for Rosie.  Brian also changes pricing strategy for Clarityflow.  And all find our AI hardware "friend".

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Yet another new product announcement from Brian.  Jordan launches to first customers. The era of hacking on new ideas.  Summer speed ups.  Professional standards.  Vacations.  Special guest joins us to tell us it's time to stop.

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