This interview features Henry Poydar Founder and CEO of Status Hero who's been part of a founding team many times and even brought a business through an acquisition to Constant Contact. He's seen the internet era evolve in many ways from his own early companies trying to get band listings online (that was actually hard not that long ago!) to modern products handling thousands of API calls. But Henry has an interesting approach to technology, Stay Boring, and I can't wait to hear your feedback on his belief.

Henry has a strong background in engineering and leadership through many startups, an acquisition, and now a bootstrapped business.

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This interview features Aditi Shekar of Ask Zeta who's worked with multiple companies going from null to zero all the way to founding and scaling Ask Zeta! We discuss how Ask Zeta got started, Aditi's interesting approach to discovering the couples finance problem space, and how to grow and test a financial product when customer barriers to trial are so much higher as they require more upfront trust.

Aditi has a wealth of experience in and out of FinTech and it makes this a great listen, I can wait to hear your feedback.

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This interview features Sheridan Clayborne of LendTable who's created multiple companies from null to zero all the way to multi-millions a year! We discuss how LendTable got started, Sheridan's approach to testing demand and funding the first loans himself, and a small masterclass on how a financial product like LendTable could offer 0% rates to end customers yet still the business can make profit at those rates.

Sheridan is high energy and it made this such a fun episode to record and listen too, I can wait to hear your feedback.

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This interview features Nazim Ahmed of CanvasPop who's been through many Null states to multi-million a year businesses. We go through multiple businesses Naz has started and grown, a hyper growth product that ended in failure, staying true to yourself, and great advice for founders in every stage of their career.

It's quite a ride and we're excited to have you join us.

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Messy Middle by Scott Belsky, Shoe Dog by Phil Knight, and Play Bigger by Al Ramadan, Dave Peterson, Christopher Lochhead, and Kevin Maney

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The continuation of a companies biggest question, where will your first dollar come from? Today's episode continues the conversation around getting your very first customer and then 10 more! This is part two focused on the tactics and example methods to grow your business including researching your leads on social media, learning mining your past wins for extra details, and other tactics. We hope you enjoy it! We also thrive on feedback so please tweet us or drop us an email if you have anything, good or bad.

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The biggest question for all fresh new companies, where will your first dollar come from? Today's episode starts the conversation around getting your very first customer and then 10 more! This is part one so we focus on higher level more strategic methods to go out and find your first customers. Part 2 will focus more on individual tactics and more of the 'how' to get to pockets of customers. Enjoy! We also thrive on feedback so please tweet us or drop us an email if you have anything, good or bad.

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Our first Interview! Hurray! We're going to be bringing you limited interviews with great company and product builders. Our first episode features Chris Gimmer of Snappa who's even written about going from Idea to Product market fit! It covers a wide range of topics including why Snappa chose to bootstrap, how they got their first customers, how they price their product, and how they kept and keep growing it.

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This is our first installment of "You Know Nothing About Tech" with Karl Clement. With this episode we're going to focus on the comparison of artificial intelligence and machine learning. What's the difference and how to identify each concept in real world application. We'll cover the building blocks while using concrete examples to quickly relate them to products we use everyday.

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With this episode we're taking away all your excuses for not making that company you've always dreamed of by giving you three techniques to use (likely in order) to validate your idea, test demand, and then get value from early customers. All without writing a single line of code.

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This episode focuses on a strategic resource that becomes a tactical guidebook for getting into new markets / new customer segments known as the Ideal Customer Profile (ICP). We talk about how to create one and how it can help guide you in bringing in new business.

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