Out of Beta

Out of Beta

By Matt Wensing & Peter SuhmBusinessTechnology
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Out of Beta episodes

  • The first TinySeed founder retreat
    • Matt and Peter mull over the "Out of Beta" name.
    • Peter recalls arriving in Minnesota and life as a funded startup. ;)
    • TinySeed founders got some high-quality time together.
    • The clarifying nature of goals.
    • Peter met with a new business partner while in Minneapolis.
    • Peter is delighted with a remix of Branch.
    • Matt missed the retreat, stayed heads-down on product.
    • SimSaaS has a brand new, very short screencast.
    • Matt found a new groove gliding between product and sales.
    • Matt hired a "personal coding trainer" to help him get into flow much faster.

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      • Matt on Twitter
      • Peter on Twitter
      • SimSaaS
      • Branch
        • 39 min
      • What's it like being a second time founder?
        • Peter's vacation skills are put to the test as his excitement with Branch bubbles over.
        • Matt's maker efforts are exceeding his expectations after being busy as a manager last week.
        • Peter shares his thinking around the nature of a Branch trial and Matt likes it!
        • Matt's been invited to speak at the 2019 Business of Software conference.
        • Matt shares some of his thoughts on being a second time founder.

          • NOTE: Peter's audio is not great in this episode (it sounds like he's speaking into a pillow...), but it'll be better next week, when he's not recording from a tiny bedroom!

          • Matt on Twitter
          • Peter on Twitter
          • Brianne Kimmel's request for podcasts
            • 36 min
          • The first 10 customers & Matt's return

            With Matt back from the Canadian Rockies, he and Peter have a lot to talk about. The two share their weekly updates. Matt has been deep in Manager mode with sales meetings. Meanwhile, Peter is starting to onboard a new batch of people onto Branch. Matt also shares some enterprise sales wisdom, based on experience at his previous company, and Peter is making his own olives.

            Out of Beta also has a release schedule now and new episodes will go out every Wednesday.

            • Matt on Twitter
            • Peter on Twitter
              • 33 min
            • Talking Userlist with Benedikt Deicke

              Matt is still on the road, so Peter invites a guest on the show: Benedikt Deicke, the co-founder of FemtoConf and Userlist. Peter and Benedikt share their weekly updates and talk about Peter's recent experience with setting up Userlist. Peter is excited and Benedikt is hoping he won't be disappointed.

              • Peter on Twitter
              • Matt on Twitter
              • Benedikt on Twitter
              • Userlist
              • FemtoConf
                • 31 min
              • Peter's solo pod

                Matt is off to Yellowstone and Peter shares his updates from the past week of conferences and code refactoring.

                • Matt on Twitter
                • Peter on Twitter
                  • 11 min
                • Define the Problem

                  Matt and Peter discuss an article from Intercom about product development and update listeners on their progress for the week (working on SimSaaS and Branch).

                  Link to article: https://www.intercom.com/blog/great-product-managers-dont-spend-time-on-solutions/

                  • Matt on Twitter
                  • Peter on Twitter
                    • 33 min
                  • Asking for Money

                    Matt and Peter discuss the ways they're asking for money from their early adopters and update listeners on their progress for the week (working on SimSaaS and Branch).  Peter's headed to Berlin for WordCamp 2019.

                    - Matt on Twitter
                    - Peter on Twitter

                    32 min
                  • 1.1 (the nomenclature)

                    Matt and Peter introduce themselves, how they met, and their startups (SimSaaS & Branch), which are are both part of the TinySeed 2019 remote accelerator program.

                    - Matt on Twitter
                    - Peter on Twitter

                    28 min

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                  Follow our journey as we build and launch two startups. Hosted by Matt Wensing, founder of Summit, and Peter Suhm, founder of Reform.