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- Episode 29: Products we love | Fahrenheit CoffeeDescription:
Experimenting with a new episode type, Nick chats with Sameer - owner of Fahrenheit coffee. Incredible coffee, amazing dude. This episode is about passion, about craft, and about relationships. It'll also really make you want to drink coffee! Enjoy!
Links:[http://www.fahrenheitcoffee.com/]
[https://www.yelp.ca/biz/fahrenheit-coffee-toronto]49 min - Episode 28: Let's Jam | A Social Podcasting App
Kent and Nick chat about an app idea: A social podcasting app. Really interesting idea and lots of different directions it can go. Let's see where this goes!
1 hr 34 min - Episode 27: Product vs. Marketing
Nick and Kent give their perspective on the age old debate between product and marketing. Where does product end and marketing begin, what should product people know about marketing? What should good marketers know about the product? How can you apply all of this to your side projects?
This is our most edited episode, please forgive the audio at points.
1 hr 52 min - Episode 26: Family-Work Balance
Kent and Nick have a conversation around balancing Work, Family and Side Projects.
1 hr 19 min - Episode 25: Q&A - Productivity Tools, outsourcing tech, letting someone go.
We open with some project updates (ablecells.com, medium.com/fatherhood) followed by some Q&A from fans (I can't believe people still listen to this!).
00:00 Project Updates
17:00 Productivity Tools30:00 Does Kent own 300 domain names?33:00 Does outsourcing work for tech companies?49:00 Fan love swoon52:00 When to move on poor hires1 hr 6 min - Episode 24: How morals and ethics affects startups, building ethics into your side project, and deleting Facebook
Nick asks Kent if he plans to delete Facebook, this leads to a discussion about Facebook's recent drama, how ethics and morals play into business, and how you can build good ethics into your side project or company.
Q&A episode coming soon, send in your feedback, questions, comments, opinions, topic ideas, errata to [email protected].
1 hr 14 min - Episode 23: Hero worship, self-doubt and winning
Kent and Nick talk about Hero Worship and Self-Doubt. They ruminate about when/if they'd go all in on something and the secret to winning at side projects. Bonus Parent Corner content at the very end. Enjoy!
1 hr 49 min - Episode 22: Pros and Cons of Building Side Projects with a Team or Going Solo
Nick and Kent talk about the pros and cons of starting side projects with a team or going solo. They also answer a hypothetical question about what would they tell their 25-year-old selves.
1 hr 45 min - Episode 21: Filming a Kickstarter Video, How to Deal with a Drop in Shopify Orders - Project Update #3
In this episode, Kent and Nick give a quick product update on the book and Able Cells. Kent is worried that he went 2 days without an order and wants to rebuild Shopify. Nick is working on storyboards for his likely Kickstarter video. Kent records a slightly awkward outro. Remember to send any questions and feedback to [email protected]
36 min - Episode 20: Lessons Learned Pitching Sponsors
In this episode, Nick and Kent talk about how it went pitching the podcast to a few potential sponsors. Like a good math problem, they work out a solution for what sponsorship could look like going forward. Remember to send any feedback or questions to [email protected] or @pencilpod on the Twitter.
57 min
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Kent Fenwick (@kentf) and Nick Shim (@nim342) talk about their side projects, their day jobs, technology, the future, philosophy, 90s action movies, and much much more.