JD Graffam owns several startups all focused on design and technology. His main business is Simple Focus, which is a web design company that focuses on user experience. Today, JD chats with Dave and Craig about his businesses, what makes an acquisition appealing, and why humility is so important to success. Topics: Simple Focus’ customer […]

This week Dave and Craig catch up about everyone’s new favorite subject: GDPR. In our respective businesses Dave is awaiting approval of his Shopify app for Recapture. After a few submissions he’s hoping this will be the one where the app is approved and available in the store…which will create a huge new growth lever […]

In this episode Dave and Craig are catching up on their businesses, and asking a couple of listener questions. Dave has been working on getting Recapture into the Shopify store so that they can extend its functionality out past just Magento stores.  This approval should be coming soon so they can start competing in a […]

On this installment of Rogue Startups, Craig gets the chance to speak with Marcus Taylor, founder of Venture Harbour. Venture Harbour is a unique business in that it does not provide a service or product, but rather exists to build ventures. Marcus started Venture Harbour, because he didn’t like having a boss and wanted to […]

In this episode we talk with Patrick Campbell (@patticus), founder of Price Intelligently and ProfitWell.  Patrick is widely regarded as THE Go-To authority when it comes to helping businesses with their pricing. The old “Just Charge More” is fun in jest, but you really need to think about aligning the three axes of product value, […]

In this episode Dave and Craig continue their updates from the previous episode and specifically talk about how comparing yourself to, and creating by imitating your competitors can be a danger. We’re all taught to niche down into a super tight focus within our target market, but there are some dangers there.  When you niche […]

In this episode Dave and Craig catch up about their businesses after a few weeks of some awesome interviews. Dave is just getting back from Big Snow Tiny Conf West after a great few days of skiing, mastermind talks, and hanging out with a dozen other awesome entrepreneurs.  They had great snow (a few inches […]

Today Craig is joined by fellow bootstrapped founder Andrew Culver.  Andrew was previously the founder of ChurnBuster, and has since gone on to have several really interesting opportunities in the tech and startup world, and most recently has founded a SaaS development tool called BulletTrain. As anyone who’s built a SaaS app knows there are […]

In this episode Dave and Craig are talking with clinical psychologist Dr. Sherry Walling.  Sherry has been prominent in the bootstrapped startup world particularly in the past few years as her (allegedly) better half, Rob, has a popular podcast in the space and is the cofounder of Microconf. Today Dave, Craig, and Sherry talk all […]

This week Dave and Craig are joined by Damian Thompson of LeadFuze, a B2B lead generation platform. In this episode Damian shares how LeadFuze has adapted a bit of a contrarian approach to selling, which has come as a result of extensive testing, and in many cases throwing out the assumptions that we might have […]