In this episode Dave and Craig catch up on the latest developments in their business in the first few weeks of the year, but also address a few questions that are top of mind for them both these days. We also chat through a listener question sent in by Duncan Murtagh of Vetter talking about owner […]

In this first episode of 2018 Dave and Craig are doing some introspection looking back a bit at last year, what worked and what didn’t, and how to optimize both work AND business here in 2018. There was a great tweet by Adrian Rosebrock of PyImageSearch last week that posed 4 questions: 1. What went […]

In this episode Dave and Craig take some time here at the end of 2017 to reflect about how some marketing approaches have changed dramatically this year.  Specifically we ask Is starting a blog in 2018 right for your business? What marketing channels can you start and evaluate quickly to get make sure it’s getting […]

In this episode Craig and Dave are joined by their friend and bootstrapped founder colleague Phil Derksen. Phil, Dave, and Craig talk about the recent sale of Phil’s Simple Calendar WordPress plugin to Sure Swift Capital, and how that sale has changed his focus, priorities, and business model. There is much to consider when it […]

This week Dave and Craig talk through their performance in 2017 and look ahead a bit to 2018. These periods of self reflection are always a good, although sometimes challenging, exercise.  In this episode Craig and Dave celebrate some of the wins they both had in 2017, but also where they came up a bit […]

This week Dave and Craig are talking through the recent Black Friday and Cyber Monday blitz of emails, and the resulting noise that it’s created for us both as consumers and as business owners participating in this space. For Dave it was a win for Recapture as the app handled the workload of the holiday […]

Today’s guest is David Rosenthal, one of the hosts of the “Acquired” podcast and an early stage Venture Capitalist. We discuss startups who use outside funding and how this positively or negatively affects a business. David started as an Associate at Madrona Venture Group in 2010 and rose through the ranks of the company. While […]

This week Dave and Craig are catching up on some new developments in their businesses, talking through their current development practices and strategies, and looking ahead to the end of the year run. Craig is getting ready for his Microconf Europe talk, coming up in Lisbon, and has been spending some time looking at what […]

Today Dave and Craig walk through the most recent SaaS company survey conducted by David Skok and the team at Matrix Partners. This survey included more than 400 private SaaS companies, with average annual revenue of $8.5M, and an average growth rate of 47%, so in many ways this is the ‘best of the best’ […]

On this episode, Craig and David sit down with Josh Haynam, the co-creator of Interact. They discuss the origins of his business and content marketing strategies. Josh is one of the brains behind Interact, the company you may recognize from that internet quiz you took. Interact seeks to grow businesses’ social media presence and thus […]