On today’s episode, Craig talks to fellow cofounder Christopher Gimmer, the co-founder of both Snappa and BootStrapBay. They receive some keen insight on what it takes to build a two-sided marketplace and how to plan for the future of a startup.

Christopher Gimmer has a financial background and has previously worked for the Canadian government. He co-founded Snappa, a graphic design tool whose aim is to help build better websites,  and BootstrapBay, which is a marketplace for Bootstrap themes. Listeners are sure to find Christopher’s experience, not only informative, but enlightening.

Today’s Topics:

Resources and Links:

BootstrapBay

Snappa

Colourlovers

Cooler WordPress Themes

Stocksnap

Unsplash

Death to the Stock Photos

Pixabay

Contact Information:

Christopher Gimmer on Twitter

After MicroConf we’re getting back into our businesses, and into our WordPress projects, and really digging in to how we can implement the things we learned.

Going to a conference like MicroConf is such a great experience.  On one hand you have all of the friendships and connections that you’ve made during that week, and on the other it’s all the lessons, tips, tricks, and advice you got on your business that you have to take home and unpack.

Whether it’s taking lessons, visiting MicroConfRecap.com or just doing some reflection about the things that we both learned, it’s important to somehow take a step back and focus now on how you’re going to put that time to good use in your business.

And for both Dave and Craig it’s been implementing time lately!  Dave is beginning a series of surveys of his existing customers to better understand the market need for his plugin updates project.  Some initial good feedback here is shaping the future iterations of the survey and his general development effort going forward.

Craig has been working on development of the PodcastMotor Player and it’s going pretty well.  For a first software development project there are lots of lessons learned along the way, but all of the bruises have been pretty small lately.

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MicroConf 2016 was a great conference and we even got in a bit of podcasting.  In this episode Dave and Craig catch up with Ken Wallace, the cohost with Craig of the Nights and Weekends Podcast for a mashup episode.  We also bring in a few other attendees from MicroConf to talk about their experiences, takeaways and impressions on the conference.

If you’re a self funded (or even funded for that matter!) startup founder there is no better place to spend your time and money than MicroConf.  Definitely worth checking out.