Starting & Sustaining

Starting & Sustaining

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Starting & Sustaining episodes

  • Peldi, Founder of Balsamiq

    Peldi and I talk about moving from California to Italy to lower his cost of living to start a company, juggling different delivery formats for software (and the associated payments challenges), giving amazing support, and bending over backwards to help customers. While he originally didn't want to grow the business beyond himself, Balsamiq is now a team of 23 people based all around the world.

    Special Guest: Giacomo “Peldi” Guilizzoni.

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    • Starting & Sustaining: The second edition of Starting & Sustaining will be out in late 2017. Visit the site to get on the list and be the first to know as well as receive a launch discount.

    Links:

    • Balsamiq
  • Spreadshirt
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    • 37 min
  • Pat Allan, Creator of Thinking Sphinx and Flying Sphinx

    Pat Allan turned his open source side project into a profitable Heroku Add-on. We talk about the advantages and disadvantages of building on another company's platforms, doing support for both open source users and paying customers, and some of the trickier parts of parlaying open source success into a profitable business venture.

    Special Guest: Pat Allan.

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    Sponsored By:

    • Starting & Sustaining: The second edition of Starting & Sustaining will be out in late 2017. Visit the site to get on the list and be the first to know as well as receive a launch discount.

    Links:

    • Freelancing Gods
    — Pat's personal web site.
  • Thinking Sphinx
    • — The open source gem for integrating Ruby and the Sphinx search engine.
  • Flying Sphinx
    • — Flying Sphinx is an add-on for Heroku that lets you use Thinking Sphinx (and thus, Sphinx) for all your search needs.
  • Limbr
    • — Limbr is a social impact startup on a mission to make mental health more acceptable and accessible.
  • Drumknott
    • — Drumknott provides hosted searching for your static Jekyll sites. All you need to do is connect things up via Javascript, and upload your page data to Drumknott's API.
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    • 33 min
  • Anthony Eden, Founder of DNSimple

    Anthony built DNSimple on the side and didn't come on board full-time until after there were two other full-time employees. We discussed some of the advantages and disadvantages of running a complex infrastructure product, marketing a complicated business with comics, and fighting domain fraud through it all.

    Special Guest: Anthony Eden.

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    Sponsored By:

    • Starting & Sustaining: The second edition of Starting & Sustaining will be out in late 2017. Visit the site to get on the list and be the first to know as well as receive a launch discount.

    Links:

    • DNSimple
  • Sift Science
    • — Sift Science has been a helpful component of anticipating and fighting fraud for DNSimple.
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    • 34 min
  • Mike Perham, Creator of Sidekiq and Inspeqtor

    Mike Perham has successfully built a wildly profitable one-man business built on his open source efforts. We discuss what it's like balancing the seemingly opposing forces of open source and a for-profit business, managing support for the open source version as well as paying customers, and how businesses are all-too-willing to pay for things that provide value or help them save time.

    Special Guest: Mike Perham.

    Read the book online for free

    Sponsored By:

    • Starting & Sustaining: The second edition of Starting & Sustaining will be out in late 2017. Visit the site to get on the list and be the first to know as well as receive a launch discount.

    Links:

    • MikePerham.com
  • Sidekiq
    • — Simple, efficient background processing for Ruby.
  • Inspeqtor
    • — Application infrastructure monitoring, reimagined.
  • Full Transcript
    • 38 min

About Starting & Sustaining

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Starting & Sustaining originally began as a book and spreadsheet (https://get.startingandustaining.com) created to help people start software businesses. That evolved into candid discussions with…