Startup to Something

Startup to Something

By Marc and MattBusinessEntrepreneurship
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Startup to Something episodes

  • 90: Hotseat: Matt, Shopify reflections

    Matt is in the hot seat this week. He discusses the end of his Shopify experiment, and what his next focus is.
    The guys talk through driving traffic to test landing pages and what constitutes a good CTA.

    26 min
  • 89: Lower hanging fruit

    Matt has a few new developments from his ecommerce research. Marc is deciding if and how the PowerImporter codebase needs to change to facilitate bringing on contractors to help him build more importers. The guys discuss Matt's finding and efforts so far in ecommerce and if there are opportunities that are more open to talking about their problems.

    Creators & Guests

    • Matt Gale - Host
    • Marc LG - Host
      • 45 min
    • 88: Aboard the struggle bus

      Matt is struggling with next steps and bets to make in the ecommerce space. Marc is seeing his hosting bill going up as a result of an acquisition. The guys talk through what Matt should do next and the idea of barriers to entry in different markets.

      43 min
    • 87: Cultivating curiosity

      Marc is back from vacation, feeling rejuvenated and ready to conquer. Matt has been digging in further into the ecommerce world and found a cool topic around product photography. The guys talk through Matt's ecommerce findings, further planning and his one-off plans to make pocket money.

      Mentions:

      • PowerImporter
      • MemberRow
      • Related subreddits finder

      Get in touch!

      • Marc’s Twitter and Mastodon
      • Matt’s Twitter and Mastodon
      45 min
    • 86: Momentum
      Marc is ready to hit the beach for vacation, and Matt has made progress on GDriveFixer and other opportunities. The guys talk through Matt's decision making and evaluating new market opportunities.
      1 hr
    • 85: Tests of markets and skills
      Marc has been shipping a new performance update for PowerImporter as well as hacking on a chrome extension for fighting the Twitter algorithm. Matt is running is first test: a fixer for google drive favourites in finder. The guys discuss Matt's experiment, what's come of it and what the next steps are.
      56 min
    • 84: Working backwards
      The guys are BACK and ready to conquer. Matt is doubling down on goalsetting and working backwards from them but needs some help for the more amorphous goals. Marc is doing some housekeeping for PowerImporter.
      41 min
    • 82: Build in private
      Marc was a part of the recent Webflow marketplace launch, but the rush burned him out. Matt is getting inspired by AI businesses showing up in his facebook feed and contemplating an offer to be a technical cofounder. The guys discuss how to come back from burnout and moving away from building in public.
      32 min
    • 81: How you define work
      Matt is drinking port and finally offloading the operations of his business. Marc is drinking rum and coke and is questioning if the job of marketing that he dislikes so much is serving him. The guys discuss the definition of work and AI powered products.
      44 min

    About Startup to Something

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    A weekly podcast by two indie hackers, Marc and Matt. They share their ups and downs of building their bootstrapped online businesses. They prefer to show instead of teach, so you get to see the real…