The Bean Ninjas co-hosts Matt Stubbs and Meryl Johnston are back today walking us through Crossbeam’s progress in recent weeks and they share the excitement of collecting their first recurring payment.  They then move into some topics around work-life balance and how they each ensure they are able to run successful businesses and have great […]

The Bean Ninjas co-hosts Matt Stubbs and Meryl Johnston are back today walking us through Crossbeam’s progress in recent weeks and they share the excitement of collecting their first recurring payment.
They then move into some topics around work-life balance and how they each ensure they are able to run successful businesses and have great family - and personal relationships outside of work.

The Bean Ninjas co-hosts Matt Stubbs and Meryl Johnston are back today catching up on the progress Matt has made in the beta testing of Crossbeam. Meryl asks Matt to share some insights on when it might make sense to move from beta to paying users and she also picks his brain about the way […]

The Bean Ninjas co-hosts Matt Stubbs and Meryl Johnston are back today catching up on the progress Matt has made in his beta testing of Crossbeam.

Now that we’ve opened up Crossbeam to beta users we are facing a challenge.  We are receiving great feedback and feature requests from beta users, but we need to balance that with a tight June 2021 launch date.  It isn’t possible to build every requested feature in time for the launch, so we need to […]

Now that we’ve opened up Crossbeam to beta users we are facing a challenge.
We are receiving great feedback and feature requests from beta users, but we need to balance that with a tight June 2021 launch date.
It isn’t possible to build every requested feature in time for the launch, so we need to make some difficult choices.
Join co-hosts Matt Stubbs and Meryl Johnston for this ‘working in public’ series focused on building a SaaS.

Getting traction with any new business is a challenge. That is why selecting the right problem to solve for the right market is so important. Join co-hosts Matt Stubbs and Meryl Johnston for this ‘working in public’ series focused around building a SaaS.  “Software that isn’t shipped isn’t useful to anyone’ Matt Stubbs In our […]

Getting traction with any new business is a challenge. That is why selecting the right problem to solve for the right market is so important.
Join co-hosts Matt Stubbs and Meryl Johnston for this ‘working in public’ series focused on building a SaaS.

Making business decisions during normal circumstances can be challenging enough. With coronavirus (COVID-19), many small businesses have had to change their plans and Bean Ninjas is no exception.
In this episode Meryl Johnston shares her thought process behind a couple of recent business decisions - pausing the education business unit, and switching to a new format for the podcast.
Listen in to hear about the challenges and opportunities that have been presented to us during this pandemic.

Meryl shares their experience in dealing with and making business decisions during the time of COVID-19.