Podcasts about eight bit studios

Don Bora is a Co-Founder of Eight Bits Studios, a software development agency helping startups and young companies. He has co-founded or helped start a handful of other companies including Kiwi Internet Group, WisePatient.com, MobileMakers, and a few others.  Don also co-founded a non-profit company with the goal of placing highschool students in tech internships in Chicago. He is also on the board of a non-profit that runs a Boot Camp for Veterans. In this episode... Where are you in your SaaS business journey? Are you testing your MVP or are at the development stage and waiting to launch? It doesn’t matter which stage you’re at, you’ll find insights from this week’s guest, Don Bora of Eight Bit Studios super helpful.  With over 30 years of CTO level experience, Don has co-founded or helped start a handful of companies including Kiwi Internet Group, WisePatient.com, and MobileMakers. He also runs a software development bootcamp for military veterans.  In this episode of the Big Break Software Podcast, Geordie Wardman interviews Don Bora about the service versus product breakdown using Don’s company, Eight Bit Studios as a case study. Find out how Don grew his software development agency by150% in two years, his metrics for choosing the clients to work with, and why great service deserves unquestionable value. Exciting right? Stay tuned.

"Organizations that champion empathy will be the leaders in every category". We kick off season 3 of Bytes Over Bagels introducing this season's theme: Empathy. Don Bora, John Ostler, and Steve Polacek join us from Eight Bit Studios to discuss how their 10-year journey in the website and mobile consulting space went from why they started: to create a great studio for collaboration and work-life balance, to today, why does Eight Bit exist? They discuss their team's approach to empathy, the different approaches to the research, and the reasons behind pivoting this very podcast, Bytes Over Bagels into helping to answer those and more questions. 

John Ostler of Eight Bit Studios & Blake Puryear Episode 4 UX Tools, UX Research & the History of Eight Bit Studios with John Ostler www.enginecommerce.com/

This probably comes as no surprise, but around here, we believe that business talk doesn’t always have to be serious. It’s possible to be scaling huge companies, laser-focused on your mission while bringing in your personality, too. A serious business owner who agrees with this sentiment: John Ostler, co-founder of Eight Bit Studios. The Chicago-based creative shop designs and develops apps and websites for companies that want to push the envelope on originality. John also co-hosts his own Chicago-centric business podcast, Bytes Over Bagels. After a hiatus, the show is back for a second season and features interviews with an array of tech and business leaders covering topics like design, investment, as well as product and strategy.

Today's episode is brought to you by Eight Bit Studios, an award winning mobile app design and development located in CHicago.

Aaron Sawyer from Redline VR discusses how he is stretching VR technology to enhance everyday interactions, create new engagement opportunities, and extend our ability to connect to each other. Tune into this episode about how VR is no longer just about games, but a more human-centered experience. Today's episode is brought to you by Eight Bit Studios, shaping and shipping digital products that advance people and organizations.

Don Bora, the Co-Founder and Partner of Eight Bit Studios, grew his company's revenue from $1.6 million in 2014 to $4.1 million in 2017, a 150% increase, and to around $5.5 million in 2018. Eight Bit Studios is a developer of mobile apps and websites. In this interview with Eversprint's Malcolm Lui, Don shares how he and his team accelerated their high value sales by: Initially focusing on startups and then pivoting to much larger "whale' sized clients. Benefiting from the rise of the Chicago startup eco-system. Creatively finding quality programmers by hosting their own bootcamps. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Don is the Co-Founder of Eight Bit Studios, an end-to-end design and development firm based in Chicago, Illinois, as well as the Co-Founder of Mobile Makers, a mobile development boot camp with cohorts in Chicago and San Francisco. Links: Eight Bit Studios - http://eightbitstudios.comMobile Makers - http://mobilemakers.coGirls Make Better Coders Article - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/12/women-considered-better-coders-hide-gender-githubQuestions, comments, or you just wanna say Hi? Contact your host @garricn on Twitter This episode was recorded using the Cast platform by @JulianLepinski. Wanna start your own podcast? Try Cast!