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In this episode, Michelle Frechette and Corey Maass  discuss their ongoing project focused on website and product development. They reflect on their progress, addressing the challenges of balancing time and managing tech debt. The conversation highlights their experiences working with a designer, emphasizing the importance of effective communication and feedback. They also touch on the significance of collaboration, and share personal anecdotes about organizing their workspaces. As they prepare for Black Friday, they discuss promotional strategies and the impact of seasonal changes on their work schedule.Top Takeaways:Steady Progress Amid Prioritization Challenges: Both Corey and Michelle recognize the challenges of juggling tasks across IPAWP and OMGIMG. While there's excitement about big-picture ideas (e.g., Meetups, collective empowerment, SEO experiments), they understand the importance of incremental progress.AI and Designer Collaboration for Website Improvements: Corey utilized AI-generated content alongside a designer's expertise to rework their website. While the AI helped quickly produce a series of articles for SEO experimentation, a designer was brought in to enhance the visual appeal and user experience. This blend of automation and human creativity reflects a strategic approach to balancing efficiency with quality.Cross-Platform Engagement is Essential: Michelle's experience with followers migrating to Bluesky reinforces the need to maintain a presence across multiple platforms. Both agree that while Twitter remains valuable for now, having an established Bluesky presence ensures they're ready if a platform shift occurs.Black Friday and Marketing Planning: Michelle and Corey are focusing on Black Friday and Cyber Monday promotions. Michelle plans to queue social media posts, while Corey wants to analyze current traffic bumps to inform their approach.Mentioned In The Show:Elgato Key LightFiverrUpworkClaudeLuke NettiCory MillerWe WorkText ExpanderJosh PigfordBlueskyNathan WrigleyCuppaBeaver BuilderThumbPress

I caught up with Josh Pigford today, founder of Maybe, ToolStash, and many other projects.  We covered a lot of ground across many of his different projects, but spent the bulk of this chat geeking out about programmatic SEO.  The strategy, the technical approach, and exactly what (and how) he built some of his AI-generated content marketing strategies for his projects.We recorded this interview on August 6th, 2024.Brian's update was recorded on August 6th, 2024. Brian's Product ConsultingI offer 2 flavors of product design & development consulting with SaaS companies:OneMonth.app -- I build your MVP SaaS product in one month!TailorMadeUI.com — I give your SaaS product's UI and UX an upgrade with tailor-made design components, all front-end coded (with TailwindCSS) and ready to plug into your codebase.Brian's Private PodcastSubscribe here (for free) to join my private podcast and community, called What's Next?  It's available on my podcast network platform, Ripple.fm.  Open Threads Podcast on YouTubeThis podcast is on YouTube!  You can watch full episodes on video by subscribing to the FSF Podcast Channel on YouTube.

In this episode, Ben interviews Josh Pigford, founder of Maybe.co, about the company's journey from VC-backed startup -> closed startup -> open source project -> funded open source project. They discuss JavaScript and Rails trade-offs, the challenges of building a personal finance software, and the operational difficulties of building a business based on open source software.LinksTuple.app - The best app for pair programmingMaybe.co - The fintech startup Josh foundedNodeJS - The starting framework for Maybe.coRuby on Rails - The new framework for Maybe.coKey TakeawaysChoosing the right tech stack is crucial for the success of a project.Running out of runway can force difficult decisions and pivots.Making a codebase public can generate interest and community engagement.Replacing third-party dependencies can be challenging but necessary.Rebuilding a software project requires careful planning and decision-making. Building a personal finance app involves challenges such as managing pull requests and issues in open source development.Transitioning to Rails can provide a more stable and efficient framework for building a complex application.The decision to rewrite the app from scratch allows for better decision-making and faster progress.Targeting Mint users with a budgeting tool presents an opportunity to capitalize on a fragmented market.Detangled, a project that simplifies legal documents, has the potential for commercial success. Moonshot ideas can be exciting and worth pursuing, even if the specific angle is unclear.ChatGPT has the potential to generate usable results, either through heavily massaged prompts or prewritten blocks.Tools like detangle can augment conversations with lawyers, providing insights and helping users know what questions to ask.There are commercial opportunities in selling services like detangle to companies that don't have full-time counsel.Finding the right balance between passion and traction is important when deciding which projects to pursue.Chapters(00:00) - Introduction (01:21) - Making the Codebase Public (07:21) - Community Engagement and Pull Requests (12:17) - Ripping Out Functionality (15:03) - Replacing Data Aggregator (16:10) - Building a Personal Finance App (17:39) - Challenges of Open Source Development (21:08) - Managing Pull Requests and Issues (23:35) - Struggles with React Next.js (27:45) - Choosing Rails for Development (32:40) - Targeting Mint Users with Budgeting Tool (35:45) - Modular Use Cases (38:53) - Open Source Contributions and Bounties (40:47) - Next Steps (45:16) - Detangled: Simplifying Legal Documents (48:32) - Exploring Moonshot Ideas (48:58) - The Potential of ChatGPT (49:45) - Augmenting Conversations with Lawyers (50:21) - Commercial Opportunities (50:53) - Balancing Passion and Traction (51:20) - Closing Remarks

Josh Pigford (@shpigford)​, who created Maybe and Baremetrics, talks about bringing his financial tool back to life by making it open-source!This has sparked surprisingly high levels of interest and even investment. Within two weeks.In our chat, we delve into the challenge of building a platform that simplifies financial data, similar to how Zapier simplifies automation, all under public scrutiny. The goal? A community-supported plugin system and a customizable personal finance operating system for every life stage. Josh also discusses considering changing the technology behind his project to Rails, weighing the pros and cons of different tech choices, and the reasons people contribute to open-source projects.Josh on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Shpigford00:00:00 Building Maybe00:10:44 Standardizing Financial Data Integration00:16:40 Choosing Tech for a Development Project00:24:37 Bootstrapping and Funding Open-Source Projects00:33:13 Motivation and Fulfillment in Helping Others00:38:04 Open Source Software and Long-Term GoalsThis episode is sponsored by Acquire.comThe blog post: https://thebootstrappedfounder.com/josh-pigford-the-open-source-transformation-of-maybe/The podcast episode: https://tbf.fm/episodes/292-josh-pigford-the-open-source-transformation-of-maybeThe video: https://youtu.be/wq1qYUxUxagYou'll find my weekly article on my blog: https://thebootstrappedfounder.comPodcast: https://thebootstrappedfounder.com/podcastNewsletter: https://thebootstrappedfounder.com/newsletterMy book Zero to Sold: https://zerotosold.com/My book The Embedded Entrepreneur: https://embeddedentrepreneur.com/My course Find Your Following: https://findyourfollowing.comHere are a few tools I use. Using my affiliate links will support my work at no additional cost to you.- Notion (which I use to organize, write, coordinate, and archive my podcast + newsletter): https://affiliate.notion.so/465mv1536drx- Riverside.fm (that's what I recorded this episode with): https://riverside.fm/?via=arvid- TweetHunter (for speedy scheduling and writing Tweets): http://tweethunter.io/?via=arvid- HypeFury (for massive Twitter analytics and scheduling): https://hypefury.com/?via=arvid60- AudioPen (for taking voice notes and getting amazing summaries): https://audiopen.ai/?aff=PXErZ- Descript (for word-based video editing, subtitles, and clips): https://www.descript.com/?lmref=3cf39Q- ConvertKit (for email lists, newsletters, even finding sponsors): https://convertkit.com?lmref=bN9CZw

Matt and Josh talk about automated testing and try to answer the question "do we need them?"This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud - Are big launches stressing you out? Then you need feature flags!Flipper Cloud helps your team deploy the code now and then roll out features when you're good and ready. Get started for free atflippercloud.ioJosh Pigford on Twitter // DetangleMatt Swanson on Twitter // arrows.toWittgenstein's RulerWhy doesn't Stripe have a /mrr endpoint?GitHub Project Paper CutsBaremetricsMaybeLaser TweetsCedar & SailThe best restaurant in the worldKim Kardashian - Kimoji appCursor AI EditorStated vs Revealed preferences

After taking on investment from Stripe, Josh Pigford realised he was running out of money in a matter of weeks and not months.What followed for Baremetrics was a period of salary cuts, general cost-cutting and a slow march towards break-even, stability and ultimately profitability.As a founder, Josh earned enough goodwill with his team that they didn't up and leave but instead stuck with him and helped move the company forward towards an exit.In this episode of It's Not Over, Josh and I discuss raising money when you aren't trying to, building a fully transparent software business, using content marketing to generate more income and how Josh convinced his investors to take a hit on their investment when they sold.----Apple: https://apple.co/37gY2I6Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3E4wUbmGoogle: https://bit.ly/3KBQgqGWebsite: https://nicharalambous.com/its-not-over----Josh's links:https://twitter.com/Shpigfordhttps://joshpigford.comhttps://maybe.co

Welcome everyone to another episode of the MBIT Podcast which discusses tech and entrepreneurship. In today's episode, Josh Pigford joins the pod to discuss his startup Maybe which is a SaaS tool to help others reach financial freedom easier.Learn More About Maybe Here: https://maybe.coTwitter of Host: @mbitpodcastTwitter of Guest: @Shpigford

Josh Pigford Josh Pigford is a serial entrepreneur. He is the creator of Maybe.co, Baremetrics.io, Temper.io, PopSurvey.com, PugSpot, Tiny Farmstead and other little bits of internet stuff. Josh's most recent business is Maybe. Their website reads "In 2021 I founded Maybe where we're helping folks take control of their financial future. I also run Laser Tweets because we all need something ridiculous to do." —— Links Maybe Finance: https://maybe.co/ Josh's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Shpigford Josh's Personal Website: https://joshpigford.com/ Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel My product: https://simple.ink/notion-forms

There's an endless sea of advice online.Whether it's from a vague Twitter thread or a clickbait blog post, the advice sounds catchy, but if we're honest... often holds little water.However, we all know from experience that the right lessons, sometimes even sitting in plain sight, can genuinely change the trajectory of one's life.In this episode, Cal and Steph discuss the few pieces of advice that they think matter most and shouldn't be ignored.Love this episode? Give it a review at https://ratethispodcast.com/learnResources:Calvin's article: https://calvinrosser.com/40-pieces-of-advice/Josh Pigford's project page: https://joshpigford.com/projectsDoing Time Right: https://doingtimeright.com/

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Check out Hammerstone! http://hammerstone.dev/Michele Hansen  0:00  Michele Hansen  0:00 Hey, welcome back to Software Social. This episode of Software Social is sponsored by Noko. https://nokotime.com/When you're bootstrapping on the side, every free moment counts. But do you really know how you're spending those moments? Which days you're most productive? If your product have time sinks that just don't pay?Here's one way to find out: Noko is a time tracker designed to help you learn from the time you track. And Noko makes it frictionless to give yourself good data, too — you can even log time directly from your Github commit messages. Try Noko today and save 15% off every plan, forever. Visit  Nokotime.com/SocialPod to start making your time work for you.Hey, everyone. So you may remember a couple of weeks ago, Colleen was facing a big decision about whether she should join an exciting project that some of her friends had started. So I'm here to tell you today that Colleen did decide to join that project. And we thought that you should hear about it from her and the team she's joining. So she is joining Hammerstone with our friends, Aaron and Sean. And you may remember Shawn from our episode a few months ago, where he was helping me learn how to market a book. So we thought we would let you listen to the episode that Colleen did on the Hammerstone podcast recently, where she's talking about joining the team. And after you listen, make sure to go subscribe to the Hammerstone podcast to get more updates about that really exciting project.Unknown Speaker  1:54  All right, we are recording. And we have three people here with us today. So the third person you want to introduce yourself.Colleen Schnettler  2:03  Hello, everyone. My name is Colleen and I have been working for Shawn and Aaron for about six months now. And this is my debut appearance on the Hammerstone podcast.Unknown Speaker  2:14  Welcome to the show. Thanks. So Colleen has been working, she said for us. But now Colleen is working with us. Colleen is a part of the Hammerstone team now. She's the third partner.Colleen Schnettler  2:29  Yes, I am super pumped. Super excited to join the team.Unknown Speaker  2:34  Yeah, so I guess we've been talking about this client for like, a year or more. And we've mentioned Colleen several times, I don't think it's been a secret. And she's the one that's been doing. She's the one that's been doing the rails side of the Refine product. And so, Shawn and Colleen have been working on this client for a long time. And the client has kind of been like, hey, what if we just keep doing this for a long, long time, we're like, great, we, that sounds good to us. And so Colleen is gonna continue working. But this client for they just, they just love Colleen, they just can't, they can't get enough of you. So, yeah, she's coming on as a partner and Hammerstone and she's gonna own the rails side of things. And I own the Laravel side of things. And Sean owns basically everything else. Kind of kind of a huge change, you know, in a whirlwind the past couple of weeks, but welcome.Colleen Schnettler  3:41  Thanks.Unknown Speaker  3:43  Yes, super cool. So speaking of owning all the other things, actually, can you guys hear me the sound just cut out weirdly for a second? We're good. You're okay. Yep. Yeah, so we, since there's three of us now, Aaron, and I have been, as I put it on the call with the lawyer yesterday, just yoloing it for the last year with our sort of like, operating agreement. So we got to hammer that out, you know, and actually do that properly given there's three of us, and that's an extra level of complication. So, the, the thing that we talked about with the lawyer, which I wanted to bring up with you guys was so first of all, I brought on my lawyer, Dalia who's awesome, and the best lawyer that I know. And I was like, Oh, yeah, I definitely want dahlias represent Hammerstone that Dalia immediately brought up that it's a conflict of interest of her because she's representing me. I'm planning for aliens. And I was like, Oh, well, I'll just find another lawyer for planning for aliens. And that's when I realized like last night, I was like, do I want to do that? Like it's, I want Dalia to represent Hammerstone but I also like kind of still want to have Dalia around for other shit for me. So I think that she had mentioned this as a possibility where like, she could represent us both. And then if there's a conflict of interest step aside, and it would go to me by default, I think is what she said. And then Hammerstone would have to find another lawyer. How does that sound to you guys?Colleen Schnettler  5:18  Yeah, so what I took from that conversation was exactly that, like, she can represent you, she can represent Hammerstone. But if the three of us as Hammerstone have a problem, she would then have to step back and then all of us would, like, if we're at the point where we all need our own attorneys, like something has gone terribly wrong, right? Like, we're probably just gonna want to Anyway, when we're talking about attorneys, that's all we're talking about is these horrible situations, right. So that is what we're talking about right now is a horrible situation that, you know, potentially could happen in the future. Get it? I'm not putting anything out of possibility. Like, I'm fine with that. I don't know, she had said something about how someone has to wait, like waive the conflict of interest. So you can ask her what that means. But I mean, I have no issues with this, because I just, I know, no one ever sees themselves in these situations, but I just cannot imagine a situation where that would happen. And if it did, then, I mean, you're so far gone by that point that, you know, I'm okay.Unknown Speaker  6:29  Yeah, I think I think I understand the same thing. So she'll represent planning for aliens, which is your holding Corporation. Shawn, shall represent planning for aliens shall represent Hammerstone. And should, Shawn Colleen and Aaron ever need representation against each other not as Hammerstone against each other as individuals, then that's when we have to say conflict of interest, or, you know, Colleen, and I get our own lawyers or whatever. Does that seem right? That's exactly it. Yeah. Yep. I'm on board with that. That's fine.Colleen Schnettler  7:02  Yeah, I'm totally fine.Unknown Speaker  7:03  She'll give us whatever papers to sign about that. And then Alright, cool.Colleen Schnettler  7:07  Sure. What I didn't understand from that call was the accountant thing. At the election, yeah, way into some tax law with a vesting schedule. For me, and that was kind of Whoosh. SoUnknown Speaker  7:24  So you got to talk to our accountant, like, so this is what we're talking about. We have our accountant, you could you could have your own, or you just use Aaron, I'm like, pushing, we just use the one accountant for all the stuff. I mean, it's not. He's an accountant. So I don't know if there's like, there's not like a conflict of interest, right? He's just gonna tell you like, what's the optimal thing to do?Colleen Schnettler  7:43  Right? This is how you should structure it. Yeah.Unknown Speaker  7:46  Yeah. And, and my understanding, I never thought about this before, I guess, because it's gonna be like a taxable event, that you could decide, take the taxes now or take the taxes later. And I think that'll probably all depend on your whole personal, you know, finance situation plus, like, what you think's gonna happen with Hammerstone, etc. So,Colleen Schnettler  8:06  right, so you guys have a Hammerstone accountant, who is also Aaron's personal accountant. It's my it's my personal accountant, but his name is Aaron is Aaron. Oh, hence. Yeah. Okay, so Shawn, you have an accountant named Aaron, who has been doing Hammerstone taxes and your personal taxesUnknown Speaker  8:30  and planning for aliens. Correct. And he's gone. Hammerstone he hasn't done Hammerstone taxes yet. We just had no money last year. So we just write ourselvesColleen Schnettler  8:39  and then Aaron, not you Aaron not accounting there. You then have your own accountant for your own stuff for your LSIUnknown Speaker  8:47  I Aaron am an account I forgot. Yeah, yeah. So it makes it worse. I'm a CPA, however, I'm not our CPA, and I'm not my own CPA. I have my own personal accountant. For Jennifer's and my taxes. And I have a I have an LLC called bits and things. And so she does, she does bits and things she does our personal stuff. She does. And I've recently switched because my old one was terrible. So yes, I have my own personal one as well.Colleen Schnettler  9:15  Okay, because I have an accountant, but I'm not totally crazy about him. So I don't know if it's easier to just switch like we're, I'm cool with that. We can talk about that more. But yeah, okay.Unknown Speaker  9:26  I think I felt like the advantage for me if having Aaron jado match to my@aol.com do my personal and LLC or an S corp actually needs the one that set that all up is that he knows like how to optimize both and they both writer and they both come into play and otherwise there's going to be a communication point between the two of you have two separate accountants or find like DIY, my personal account my personal taxes. So just for him to optimize things and be more, you know, fluid in that. It was easier to just have him do it. And then like as far as my recommendation of Aaron, like, I feel like I have a lot less problems with there. And then anybody else that I've ever talked to about their accountants and like I have, he saved me automatically a lot of money the first year that I hired him, and I have not been audited. I was audited prior to this prior to hiring him, and hadn't been audited said so. Anyway, that's, that's my pitch there.Colleen Schnettler  10:28  Yeah, not a pitch. It's really up to you. Yeah. But just not to get like two businesses. So like, my first accountant, had all these like, cool. I don't know if they're cool ideas, but he had a lot of ideas about how I should structure my LLC for like tax benefits. And then his wife died. And he retired and it was kind of dramatic. And then my new accountant who I've had for two years now, he's just not into that stuff. Like he doesn't provide recommendations. He like, I think he just puts everything in TurboTax and tells me what I owe. That's why old accountant Yeah, exactly. Nice guy. But I'm like, I can literally do that myself, like you are, you aren't advising me on like, structure anything. So I'm open to trying something new.Unknown Speaker  11:07  Yeah, so with Aaron, I do have to, like, I gotta push a little, like, if I do nothing, he'll just do what he's got sort of squared away from me. And I think he makes by default, good choices. And he's not just doing plug it into TurboTax stuff. Like he's thinking through all the various implications. And if he thinks there's something we need to talk about, then he'll generally bring it up with me. But like, I do have to, like, I wish he would provide me with like, a prompt of like, here are all the things that you should tell me, because these are the things that are gonna like impact, you know, the taxes or whatever. But I've had to kind of come up with my own list. Well, that sucks. But generally, if I'm doing something that's potentially having a tax implication, yeah, I mean, I've reached out to him, like we sold our house, I have this money sitting around from selling the house and like, what do I What do I need to do with this? etc? He's good at all that stuff? Yeah. Very cool. I still feel like space in our in our community for like, a really good accountant that like, actually does their job, like high level high touch could charge probably twice as much, you know, as mine does. And like they would be so busy. It would be ridiculous.Unknown Speaker  12:16  I agree. I think any any accountant that wants to book using savvy cow, I think you'd have a million customers. bootstrap customers, right? Oh, you you savvy Cal. You're not you're five years old. Colleen, is this accountant, the one that sent you like a 40? page? Yeah, organizer right here. Fill out all of your documents. And I said, you should just tell him No, I'm not going to do that. Is that this one?Colleen Schnettler  12:42  That's the that's the one. Yeah, I was like, What am I paying you for? Like, and again, he's a nice guy. But it was just like, like, I pay you. So I don't have to fill out the 40 page document. Like I might as well just do it in TurboTax. If this is what we're doing, yeah, yeah. SoUnknown Speaker  12:59  yeah. Any other accounting lawyering? So one sided? One thing? Yeah, the one thing that the lawyer was saying we need to talk to the accountant about is the 83 b election, which I think determines when the taxable event, like when you recognize the taxes of your new part of Hammerstone. So I think, you know, just for context, that's what she was talking about. But I don't know too much else about that. The other thing she mentioned, which I thought was interesting, is his colleagues portion of the company coming from Sean's and my portion, or is the company somehow magically expanding to have more shares? And that's something we'll need to figure out because I have no clue. I think that's also a tax base decision, basically. I think it is.Unknown Speaker  13:52  Yeah, but yeah, we're gonna have to explore all that cuz I totally get it either. Yeah, even though there was another Oh, go ahead.Colleen Schnettler  14:00  I was gonna say even stuff, like invoicing. Like we invoice the customer, the client? Do I invoice you guys? Ask us guys, US people, US people? Or do I from my LLC? Or do I take a distribution? Like how youUnknown Speaker  14:14  just did you just destroyed our bank account to yourself? Yeah. So we'll just invoice Amazon, you can just pay yourself?Unknown Speaker  14:22  Yeah, I think that's right. But I don't know, actually, we need to check because I don't know if, you know, Colleen takes that as an owner distribution. That doesn't. That doesn't offset our revenue. So like if Hammerstone makes, you know, let's say Hammerstone makes $10,000 but actually 9500 Oh, call is a good point. We need to recognize that as an expense otherwise, hammer stones pay $1,000 Yeah, so not an owner. Just contribution. No, we shouldn't do it that way. That's right. So let's not do accounting live on air because this is something that's definitely definitely one we'll need to get sorted. I don't think anything changes. You've been invoicing us, and we've been paying you and I don't think anything changes but wanting to double check that. Yeah, fun stuff.Colleen Schnettler  15:25  I know. It is like surprising. I'm sure we will be happy. We hashed all this out. But like at this point in the business, it feels frustrating, right? Because it feels like it's slowing us down. We have to have meetings, we haven't talked out lawyer to like, Oh my gosh, can we just do our work? Like, IUnknown Speaker  15:40  don't want to write tests. I just want to write the products like, this is this is the testing of business. You have to do all this stuff you don't want to do. Yeah, that's funny, though.Unknown Speaker  15:50  I don't mind it at all feels absolutely necessary. Really great. Yeah. That's wonderful. Oh, that gets a job that we have to do. I mean, got to do it.Colleen Schnettler  15:59  That's interesting. Yeah, I just I don't know. I'm just like, let's just skip all this. It's fine. But it's good to do it. You're absolutely right.Unknown Speaker  16:07  That's why we have you, Sean. So I think, you know, we have all this context. And this is actually a podcast, not just a Hangout. So I think it would be interesting to talk just quickly about how the three of us like how we ended up here. Because like Sean said, he and I have just been yoloing it and just like, yeah, we own 50% of the company. Let's shake hands. And that's because Shawn and I didn't just meet on the internet yesterday. And you know, bringing in a third partner is a big deal. But we didn't just, you know, meet Colleen off the street. So, Shawn, do you want to talk about how you and I met? And how long ago that was?Unknown Speaker  16:52  Yes. Before Isaac was born, so probably eight years ago. And I was I just quit my job to start writing sketchy CSS and I went to the bacon biz conference, right? Is that what it's called? bacon bits. Yeah, yeah. Amy hoy. And yeah, anyway, now pixelmon. The other thing. The first one, actually, right. wasn't the first one. Yeah. So yeah. And you shared a room with Josh Pigford on that.Unknown Speaker  17:18  Yeah, I did I share it with Josh Pigford. Because the way that I knew Josh Pigford was cuz I shared a room with him at micro comp. He was on. So micro comp and bacon bids were the same year that year, and he had posted on the micro comp thing like, Hey, does anybody want to share room I'm normal. That's like, I doubt you're normal. But I'll look you up. And I looked him up. And we had like a zoom call. And I was like, Yeah, sure. I don't have any friends there. And I need like, you know, when you when you go into a conference, and you don't know anyone, and it's terrifying and like you're in high school with no friends. That's how I felt. So I was like, Yes, I'll share a room with this guy. And then he went to bacon business. So we shared a room again. It's so funny that you remember that?Unknown Speaker  18:06  Yeah, I met you. I met buckbee. I met Barry. Hmm, I think there was there Pete was there. I was not there. No, no, no, Pete wasn't there. He wasn't there. He wasn't. No, no, I didn't meet Pete in real life for a few years. Oh, wow. Yeah. But Pete was working on his stripe book around that time. And then and then Andrew had. So Andrew had a company called churn buster, Andrew Culver, a mutual friend of ours. So he had this company called churn Buster and turn Buster had a HipChat support channel, which he just had it so he would invite people to hang out with him in there. And then every now and then, is it chat customers or be his churn Buster customers would pop in and ask questions. And we'd be like, well, Andrew is not here. But like, have you tried blah, blah, blah. troubleshoot the problem?Unknown Speaker  18:58  It was such a scam. We did all this support for him.Unknown Speaker  19:02  Yeah. And there was also briefly, same in that same HipChat room, there was Patrick Collison a like yeah, that's right. It was in the HipChat room with us. forgot about that. Yeah. We've had people graduate out of Yeah. Yeah, but that's what we all met was that room like buckbee invited us from that conference. And then we started hanging out together there and then meet in real life every now and then, you know, it's making this conferences etc. So we just have this little community which has been growing and changing over the years. Now, it's a Slack channel. It's not Andrews. How to intercept or gel anymore.Unknown Speaker  19:47  Yeah, eight years ago, and then Colleen, you met Andrew first. Is that right? Are you met Michelle?Colleen Schnettler  19:54  Andrew? No, I met Andrew first Sean actually. Put Michelle and I Touch I believe. So I met Andrew, I was going to the Ruby on Rails meetups in Virginia Beach. And there were like three people that attended these meetups like it was not. They were not well attended. But Andrew came to speak at one. And this was maybe four or five years ago, I don't remember. Andrew came to speak at one. And afterwards, we all went out to get drinks all four of us, because he and one of our mutual friends knew each other really well. And so Andrew told me so this is like back when I'm in my just want to launch a product phase kind of that, you know, in the beginning when you like have that really strong desire, but you're aimless because you don't have any contact salutely Yes, yeah, that's back in those days. So Andrew and I were talking about business ideas. So he told me about the slack group. So then I joined the slack group. And then I started having weekly lunches with the Virginia Beach people. And that's kind of how I got to know everyone. And then I met you guys will show that I had worked on and off together. Occasionally we were on the same contract. But we never really worked together. I feel like we were always we didn't really know each other, even though we kind of worked together. And then I met you two, what, two years ago, in real life. I think it was two years ago in the dc, dc. DC was the first time so before that I had never met Aaron and you were really active Aaron in the Slack channel. So I like didn't even know who you were. And Sean I kind of knew because he was like the React guy that worked on the same contract I worked on, but we've never really worked on together. Yeah. And then I met you guys IRL, as they say, yeah.Unknown Speaker  21:39  And we have another so obviously, we skipped the retreat last year. But we have another in person retreat coming up. Yeah, hopefully.Colleen Schnettler  21:49  Hopefully. Yeah. We'll see. I'm nervous. I'm nervous about it. Yeah, same. I will say though, good.Unknown Speaker  21:59  Saying that I feel nervous about it, too. I wasn't even thinking about it. But until recently, when all the sudden I've had to start having new, like, bubble conversations with my parents about like, Who's gonna watch Isaac if like, he has an outbreak in his class? And like, should we do the after school care for him where you guys want to commit to it? So he's not like with all these other kids? And I'm like, Oh, no, this is a retreat even gonna happen?Colleen Schnettler  22:22  Yeah, I hope so. We'll see. But I would say like going back to the three of us working together, we never really got to know each other. Well, I would say until we started working together recently, about, what, eight months ago now. I mean, I think that I don't think I any of us, and I can just speak for myself, you guys would not have invited me in to this company eight months ago, right? Like, we didn't have that relationship. I mean, we had no context on each other, we had never worked together. So I think like us forming a partnership has really grown over that working together almost every day, you know, over the extended period of time. Definitely.Unknown Speaker  23:00  Yep. I would absolutely agree. Yeah, I think. So. I think, just from my perspective, like the thing, the problem that we're working on, and maybe we should describe it, because I don't know that everyone has listened from Episode One, which you should. So the thing that we're doing is, it's like a visual Query Builder. So you know, when you go to, let's use ecommerce, because that's an easy example, when you go to an e commerce website, and you're like, I want shoes that are Nikes, in size 11, or 12, and are black and are under $100, and ship in two days. So like, you can build up your, you know, your perfect filter, just kind of like on the fly. We're building that as a component. So you can just drop it in to your Rails application, or you can just drop it into your Laravel application. And then the application developer can say, here are all the conditions that I want to offer my users, I want to offer them shoe size, and shoe color and price. And then Hammerstone, y'all figure out how do you show that on the front end? How do you do validation? How do you apply that to the database? How do you store that so that they can like, you know, generate a report and send it later. So that's like, that's the product we're building. And it's called refine, and that's what we've been working on for a long time. And I think, from my perspective, one of the reasons that I was like, Yes, we absolutely have to have Colleen is because you've spent like eight months or a year getting your head around this problem, which it takes that long, and I think you have an extremely good grasp on the problem space and it's like a very complicated problem. And you've got, like, you've got ideas on how to make it How to make it successful in the rails world, which I don't have, I don't have the context, I don't have the knowledge, I don't have the experience. And so somebody that has the whole problem set loaded into their mind and is really excited about it and wants to make it a Rails thing. I was like, Yes, let's do it. Bring her on. Absolutely.Unknown Speaker  25:23  Yeah, I think it makes sense. Because it makes sense. If we're, if we're just doing like a really small, like little project, that's gonna make a couple 1000 bucks a month. First of all, Aaron, you should just launch that without me. And then, but we're not like I think we have, I have at least a larger sort of thesis in mind for building a lot of different types of components like this. And we realized that like, we can build front ends that are compatible with different back ends, and we could build a Rails version level version of Python version, like, there's a choice for how we could like, expand our market, we could do, we could go down that route. There's other ways to do it. But like, that was a possibility. And here we are, we were presented with the opportunity to build a Rails version paid for by a client. And now we can have somebody take over that piece and own that, that's a no brainer for me. So it kind of commits us to the strategy of like, we're going for two different markets. And that's how we're going to, you know, like, increase our market size. But I also think that makes sense, long term. And it makes sense that Coleen run the run the rail side.Colleen Schnettler  26:38  I think so I have listened to your podcast, I think you guys are really, like, I feel like your excitement, I don't know, I know, you can kind of see the potential. But literally everyone I have ever worked for could use this query builder. So it's just I mean, when you describe it, Aaron, I think it's hard to describe it. Because someone asked me, he was like, What is this thing you guys are building that you're so excited about. And I was like, I don't know how to describe it concisely. But the power like when you guys first, when we first talked about this, I literally thought it was just going to be, you know, a couple scopes, right? Like, you're just like, Oh, I'm going to scope the model, and I'm going to send you the string. And you're just going to scope the model on it. And that's not what it is at. All right. So I just think, I think we can grow this business with just this product to, you know, larger than any of us have done before, like, This product is really spectacular. I mean, it's just so cool. And I think it'll be cool to like, approach it on different fronts, it'll be really interesting to see how it does in Rails versus, you know, Laravel, and just kind of see the growth trajectory. And both of those ecosystems. Yeah, it's gonna be cool.Unknown Speaker  27:47  Yeah. To get there, though, like, there's, there's some problems. You know, like, it's not, like, Yes, I definitely could, every entrepreneur could see how their product could be used everywhere. Like, that's 100% true of every entrepreneur who creates a product, like everybody should use this. But like, I think that for us, there's the obvious, like, low hanging fruit of, we're gonna get some sales from on the site, like you and Aaron are basically gonna do like dev rel, you're going to do like a little bit of content marketing, you're going to be building up the those relationships, and we'll get a few sprinkles of sales there. And those are going to be people that are going to buy it like because they're like, Oh, yeah, I was gonna build this, but instead, I'm going to buy it right. So they're already at that build versus buy decision point, then, and they already know, like, they need the thing. They already know, they need a query builder that they probably already, like, use that word or phrase even. So they're pretty far along in the process. In order for us to get out further and deeper into the market. That's where we have to start doing some convincing or pointing out to people that like, Look, you can, you could drop this into your product. Now you don't even see the need for it. But like, I could we then show can show the need for it. And I think that's a that's like another harder problem. So there's like, how far can we get on people that are going to make build versus buy decision? And how, how can we figure out systems to get in front of them right then? And then what's the next step, the next layer, like pulling in these other people that like you could add this into your app now. And it solves pains You didn't even know you had kind of situation, which is a lot harder. That's like a lot harder. A thing is possible. I mean, I've already had conversations with somebody who's interested, like they're just what are you doing? And I explained it to them. And then I explained it in the context of their app. And they were like, Oh, I need it. Right. So I know it's possible. But it's very hard. Which that's gonna be my job. Yeah, seriously.Unknown Speaker  29:48  Yeah. And I think like, Colleen, you've worked on a bunch of different clients. So you're not just looking out and being like, oh, the world needs this. You're looking back on your clients and being like, no, the people That I did work for in the app, they need this. Is that right?Colleen Schnettler  30:04  Yes. Yeah. And since they're my clients like I would, I mean, that's the nice thing about consultants. Right? I'd be like, you all need to buy this immediately. And they would. But yeah, to Shawn's point we how do we expand past our existing networks? Right? Like, that's basically, you know, we have we have pretty good networks of people in our community, people in the indie SAS community. How do you expand beyond that?Unknown Speaker  30:31  Huh? Yeah, exactly. That's, that's the hard part. But if we do that, then we definitely have a business. But that's like one of these things that we have to that's, that's the hard part. Yeah. My my movies a coupleUnknown Speaker  30:44  years, my move so far has not been expanding beyond my personal network, it's been expanding my personal network. So like I'm trying right now, to gather up more and more Laravel like connections and eyeballs. And the way I've been doing that, as you know, putting out either open source projects, or blog posts or torchlight is another great example, something that something that's not gonna make us rich, you know, independently, but is getting a lot of traction within Laravel the ecosystem of people saying like, Oh, this is really cool, let me you know, follow the story, follow this guy who's doing it or sign up and use it myself. And so that's been my move so far. But obviously, that only scales, that only scale so far, but it's definitely like, it's definitely step one, I mean, might as well start with the inner circle. SoUnknown Speaker  31:45  I think there's been me is another benefit of having Colleen was, like, takes it I was gonna have to do what Colleen is doing now, like on the rail side, like what you're doing in Laravel, I was gonna have to do that. And I am a Rails developer, but it's, I'm not as well connected in that community. And it's a bit of a stretch, I could get there. But like the learning curve was going to be large. I was trying to figure out ways to like hire contractors to like, kind of get me there and like, So this takes that off my plate entirely. And then like, focus on the hard problem. Which is like where I've been, I have gotten to the point where I have a business that is selling products, paying my bills, doing what you're talking about Aaron doing the devil stuff. And like having doing content marketing and that sort of thing. I've been there getting past that is a whole other thing that I want to figure out and do. And that's, like, that's the goal for me at least.Unknown Speaker  32:43  Well, I've never gotten to the point where I have a business paying my bills, like a product paying my bills. So I'm glad we have you beyond that, because you've been there I have not calling you haven't either, right? You have simple file upload, but it doesn't pay bills. And so to have your mind working on that issue, well, Colleen and I are doing other stuff, I think I think it's gonna work out quite just knowUnknown Speaker  33:10  for everyone. Like, I could just get you guys ahead of you and tell you how you're gonna feel a year from now. You're gonna be like, how do I make more money than this? I'm like, right on the cusp of like a real business. What do I do? Yeah. It's just the next step. Yeah. Well, hopefully you've got it all sorted out by then. Yeah, we'll have it all figured out. Yeah, perfect. I'll just have buckbee tell me what to do. Seriously,Colleen Schnettler  33:35  that usually works. Yeah, that does usually work. Alright, what else? Nobody, nobody, nobody. I'm good.Unknown Speaker  33:51  So we're gonna do, we're gonna do three people from now on, right? calling your game to join all of Yeah, yeah. Hope, right. That's great. Some, some weeks you and I can just talk technical the whole time. I think that's gonna be one of the fun things is, like, I've already picked up a lot of good stuff for the lair Val product from, like working with you. And I think that is going to expand beyond just the Refine, like, refine is the name of our product just beyond refine, into other, like, either open source packages or other products be like, hey, what? what exists in Laravel that doesn't exist in rails and vice versa. I think that'll be a fun, like cross pollination opportunity, either for content or for products. But I'm thinking right now, especially for content. Yeah. So, all right, well, so we just call it there.Colleen Schnettler  34:57  Sounds good. All right.Michele Hansen  35:00  Michelle again. That's all for software social for this week. You can go to Hammerstone dot dev to learn more about that project and listen to their past episodes. We'll talk to you next week.Transcribed by https://otter.ai

0:22 - Episode begins...1:40 - Webflow launched “focus mode” in the style panel3:30 - Also, the Webflow community update was today!6:17 - John Saunders had an awesome thread about his foray into Webflow7:44 - The rise of the no-code economy panel was awesome!12:01 - Coda now has a color scale in conditional formatting12:15 - Coda also launched custom templates13:26 - Matt's tweet13:31 - Also, Coda's social and marketing game is really next level 14:15 - Patreon just raised $155 Million 14:45 - Wix released the weirdest video we've seen?16:51 - Wix's weird video, part 223:24 - How awsm built a profitable no-code side business24:20 - If you take place in the Microacquire challenge you can get a Bildr Pro account for free25:34 - Also, Michael Gill showed off how he built his calendar app in Bildr25:50 - Softr is starting a “Learn Airtable” course26:15 - NoCodeZ it taking a different approach to building apps28:11 - BaseQL for Airtable looks like an interesting product29:28 - Is anyone using Xano? WMX to replace that WAZM?31:20 - Matt hired Jake and 8020's team is growing!35:45 - James Mishra's tweet (help is here for you, bud!)43:00 - Josh Pigford's tweet44:23 - Marco's tweet44:35 - Our Interview with Marco45:23 - Josh's tweet

Brian and Jordan are back before Brian leaves to scratch his travel itch. Today, they are talking about the things they can control (launching ZipMessage and Jordan's new company), while also touching on a couple things they can't control (vaccines and concerts). They also spend a little time talking about Josh Pigford's amazing public journey, from exiting Baremetrics to starting his own company for modern financial planning & wealth management. How do you handle your professional persona? Are you an open book on your social media accounts? Are you strategic about what you post? Brian and Jordan discuss Josh's strategic and surprisingly open discussions on Twitter and how they differ in their social media personas. “I did want to step in and reiterate some of my larger goals and priorities to the team on Audience Ops, about what makes Audience Ops great. Kat really did that well, but I want to make sure that the team really knows, ‘This is why things work so well here. Let's keep this going.'” – Brian Powered By the Tweet This PluginTweet This Here are today's conversation points: The roller coaster of ZipMessage onboardingFinalizing copy and launching landing pagesAudience Ops team changes and transitionsThe vision at Audience OpsExpectations, emotions, and performative reactions during Monday morning callsThe importance of understanding the “Why”Josh Pigford's exit from Baremetrics and his professional trajectory…in publicAngel investing and asking for money “If you have an audience and you want to start a company, at this point, you can just ask for money. You can legally, publicly ask for money.” – Jordan Powered By the Tweet This Plugin

Brian and Jordan are back before Brian leaves to scratch his travel itch. Today, they are talking about the things they can control (launching ZipMessage and Jordan’s new company), while also touching on a couple things they can’t control (vaccines and concerts). They also spend a little time talking about Josh Pigford’s amazing public journey, … Continue reading Never Fast Enough

What does it take to start multiple successful businesses? Josh Pigford is a serial entrepreneur. He is the creator of Baremetrics.io, Temper.io, PopSurvey.com, PugSpot, Tiny Farmstead and other little bits of internet stuff. Josh's most recent business is Baremetrics. It is a zero setup, one click SaaS analytics for your Stripe account. In [...] The post Stripe Analytics Founder Josh Pigford Shares Story Behind Baremetrics appeared first on Small Business Advice Help For Startups and Entrepreneurs.

In this episode, Rob Walling is joined by Josh Pigford to answer listener questions, covering topics like annual pay increases, B2B SaaS price increases, white-label vs branded product, and hiring startup-minded people. The topics we cover [03:04] Building Maybe, and Rob busts Josh’s chops about starting a business so soon [10:02] Question #1: Annual Raises […]       

Mubs has been making things since he was about 8 years old. Selected as ProductHunt's maker of the year for 2016, Mubs has worked on 100+ side projects. He's collaborated with Nathan Latka on Founderpath and done tons of cool things. We talked about some of his successful early projects, Product Hunt, podcasts, no-code, Nathan Latka, and more. Here are the show notes :) 00:50 - My first side project tracking football games as a Liverpool fan 02:33 - It took weeks to set up servers back in 2000 04:07 - A side project that got 4 million pages views in its first week and others 10:01 - Looking for ideas and validating them 14:10 - How Product Hunt has evolved over the years 16:33 - An idea I thought would never get traction but is now used by corporations 18:53 - Why Podhunt is rethinking podcast recommendation systems 23:03 - Taking multiple small bets vs solving 1 big problem 24:55 - Working with Nathan Latka and what it's like 28:14 - Think of how your product serves the Product Hunt audience and how we did it with Founderpath 31:42 - Thoughts on no-code tools 33:56 - The most interesting people I've met on PH and Indiehackers 34:57 - Josh Pigford and my definition of success 36:22 - My advice to young entrepreneurs I share all the articles/podcasts/books I consume during researching my guests as well as other stuff I find interesting in the newsletter (https://stealmymarketing.substack.com) You can also follow me on Twitter for similar stuff. My DMs are open (https://twitter.com/AbhishekLpd) Mubs' Twitter (https://twitter.com/mubashariqbal) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/intellectual-software/message

In this episode, Rob talks with Josh Pigford in a first appearance since the sale of Baremetrics for $4m. They discuss his seven-year journey to build Baremetrics, the details of the sale, and Josh’s post-sale, non-software aspirations. The topics we cover [02:42] Intros [04:26] Avoiding capital gains via qualified small business stock. [09:08] Josh’s post-sale […]        

How to be more interesting by Edward de Bono Trello for capturing ideas Miro for virtual whiteboarding Ninja Creativity by Russ Tucker Marketing idea scoring system by Josh Pigford of Baremetrics

Kyle ventures back to the office to water the plants, Landon has been researching note-taking apps, and the governor of Georgia is reopening bowling alleys.Today’s Topics:An update on the COVID-19 life and distant socializingGeorgia ignoring the stats to reopen gyms, restaurants, massage parlorsBowling alley conspiraciesNote taking apps for the iPadAd Reform’s cash situation and the hot new trend in SaaS: Subscription pausingHow the businesses have been impactedLinks & Resources:Landon’s tweet about governor of Georgia's announcementNotability - Fall in love with Note takingGoodNotes - GoodNotes transforms your iPad into digital paperNebo - Your notes at workNotion - All-in-one workspaceSidecar - Use your iPad as a second display for additional screen spaceBuild your SaaS episode with Josh Pigford of BaremetricsGetting To Ramen Podcast

Josh Pigford sees a lot of SaaS revenue analytics; what's he seeing that we're not?

I’m speaking with Josh Pigford, CEO and founder of Baremetrics. If you’re in SaaS, you’ve definitely heard of Josh and Baremetrics. Hundreds of SaaS and subscription businesses use Baremetrics to properly display dashboards and metrics to give a real time breakdown of how their company is performing. This is fundamental for every SaaS company, and Baremetrics has been the staple in that department for quite some time.Recently, Josh caused some waves in the SaaS world when he revealed that he almost sold Baremetrics for $5 million, which was a big shock to a lot of people in SaaS, given how transparent and open Josh is with his business. So we’re talking about that, why he went through with the sales process, how the deal fell through, and what impact that had with his team when the news went public.We also talk about how Josh grew his remote company to well over $100k in monthly recurring revenue and what he’s planning for the future.I’m really glad I had Josh on the podcast, this was a very insightful episode, and I have no doubt you’ll get a tonne of value from it. Enjoy!

= Remote Work Series #7 = This episode is part of a series on Remote Work. I'm talking to leaders of remote companies about the pros and cons of working remotely, the most common challenges that remote-first teams face and how to overcome them. Issues like communication, hiring, loneliness and isolation, figuring out timezones, et cetera.

Josh Pigford of Baremetrics talks to me about how he got 90% of the way to selling his business for 5 million dollars, and got ghosted at the last minute. He learned a lot through the process, and he tells all about it. You can read more details in his blog post here.

Our guest today is Josh Pigford, the founder of Baremetrics. His company has grown steadily every year since launching in 2013, and currently generates $1.4 million/year in recurring revenue. Baremetrics customers are made up of over 800 SaaS and subscription businesses that rely on the metrics, dunning, and engagement tools built by Josh and his team. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hypertribal/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hypertribal/support

Humbled to get a chance to speak with Josh Pigford recently, Founder of Baremetrics. Baremetrics is a revenue analytics company started by Josh Pigford founded in 2013, also pioneering the open startup concept. By giving you not just simple revenue analytics but many metrics from a wide variety of other services you probably use, baremetrics is the leader in providing a dashboard for your startup growth. We discussed some recent trends around openly sharing information in the startup community, recent attempt and decision around selling the company, and what the future looks like. Also some background on Josh's content marketing decisions, past startup attempts and other anecdotes. Huge Thanks!

Josh Pigford, founder of Baremetrics, discusses his many side projects, when to decide it's time to kill an idea, and the Open Startups movement. In chat with Anne-Laure Le Cunff, founder of Maker Mag. Sponsored by Blockstack.

Guest - Josh Pigford, Founder of Baremetrics Josh is the host of the Founder Chats podcast, he is an entrepreneur, maker, and the founder of Baremetrics.  Josh shares some great experience, perspective, and background.  We discuss startups, his founder journey, learning, sleep, and more. Thank you for listening to & sharing the Catalyst Sale Podcast. Questions Addressed Why is it important to be open/transparent with your numbers? How has transparency impacted the way you have built out the Baremetrics team. What compelled Josh to share his absurd list of products, apps, websites, and business? Where does "Learning by Doing" fit into Josh's process? What did Josh learn from starting a band? Where did Josh learn the importance of delegation? The "Primary job of the CEO is putting things in motion" - How does Josh think about accountability? What are some of the patterns Josh has noticed from the interviews he has had on the Founder Chats Podcast? What is Josh's learning process? Key Takeaways Baremetrics is a Revenue Analytics Platform Built based on a need he had for his organization Authenticity & Transparency was lacking. The news was focused on "good news stories" but not where 99% of us operate. Josh - Transparency I need other people to weigh in on things and provide input, they need context to do this. If they don't have the data, all they are sharing is opinion without context. Our financials are available to the team. Nothing is a surprise. Absurd List of Products/Apps/Websites/Businesses - Recognized Patterns. Forgotten how many, and how crazy some of the ideas were. Opportunity to learn something via a real-world project Josh would identify a trend, and would try to replicate success. (many of these failed) Shifted to a product approach (e-commerce, web-based) really enjoyed building, and refining the process. Importance of Learning by doing Programming Languages Playing the Guitar Taking what someone has done, trying to copy, creates an opportunity to learn. Let people who have certain strengths, make good use of those strengths. Being able to do all the things is important early, but you need to know when to let go. Hire out your weaknesses. When something feels like a significant pain, that is the right time to hire.  Hiring too early gets expensive. Crucial to hire with capabilities in mind. Provide the guidelines, but let them work autonomously.  Equip them with the tools that they need. Patterns recognized from interviewing founders. Almost all have a pretty lengthy history of doing/trying different things.  Almost no one is on their first thing. Chances are this "first thing" is not the thing. Josh's learning process Starts with a goal (iterative) Needs to create a feedback loop Small wins are a requirement Create the next few steps to get to the next thing. Product Market Fit You can't know the path, but you can look for the little things along the way that will nudge you in the right direction. The small little steps along the way are critical. Sleep is critical - lack of sleep makes you a worse founder, sales, rep, etc. Schedule your sleep Make a conscious choice It is important to hear how others have done things, but it is more important to just keep trying things.  90% may not work, but it's ok, keep moving forward. Figure out what works well for you. Show Links Founder Chats Podcast Baremetrics Josh's Twitter Ryan Carson Episode Catalyst Sale - Live Chat Catalyst Sale - Podcast List Thank You  Thank you for rating and reviewing the podcast via iTunes, Google Play, or your favorite podcast platform.  Ratings & reviews help others discover the podcast - thank you for helping us get our message out to the community. Please send listener questions and feedback to hello@catalystsale.com or contact us directly on twitter, facebook or LinkedIn. Catalyst Sale Service Offerings Growth Acceleration - Plateau Breakthrough Product Market Fit ---------------------- Subscribe to the Catalyst Sale Podcast Subscribe via iTunes Subscribe via Google Play Catalyst Sale In every business, in every opportunity, there is someone who can help you navigate the internal challenges and close the deal.  There is a Catalyst.  We integrate process (Catalyst Sale Process), technology and people, with the purpose of accelerating revenue. Our thoughtful approach minimizes false starts that are common in emerging markets and high-growth environments. We continue to evolve our practice based on customer needs and emerging technology. We care about a thinking process that enables results versus a process that tells people what to do.  Sales is a Thinking Process.

In this episode, we interviewed Josh. He is the founder of Baremetrics and host of Founder Chats. Baremetrics is a revenue analytics platform that helps subscription companies get inside information about their revenue and customers. Baremetrics is formed by a small team (8 people) spread across the globe doing big things for approximately 800+ customers. In this episode we talked to Josh about, the benefits of remote work, challenges and what is Josh doing to solve them, scaling a remote company, hiring remote A-players, and preferred tools. Show highlights? So what are advantages of working remotely according to Josh? Mainly, autonomy and flexibility. But there are also drawbacks… such as communication hassles and lack of human interaction (isolation). When hiring, Josh looks specifically for three traits, have remote work experience, be an exceptional text communicator, and to be a builder and creator.

Caring for yourself as an entrepreneur, ignoring data, and being a painkiller with Josh Pigford. ----- Welcome to episode 169 of the Food Blogger Pro podcast! This week on the podcast, Bjork interviews Josh Pigford from Baremetrics about the lessons he has learned in the 15+ years he’s been building businesses. Insights and Observations on Starting a Business The life of an entrepreneur is always changing, but after 15+ years in the business, you can expect to learn a thing or two. Josh is a self-proclaimed “maker” who “can’t stop making things.” As a blogger, you can probably relate. You can’t stop posting, stop photographing, stop social media-ing. Josh has 50+ projects and businesses under his belt, and he’s here today to share a few of the insights and observations he has learned along the way. From advice about whether you should have a painkiller or a vitamin business to whether or not it makes sense to strive towards perfection, you’ll learn all about the lessons Josh has learned to help him build a $1M+/year business. In this episode, Josh shares: When he became an entrepreneur What Baremetrics is Why his customers cancel His insights and observations for starting businesses Why you should ignore data early on The difference between a painkiller and a vitamin in business How to care for yourself as an entrepreneur Resources: Baremetrics WP Tasty Open Benchmarks Open Startups 140: From $300k in Product Sales to $9m in Software Sales with Nathan Barry Josh’s Observations / Insights Shoeboxed Quickbooks Cedar & Sail Rockburg Follow Josh on Twitter If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for interviews, be sure to email them to podcast@foodbloggerpro.com. Thanks to our Reviewer of the Week, Becky Wink! If you’d like to be featured, leave a review for us on iTunes and include your name and blog name in the review. We’d like to thank our sponsors, WP Tasty! Check out wptasty.com to learn more about their handcrafted WordPress plugins specifically made for food bloggers.

This week I talk with…myself! This was a live-streamed episode where I walked through the entirety of my past 15 years of business, in which I've started, built, and shut down over 50 different projects! I walked through how that many projects came to be, why I started each, how I failed at most of them and the stories behind how many of them got sold and a lot more! I also did an extensive Q&A session at the end. Hope you enjoy!

One of the hardest moments of Josh Pigford’s career came with the surprise news that his company, Baremetrics, had just six to eight weeks of runway left. In conversation with Adam Risman, he talks about how to use funding wisely to fuel company growth, the pitfalls to avoid, and the importance of cultivating a team culture that stays resilient in the face of challenges.

In today's episode, we're talking to Josh Pigford, the founder of Baremetrics—the revenue analytics platform that helps companies better understand their customers, get more accurate forecasting and engage customers with more relevant messaging.

Hello everyone, today we're talking with Josh Pigford, founder of Baremetrics. Josh had an interesting entrepreneurial journey that led him to the discovery of Baremetrics, which is a data analytics product startups love - it integrates with Stripe to track things like recurring revenue, churn, and average revenue per user. He's got some interesting insights on what's made his company successful and the pros and cons of running a fully transparent business. Click here for show notes and transcript. Leave some feedback: What should I talk about next? Please let me know on Twitter or in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, leave a short review here. Subscribe to Growth Everywhere on iTunes. Get the non-iTunes RSS feed Connect with Eric Siu: Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @ericosiu

In this interview, Kyle talks about his journey from quiet, artsy kid in high school to founder of Proposify, which is aiming to hit $10M in annual revenue this year. You'll also hear how Proposify started as a side project and went from a year and a half of no growth to doubling customers every month. Plus lots of other interesting bits along the way. Proposify Biz Chat For more info: https://www.proposify.com/podcast/088 For more podcasts from Founder Chats check out: https://founderchats.com

Marketers have become obsessed with conversion optimization over the last few years. We're trying to squeeze conversions out of each part of our website. But are we forgetting there's another human involved on the other side of the screen? We tackle that topic in today's episode with Josh Pigford, the founder of Baremetrics, a metrics and focusing tool for startups. Josh shared with us his 3-step plan for starting a new business, including how to validate your business idea, where to find your first customers, and cold emailing in the marketing industry. *** Tap on this link to access show notes+transcripts, join our private community of mavericks, or sign up to the newsletter: EveryoneHatesMarketers.com/links

How to validate your business idea, the right way? Marketers have become obsessed with conversion optimization over the last few years. We’re trying to squeeze conversions out of each part of our website. But are we forgetting there’s another human involved on the other side of the screen? We tackle that topic in today’s episode with Josh Pigford, the founder of Baremetrics, a metrics and focusing tool for startups. Josh shared with us his 3-step plan for starting a new business, including how to validate your business idea, where to find your first customers, and cold emailing in the marketing industry. *** Tap on this link to access show notes+transcripts, join our private community of mavericks, or sign up to the newsletter: EveryoneHatesMarketers.com/links

www.hrcoaching.com/sbh82 With an all remote team across multiple countries, Josh Pigford of Baremetrics joins us to talk about how he still finds a way to create culture. More from Josh: https://baremetrics.com josh@baremetrics.com Twitter: @Shpigford Interact with Josh and the rest of the Employer Nation at www.theemployernation.com Connect with us: www.twitter.com/hrcoachingteam www.facebook.com/HRCoachingTeam Connect with Brad Owens at www.bradowens.com Send in your questions to ask@hrcoaching.com More episodes, free downloads and articles at www.hrcoaching.com Podcast Disclaimer: www.hrcoaching.com/podcastdisclaimer

It's episode one hundred today — and we have a spectacular guest to celebrate! It's Patrick McKenzie, a SaaS thought leader who doesn't need an introduction. We talk about leveling up your business — starting with smaller products like books, and then progressing towards more complex ones. Patrick explains why products can make such positive influence on your life and business, shares stories and examples, and provides inspiration for those who are starting out. Podcast feed: subscribe to http://simplecast.fm/podcasts/1441/rss in your favorite podcast app, and follow us on iTunes, Stitcher, or Google Play Music. Show Notes How I went from $100-an-hour programming to $X0,000-a-week consulting — Patrick's article that changed Jane's business many years ago Bingo Card Creator, Appointment Reminder, Starfighter — some of Patrick's previous projects Stripe Atlas — Patrick's current place of work Stripe Atlas Guides — guides on running an internet business The Business of SaaS by Patrick McKenzie, Networking for Founders by Stephanie Hurlburt — some of these guides Leveling Up — Patrick's talk recap from MicroConf Europe 2015 Episode 89: SaaS vs Ecommerce with Josh Pigford — an episode where Josh Pigford talks about Cedar & Sail, his craft and ecommerce business Patrick's website Follow Patrick on Twitter: @patio11 Today's Sponsor This episode is brought to you by Your Productized Consulting Guide. Want to get started with productized consulting? This book will teach you step-by-step how to craft your offer, overcome client objections, write your sales page, and strategically plan your services line. To get you copy, head over to uibreakfast.com/productized and use your special promocode PODCAST20 on checkout to get 20% off any book package. Interested in sponsoring an episode? Learn more here. Leave a Review Reviews are hugely important because they help new people discover this podcast. If you enjoyed listening to this episode, please leave a review on iTunes. Here's how.

How much do SaaS and ecommerce have in common? Today our guest is Josh Pigford, the founder of Baremetrics, who has lately moved into ecommerce. Josh talks about his background with products, shares the story of his new business, and how it helps him flex his creative (and entrepreneurial) muscle. Podcast feed: subscribe to http://simplecast.fm/podcasts/1441/rss in your favorite podcast app, and follow us on iTunes, Stitcher, or Google Play Music. Show Notes Baremetrics — Josh's SaaS company Cedar & Sail — Josh's ecommerce business we're talking about Giga Omni Media Acquires TheAppleBlog (2008) Josh's website Drop Josh a line at josh@joshpigford.com Follow Josh on Twitter: @Shpigford Today's Sponsor This episode is brought to you by Ops Calendar — a smarter content calendar. Whether you're producing blog posts, podcasts, or anything else on a recurring basis, Ops Calendar can automate the process. Their smart checklists automate due dates and teammate assignments. Their smart social posting lets you schedule a queue of posts to promote each piece of content. You can even connect Google Analytics and see traffic and conversions on a post-by-post basis, right in your calendar. Go to opscalendar.com, mention UIBREAKFAST and get 30% off any plan for your first 6 months. Interested in sponsoring an episode? Learn more here. Leave a Review Reviews are hugely important because they help new people discover this podcast. If you enjoyed listening to this episode, please leave a review on iTunes. Here's how.

Meet Josh Pigford. Maker. Dabbler. Founder of Baremetrics which provides subscription analytics & insights for an advanced understanding of your business. Purveyor of Cedar & Sail. Bearded. On this episode, David Abrams and Josh Pigford walk through the initial steps that Josh went through as he scratched his own itch to create the all in one SaaS analytic Dashboard. From the ups and downs, learn the major lessons (like financials and burn rates) that Josh sayus were crucial in their growth from 0 to almost 100k/ MRR in just a few short years. 01:10 - Josh's Story: Scratching Your Own Itch 04:20 - Validating With A Small Twitter Audience 06:30 - Getting The First Customers: Word Of Mouth 09:10 - Getting Offered Funds 13:00 - Hiring People And Founder Overoptimism 15:40 - Burning Rate And More Funding 16:25 - The Accounting Side of The Numbers 19:10 - Nasty Churn Rate, Burn Rate and Expense Metrics 21:10 - How Early In A StartUp Should You Really Focus On Expenses 23:00 - Getting Profitable: Payroll Cuts and Expenses Cuts 26:00 - Keeping Your Team Motivated During Hard Times 27:30 - Lowering Churn Rate 29:00 - Keeping Levels Of Usefulness And Value That Customers Expect 30:20 - Metrics Entrepreneurs Aren't Paying Enough Attention To: Profit 30:40 - Metrics Businesses Are Getting Stuck On: Churn and Conversion Rates On Trials 31:55 - Big Lesson From Failure: Not Paying Enough Attention To Expenses Like Hiring 35:00 - Q&A 36:40 - Entrepreneur Excitement Of Starting Things vs Moving To Stability 39:10 - Josh's Why: Making Things That Are Valuable To People 40:00 - Lightning Questions

Josh Pigford of Baremetrics shares his lessons in goal setting and focus as a founder, patience, sustainable growth, branding, and what’s next for the company.

Today Brian and Jordan discuss growth. In Jordan's case he is dealing with sudden growth, and in Brian's case, he is planning for growth. Both share how they are handling this wonderful problem. Jordan has been focused on getting Carthook's marketing up and running again, but it has become clear that his team needs him to focus on improving the customer support. It has been a struggle to really pinpoint what the team needs. Jordan calls it “customer success,”  but Brian isn't so sure that's the best title for the position. Brian is working on his KPI (Key Performance Indicators.) While making the dashboard for these KPI, he learned that sometimes you need to just hire someone. Brian is also planning to do some hiring, he needs two project managers and a writer. He caps off today's topics with an article from the website Baremetrics. [tweetthis]I'm now in this mindset with this business, it is all about growth. - Brian[/tweetthis] Here are the conversation points: Brian's four major categories for his KPI. When to know you need to hire someone. Jordan's ever-growing stress. Jordan's undefinable job description. What does “customer success” mean? What Jordan needs for this new position. The importance of taking care of “home base.” Brian's hiring needs. Josh Pigford's blog post. [tweetthis]What we need to do is work harder and smarter on making sure existing customers are satisfied and happy. - Jordan[/tweetthis] Resources Mentioned Today: Being a Solo Founder: Pros, Cons, Tips, and Tricks, by Josh Pigford Audience Ops Carthook Ops Calendar As always, thanks for tuning in. Head here to leave a  review in iTunes.  

Freemium is a wildly popular pricing model these days. But how do you make the free plan work for your business, not disrupt it? Today our guest is Bridget Harris, CEO and co-founder of YouCanBook.me. You'll learn why freemium is a great marketing tool, why free and paid users almost never overlap, and how to find the right balance between free and paid features. I already applied many of Bridget's tips in Tiny Reminder and am very grateful for her advice! Podcast feed: subscribe to http://simplecast.fm/podcasts/1441/rss in your favorite podcast app, and follow us on iTunes, Stitcher, or Google Play Music. Show Notes YouCanBook.me — Bridget's scheduling product we're talking about How freemium nearly caused our business to implode — an article by Josh Pigford of Baremetrics Tiny Reminder — my software product which also features a freemium model Get in touch with team@youcanbook.me for your extended trial Follow Bridget on Twitter: @bridgettoday Drop Bridget a line at bridget@youcanbook.me Today's Sponsor This episode is brought to you by Balsamiq Mockups. Balsamiq Mockups is a rapid wireframing tool that helps you work faster and smarter. It reproduces the experience of sketching on a whiteboard, but using a computer. Making mockups is fast: you'll generate more ideas, so you can throw out the bad ones and discover the best solutions. Try it free for 30 days at balsamiq.com. Interested in sponsoring an episode? Learn more here. Leave a Review Reviews are hugely important because they help new people discover this podcast. If you enjoyed listening to this episode, please leave a review on iTunes. Here's how.

Welcome to Founder Chats, the show where I, Josh Pigford, Founder of Baremetrics, hop on a call with my founder pals and get the stories of how they started and grew their businesses. This week I talk with James Smith of BugSnag, where they do application error monitoring. We talk about breaking computers as a kid, using open source as a way to get initial traction, marketing to developers, the role of data in decision making a bunch more. Hope you enjoy it! http://founderchats.com https://bugsnag.com https://baremetrics.com

Welcome to Founder Chats, the show where I, Josh Pigford, Founder of Baremetrics, hop on a call with my founder pals and get the stories of how they started and grew their businesses. This week I talk with Jesse Mecham of YouNeedABudget, where they help people get out debt and get control of their money. We talk about how he majored in accounting on whim, sold downloadable spreadsheets to pay rent, switching from a one-time payment setup to subscription and so much more. Hope you enjoy it! http://founderchats.com https://youneedabudget.com https://baremetrics.com

Bob and Patrick speak with Josh Pigford of Baremetrics

Welcome to Founder Chats, the show where I, Josh Pigford, Founder of Baremetrics, hop on a call with my founder pals and get the stories of how they started and grew their businesses. This week I talk with Colin Nederkoorn of Customer.io, where they help companies automate customer lifecycle emails and campaigns. We chat about growing up in Singapore, watching his dad run an international shipping logistics company, working nearly a dozen different jobs before founding Customer.io, and biking across the country. Such an interesting story. Hope you enjoy it! http://founderchats.com https://customer.io https://baremetrics.com

Josh Pigford went from having an idea to having paying customers in eight days. Less than six months later he was making $14,000/month. In this episode, you'll learn exactly how he did it. Brought to you by SparkPost.

We talk about Big Snow Tiny Conf and team growth today. Brian had a great time up at Vermont's Big Snow Tiny Conf and has some awesome take-a-ways to share. Jordan is growing his team and is getting ready for a big marketing push. We both have some useful insights into team management and creating a successful product funnel. This is a good episode to see what goes into a product launch and how a project has several launches. [tweetthis]It's amazing that something that you hate and weighs on you, just get it done and everything feels better. - Jordan[/tweetthis] Here are today's conversation points: Big Snow Tiny Conf Kara Swisher on Tim Ferriss' podcast. Tax season for Startups. Jordan's new developer. Ways to structure team management. Josh Pigford's latest blog post. Why we stopped consuming business advice. When we consume new business advice. Brian's new developer. The benefits of hiring new team members. Brian's advice for marketing to Jordan. Jordan's Stave Ups talk. [tweetthis]Frankly, I don't think there are enough podcasts that are using the model we're using here. - Brian [/tweetthis] Resources Mentioned Today: Audience Ops Calendar Audience Ops Training Program Carthook Starve Ups Big Snow Tiny Conf Tim Ferriss Podcast The Startup Echo Chamber is Making You Deaf, by: Josh Pigford As always, thanks for tuning in. Head here to leave a  review in iTunes.

Josh Pigford, founder & CEO of Baremetrics, talks to us about the origin story of their subscription analytics business. He tells us why he spends a third of his day writing and the impact that content marketing has had on his growing business.

Josh and I discussed bootstrapping, accepting outside money, the drawbacks of hiring too fast and having to ask his team to take a pay cut. We also talk about how metrics simply aren't important in the early days and how nothing beats spending time to talking to your customers in person. Special Guest: Josh Pigford.

Today, I'm really excited to be talking with Josh Pigford of Baremetrics which provides zero-setup subscription analytics and insights for Braintree, Stripe, and Recurly. Josh launched Baremetrics in 2013 and hit 5k MRR within the first five months completely bootstrapped, doing everything himself. Since then, Baremetrics has raised 800,000, built a team of 7, and grown to 55k MRR. In this interview, Josh talks about what it's like to get off to such a fast start, the decision to raise money, their plans for growth in the future, but above all else he talks about his decision to embrace transparency and how he is able to drive forward in the face of all the armchair quarterbacks it brought out.

Episode 133 “Lean Manufacturing…” 2:00 No John or Josh today. Derick talks about getting Quickbooks online, and fired everyone that works for him. Derick has a lot of questions about this next stage and the ins and outs of Quickbooks. Derick is trying to figure out out how to connect banks, PayPal, and payment processing into Quickbooks. Are John and Josh automating the payments?  6:53 Derick mentions working with figuring out the connection of finances to quickbooks for two hours. John might be trying to connect to the call.  9:00 Chuck talks about getting his act together and start blogging and connection with LinkedIn. Derick says that was what Mark was working on, to help create a constant stream of content. Derick shares that he was giving away some stuff on Docker.  13:00   Derick talks about repackaging his content and figuring out his emailing system. Derick mentions having 30 sales of his RabbitMQ book on LeanPub. Derick is puzzled on how these sales are coming in, because he is not doing any marketing for them.  15:00 Derick mentions that he is in a tough spot, now that he does not have any one to help him with his content editing and creation.  Derick shares how his workflow use to be when he first started to creating videos, compared to today's duties.  20:00 Chuck talks about his video editor's tasks list, who helps with his projects. Derick says he has been taking over things that he once use to do in the past. Chuck shares that he is hiring more people to help with his conference schedules. Chuck says he is ditching Crowdcast for WebinarJam. Derick says for he may switch to WebinarJam as well.  28:00 Derick asks about the chat type systems built-in to webinar or a google hangouts for video conferencing. Chuck mentions goofing a link for a webinar, but he does have 170 people signed up. John mentions to Chuck that only 40 people may show up for the live event, even if that many people signup.  34:00 Chuck talks about having two events scheduled conferences on the same day. Kind of a tight situation... 38:00 Derick shares that he is messing with an idea, and writhing code, instead of all the important business stuff. Derick asks “how does he get there…”, He ask himself if he should turn monthly subscriptions back on.  43:00 Derick talks about a helpful post from Josh Pigford's blog of Baremetrics. Derick talks about how that one new thing is not going to solve your problems.  48:00 Derick talks about his “fails” that he knows about, and should fix. Derick talks about an email conversation about fixing problems for a presentation.  1:00:00 Derick talks about how his pricing structure is that near PuralSight's price list. Chuck talks about being the “Bridge Gapper.”  1:08:00 Chuck thinks that Derick is headed into the right direction and needs to solidify his ides for success. Chuck and Derick want to clone Josh for their businesses for ad copy. .Chuck asks about Derick’s vision. Derick questions his business. “Is it my business?”  1:10:00 Derick ask if there is something wrong with his business, or if his business a viable business? Chuck thinks it is.  Chuck says he runs into the same questions with his business, and ask if he just screwed up.   1:15:00 Derick ask if Chuck would be willing to take care of EntreProgrammer’s sponsorship duties? Derick says he is failed at taking care of the sponsorship stuff. Chuck shares his view on the sponsorship of his podcast.  1:21:00 Chuck mentions that he ignored his book writhing and Rails Clips, because of all the thing he has been doing.  1:26:00 Derick talks about the book The Marine Corp. Way, and the type of work models that are involved.  1:29:00 Chuck will be in Atlanta  Oct. 25th to the 1st of November. Anyone up for a meet-up? Thoughts of the Week Chuck  - Keep moving forward. Derick - Tweaking all the knobs of the business… You got to be somewhat organized.   

Josh is the founder of Baremetrics. He talks about the pros and cons of running a transparent startup, dealing with scrutiny, and his life as an entrepreneur.

Chris transitions Upcase to thoughtbot.com/upcase for SEO and branding purposes, and introduces reactivate & resubscribe functionality. Ben publishes a blog post on Formkeep's pricing history, optimizes the initial form setup page, and begins work to implement a no credit card up-front trial. Upcase Formkeep ConvertKit’s 3,000% revenue growth that nobody saw coming- Josh Pigford Is your company really only doing $45,000 per month?- Josh Pigford Hedonic Treadmill A Tale of Three Pricing Models- Ben Orenstein 2012 SaaS Conversions Benchmark Wim Hof Method Fastly

My guest today is a passionate product builder. He has been building his own products since high school until this very moment. Two years ago, he built one product to solve the problems of client works and his other products. Now it becomes his rightful business with six full-time employees - all works remotely. In the following 11 minutes, Josh Pigford and us discuss: - Sometimes email is not simple enough for remote team communication - Know your hiring niche and go look for it - The importance of hiring people who already know you - Know your deal-breaker - It’s the relationship that counts in the end - Cultural fit is not checking boxes

In this episode, Adam talks to Josh Pigford, founder of Baremetrics, about what you should have ready when you start a SaaS business. They also talk about how most businesses aren't doing as well as you think, content marketing, the benefits of different pricing models, and staying focused on your best idea. This episode is brought to you by Laracasts. Baremetrics "How to get startup insurance and avoid getting sued into oblivion" Open Startups DHH on The Secret to Making Money Online "Creating amazing GIFs to announce new features" Sponsored by Laracasts

Josh is a maker of things, and has been building products for over a decade. Most recently, he founded and built Baremetrics.io: one-click SaaS analytics for Stripe.

Josh Pigford is the founder of Baremetrics, an analytics tool for businesses on Stripe, which he took from $0 to $300,000 in the first year. Remember to download our 10- day Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourseFor more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com

02:07 - Robert Williams Introduction Workshop @letsworkshop Emails That Win You Clients by Robert Williams 02:28 - How Does Workshop Work? Lead Generation Newsletter Help a Reporter Out (HARO) 04:07 - Getting Picked (Competing For Leads?) 05:24 - How is it Different From a Job Board? All Freelance Jobs All Project-Based All Remote 07:35 - Other Curating Services Compared Peter Cooper Newsletters Crew 09:47 - Finding Leads to Offer Wheelhouse 11:54 - Success Stories > Statistics Josh Pigford of Baremetrics 15:27 - Pricing and Value Kurt Elster Shopify 20:14 - Email Content 22:10 - Expanding / Contracting / Refocusing Based on Feedback? 23:56 - Writing Emails: Emails That Win You Clients by Robert Williams PR LEADS Top Tips: Short Deliver Something of Value Thumbs Up/Yes for More Info (Kai Davis) Optimize Subject Lines 35:56 - Referrals 37:06 - Upsale Opportunities and Maintenance Agreements Non-compete Clause Picks Simplecast (Jonathan) Amazon Dash Button (Jonathan) Welcome to Night Vale (Reuven) Steelheart (The Reckoners) by Brandon Sanderson (Chuck) Paparazzi (Robert) Just Tell Julie (Robert) The Magic Email (Robert)

02:07 - Robert Williams Introduction Workshop @letsworkshop Emails That Win You Clients by Robert Williams 02:28 - How Does Workshop Work? Lead Generation Newsletter Help a Reporter Out (HARO) 04:07 - Getting Picked (Competing For Leads?) 05:24 - How is it Different From a Job Board? All Freelance Jobs All Project-Based All Remote 07:35 - Other Curating Services Compared Peter Cooper Newsletters Crew 09:47 - Finding Leads to Offer Wheelhouse 11:54 - Success Stories > Statistics Josh Pigford of Baremetrics 15:27 - Pricing and Value Kurt Elster Shopify 20:14 - Email Content 22:10 - Expanding / Contracting / Refocusing Based on Feedback? 23:56 - Writing Emails: Emails That Win You Clients by Robert Williams PR LEADS Top Tips: Short Deliver Something of Value Thumbs Up/Yes for More Info (Kai Davis) Optimize Subject Lines 35:56 - Referrals 37:06 - Upsale Opportunities and Maintenance Agreements Non-compete Clause Picks Simplecast (Jonathan) Amazon Dash Button (Jonathan) Welcome to Night Vale (Reuven) Steelheart (The Reckoners) by Brandon Sanderson (Chuck) Paparazzi (Robert) Just Tell Julie (Robert) The Magic Email (Robert)

Josh Pigford is the founder of Baremetrics, a product that provides SaaS analytics for Stripe. Josh founded the company in Oct 2013 when he built and launched the first version of the product in just 8 days and within 8 weeks he was already doing about $2000 in monthly recurring revenue. In this episode, we get tactical and learn how Josh uses content marketing as the primary channel for acquiring new customers. Links, Resources & People Mentioned Baremetrics - @Baremetrics Stripe - @stripe Ulysses - @ulyssesapp Buffer - @buffer Josh Pigford - @Shpigford | josh [at] baremetrics [dot] com Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS? Join SaaS Club Plus: our membership and community for new and early-stage SaaS founders. Join and get training & support. Join SaaS Club Launch: a 12-week group coaching program to help you get your SaaS from zero to your first $10K revenue. Apply for SaaS Club Accelerate: If you'd like to work directly with Omer 1:1, then request a free strategy session.

Josh Pigford is the founder of Baremetrics, a product that provides SaaS analytics for Stripe. Josh founded the company in Oct 2013 when he built and launched the first version of the product in just 8 days and within 8 weeks he was already doing about $2000 in monthly recurring revenue. In this episode, we get tactical and learn how Josh uses content marketing as the primary channel for acquiring new customers.Links, Resources & People MentionedBaremetrics - @BaremetricsStripe - @stripeUlysses - @ulyssesappBuffer - @bufferJosh Pigford - @Shpigford | josh [at] baremetrics [dot] comOmer Khan - @omerkhanEnjoyed this episode?Subscribe to the podcastLeave a rating and reviewFollow Omer on TwitterNeed help with your SaaS?Join SaaS Club Plus: our membership and community for new and early-stage SaaS founders. Join and get training & support.Join SaaS Club Launch: a 12-week group coaching program to help you get your SaaS from zero to your first $10K revenue.Apply for SaaS Club Accelerate: If you'd like to work directly with Omer 1:1, then request a free strategy session.

Josh Pigford is the founder of Baremetrics, a product that provides SaaS analytics for Stripe. Josh founded the company in Oct 2013 when he built and launched the first version of the product in just 8 days and within 8 weeks he was already doing about $2000 in monthly recurring revenue. In this episode, we explore how Josh took his business from $0 to $30,000 per month in recurring revenue. Links, Resources & People Mentioned Baremetrics - @Baremetrics Stripe - @stripe Josh Pigford - @Shpigford | josh [at] baremetrics [dot] com Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS? Join SaaS Club Plus: our membership and community for new and early-stage SaaS founders. Join and get training & support. Join SaaS Club Launch: a 12-week group coaching program to help you get your SaaS from zero to your first $10K revenue. Apply for SaaS Club Accelerate: If you'd like to work directly with Omer 1:1, then request a free strategy session.

Josh Pigford is the founder of Baremetrics, a product that provides SaaS analytics for Stripe. Josh founded the company in Oct 2013 when he built and launched the first version of the product in just 8 days and within 8 weeks he was already doing about $2000 in monthly recurring revenue. In this episode, we explore how Josh took his business from $0 to $30,000 per month in recurring revenue.Links, Resources & People MentionedBaremetrics - @BaremetricsStripe - @stripeJosh Pigford - @Shpigford | josh [at] baremetrics [dot] comOmer Khan - @omerkhanEnjoyed this episode?Subscribe to the podcastLeave a rating and reviewFollow Omer on TwitterNeed help with your SaaS?Join SaaS Club Plus: our membership and community for new and early-stage SaaS founders. Join and get training & support.Join SaaS Club Launch: a 12-week group coaching program to help you get your SaaS from zero to your first $10K revenue.Apply for SaaS Club Accelerate: If you'd like to work directly with Omer 1:1, then request a free strategy session.

The EntreProgrammers Episode 42 Unsolicited PearsDerick quickly begins with a rather unbelievable announcement that The EntreProgrammers have a new “official” sponsor: Baremetrics. Details next…but first…How would you like to take a retreat – somewhere – with all 4 of The EntreProgrammers? Yes, this could be another scam to make your business better – face to face, though.Contact them on the “About” page at http://entreprogrammers.com to let them know about your/their retreat, together. And while you are at it, tell them to break this 90 minute Podcast up into 3 sections – or not.The EntreProgrammers Podcast will be recorded the same as always, in a 90 minute master of the minds, unrehearsed, transparent show; and you are the fly on the wall.However, if you would like this 90 minute show to be presented in a 2 or 3 part series throughout the week – or on the same day - to give yourself some time to digest the heavy information presented in the shows, please contact The EntreProgrammers and let them know.They do love hearing from you. (Catch this discussion at 32 min. and 5 sec. into the show.) In other words, do you fall asleep listening to The EntreProgrammers? Of course you do. Perhaps a series of three (30 min.) shows published on the same day, or on Monday, Wednesday and Friday would help you learn more and sleep less. Write your thoughts to The EntreProgrammers.Well, now, just hold the phone, here. Were you asked whether or not Baremetrics would be of any help to you, in any way, shape or form? No sir!!Is this a scam that will end-up making Ramen noodles The EntreProgrammers’ only meal of each day? (Was that racist?) Ramen is a Japanese noodle soup dish, you know.Or, could it be a conspiracy wherein Baremetrics wants to help you develop your business?So, let’s get a close look at Baremetrics; just exactly who they are and what they do. Oh no, don’t even think of going to: http://baremetrics.io– not just yet; first, go to the blog that is mentioned by Derick in this episode.To get what’s-up on Baremetrics, fill your mind with an article, titled, How to have an overnight success in 10 short years, by Josh Pigford – it will get you started and thinking about how fast ten years can fly by.Time, now, to click: https://baremetrics.io/blog/overnight-successKeep in mind, you can actually call the people at Baremetrics on the phone.Please send your comments to The EntreProgrammers – after thoroughly surfing http://baremetrics.io– to let Charles, Josh, John and Derick know if they have done the right thing. We hope so! In other words: What is Baremetrics to you - anything?Your comments are greatly appreciated.Be looking for interviews of The EntreProgrammers conducted by … Steve Young…subjects like how to market yourself course by John and tips from Josh and Derick.John is getting huge results. Again? He gives you the details on email clicks towards his book. The publisher is not expecting such high results in testimonials and is planning to ship John’s book by Christmas.Would you like to write a testimonial about his book? Leave your wishes in comments for John to read. Oh, yes…and send a note to Santa!Trivia Question: What software developer “mostly guided” John in his career? You just might want to latch-on to this guy. (Robert Martin)What’s that? John’s Cyber Monday sale grossed over $10,000 – get the details in this episode on how he did it.Charles is organizing and booking a conference that…well, you just might be interested in attending to grow yourself – a lot. Get it here as Charles reveals in-depth.Book your shows at http://Signalleaf.com.

This is the fifth episode of Hack To Start. Your hosts, Franco Varriano (@FrancoVarriano) and Tyler Copeland (@TylerCopeland), speak with Josh Pigford(@ShPigford), founder at Baremetrics (@Baremetrics) about creating MVP software products that create value and how to price from day 1. Josh has always been an entrepreneur and a maker of things. He previously founded PopSurvey, Temper, and was founder & editor of TheAppleBlog among others.

Josh is a maker of things, and has been building products for over a decade. Most recently, he founded and built Baremetrics.io: one-click SaaS analytics for Stripe.

Hi there! To help Chasing Product grow, please take a moment to visit iTunes and give the show a 5-star rating. Thanks! Josh Pigford, serial maker of things, joins me for this episode.  Josh has a wonderfully diverse portfolio of projects.  Starting as a designer and gradually transitioning into launching web products, Josh has had both Read More The post Episode 13: Organic Product Development w/Josh Pigford appeared first on Chasing Product.

Hi there! To help Chasing Product grow, please take a moment to visit iTunes and give the show a 5-star rating. Thanks! Josh Pigford, serial maker of things, joins me for this episode.  Josh has a wonderfully diverse portfolio of projects.  Starting as a designer and gradually transitioning into launching web products, Josh has had both Read More The post Episode 13: Organic Product Development w/Josh Pigford appeared first on Chasing Product.

This week on Giant Robots, Ben Orenstein chats with Josh Pigford about time management, entrepreneurship and farming Josh Pigford's Website Josh Pigford's Twitter Tiny Farmstead Baremetrics Popsurvey Temper