
Episode 80
What's threatening our business?
"All of these eyeballs are giving me anxiety."
October 15, 201954m 29sExplicit
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Show Notes
Jon and Justin talk turkey:
- "I'm not used to all this attention. it’s weird. not bad, just…not used to it."
- "If you're doing anything interesting out in the world, you're gonna have people get mad about something at some point." – Rob Walling
- "There's a bit of imposter syndrome; like, do we deserve this?"
- It's more about the way you orient yourself than setting a specific destination.
- Bootstrapping podcasts: Art of Product, Bootstrapping SaaS, Slow & Steady, Bright & Early, Build your SaaS, Bootstrapping Web, Startups for the Rest of Us, Getting to Ramen, Bootstrapping Digest, Product Journey.
- How big is podcasting really?
- (29:11) – This new season of Gimlet's "Startup" podcast is fascinating: it reveals info about the podcast industry that we just didn't know before.
- Halt and Catch Fire – is this show too weird?
- Podcasting has always grown slowly.
- What are some of the risks, or threats, to our business?
- How do podcasters build an audience?
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Show notes:
- Canadian Thanksgiving
- Jason Fried's tweet: "Congrats to @mijustin and @jonbuda for making it to full-time status!"
- How to deal with haters
- People on the internet can be so mean
- Twitter's launch at SXSW
- Podcast: Chase Jarvis on the Rich Roll podcast
- Wikipedia: What is a party line?
- Art of Product
- Bootstrapping SaaS
- Slow & Steady
- Bright & Early
- Bootstrapped Web
- Startups for the Rest of Us
- Getting to Ramen
- Bootstrapping Digest
- Product Journey
- Full Stack Radio
- The Laravel Snippet
- New episode of Startup, Season 3
- TV: Halt and Catch Fire
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