We’re back in gear with the podcast! We’ll be more regular now. Here’s the deets if you’re unfamiliar with how this works. Audio attached here, downloadable on iTunes or below, and transcript below. Listen to this episode with Nick from PinfoB.com to learn how to tell customers no.
How do I stop “analyzing” and pick between two good choices?
What if there’s no wrong answer? What’s the tiebreaker in major business decisions.
Which is better: Many customers at low price-point or few at high price?
If two companies have the same revenue, one from a few large customers and the other from many little customers, which is better? Which would you rather build?
Should I invest my savings in this startup?
You might need your savings to fall back on. Is it worth the extra stock you’d get in that startup you’re joining?
“She doesn’t deserve to be alive”
What is success? When do you reach it? Is life different? Are you happy? And if it’s not the shining golden star that it ought to be, is it still worth it?
Perfect Pricing Part Deux — More money from fewer sales
Jarrod released his eBook about Design on exactly the same say as Sacha. He earned more money while selling only 1/6th as many books. Here’s how, and why it’s sometimes the best strategy.
WordPress Page Caching Faster than Light — @WPEngine releases TachyCache
In a joint venture with CERN, WP Engine has developed a TCP/IP layer on top of a faster-than-light neutrino beam, delivering page content in negative time. Page state and web analytics is preserved forward in time using quantum-entangled cookies.
How Perfect Pricing got me 1500 Sales in 2 Days
This is a guest post by Sacha Greif – a designer and entrepreneur who recently sold thousands of copies of a self-published eBook that shows how to design a user interface step by step. He’s worked with multiple startups and is also the founder of Folyo, a service that helps companies find vetted freelance designers. Here, Sacha explains…
Intense Asymmetry and Self-Flagellation
Erica Douglass bootstrapped her company and sold it for a million dollars while her friends were switching majors for the third time or dicking around at some entry-level job. She’s successful by any measure. But after a few short months of super-charging our marketing efforts at WP Engine for her to start turning herself inside…
If you saw your competitor’s roadmap would it matter?
I’d like to take everyone’s advice and talk to potential customers and investors about my ideas, but what if someone else steals my idea?
If a competitor got ahold of this — especially a well-funded one — I could die before I ever got started! Don’t VCs do that?
Learn by copy
I’ve learned a lot by copying. In America we’re trained that all copying is bad; of course plagiarism is, but perhaps we’re throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
How to convince a startup to hire you
This is part of an ongoing startup advice series where I answer (anonymized!) questions from readers, like a written version of Smart Bear Live. To get your question answered, email me at asmartbear -at- shortmail -dot- com.Ambitious Sailor writes: How can a former navy officer with twelve solid years of overseas defense contracting experience convince…
How to find that first big customer
This is part of an ongoing startup advice series where I answer (anonymized!) questions from readers, like a written version of Smart Bear Live. To get your question answered, email me at asmartbear -at- shortmail -dot- com.Freshman Salesman writes: I’ve read somewhere in your blog about how you had a very large organisation as the…
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