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Running one-on-one meetings with employees
This week, we talk about how to structure periodic meetings with employees. How often should they be, what format should you use, and what are the objectives?
Structuring your time to maximize productivity
This week, we're going to talk about how to structure a week in a way that allows you to spend your most productive time on your most important work.
What programmers can do to help with marketing
This week, Rick gives Tyler some advice on how to make the most of his work retreat. Specifically, Tyler is a programmer who wants to build tools to help the marketing...
How to acquire customers in the early days
This week, we talk about one of the most fundamental issues that every startup faces: how to acquire customers in the early days. Rick has validated his idea for Legup...
Building a simple financial model
This week, we discuss financial models. What are they for, what should be included in them, and how sophisticated to they need to be for different types of businesses?
What it means to startup to last
This week, we go all meta and discuss what "startup to last" actually means. Why did we name the podcast this, and what characteristics do "startup to last" companies ...
Onboarding a new hire
This week, we talk about how to offer a great experience during a new hire's first few weeks. Tyler is about to have a new employee start, and he's looking for ideas o...
Looking back at 2019 and forward to 2020
Because this is the last week of the year, we're going to summarize what happened in 2019 and set goals for 2020.
Delivering awesome customer service for a low ARPU product
This week, we talk about how Rick can use customer service as a differentiator for his new company despite the fact that he won't be making much money per customer
Planning a marketing site redesign
This week, we talk about redesigning Less Annoying CRM’s marketing site. Tyler's company just finished a major redesign of the app, and now the marketing site doesn’t ...
The role of emotions in business
This week, we talk about a topic that Rick is researching for his book: how can emotions help and hurt business leaders?
How to balance building new features vs. maintaining existing ones
This week, we talk about how to balance competing goals when it comes to product development: how much time should you spend building new features vs maintaining old o...
Should you consult on the side while launching a startup?
This week, we talk about whether or not it makes sense to use consulting revenue to bootstrap a business. If so, what's the right way to split time between consulting ...
How to price and position your second product
This week, we’re joined by Ben Orenstein, co-founder of Tuple.app and co-host of The Art of Product Podcast. We discuss how to think about offering a second product to...
Getting beta testers to use your product
Rick is almost done with the prototype of one of his new product ideas, and now it's time for him to get people to start using it. This week, we talk about getting use...
How to get job candidates to accept an offer
Tyler is in the middle of a recruiting cycle and he'll start giving job offers soon. This week, we talk about what he can do to to increase the odds of candidates acce...
How to know when a product is minimally viable
This week, we talk about how "viable" an MVP actually needs to be before you can stop building, and start selling.
How to improve a customer referral program
This week, we talk about how Tyler can get his customers to use his company's referral program so that it's easier to track word of mouth growth.
Resetting stakeholder expectations when things change at your business
Change is a given at every business and organization. This week, we discuss how you can get all the stakeholders on board when circumstances have changed, and expectat...
Interview with Rick Lindquist, founder of LegUp Ventures
This week we're mixing the format up a bit. Instead of doing a deep dive on a specific topic, Tyler interviews Rick to learn about how he went from an entry level sale...
Why we started this podcast
In this short bonus episode, we talk a bit about why we started this podcast and what we hope our listeners can get out of it
How to recruit interns
This week, we discuss how to recruit interns, especially from non-traditional backgrounds.
Interview with Tyler King, co-founder and CEO of Less Annoying CRM
This week we're mixing the format up a bit. Instead of doing a deep dive on a specific topic, Rick interviews Tyler to learn about how he bootstrapped a business to ov...
How to market a podcast
This week, we take a look inward and discuss what we can do to get more listeners for this podcast. We discuss how to identify an ideal audience, customer development,...
How to teach yourself to code a web-based application
This week, we talk about how an entrepreneur without a technical background could teach themselves to code well enough to build an MVP (minimum viable product) for a w...
How to communicate major product changes to your users
This week, we talk about two of the main things to consider when communicating upcoming product changes to your users: how tell a story to generate excitement, and how...
How a non-technical founder can make their first technical hire
In this episode, we talk about how a non-technical co-founder can launch a software product. What are the possible ways to bring on technical talent whether it be as a...
How an employee handbook can help with recruiting
This week we talk about what type of information should go in an employee handbook, and how that content can be repurposed to help with recruiting.
Working remotely vs. working in an office
Rick and Tyler talk about the pros and cons of a company having a remote workforce vs. having everyone working in the same office.
The role of a CEO
In this episode we talk about Rick's customer development efforts, Tyler's new mastermind group, and what the role of a CEO should be as a company grows.