Category: Startups
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Alex King: Invest in team building and creating value
I have the honor of sitting down with legacy WordPress entrepreneur Alex King of Crowd Favorite in today’s episode. Rounding off my release of big name WordPress agency founders, Alex paints the portrait of his 10+ year WordPress career. We cover the recent acquisition from VeloMedia to learning the hard lessons of building a team.…
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Jake Goldman on building a WordPress agency
In today’s episode I finally make it around to inviting my good friend Jake Goldman on to the show. If you don’t know Jake, he’s running one of the largest WordPress agencies on the planet. If you’re looking to scale your own shop, we talk about some very important steps starting with recruiting the right…
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Automattic and the VIP Platform with Paul Maiorana
There is managed WordPress hosting and then there is the VIP platform. Ok, so maybe you don’t make the leap THAT fast, but if you’re a Fortune 50 looking for a strong SLA tied closely to Automattic, you might choose VIP. Paul Maiorana, VP of Platform Services, joins us to talk about what it’s like…
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Garrett Moon of Todaymade & CoSchedule
Are you afraid to start because you’re not in San Francisco, New York, or Austin? What if I told you that today’s guest is doing just fine out in North Dakota? Garrett Moon is co-foudner of Todaymade a software company that launched CoSchedule a few months back. And by a few months I mean October/November…
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Embrace the suck of your WordPress business
Some of the best conversations I’ve had with WordPress entrepreneurs are those coming from a military background. Embrace the suck is a phrase that today’s guest Nathan Hangen introduced me to as we talked about his time serving and his journey of building Ignition Deck. There’s a lot to learn in this episode so I want…
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AppPresser: Launching a product with zero competition
Dare I say it’s easy to launch a product when there’s a competitor in the wild? How about easier? It’s one challenge to build a competing product and grow a business, it’s a whole other challenge to create something new with no competitors. Today I sit down with Scott Bolinger and Lisa Sabin-Wilson to discuss the launch…
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WordPress through Google Glass
I’m really excited to sit down and chat with the developer of wpForGlass, a WordPress plugin for publishing via Google Glass. When the news broke, the first thing that came to my mind was, “Who is Ozzy Farman and this agency Weber Shandwick?” Why is that important? In my humble opinion, this type of plugin…
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Episode 54: Brian Gardner of Copyblogger founder of StudioPress
Well, it’s finally happened. I interviewed Brian Gardner. If you don’t know who Brian is, where the heck have you been? He’s the first WordPress entrepreneur to pioneer the premium theme business as we know it today. He started StudioPress over six years ago as a passion project and soon became the de facto site to…
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Episode 52: A startup, some themes, a bit of freelancing and a full-time job
You’re an entrepreneur still trading time for dollars — how do you get out of that? You launch a new WordPress website for a client and everyone is excited to go live — but wait, they wanted you to upload their 1,000 pages of content. It wasn’t your responsibility. Months later you realize you’ve been…