Category: Startups
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Raising VC funding in the WordPress hosting ecosystem with Miriam Schwab
Entrepreneur, a term that has lost its potency over the years, is finding it’s way back home in today’s story. There are those of us that start businesses out of the desire to control our own destiny, but then grapple with the inability to see the forest through the trees. Every reason why we started…
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Pivoting a purpose driven business during a pandemic w/ Amber Hinds
Let’s say you’re a services business — you know, you make websites for people and sell them at fair market value. But, every so often, you get a little jealous about all of these product people running around printing money. You want a piece of that action. Managing customer expectations are daunting. Your master product…
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2020 End of Year Review
Welcome back to the Matt Report podcast, it’s the show for opinionated resilient business builders. How’s that, “opinionated resilient business builders.” Anyway, we’ll keep working on it, I like it and that’s what is leading us into the 2020 year in review! 1. Finding the Premise for the Matt Report There’s 1.8 million podcasts out…
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Buying a productized service business for vacation rental properties during a pandemic
Welcome back to another episode of the Matt Report podcast. Thanks for tuning in nearly every week and staying connected at mattreport.com/subscribe Hey, look, if you have a moment — please drop us a five-star review on iTunes. It’s the lifeblood of the show — right next to all of you fantastic listeners that send…
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Building a no code business with Corey Haines of Swipe Files.
Corey Haines, former Growth Marketer at Baremetrics, joins us to talk about how he’s building out Swipe Files. If you’ve dipped your toe into the #nocoded movement, undoubtedly you’ve come across the Makerpad community + tutorials staring back at you. Now, picture Makerpad but for marketing processes — that’s what Corey’s building. You’ll love the…
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Funding a WordPress podcast
Monetizing “WordPress content” like a blog, a podcast, or a YouTube channel is tricky business. Results are rarely immediate for most creators, with the Google SERP odds being stacked against you. If you want to fast track it: You will find more opportunity producing largely searched for content like how-to tutorials or topics on design…
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Thriving Educational Entrepreneurs w/ Chris Badgett
Chris Badgett is a life-long teacher of — things. He’s taught people how to make the perfect omelet, how to win a dog race in Alaska, all the way to today where he teaches Educational Entrepreneurs thrive in business. He’s the CEO of famed WordPress LMS company, LifterLMS. We packed a lot into this episode,…
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Building a Substack alternative with WordPress
Are you gripping to the handlebars of your product launch rollercoaster ride? Buckle up, as you’ll appreciate Lesley’s story in today’s episode. She’s the co-founder of Newsletter Glue which spawned as a small feature inside another product that was nearly extinct. We’ll learn why they spun this feature out, how they are doing market research,…
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WordProof.io: Building trust over the internet through Blockchain & WordPress
Today’s guest is Sebastiaan van der Lans, the Founder & CEO of WordProof.io, a new business working to build trust over the internet through blockchain and WordPress. This was a fantastic conversation that spanned the topics of validating news content, all the way to pitching an innovative product for the chance to win 1 million…