Category: Startups
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A life of learning, products, and WordPress
I’ve known today’s guest before I even ventured into the professional WordPress industry. In fact, it wasn’t his themes that revolutionized my thinking, it was the checkout process. Brian Gardner launched a theme company using a payment portal and delivery tool called e-junkie. I just checked, they still exist, they were the Gumroad before Web…
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Sam Chason is reshaping the college moving experience
I typically open up my monologue with setting some tension or to attempt to provoke how a grand idea might come together in the upcoming audio. I don’t have that today. What I have is a young entrepreneur that impressed me with his story, branding, and how he’s approaching the business of…college movers. I know…
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What it feels like to disrupt ecommerce forever
A tricky part about all of this stuff we do in business and online is to not let the work consume you. I know people say that your work is not your worth, and I get it, but it’s really hard for me to disconnect from that. To show the world what you’ve built and…
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Lemon Squeezy: Taking on ecommerce & WordPress
“Just when I thought I was out…they pull me back in” a famous line from Godfather Part III and a recurring theme I’ve noticed for those of who have used WordPress for a while. No matter how much we might moan about the shortcomings of WordPress, it’s still pretty darn powerful. The core of WordPress…
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Building a theme business using Gatsby w/ Alexandra Spalato
Now that the WordPress acquisition market has cooled a bit, it’s time to stoke the fire on all things Gatsby and JAMStack-y-ness….again. Don’t let Full Site Editing steal all of the thunder, there’s still so much happening around headless WordPress and the ability to integrate 3rd party APIs to take the place of plugins. Look,…
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Syed Balkhi on Awesome Motive acquiring Sandhills Development plugins
The WordPress acquisition world was rocking this week. If this week were a heavyweight fight between Learn Dash and Sandhills Development, Pippin would certainly be the beloved veteran. You can hear more about his side of the story in this podcast interview. Today I got to sit down with Syed Balkhi, founder of Awesome Motive,…
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How to find the perfect customer in a crowded market
Even with all of the WordPress consolidation happening, there’s still plenty of opportunity ahead for the industry. There’s lots of potential users, customers, and room for investment (note: we just saw the acquisition of Yoast happen by Newfold, formally EIG. If I had to guess, somewhere between a $30-50M deal.) If you though the plugin…
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Side hustle to full time business w/ Travis Lopes
Is there ever a right time to start a business? We could subscribe to every podcast, take every online course, thumbs up every video Troy Dean puts out on Facebook and we still wouldn’t be 100% ready. Imagine having a full-time job and peddling your small piece of software on the side. Before you know…
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Recapture.io: From part time business to world domination
I appreciate a good side hustle story. Someone slogging away in the cubical but slowly building up an audience on Twitter on the weekends. I’m sure you know all about the “build in open” movement, and today’s guest really shocked me with that. See, maybe like you, I’ve listened to Dave Rodenbaugh on his podcast…