#031 – How Kevin McArdle Quit His Job and Bought 28 Businesses in Two Years

#001 – Building an Audience and Being Scrappy with Jason Grishkoff of SubmitHub: Jason Grishkoff, the founder of SubmitHub, proves that being scrappy and doing things that don't scale (like sending 1000 emails) can lead to explosive growth. Brought to you by SparkPost. by Indie Hackers

64 min listen

#022 – Going Full-Time on Your Side Project with Dave DeSandro of Metafizzy: Not everybody gets to work for the internet, floating from project to project and doing creative work that they love, but Dave DeSandro does just that. Learn how he's made a career for himself by building and designing widgets that tens of thousands of ot by Indie Hackers

58 min listen

#004 – Succeeding in a Crowded Market by Building a Niche Business with Garrett Dimon of Sifter: How do you cut through the noise and stand out among the competition so you can start landing your first customers? Garrett Dimon, the creator of Sifter, explains how he did it. Brought to you by SparkPost. by Indie Hackers

58 min listen

#002 – Fueling Growth with SEO and Content Marketing with Chris Chen of Instapainting: Learn how Instapainting founder Chris Chen used a combination of SEO and content marketing to grow his business to $32k/month in sales. Brought to you by ProductManagerHQ.com. by Indie Hackers

59 min listen

#015 – Data-Driven Marketing and Sales with Alex MacCaw of Clearbit: Alex MacCaw started Clearbit.com as a solo founder, and he's since grown it to millions of dollars in annual profit. Learn the marketing and sales techniques he's used to reach over 1000 customers. by Indie Hackers

56 min listen

#014 – Delivering More Value and Charging More Money with Brennan Dunn of DoubleYourFreelancing.com: Brennan Dunn has earned $20k/week as a freelancer, grown an agency to millions in revenue, started and sold a SaaS product, and makes over $100k/mo from his online courses. Learn how he thinks about business. by Indie Hackers

62 min listen

#008 – Growing a $600,000/mo Business by Starting with Direct Sales with Nathan Barry of ConvertKit: Learn how Nathan Barry grew his business by teaching what he knew, taking advantage of big competitors, showing up every day for two years, and treating direct sales as the answer to everything. Brought to you by Vettery. by Indie Hackers

60 min listen

#005 – How the VC Business Model Co-Opts Entrepreneurs' Visions with Bryce Roberts of Indie.vc: Why is the VC narrative so dominant? Bryce Roberts, partner at Indie.vc, talks about why it's important to focus on generating revenue from the beginning. Brought to you by DixonAndMoe.com. by Indie Hackers

49 min listen

#016 – Building a $1 Million Business Solo with Mike Perham of Sidekiq: Learn how Mike Perham turned his open-source side project into a business, quit his job, and grew revenue to $80,000/mo without making a single hire. by Indie Hackers

53 min listen

#012 – Traveling, Learning to Code, and Bootstrapping to $25k/mo with Tyler Tringas of Storemapper: Tyler Tringas talks about the difference between good and bad ideas, launching new products in days not months, finding your first customers one at a time, hiring effectively, and more. by Indie Hackers

54 min listen

#011 – How Ryan Bednar Went from SEO Consulting to Building an SEO Product That Makes $80,000/mo: Turning your skillset into a product that solves customers' problems is one of the best ways to start a business. Learn how Ryan Bedndar came up with an idea, iterated on his product, and found his first customers. by Indie Hackers

53 min listen

#006 – Launching Your Product and Finding Customers Immediately with Josh Pigford of Baremetrics: Josh Pigford went from having an idea to having paying customers in eight days. Less than six months later he was making $14,000/month. In this episode, you'll learn exactly how he did it. Brought to you by SparkPost. by Indie Hackers

45 min listen

#009 – Breaking Into Bootstrapping Your Own SaaS Business with Clifford Oravec of Tamboo: Thinking about becoming an indie hacker? Learn how to start, what skills you need, and the biggest pitfalls to avoid in this discussion I had with Clifford Oravec, author of The Epic Guide to Bootstrapping a SaaS Startup. by Indie Hackers

54 min listen

#003 – Bootstrapping a SaaS Business to $30,000,000/year with David Hauser of Grasshopper: David Hauser explains how prioritizing selling early on, talking to customers, and rigorously testing marketing channels helped him bootstrap to $30M/year. Brought to you by DixonAndMoe.com. by Indie Hackers

53 min listen

#026 – Building a Mission-Driven Company with Reuben Pressman of Presence: Reuben Pressman has succeeded at doing some very difficult things as an entrepreneur, and building a mission-driven company is just the tip of the iceberg. by Indie Hackers

56 min listen

#031 – How Kevin McArdle Quit His Job and Bought 28 Businesses in Two Years: Most aspiring entepreneurs assume they have to start from scratch. But when Kevin McArdle left his job at 38 with a wife, a mortgage, and 4 kids, he wanted to get a head start. Learn how Kevin and his partners at SureSwift Capital bought almost 30 compani by Indie Hackers

67 min listen

#024 – From Side Projects to Serial Entrepreneur with Moritz Dausinger: Moritz Dausinger started off like so many of us, releasing and then abandoning project after project. But when he launched Mailparser, something changed. Listen to the story of how he built, grew, and sold a profitable business as a solo founder. by Indie Hackers

54 min listen

#007 – Building an Open-Source Publishing Platform That Makes $63,000/mo with John O'Nolan of Ghost: John O'Nolan explains how he used his industry experience to come up with a simple idea, built a landing page that converted 30,000 email subscribers, and raised $300,000 on Kickstarter. Brought to you by SparkPost. by Indie Hackers

58 min listen

#010 – Growing Your Social Media Presence and Building an Audience with Laura Roeder of MeetEdgar: The point of marketing is to draw new people in to your business every day, but how exactly do you go about doing that? Laura Roeder, who bootstrapped her business to $4M/year, explains how to build an audience. by Indie Hackers

64 min listen

#017 – How to Grow Your Business with Julian Shapiro of Bell Curve: Growth consultant Julian Shapiro joins me for an extra long episode in which he shares a wealth of knowledge and stories about making numbers go up and to the right. by Indie Hackers

97 min listen

#028 – How Wes Bos Teaches 100,000 Programmers as a One-Man Operation: What goes into creating a collection of online courses that reaches hundreds of thousand of people? Wes Bos explains everything from how he's built an audience and grown his massive email list, to his work habits and schedule, and a step-by-step walkthrou by Indie Hackers

58 min listen

#019 – Solving Your Own Problem with Todd Garland of BuySellAds: Todd Garland went from being a blogger who published ads on his website to creating one of the leading advertising platforms on the web. Here's his story. by Indie Hackers

52 min listen

#013 – How to overcome the biggest challenges to your online business with patio11: Patrick McKenzie divulges his wisdom around how to develop promising business ideas, find your first customers, convince smart people to work with you, generate more revenue, and stay happy while doing it. by Indie Hackers

64 min listen

#025 – Becoming the Internet's Most Prolific Maker with Mubashar Iqbal: In 2016, Mubashar Iqbal was named as Product Hunt's Maker of the Year for launching more products and better products than anyone else. In this episodes, Mubs shares his thoughts on what allows him to be uniquely prolific. by Indie Hackers

57 min listen

#038 – When Your Side Project Blows Up with Dawson Whitfield of Logojoy: What would you do if your side project made $30,000 in its first month? This is the exact situation that Dawson Whitfield found himself in after a long history of launching projects that didn't make it very far. The conventional wisdom is that it takes ye by Indie Hackers

57 min listen

#021 – Starting a Mission-Driven Company with Rachel Carpenter of Intrinio: The early team behind Intrinio got off to a very challenging start. In this episode, Rachel explains how being dedicated to their mission helped them stay scrappy and persevere through the hard times. by Indie Hackers

53 min listen

#027 – The Do's and Don'ts of Selling Your Company with Thomas Smale: Few people have seen as many companies bought and sold online as Thomas Smale has. Hear the founder of FE International explain how he started his M&A firm and share the lessons he's learned about selling your business for as much as possible. by Indie Hackers

59 min listen

#018 – Finding Your First Paying Customers with Wade Foster of Zapier: How did a company that nobody'd ever heard of find hundreds of beta users, and even convince them to pay for access? Wade Foster tells the story behind user acquisition at Zapier. by Indie Hackers

52 min listen

#020 – Building a Million Dollar Mailing List with Scott of Scott's Cheap Flights: Learn how Scott Keyes grew his mailing list from 300 to 600,000 subscribers and $4M in revenue in two years. by Indie Hackers

57 min listen

#050 – Creating a New Product Category with Katelyn Gleason of Eligible: Katelyn Gleason (@katgleason) has been never satisfied with working for somebody else, and she's never been afraid to break into a new field and aim straight for the top. Today, she's the founder and CEO of Eligible, a rapidly-growing business in the diff by Indie Hackers

54 min listen

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