Chasing Product

Hi there! To help Chasing Product grow, please take a moment to visit iTunes and give the show a 5-star rating. Thanks! The talented Cat Noone of Liberio joins us to talk about her experience in freelancing and in moving to a bootstrapped product. Due to editing issues, this episode is a full week late. Read More The post Episode 21: The Importance of Planning & Experience w/Cat Noone appeared first on Chasing Product.

Hi there! To help Chasing Product grow, please take a moment to visit iTunes and give the show a 5-star rating. Thanks! This episode, we learn about life as a non-technical founder, courtesy of Ron Story, Jr. sharing his story with us. Bootstrapped Product Talking Points Why business is becoming commoditized How to do cheap email Read More The post Episode 20: The Non-Technical Founder w/Ron Story, Jr. appeared first on Chasing Product.

Hi there! To help Chasing Product grow, please take a moment to visit iTunes and give the show a 5-star rating. Thanks! This episode of Chasing Product features Ryan Battles, walking us through the essentials of Saas marketing. Bootstrapped Product Talking Points Why you have to carefully vet your team The importance of validating & Read More The post Episode 19: Saas Marketing Essentials w/Ryan Battles appeared first on Chasing Product.

Hi there! To help Chasing Product grow, please take a moment to visit iTunes and give the show a 5-star rating. Thanks! This episode of Chasing Product features Dave Rodenbaugh, giving a master class on outsourcing product development. Bootstrapped Product Talking Points What things you must *not* outsource if you want to be successful How Read More The post Episode 18: Outsourcing Product Development w/Dave Rodenbaugh appeared first on Chasing Product.

Hi there! To help Chasing Product grow, please take a moment to visit iTunes and give the show a 5-star rating. Thanks! This episode of Chasing Product features Amy Hoy, sharing her no-BS-allowed outlook on startup realities and growing a businesses. Bootstrapped Product Talking Points Why the businesses featured in “entreporn” are outliers, not startup Read More The post Episode 17: Startup Realities w/Amy Hoy appeared first on Chasing Product.

Hi there! To help Chasing Product grow, please take a moment to visit iTunes and give the show a 5-star rating. Thanks! Mike Taber of AuditShark shares his tale of building a software business while on the road as a consultant.  We talk about life as a consultant and a founder, the random nature of Read More The post Episode 16: Building a Software Business On The Road w/Mike Taber appeared first on Chasing Product.

Hi there! To help Chasing Product grow, please take a moment to visit iTunes and give the show a 5-star rating. Thanks! Alex Yumashev (founder of JitBit) joins us to talk about growing into a small software firm with multiple products.  We also touch on how and why Alex is almost constantly doing software product validation Read More The post Episode 15: Perpetual Software Product Validation w/Alex Yumashev appeared first on Chasing Product.

Hi there! To help Chasing Product grow, please take a moment to visit iTunes and give the show a 5-star rating. Thanks! In Episode 14, Joanna Weibe (founder of CopyHackers) sets us all straight on what copy hacking (writing conversion copy for the web) is all about, and how it can help your startup.  We Read More The post Episode 14: Copy Hacking for Conversions w/Joanna Wiebe appeared first on Chasing Product.

Hi there! To help Chasing Product grow, please take a moment to visit iTunes and give the show a 5-star rating. Thanks! Josh Pigford, serial maker of things, joins me for this episode.  Josh has a wonderfully diverse portfolio of projects.  Starting as a designer and gradually transitioning into launching web products, Josh has had both Read More The post Episode 13: Organic Product Development w/Josh Pigford appeared first on Chasing Product.

Hi there! To help Chasing Product grow, please take a moment to visit iTunes and give the show a 5-star rating. Thanks! This time out, I talk with Patrick McKenzie about his journey through software entrepreneurship, and why “charge more for your product” is often the best thing you can do. Kalzumeus.com – Patricks blog Bingocardcreator.com – Read More The post Episode 12: Charge More for Your Product w/Patrick McKenzie appeared first on Chasing Product.

Hi there! To help Chasing Product grow, please take a moment to visit iTunes and give the show a 5-star rating. Thanks! On Episode 11, I talk to David Raffauf, founder of Scoreboard, a Saas app that handles invoicing for freelancers and agencys.  David shares his story of launching an app, marketing, and doing business Read More The post Episode 11: Launching an App With a Full-Time Job w/David Raffauf appeared first on Chasing Product.

Hi there! To help Chasing Product grow, please take a moment to visit iTunes and give the show a 5-star rating. Thanks! In this episode, Tim Whitacre of Plain and Argyll Studios shares what he’s learned while transitioning out of freelancing and into products.  Tim is fearless, and freely shares the story of multiple non-thriving Read More The post Episode 10: If At First You Don’t Succeed, Product Launch Again w/Tim Whitacre appeared first on Chasing Product.

Hi there! To help Chasing Product grow, please take a moment to visit iTunes and give the show a 5-star rating. Thanks! This episode features Rachel Andrew telling us her startup story.  Going from freelancer to launching an app, Rachel has created not just a product but a small suite of revenue-generating endeavors, including speaking Read More The post Episode 9: Launching an App to Your Own Community w/Rachel Andrew appeared first on Chasing Product.

Hi there! To help Chasing Product grow, please take a moment to visit iTunes and give the show a 5-star rating. Thanks! Episode 8 features Ivan Lopez, founder of AB Press Optimizer and Project Conductor.  Ivan shares his tale of bootstrapping a large product, only to reconsider and do a smaller one instead.  By doing Read More The post Episode 8: The Importance of Small Wins w/Ivan Lopez appeared first on Chasing Product.

Hi there! To help Chasing Product grow, please take a moment to visit iTunes and give the show a 5-star rating. Thanks! What are you prepared to do?  That’s the question Ian Landsman poses in Episode 7 as we talk about launching product.  Ian takes us from his start in retail all the way through Read More The post Episode 7: Commit to Launching Product w/Ian Landsman appeared first on Chasing Product.

Hi there! To help Chasing Product grow, please take a moment to visit iTunes and give the show a 5-star rating. Thanks! In episode 6, Carl Diesing shares the story of how his consulting firm went about acquiring a software product (Saas app).  We talk about running a consultancy while building or buying a product, Read More The post Episode 6: Acquiring a Software Product w/Carl Diesing appeared first on Chasing Product.

Hi there! To help Chasing Product grow, please take a moment to visit iTunes and give the show a 5-star rating. Thanks! In this episode, Brennan Dunn talks about consulting work and the product business.  He shares some of the pitfalls of each, while teaching us what he learned as he moved from consulting work Read More The post Episode 5: Product-izing Your Consulting Work w/Brennan Dunn appeared first on Chasing Product.

Hi there! To help Chasing Product grow, please take a moment to visit iTunes and give the show a 5-star rating. Thanks! Ready for more talk about bootstrapping? Brian Casel joins us for the 4th episode.  We talk about Brian’s experience developing and releasing 2 Saas apps (and more!). We also get to cover some Read More The post Episode 4: Software Product Marketing & Design w/Brian Casel appeared first on Chasing Product.

Hi there! To help Chasing Product grow, please take a moment to visit iTunes and give the show a 5-star rating. Thanks! After two episodes of bootstrapped product founders with Saas apps, I went mobile! Episode 3 features a talk with Andrey Butov, the founder of Antair Software & creator of more than 2 dozen Read More The post Episode 3: Mobile App Marketing and Double-Bootstrapping w/Andrey Butov appeared first on Chasing Product.

Hi there! To help Chasing Product grow, please take a moment to visit iTunes and give the show a 5-star rating. Thanks! Ruben Gamez of Bidsketch joins me on this second episode.  We discuss his journey from freelancer to day job and on to product. We learn what Ruben did right from the very start. Read More The post Episode 2: Delegating Your Bootstrapped Product Efforts w/Ruben Gamez appeared first on Chasing Product.