Bootstrapped

In this episode, we talk about Star Wars, how much Ian loves it and how much Andrey hates it, synchronizing hardware between home and office, code signing and certificate confirmation, international currencies and writing currency exchange code for How Are Sales Today, direct sales, the Userscape marketing plan for 2016, tracking advertising, adding more features vs releasing software earlier, and on-premise vs. software in the cloud.

• How Are Sales Today? – Sales and SaaS metrics for Stripe
• The Joker: Mark Hamill
• Brad Bell’s talk from Peers 2015
• Andrey’s talk from Peers 2015

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This week Andrey doesn’t tell me I’m on the wrong mic until half way through and we also cover acronyms, Jessica Jones, babysitter acquisition strategies, How Are Sales Today update, HelpSpot update, we go through Andrey Butov’s favorite movies and TV shows.

• Andrey is sort of right about acronyms, but there’s some subtle to it. We’ll cover it more in follow up next week!
• Sign up for the How Are Sales Today beta.
• Scribbleton update
• Letterboxd follow Ian

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In this episode, we talk about the new app from Quantic Insights, opening up a business bank account, meditation, mellowing out with age, new Userscape office, and Fallout 4.

• Deploy PHP – Servers for Hackers
• How Are Sales Today? (or QiBar) – the new app from Quantic Insights
• Jerry Seinfeld talks Transcendental Meditation

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Ian and Andrey talk about podcasting, marketing, blogging, free will vs determinism (whoa), adwords, Twitter and HelpSpot history, selling internet plumbing libraries, HelpSpot pricing for SaaS and on-premise, healthcare in the US, moving to Canada.

• Ian’s new podcast – Anything But Code
• 11 year old selling cryptographically secure passwords
• A New Kind of Science
• Move to Canada

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In this episode, Ian and Andrey talk about new hardware, Star Wars, HelpSpot Cloud, back-end systems, Quantic Insights, virtual insurance for virtual crap, and fantasy football.

• Mike Jones (labs.log)
• HelpSpot Cloud
• Quantic Insights
• Japanese Pachinko machines
• Ian’s post on purchase orders

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We discuss how we don’t hold to our topic, home contractors, physical servers, internet secure, desktop software development, rewriting software from scratch, online banking, Star Wars Battlefront, Star Wars vs Star Trek (again).

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• DHH on rewriting software
• Tell Tale Games

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In this episode we talk about photography, Userscape’s new employee, health insurance, Finsumi, building everything yourself, outsourcing, Quantic Insights, C++, customer support, working from home, audiobooks, and video games.

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• Quantic Insights
• Awesome Batman artwork
• SaaStr

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In this episode, we discuss Andrey’s PhillyPopecation, Release Notes Conference, how we do sales at UserScape, why you should never offer unlimited/site licenses, Jet Brains pricing, SaaS pricing for on-premise products, Ian’s Last Of Us update, video game violence, “shooting feel” in a game, we talk AGAIN about having dogs, dead fish.

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• Quantic Insights stealth mode landing page
• HelpSpot website, talk to sales
• Testrail
• Second Variety

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In this episode, we discuss returning for another season, first day of school, finishing up consulting work and returning to product work, co-founding a new company, HelpSpot 4, having a full-time sales person, Snappy, Quantic Insights, programmers and math, mobile apps for kids, Star Wars, Mad Max, and home theater setup.

• Quantic Insights
• HelpSpot
• Snappy
• Pastevault
• Honeybadger

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Andrey swears a lot, we talk about nearly everything except bootstrapping! Stay until the end to hear us discuss Star Wars, 2001, Contact, Guardians of the Galaxy (classic!), Superman vs Batman.

• Dave Hicking Superhero
• Video of how Ian’s wife thinks Ian and Andrey will walk through Philly
• Video of Ian’s Microconf 2014 talk
• Babka
• Servers For Hackers – Learn how to actually manage the servers you run
• Product + Support – Ian’s new interview site
• X100T
• Steven Soderbergh 2001 recut
• Contact “buy 2 at twice the price” scene
• I am Groot

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