Ed Freyfogle
Co-founder of OpenCage
Appears in 118 Episodes
#157: Dealing with your business's endless administration burden
Ed and Steve discuss the endless burden of busy-work that comes with running a business - and how we try to minimise it.We also mention Ed's new marketing-related hire...
#158: Not 1, not 2, but 3 bootstrapped SaaS successes with Moritz Dausinger of refiner.io
Moritz Dausinger, founder of refiner.io, chats about his success as a serial founder of bootstrapped SaaS products. He founded and sold two B2B SaaS apps, and now he's...
#159: Enterprise sales hell, SEO frustration and self-doubt
Ed and Steve talk about recent challenges and successes in their bootstrapped SaaS businesses. Ed tells of the agony of doing enterprise sales. Steve admits to self-d...
#160: Creating great email onboarding sequences, with Liz Painter of Comma Comma
Liz is an expert in onboarding email sequences. Over the course of this episode, Liz helps me design a great email sequence for Saber Feedback.On the way, there are pl...
#161: The inglorious launch of my first product
This is a talk I recently gave at Barcelona's ESIC business school. Ostensibly, I spoke on working with intangibles as products. But actually, I told the story of how ...
#162: Reviewing our 2020 goals
Steve and Ed look back at the goals they set for 2020 at the beginning of the year. What goals did we hit? What goals eluded us? What did we learn along the way?Discus...
#163: Our goals for 2021
Ed and I discuss what we want to achieve in 2021. Last year, unexpected world events turned our "goals for 2020" upside-down. Having learnt no lesson whatsoever from t...
#164: A Saber Feedback update 9 months after acquisition
Ed grills me on my progress with Saber Feedback, my B2B SaaS, nine months after I acquired it. We talk about SEO, competitors, getting backlinks, finding a niche, and ...
#165: Finding and hiring freelancers
In this episode I answer some listener questions about freelancers. I discuss how to find, hire, and communicate with freelancers.Discuss this topic and more with the ...
#166: Making an Open Source business work with Allan Jardine of DataTables
Allan Jardine is the creator of DataTables, a popular jQuery plugin. We discuss his challenges and successes as he learned how to make a viable business from creating ...
#167: The blog gets posts once every 13 years
Ed and Steve talk about the mental stress of having real-time business metrics, how to find a business mentor, and Steve's attempt to get started with enterprise sales...
#168: Twitter for Marketing, and Zombie Customers
Ed and I cover a lot of ground this week:podcasting nervesgeotrivia as marketing a brief foray into geopoliticsusing Twitter for marketingthe frustrating unpredictabil...
#169: Email newsletter or no email newsletter? The great debate.
We argue for and against having a monthly email newsletter for your product. Ed is firmly in the "No way" corner. Steve represents the "You gotta have a newsletter" si...
#170: "Be so good they can't ignore you", with Peldi of Balsamiq
Peldi Guilizzoni is the founder of low-fidelity wireframing tool Balsamiq. Peldi and Steve discuss: why Peldi tracks almost nothing except revenue and profitstalking t...
#171: Nick Franklin, founder of ChartMogul
Nick Franklin and I talked about what it is like to go down the venture capital route instead of bootstrapping. For me this was a glimpse into another way of doing thi...
#172: Getting rid of Google Analytics, with Alex Yumashev
Alex Yumashev, founder of JitBit, returns to the show. We discuss: why Alex ditched Google Analytics from his websitehow he keeps his work interesting after so many ye...
#173: Reducing the support workload with Ed Freyfogle
Ed Freyfogle is back! We talk about Ed's systematic attempt to reduce his support workload.Discuss this episode on our community.This episode is also on YouTube.
#174: Corey Haines, founder of the Swipe Files community
My guest in this episode is Corey Haines, founder of Swipe Files. Swipe Files is a membership site that provides content, community, and courses to help you master mar...
#175: Riskiness of being a side project's customer
Ed and Steve discuss the return of Microconf Europe as an in-person eventworking out if a new feature is worth the effortweighing the risk of becoming a customer of so...
#176: Tips for self-publishing a book, with science fiction writer Aidan Doyle
Aidan Doyle is a science fiction writer. Amongst his work are two self-published books, including The Writer's Book of Doubt. I'm planning to produce a book later this...
