Steve McLeod
Founder of Feature Upvote
Appears in 138 Episodes
#186: Marketing to Developers with Adam DuVander
While Steve enjoys a summer break, Ed Freyfogle steps in this week to interview Adam DuVander. Adam helps companies like yours market to developers.Ed chats with Adam ...
#187: A Saber Feedback update
It's 15 months since I acquired Saber Feedback. I talk about the challenges I've faced so far, the bottleneck I'm currently facing, and where things are headed.Steve o...
#188: Switching from Bootstrapped to Investor-Funded, with Craig Hewitt of Castos
Craig Hewitt runs Castos, a podcast hosting and analytics company. He returns to the show to talk about why he recently sold a chunk of his bootstrapped company to a r...
#189: The agony of the enterprise sale process, with Ed Freyfogle
Ed and Steve go in deep on some enterprise sales work they've both been doing lately for their bootstrapped, mostly self-service SaaS products.
#190: Resellers and product-based podcasts, with Peldi of Balsamiq
Peldi, founder of Balsamiq, drops by. We discuss two unrelated topics. First, resellers - why they exist and how to accommodate them. Second, the challenges and benefi...
#191: On quietly successful SaaS businesses, and saying goodbye to our forum
In this solo episode, I talk about successful yet quiet SaaS business all around us. I also tell the full story of why our forum has been closed and put permanently in...
#192: How the pandemic overturned my business, with Mark Littlewood of Business of Software
Mark Littlewood runs the Business of Software, a series of annual conferences to help us run our software companies better. Mark very openly shares how COVID-19 has hi...
#193: The fine details of the Saber Feedback acquisition
If you've ever thought of selling your business, or acquiring one, you'll enjoy this episode. Matt Zeunert, founder of DebugBear, was curious about the details of my a...
#194: We talk about our vacations
It's good to take a break!In this episode Ed and I get self-indulgent and talk about our vacations. From time to time we make a tenuous link between our vacations and ...
#195: Back to School
Ed and Steve talk about the challenge of continuing to learn how to run our businesses better, and the challenges we encounter in ongoing learning.
#196: Our Mental Wellbeing as Bootstrappers, with Robin Warren
Three-time guest Robin Warren, founder of Corrello, achieves "very infrequent guest co-host" status. We chat about a number of aspects of mental wellbeing for bootstra...
#197: Life is unpredictable, and a pricing experiment
Ed is recovering from an accident, so Steve goes solo in this episode. Ed's accident gets Steve musing on the unpredictability of life, and what we can do to partly pr...
#198: Backing up 170 Petabytes of customer data, with Simon Bennett of SnapShooter
Simon runs SnapShooter, a service that performs scheduled server backups. We discuss:why backups is NOT a dull businesshow the pandemic pushed him to make the jump to ...
#199: Creating a successful podcast with Jane Portman of UI Breakfast
Jane Portman is the host of UI Breakfast, a podcast covering UI/UX design, products, marketing. Jane recently crossed the 2 million downloads milestone. Jane and I d...
#200: Positioning for bootstrappers with April Dunford
April Dunford has a well-deserved reputation as the expert in product positioning within the tech industry. April and I discussed how bootstrappers can go about produc...
#201: Running an email newsletter business, with Peter Cooper of Cooperpress
I chat with Peter Cooper, who runs several email newsletters, including JavaScript Weekly, Ruby Weekly, React Status, and Postgres Weekly. These all live under the col...
#202: Bridget Harris, co-founder of YouCanBookMe
Bridget is co-founder and CEO of YouCanBook.me, an online scheduling tool. I chat with Bridget Harris about the 10-year journey of starting and growing her company as ...
#203: A recap of the interview mini-season
I conclude the mini season of interviews with a brief summary of the five interviews I conducted. A few weeks ago, my cohost had a cycling that student that broke his ...
#204: Ed can speak again
Ed tells us about his accident he had, and the impact it had on his life and business. He also talks about how it got him reflecting about his business.
#205: A rapid Saber Feedback update
I give Ed an update on what I've achieved on Saber Feedback in recent months.A new app design, ripping out the SPA architecture, replacing our payment processor with P...
