https://techzinglive.com If you're a hacker, you'll probably like our show ;) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:16:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 TechZing is an informal chat show hosted by Justin Vincent & Jason Roberts. We release two shows per week. Midweek Interview Show – We interview people that we find interesting such as John C Dvorak, Peldi from Balsamiq, Pete Michaud etc. Weekend Discussion Show – We have a ‘no agenda’ style discussion ruminating on tech, startups and other HN-like topics, we’ll even on occasion take a risk and venture into the unknown. We also talk about the progression of our businesses Pluggio & AppIgnite. Justin Vincent & Jason Roberts Justin Vincent & Jason Roberts jv@jvmultimedia.com jv@jvmultimedia.com (Justin Vincent & Jason Roberts) JV Multimedia If you're a hacker you'll probably like our show ;) https://storage.pinecast.net/podcasts/covers/1ed93ec8-742b-4655-9cac-c86b274620f6/new-cover-odea.jpg https://techzinglive.com https://techzinglive.com/page/257/techzing-56-rob-walling-the-micropreneur-academy https://techzinglive.com/page/257/techzing-56-rob-walling-the-micropreneur-academy#comments Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:16:56 +0000 http://techzinglive.com/?p=257 Justin and Jason speak with Rob Walling, founder of the Micropreneur Academy, author of Start Small, Stay Small and co-host of the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us, about how to dramatically increase your odds of success when bootstrapping a microISV. Some of the topics discussed include the love of making things and the drive to create, how to pick a product niche and why not to create a horizontal offering, why the freemium model doesn’t work for bootstrapping startups and whether Justin should discontinue free accounts for Pluggio, the difficulty of competing against venture backed startups, how to create a landing page and build an email list, possible marketing and pricing strategies for AppIgnite, Google’s SEO guidelines, why software as a service is a better business than software as a product, how to buy websites and build a portfolio of web investments, outliers and why it’s better not to try to emulate them, the time, effort and talent required to create a personal platform (ala 37 signals and Joel Spolsky) and why email lists are so valuable.

]]> https://techzinglive.com/page/257/techzing-56-rob-walling-the-micropreneur-academy/feed 25 Justin and Jason speak with Rob Walling, founder of the Micropreneur Academy, author of Start Small, Stay Small and co-host of the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us, about how to dramatically increase your odds of success when bootstrapping a microIS... Justin and Jason speak with Rob Walling, founder of the Micropreneur Academy, author of Start Small, Stay Small and co-host of the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us, about how to dramatically increase your odds of success when bootstrapping a microISV. Some of the topics discussed include the love of making things and the […] Justin Vincent & Jason Roberts 1:43:37