FounderQuest
110 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsDevelopers building a software business on our own terms.
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What Sparked Our Fascination With Computers?
August 07, 2020 15:00 - 28 minutes - 50.6 MBShow notes: Links: Kathy Sierra Seinfield – Vandalay Industries Minnesota Fats Lemonade Stand Phrack Honeybadger Developer Blog Full Transcript: Starr: We are on uncharted ground. We usually record on Fridays, but I was out on Friday, so we're recording on a Monday now. We just had our all hands meeting. I had a meeting before that, which means this is my third Zoom call of the day. I've got another Zoom call after this one. Josh: Wow, that's a lot of meetings. Ben: That's i...
Schrems VII, The Return of Safe Harbor
July 31, 2020 15:00 - 31 minutes - 56.5 MBShow Notes: Links: TechCrunch Schrems II Full Transcript: Ben: Speaking of town meetings though, we had a streamed event from our local school district last night in which they revealed that our school district will not be having school in person for the first semester of the year. They're going to do a wait and see approach and see if they can have school opening and the next semester, in I guess January, but for now, the kids are going to be at home. Starr: So how do you feel ab...
Apps and Websites Sharing Domains. Is It a Highlander Situation?
July 24, 2020 15:00 - 41 minutes - 76.1 MBShow Notes: Links: Ghost Octopress Squarespace Tailwind Tyler Tringas Full Transcript: Josh: You're looking chipper, Ben. Ben: I'm feeling chipper, Josh. Josh: I'm glad. Starr: Yeah, there's kind of like ... you have kind of like a glow. Is this the new product glow? Ben: I think it is the new product glow, yes, yes. Starr: Okay. Ben: I pushed out a new feature this morning. Josh: Congratulations. Ben: Thank you, thank you. So, yeah, feeling pretty good. Had a good wee...
How Price Sensitive Are B2B Customers?
July 17, 2020 15:00 - 37 minutes - 68.4 MBShow Notes: Links: Mighty Cal Hook Relay Profitwell Retain Floor Is Lava Ben Curtis Twitter Full Transcript: Starr: So what were you all talking about before I jumped on the call? Ben: We were talking about Derrick's new startup Mighty Cal. Starr: Mighty Cal. Ben: Looking pretty nice. I was telling Josh how I like the virality of it. If you're using Mighty Cal and you share those links with someone, then they're going to be like, "Oh, that's cool. I should use that too." And ...
How To Unlock The Gold Standard of Webhooks
July 03, 2020 15:00 - 36 minutes - 65 MBShow Notes: Links: Stripe Hey Bye Full Transcript: Josh: I'm the co-pilot today, right? Ben: Co-pilot. Yeah, yeah. So today we're flying without Star. Star is not feeling well, so today is just the two of us. Josh: And I have been on vacation. Well, I am on vacation. Ben: Yeah. Josh: Sticking my head up. Ben: We are so into FounderQuest that we even come in on vacation to record an episode. Josh: Yeah. I don't know. It's nice to keep the schedule. I don't know. I've been tryi...
Spoiler Alert! The Apple Vs Hey Fight Explained and Who’s Right?
June 26, 2020 15:00 - 36 minutes - 64.9 MBShow Notes: Links: Hey Worldwide Developers Conference David Heinemeier Hansson Jason Fried Heroku Andrey Butov Configuring Fastmail to act like Hey Full Transcript: Starr: Okay. Now we can talk about how terrible the world is. No. Ben: So speaking of Apple. Yeah, it's been interesting. So I've been watching all the hubbub over the past few days about Hey and Apple. Starr: So what is Hey? Ben: So Hey is this new email service from our friends at Basecamp. Starr: I still ca...
How Many Hours Does It REALLY Take To Start A Company?
June 05, 2020 15:00 - 37 minutes - 68.5 MBShow Notes: Links: Justin Jackson Twitter 12 Monkeys Kingkiller Chronicles Full Transcript: Ben: As I was getting this morning and reading Twitter and just... Twitter. Something that's come up lately, and Justin Jackson has talked about this, and there's a couple other people who have talked about this. On Twitter this morning, it was being talked about. But that's the idea of staying in your lane. Ben: If you're a technologist, and typically your podcast is all about business or...
Updating Our Pricing With Gravy And Special Sauce
May 29, 2020 15:00 - 37 minutes - 69 MBShow notes: Links: Build Your SaaS by Justin Jackson Basecamp Hill Charts Scrooge McDuck Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software Darkpatterns.org Honeybadger.io Full Transcription: Starr: So, how have you all been doing this week? I've been on vacation. Ben: This week has been an interesting week in the Curtis household, we discovered a water leak in our house, in the bathroom. Starr: Oh, my gosh. So when you say interesting, you're using it in the sort...
Kickin It With Mike Perham, Author Of Faktory & Sidekiq
May 22, 2020 15:00 - 43 minutes - 76.8 MBShow Notes: Links: Mike Perham Full United Flight Sidekiq Faktory Heya Patrick McKenzie Techstars TinySeed Roy/SAC Honeybadger Full Transcript: Starr: What's on your wall behind you? You've got like a autographed jersey like a hockey jersey. Mike: Yeah, I'm I'm a soccer fan. Starr: Oh, a soccer jersey. I'm sorry. Mike: It's the Portland Timbers. Yes. Josh: The timbers, yeah. Mike: And it's not looking good for us playing in 2020. Josh: Yeah. Starr: It's looking good for anyb...
Is GitHub Codespaces Basically Just X Windows?
May 15, 2020 15:00 - 36 minutes - 66 MBShow Notes: Links: Amethyst PopClip Alfred shortcuts Hacker New Ubuntu 20.04 Thread Ansible Josh's dotfiles Mathias Shell Scripts UltraFine Bartender Transcript: Starr: I'm the type of tiling Window manager user that never changes any of their layout, basically. I'm the type of tiling Window manager that like has all applications open full screen except for like my terminals, which I have a vertical split. And so, I've got two of those open on a single screen. I actually don't...
Beware The Blinking Folder Of Death
May 08, 2020 15:00 - 31 minutes - 58.9 MBShow Notes: Links: Stripe Spam Nation by Brian Krebs Bad To The Bone by George Thorogood Grammarly Egghead.io Udemy Chris Oliver Jumpstart Heya Lamby StimulusReflex Andrew Mason Remote Ruby podcast Honeybadger Full Transcript: Josh: So I'm sitting in my chair with this laptop and the thing literally crashes in my lap. And when I turn it back on, it gives me that blinking folder. The blinking folder. I don't know if you've ever seen the blinking folder, Ben says he hasn't. ...
Ruby Is The Animal Crossing Of Programming Languages
May 01, 2020 15:00 - 29 minutes - 54.8 MBShow Notes: Links: Voltron Transformers Gobots Thundercats Animal Crossing Stardw Valley Factorio Dependabot Gumroad Shopify Stripe Pinky and the Brain Full Transcript: Starr: Did you prefer Voltron over Transformers? Which team were you on? Ben: I guess I did, because I don't remember watching much in the way of Transformers, but I did watch a lot of Voltron, so. Starr: Oh really? That's a shame. Transformers were great. Ben: I'll take your word for... Josh: I like ...
How Building Our Own Campaign Mailer For Rails Set Us Free
April 24, 2020 15:00 - 36 minutes - 67.3 MBThis week Ben, Starr, and Josh break down Heya, their freshly shipped open source email campaign mailer for Rails developers. Learn how Heya works, how it can help with GDPR and Soc 2 compliance, and how it saves Honeybadger $$$ in Intercom and Segment costs. Plus, don't miss the hot thermometer takes! Show Notes: Links: Heya Ruby Weekly Action Mailer Intercom Customer.io Segment GDPR Mixpanel Soc 2 Prosperity Public License MailCatcher Ginsu Flex Tape Honeybadger Ful...
Tough Decisions And Drones Wearing Fedoras
April 17, 2020 15:00 - 40 minutes - 76.1 MBShow Notes: Links: Tuple Google Hangouts Jitsi WebRTC Notion Epictetus Sphere Andromeda Strain Stillness is the Key Chopin Honeybadger Full Transcript: Josh: I see we've got doom and gloom on the agenda today. Starr: Oh yeah. I put doom and gloom on the agenda. Ben: It's a good thing you had that reminder that there is doom and gloom, because otherwise we'd forget. Starr: I mean, we do tend to be a little bit flip. Or, by we, I mean me. So, you know- Josh: It's just ...
FounderQuest Clips - Too Hot For Podcast Vol 1
April 10, 2020 15:00 - 16 minutes - 32.8 MBShow Notes: This week on FounderQuest, it's a cutting room floor clips episode. Hear vintage, unreleased clips of episodes that you weren't supposed to hear. Discussions include: 90's software stores, Alan Turing, water heaters, buying top quality spyware dongles from China and even FounderQuest itself! Links: Wish Apple Arcade Bear Day One Babbage’s Usenet Spencer’s Gifts Charles Babbage Alan Turing Naive Bayes What The Golf Nintendo Switch Full Transcript: Ben Findl...
This Is Fine. Settling Into The New Normal.
April 03, 2020 15:00 - 38 minutes - 71.2 MBShow Notes: The world is burning, yet we find ourselves settling into our weird new daily routines. This week Josh, Starr, and Ben discuss the importance of company transparency during a crisis, Tiger King, and, political trigger warning, separating health coverage from employment. Bring your marshmallows, chocolate and crackers! Links: The Witcher 3 Scribendi The Office - Micheal's casual jeans Tiger King Disney+ Animal Crossing – Tom Nook Justin Jackson – Good Businesses Ha...
The Shocking Reason Aliens Haven't Attacked Us...Yet!
March 27, 2020 15:00 - 28 minutes - 53.1 MBThis week on PandemicQuest Josh, Starr and Ben share insider trading tips via the dark web, explain why aliens haven't attacked yet, and their thoughts around starting a SaaS company for hand sanitizer. The truth isn't out there, it's in here! Can you handle it? Links: Kodak Calendar Josh's Investing Blog Post Daddy Daycare Kindergarten Cop Animal Crossing Doom Jack Bogle Full Transcript: Starr: What's today, March 20th? Josh: Yeah. Starr: It stays March 20th for the next ...
Dispatches From Inside The Honey Bunker
March 20, 2020 15:00 - 28 minutes - 51 MBGlove up, mask on, and tune in to this week’s FounderQuest! Starr, Ben and Josh talk hot investing tips now that our 401(k)s are gone, plans for the “Honey Bunker,” pivoting away from remote and back to co-located working, Animal Crossing, hoarding Mucinex, and the Corona vs. Pacifico beer debate is finally settled. Show Notes: Links: Daniel Kahneman Mucinex Animal Crossing Nintendo Switch Jeff Bezos' Regret Minimization Framework Basecamp Splatoon Squad Ground Kontrol Rail...
Founder Life Within The Coronavirus Epicenter
March 13, 2020 15:00 - 39 minutes - 70.4 MBBen, Josh and Starr are transmitting...err...broadcasting from deep within the COVID-19 epicenter on this week's FounderQuest. They talk about life in our brave new COVID-19 World, Tailwind CSS, and reminisce about the old freelancing days in the time of Big Mouth Billy Bass! Show Notes Links: The Social Network Tailwind CSS Themeforest Morpheus Reddit Covid 19 Basecamp Ruby Central Comic-Con Tornado Alley Second Life Team Fortress 2 Tobi at Shopify Stardew Valley Bill...
Welcome To The Land Of Tomorrow
March 06, 2020 16:00 - 27 minutes - 49.2 MBJoin Ben, Starr, and Josh on this week's FounderQuest for a look at our dystopian future. Ben shares the most interesting questions he received while interviewing and the discussion results in the creation of an onboarding manual for time traveling job candidates. Also, Discover which host, like, bought a totally rad pager, like, this month. Beep Beep! Show Notes Links: Pagersdirect.net Pagerduty O’Reilly Safari Full Transcription: Josh: So I think I mentioned a little while ago...
How Long Could Our Company Survive Without Us?
February 28, 2020 16:00 - 31 minutes - 57.7 MBThis week on FounderQuest, Josh, Starr, and Ben hypothesize how long Honeybadger could keep going if they went off the grid given the current pace of tech churn. They also discuss going all-in on COBOL and whether framework trends are actually any different than fashion trends. Get lost in this week's FounderQuest! Show Notes Links: How to Build a Blog in 15 Minutes with Rails Lindy Effect Programming is a Pop Culture Laugh Factory Star Trek Next Generation Bigelow Tea Wallace an...
A Mortal Kombat Rampage for Pole Position on Galaga
February 21, 2020 16:00 - 47 minutes - 53.6 MBThis week Josh, Ben, and Starr talk vintage console games and announce details about Honeybadger's upcoming RailsConf blow out. The episode then pinballs over to dismissing FU money, insights on hiring and more. Hold on to your headphones! Show Notes Links: RailsConf Waza Remus & Romulus SAML DHH Tableau Calendly M Night Syamalan Full Transcription: Josh: It all started with Remus and Romulus, am I right, Ben? Ben: Oh, yes. Josh: Yeah. Starr: Oh my gosh, Remus and Romulus, thos...
Founder Show and Tell
February 14, 2020 20:00 - 43 minutes - 48.5 MBThe honeybadgers have been busy this week! Ben, Josh and Starr each have work that shipped this week that they want to brag on. This episode strides over vast expanses, covering issues like compliance, open-source marketing and content marketing. It all builds up to a big reveal at the end, where we finally announce a new Honeybadger effort: the RailsConf Indie Lounge. Full Transcript: Starr: Can I tell you the nerdiest thing that has ever happened to me, that I've ever done? The ...
FounderQuest Predicts The Future Of Work
February 07, 2020 16:00 - 36 minutes - 39.3 MBIn this episode the Badgers talk about their predictions for the future of work. They also discuss some of the pros and cons to working remotely and how to prevent loneliness. Conveniently enough, Honeybadger is also hiring a JS developer. Learn the secrets of becoming a Honeybadger! Show Links: Job Listing Code[ish] Podcast Buddhism - No Mind Justserve.org Full Transcription: Josh : Speaking of remote controls, I told you about the ridiculous garage door I put on...
Prepare Thyself For When The Tax Man Cometh
January 31, 2020 16:00 - 14 minutes - 16.3 MBBen and Starr have an informal fireside chat about recent tax changes and how to navigate them when running a SaaS company with nationwide sales. Learn about some of the surprising rules some states have around business classifications and why you might have to pay sales tax in one state but not another. Uncle Sam is crashing the internet party, listen and make sure you're prepared! Links: Justin Jackson South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc Avalara Stripe Ian Landsman Write for Honey...
Should You Target Pieces Of Pie Or Whole Enchiladas?
January 24, 2020 16:00 - 54 minutes - 56.7 MBHistory is made this week as FounderQuest welcomes its first ever guest, Justin Jackson, co-founder of Transistor.fm! A debate ensues around whether it's better to build a product for a niche market or target the larger market as a whole. Also, the next time Jeff Bezos corners you with unsolicited advice for your bootstrapped startup, just ignore him. Listen to find out why. Show Notes: Justin Jackson Transistor.fm Mitch Hedberg RightMessage Product Journey podcast Kevin Kelly ...
We Pull Back The Curtain On A Secret Project
January 17, 2020 16:00 - 39 minutes - 45 MBThis week Josh reveals his super secret project that he's been working on and it will...BLOW...YOU...AWAY!!! Just kidding, you and your surroundings are most likely safe but it's pretty darn cool! Want more? The Founders get contrarian and talk about why they sometimes go to the trouble of building tools instead of buying ones that are readily available. They also make a case for using separate apps rather than an all-in-one solution. Ancient viral video fans rejoice and get ready f...
Discovering Our Strengths
January 10, 2020 16:00 - 33 minutes - 37.5 MBIn this episode Josh, Starr, and Ben talk about each of their results from taking the CliftonStrengths assessment and debate the validity of the results. They also discuss if having differing strengths and weaknesses has helped or hindered them working as a team. Show Notes: Links: Macklemore 5 Minute Dungeon Common Sense With Dan Carlin StrengthsFinder StrenghtsFinder 2.0 (book) Cliff Clavin Comparative Advantage Mike Perham Fieldstone Method Myers Briggs What Color i...
Hawaiian Punch And 2020 Resolutions
December 27, 2019 16:00 - 27 minutes - 31.3 MBThe trio is morphing into a duo on this week's episode of FounderQuest, Fireside Chat edition. Ben and Josh talk about their 2020 resolutions, upping their serverless usage, side projects, and holiday plans. Ben also drops a major update from a previous episode. Links: Cliff Mass Weather Blog Continuous Integration (CI) Unicorn Project Phoenix Project Dependabot Jenkins GitHub Actions Buildkite Full transcript: 00:15 This is our first fireside chat with the two o...
The Things We Shipped In 2019
December 20, 2019 16:00 - 46 minutes - 54.2 MBThis week Josh, Ben, and Starr look back at all of the things that Honeybadger shipped in the last 12 months. They also give Apple some free management advice and provide their thoughts on MicroConf's latest announcement. Lastly, will Honeybadger move away from error monitoring and bet its future on textbox applications? Tune in and find out! Links: Exponent Podcast Johny Ive MicroConf Hiring Process FounderQuest episode Fireside Chat FounderQuest episode Dundie Awards Full Transc...
Is It Time For The Big Rewrite?
December 13, 2019 16:00 - 32 minutes - 37.4 MBThis week on FounderQuest Josh, Starr, and Ben talk about the quandary of not knowing how to build something until after you’ve already built it. Therefore, once it's built it can be hard to fight the urge to tear it down and build it again taking into account all of lessons that were learned along the way. The Badgers also imagine a rewrite of Honeybadger using the latest in 90s technology. Trigger warning for Perl developers! Links: Peanuts Christmas special Garfield Christma...
The 2019 Thanksgiving Freestyle Episode
December 06, 2019 16:00 - 19 minutes - 22 MBThe guys throw the show notes out the window and kick it freestyle on this special Thanksgiving episode. All of today’s hard-hitting questions are answered: Dark meat or light meat? Turkey or duck? The warm glow of a fireplace or the warm glow of a database upgrade progress bar? Plus, the guys talk about when to start holiday feature freezes and what Honeybadger is working on/not working on this December. Links: Build Your SaaS podcast capitalism episode Transcript: Ben: For som...
Is Offering A Free Plan Worth The Hassle?
November 29, 2019 16:00 - 31 minutes - 37.2 MBThis week on FounderQuest, the guys talk about their decision to offer a free plan alongside the paid plans for Honeybadger and how it impacted the overall business. Josh is also back shares the hottest of takes from his recent trip to Nashville to attend RubyConf. As usual, the show goes off the rails and talks about flying, Ben’s Eye of Sauron approach to fiscal management and an acquisition strategy based around companies named after honey badgers. Full Transcript: Josh: ...
Is Marketing On Marketplaces Worth It?
November 22, 2019 16:00 - 27 minutes - 32 MBThis week Ben and Starr talk about Honeybadger's efforts using marketplaces to get new business and whether it's worth the development time needed to set them up. They also discuss Honeybadger's participation in the GitHub Student Developer Pack, creating a code of conduct that still allows for free swag, and tease out a special announcement for RailsConf 2020! Links: GitHub Student Developer Pack Seth Goden AWS Marketplace Heroku Marketplace GitHub Marketplace Microconf Rai...
Should You Comply With Compliance?
November 15, 2019 16:00 - 33 minutes - 38 MBOn this week's episode of FounderQuest Josh, Ben, and Starr talk about their Soc 2 and GDPR compliance efforts. They go over the different strategies to handle compliance, the potential costs involved, and discuss if it's worth the time and money. When embarking on their compliance research, the guys also stumbled across some surprising claims companies are using to stretch the truth on actually being compliant. Learn a few of the 50 shades of compliance* that they found. Links: ...
Should You Blow Up Your Backlog?
November 08, 2019 16:00 - 21 minutes - 24.9 MBThis week on FounderQuest the guys weigh in on a recent debate sparked by Jason Fried at Basecamp around the value of backlogs. In short, Fried proports that backlogs cause unnecessary stress and that if an idea will be forgotten about if it isn’t written down, then it probably isn’t important in the first place. Honeybadger does have a pretty significant backlog and some on the team find it more useful than others. Each of the guys discusses how they deal with the backlog, whethe...
How Honeybadger Creates Content
November 01, 2019 15:00 - 22 minutes - 25.9 MBThe guys talk about creating content for Honeybadger and the difficulties switching back and forth from writing prose to writing code. Starr channels his inner Anna Wintour and describes his latest initiative recruiting developers to write guest posts on the blog. Josh talks about his process for writing evergreen content for the newsletter. Links: Leveling Up The Devil Wears Prada Seth Godin Indie Hackers Mastering Ruby Exceptions eBook Full Transcript: Announcer: Hands...
Don't Let Customer Service Crush You
October 25, 2019 15:00 - 34 minutes - 40.2 MBThe guys talk about how they are scaling up their awesome customer service without adding headcount and their journey from email customer support, to chat support, and back to email support. They also discuss how to deal with informational silos and if they should transition Honeybadger to an invite-only luxury brand. Links: Intercom Help Scout Honeybadger Full Transcript: Announcer: Never forget that you have the tools to build a life on your own terms. Forget the hate...
You Know What We Did Last Summer - Season Two Begins!
October 18, 2019 15:20 - 27 minutes - 33.4 MBSeason Two of FounderQuest is upon you! The guys discuss what they did while on summer break, releasing breadcrumbs on Honeybadger and why they help when debugging, launching the new blog, Amazon RDS, and Airwolf! Links: Write for our blog. Full Transcription: Josh: We can't all be book-learned like you star. Starr: Yeah, I'm book smart. Josh: Yeah. Starr: You guys are just the street smart ones. Josh: We just...
We're Going on Summer Vacation!
July 19, 2019 15:00 - 57 seconds - 1.04 MBThe guys are taking a few weeks off from podcasting to enjoy the fleeting Pacific northwest summer. They'll be back in late August or early September, fully rested and ready with hot takes to warm you as summer turns to fall.
To Be Or Not To Be Acquired - That Is The Question
July 12, 2019 15:00 - 37 minutes - 34.2 MBThe guys talk about their experiences with offers to acquire Honeybadger and go over some common structures of acquisition deals (hint - most don’t involve walking a wheelbarrow of money out of your office and never returning). They also chat about things that you should think about if you are presented with an offer to sell your company. Links: GitHub Dependabot Pull Panda Gemnasium Tableau SalesForce Tropical MBA, Before the Exit MicroConf Honeybadger Full Transcript: St...
What Does The Ideal Remote Office Look Like?
July 05, 2019 15:00 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBThis week the guys talk about their office equipment and remote workspaces which range from working in a winery to building a standalone office in a backyard. They also go full old cranky developer mode on the new office paradigms and warn the youths of back issues stemming from working on couches and bean bags. Don't get them started on open floor plans or unassigned desks! Learn what has, and hasn't, worked for each of the guys on their quest for the perfect coding space. Links: ...
How To Gauge Customer Success With An Introverted Customer Base
June 28, 2019 15:00 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MBThe guys answer a listener question about how to ensure customers are happy with your product and how to be proactive in finding out if they aren't. This can be especially difficult if your customers tend to be a little bit introverted...*cough* developers *cough*. Plus Ben reveals the number one reason customers leave Honeybadger! Full Transcript: Starr: 00:00 Yeah. I totally have been playing dumb this whole time as a strategy, 100%. It's not like I don't a...
How to gauge customer success with an introverted customer base.
June 28, 2019 15:00 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MBThe guys answer a listener question about how to ensure customers are happy with your product and how to be proactive in finding out if they aren't. This can be especially difficult if your customers tend to be a little bit introverted...*cough* developers *cough*. Plus Ben reveals the number one reason customers leave Honeybadger!
Are 3rd-party scripts out to get you? CSP to the rescue!
June 21, 2019 15:00 - 27 minutes - 25.8 MBDo you know what the 3rd-party scripts on your website are up to? In this week’s episode of FounderQuest, the guys talk about CSP (Content Security Policy) and how it can enhance security in the browser. They also weigh adding it as a feature of Honeybadger vs. a standalone product. CSP - learn it, live it, love it, on this week's FounderQuest. Full transcript: Josh: 00:00 A middle of the night disruption for Ben, what is that? Like 8:30? Starr: ...
Why Do Developers Get Burned Out?
June 14, 2019 15:00 - 42 minutes - 39 MBRunning a lifestyle business is awesome, contrary to what the VC's say. Figure out your life goals and fit your business to achieve them rather than worrying about 10x-ing. The guys also talk about why developers seem to experience higher rates of burnout than other professions and share their own prevention and coping solutions. Let's FounderQuest! Links: The 'Badger Life Blog Post: https://joshuawood.net/badger-life Full Transcript: Starr: 00:01 I had the v...
If You Aren't Growing, Are You Dying?
June 07, 2019 15:00 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBThe guys talk dissect the "If you're not growing you're dying" aphorism and debate if it has merits or if it should be discarded into the dustbin of history. Do entrepreneurs need to have a winner take all mindset or is it acceptable to be a minor player in a large market? Let's get philosophical on this episode of FounderQuest! Full transcript: Josh: 00:00 I just... I think that Ben could really pull off like a massive... Like if you had a gigantic, like foo...
Chunky Bacon! Let's Geek Out About Early Ruby & Rails.
May 31, 2019 15:00 - 39 minutes - 36.8 MBThe guys chat about the early days of Ruby and Rails and discuss how the developer community has changed from a more individual hacking pursuit to more of a team sport. Ben also talks about his experiences at the very first RailsConf and teaches young whippersnappers about Why The Lucky Stiff, Shoes, Caboose, and Chunky Bacon. Lastly, is BadgerConf morphing from running joke to a reality? Tune in and find out! Full Transcript: Ben: 00:00 All right. Starr: ...
Document & Automate Your Way to a Vacation When Running a Startup
May 24, 2019 15:00 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MBThe guys talk about strategies for creating systems, documentation, and automation to separate yourself from your business so you can hire employees, get it ready for sale, or even take some time off. Balancing good customer service while being efficient with your time is also discussed along with reasons Honeybadger doesn't use automation for customer service. Full Transcript: Starr: 00:01 I probably should have muted that, so you couldn't hear the toilet flu...
Siloing Together, How to Move a Company Forward While Working Independently
May 17, 2019 17:00 - 35 minutes - 32.2 MBTwo part special! In part one, the guys chat about decision making in a siloed company structure and the challenges of making sure everyone is on the same page. That's not all! More details about the secret Honeybadger conclaves are leaked, dirty laundry is aired about the logo scandal that shook the company to its core, and America's favorite Honeybadger is revealed! Full Transcript: Ben: 00:00 Yeah, maybe you want to omit that from the whole thing because ...