Stacking The Bricks - Real Entrepreneur Confessions

Are you a procrastinator?Don't feel bad about it - DO something about it.On this show, you’re going to be hearing a short story from my business partner and co-host Amy Hoy admit something....there was a time when she wasn’t so great at shipping. That's right, the author of Just Fucking Ship used to be a serial procrastinator.As she describes, "I could ship work and projects for other people - bosses, clients - but when it came to shipping my own things I was the worst." Amy goes on to describe the sequence of events that snapped her out of her nasty habit and started her down the path of shipping, including the story behind one of her most famous projects http://twistori.com and how it helped her career.This episode is just a tiny excerpt from a longer interview hosted by one of our friends and alumni, Sean Fioritto, who has been writing a series called “Github Ghost-towns” where he’s been talking about all of those side projects that we spin up…and then leave to rot.You know what I’m talking about

We didn't hit our goals (which was mostly our fault).We let deadlines slip, and probably let some people down.Amy got really sick. :(So of course, looking back on 2014 feels like we didn't get all that much done.But when Amy and I sat down and spent an hour going over the stuff we did do...we realized that holy cow, it was a lot.A bit further down on this post, we've put together our comprehensive review of 2014. It's complete with revenue and subscriber numbers, where we have them readily share-able. You'll see that 2014 might not have been as unproductive as we'd felt.After pulling this list together, Amy and I sat down again to talk about how the year went, and talked about the difference between how we felt... and what the facts actually showed.And this time, we recorded that conversation so you can listen in! You can expect more audio stories and conversations like this one in 2015! That'll include interviews with successful bootstrappers (and not just our own students) and more chances like this one to

30x500 Alumni Scott Hurff joins Alex Hillman. They talk about how Scott's approach to building products has changed, and what he's learned from both of his launches.By his own measures, Scott's first product - a technical course for designers wanting to use Quartz Composer - was far from "perfect". But even without perfection, his launch still exceeded his expectations and earned him $10k on launch week.Then, when he improved his launch by incorporating ebombs & our 30x500 launch sequence technique, Scott more than tripled his launch revenue.Also, like a lot of us, money isn't the only motivator. Scott's learned that there's some amazingly good feelings that come from being in the business of helping people succeed.Tune in and learn a whole lot from Scott's experience. Check out his blog at scotthurff.com.This recording originally appeared on UnicornFree.com in an article titled "What if your product launch fails? This interview will give you $10k reasons to do it anyway.": https://uni

30x500 Alumni Pat Maddox joins Alex Hillman. They talk about how Pat used the 30x500 process of Sales Safari and dropping ebombs.Then Pat shares how he ruthlessly followed just three steps every day for 10 days to get from from barely making rent to having over $3000 in MRR from paying customers and over 1000 subscribers on his mailing list.Tune in and learn from Pat. Check out his blog at patmaddox.com.This recording originally appeared on UnicornFree.com in an article titled "From zero to $3k MRR in 10 days, the story of RubySteps": https://unicornfree.com/2014/from-zero-to-3k-mrr-in-10-days-the-story-of-rubysteps See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.