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2026 1

  1. The future of creator businesses isn’t more AI features

2025 1

  1. Y(our) SaaS startup is obsolete

2024 14

  1. Podia is 10 years old today
  2. Marketing has become bloated
  3. Product depth
  4. Startup mode
  5. Turn off your camera
  6. I worked out for 100 days in a row
  7. Getting back to the basics
  8. Your website should not do anything more than this
  9. My lightly informed thoughts on AI
  10. A small company with big profits
  11. Podia powers my personal brand
  12. Netflix should raise prices
  13. High performers shouldn’t over-optimize
  14. Urgency

2023 4

  1. Longevity
  2. My sabbatical
  3. No PM, no problem: how we ship great products fast
  4. Platforms are for Suckers, Part 2

2022 5

  1. SaaS products today are worse than ever
  2. Unreliable people
  3. What’s not being said about the layoffs happening in tech right now
  4. Months, Quarters, and Years
  5. If you want to be the best, never settle for second place

2021 2

  1. Today’s goals don’t matter
  2. The easiest way to kill your successful company

2019 4

  1. What to expect when your team grows from 10 to 20 people
  2. Podia’s product process
  3. As the size of your team changes, so must processes
  4. Doubling down on your strengths

2018 4

  1. 100 small things
  2. Startup advice you haven't heard before
  3. What makes Podia special
  4. Your competitors don't matter

2017 9

  1. Big news: Coach is now Podia
  2. Innovation takes time (but it’s worth it)
  3. It’s impossible to not work hard
  4. What a week working at Podia looks like
  5. Bootstrapping vs. Raising Money
  6. 3 ways to deliver the best customer support
  7. No more second guessing yourself
  8. Why I started Podia
  9. Why it’s hard to say what you mean

2016 6

  1. Sunsetting popular features
  2. Perseverance pays off
  3. The KPI you haven’t considered yet
  4. Being a solo founder
  5. How to write a perfect investor update
  6. Announcing Podia 1.0 - my newest startup

2015 3

  1. A Step-by-Step Guide to User Research
  2. Why Entrepreneurs are Scared of Talking to Users
  3. A New Company

2014 8

  1. How Happiness Affects Work
  2. Sweat The Product by The Numbers
  3. Announcing Sweat The Product
  4. Building a Landing Page for Sales
  5. Prioritizing Your Product Features
  6. The Domain Market is a Mess
  7. Trials and Tribulations of the New Uncover
  8. Where Have You Been?

2013 15

  1. Follow Your Heart
  2. Do Things That Don't Scale: An Uncover Example
  3. I'm Writing a Book
  4. What I've Learned Since Releasing Uncover
  5. Building for the Enterprise
  6. The Pros and Cons of Iterative Development
  7. Sales or Die
  8. How to Get Your First Customer
  9. Just Launch
  10. Introducing Uncover
  11. I Sold My First Code
  12. Startup Launch Checklist
  13. Programming Resources
  14. The State of Human Resources
  15. Why and When to Learn to Program

2012 1

  1. From Business Guy to Programmer

2011 10

  1. Startups: Stress and Depression
  2. Show. Don't Tell.
  3. Leaving Carbonmade
  4. Ways to Acquire Users for Free
  5. Bootstrap Marketing
  6. Startup vs. Company
  7. Hiring for a Boostrapped Company
  8. Carbonmade: 2010 in Review
  9. On Focus
  10. Building the Trunk, First

2010 21

  1. What's A Non-Programmer To Do? (Advanced)
  2. Case Study: Carbonmade's Migration
  3. A Day at Carbonmade
  4. Down With Social
  5. Idea Shaping
  6. On Writing
  7. Freemium Model
  8. Platforms are for Suckers
  9. Under the Radar
  10. How to Bootstrap
  11. How to Network
  12. Ready, FIRE! Aim Guest Lecture
  13. Attracting Normals
  14. Carbonmade's Progress Page
  15. Passive Income
  16. Updating Carbonmade's Finances
  17. Good Sportsmanship
  18. Carbonmade: A Year In Review
  19. Stressed Out
  20. New Responsibilities in 2010
  21. Disclosing Your Finances

2009 12

  1. Life Plan
  2. Picking Your Co-Founders
  3. Building Blocks
  4. Carbonmade's First Hire
  5. Work Without Borders
  6. Are You An Entrepreneur?
  7. Three's Company
  8. Story Time With Carbonmade
  9. Finding the Needles in the Haystack
  10. What's A Non-Programmer To Do?
  11. 100,000 Users And So Can You
  12. Let's Be Friends