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JR Farr, Lemon Squeezy
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YouTube creator businesses making millions
Make Lemonade
03/01/23 • 31 min
In this episode JR and James discuss some thriving creator businesses and what they’ve been doing right. Especially some of those that have used YouTube to build a brand, then start course or template companies. Seems there is a lot of people focusing on productivity (and Notion) making lots and lots of money.
From student doctors to self proclaimed "productivity geeks", these content creators have leveraged their audiences to make seriously impressive businesses. They aren't all following the same playbook; some are making long form content, others are building their own platforms, but there is lots to learn from each example.
Timestamps:
00:26 - Lemon Squeezy update
03:02 - Ali Abdaal
09:46 - Thomas Frank
15:01 - Johnny Harris
22:12 - Peter Akkies
27:28 - Marie Poulin
29:55 - Outro
As always thanks for being a listener of the Make Lemonade show. Hosted by @jrfarr & @jmckinven— brought to you by LemonSqueezy.com.
If you're looking to sell digital products online, be sure to check out Lemon Squeezy or follow us on Twitter @lmsqueezy
03/29/23 • 51 min
Today JR and James joined by Arvid Kahl, who previously built and sold his SaaS, Feedback Panda, for a life changing amount of money. From then Arvid has made it his mission to help other indie founders build a successful bootstrapped business, through his books Zero to Sold and The Embedded Entrepreneur and also his weekly blog, newsletter and podcast, The Bootstrapped Founder.
In this episode we talk all about how Arvid motivates himself to show up to write content every week, the economics behind a creator business and why he doesn’t just build another SaaS.
Timestamps:
03:49 Arvid's backstory
06:25 Writing Zero to Sold
11:54 Life after exiting your company
13:23 What's it like writing a book
16:41 Thinking in decades
19:05 Would Arvid start another SaaS?
22:42 Hiring external help
24:32 Recording interviews vs solo podcasts
28:25 The business side of The Bootstrapped Founder
34:55 Finding purpose post-acquisition
36:51 Funding vs Bootstrapping
43:01 Arvid's thoughts on the Great Gumroad Migration
48:19 Arvid's reading list
As always thanks for being a listener of the Make Lemonade show. Hosted by @jrfarr & @jmckinven— brought to you by LemonSqueezy.com.
If you're looking to sell digital products online, be sure to check out Lemon Squeezy or follow us on Twitter @lmsqueezy
Rob Walling talks life after an exit, alternative founder funding and why he writes books
Make Lemonade
12/21/23 • 66 min
Today we’re joined by Rob Walling, an entrepreneur with his most notable exit being Drip in 2016. Rob also founded MicroConf, started TinySeed and is the host of the Startups for the Rest of Us podcast, which has over 690 episodes having started in 2010. He’s also written 4 books, Start Small Stay Small, Start Marketing the Day You Start Coding, The Entrepreneurs Guide to Keeping Your Shit Together and most recently, The SaaS Playbook.
In this episode we discuss a myriad of topics in bootstrapping and business, including life after exits, why Rob feels compelled to write books, his most successful angel investment and if he would invest in Lemon Squeezy today.
Timestamps
- 00:00 Intro
- 05:12 Selling Drip & Mojo
- 14:11 How Rob splits his time
- 17:55 Why Rob writes books
- 22:21 Collaborating with a significant other
- 25:31 What does Rob do for fun?
- 28:27 How to make time for hobbies
- 30:54 TinySeed
- 40:20 Why Lemon Squeezy didn't raise funding
- 44:06 Gumroad price rise
- 49:03 Multiple projects vs focus
- 54:38 Building a marketplace
- 58:59 Rob's advice to JR about Lemon Squeezy
- 01:02:22 Would Rob invest in Lemon Squeezy?
- 01:02:58 Suggestions for Rob's 700th episode
As always thanks for being a listener of the Make Lemonade show. Hosted by @jrfarr & @jmckinven— brought to you by LemonSqueezy.com.
If you're looking to sell digital products online, be sure to check out Lemon Squeezy or follow us on Twitter @lmsqueezy.
04/19/24 • 59 min
Simon is the founder of Better Creating, a business he started in 2020 geared towards simplifying productivity and finding the best ideas tools and tech to help people create the life they want. His YouTube channel has over 130,000 subscribers, where he makes tutorials, tech reviews and more. Simon is another creator who has gone deep on Notion, building a second brain and many other systems that he sells as templates. Today we’re going to find out what it’s like being a full-time creator and why the Notion ecosystem is booming still in 2024.
Links
- Better Creating YouTube Channel
- Simon’s Notion Templates
- The Generalist Co
- How to make your first 5 hires podcast
James Recommendations
JR Recommendations
- Charlie Munger handbook
- Hard Thing About Hard Things
- Erik Anders Lang (Adventures in Golf)
- Cirque Du Soleil
Simon Recommendations
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
- Anything You Want (James has some spare copies of this. DM him if you’d like a copy for free)
- Into the Woods
- Scott Yu-Jan
- Sleep No More
Timestamps
- 00:00 Intro
- 01:15 From theatre director to content creator
- 05:47 Choosing to make content not based on his career
- 07:36 Staying consistent creating content as a side project
- 12:47 Making money with small audiences
- 22:38 Keeping up a production schedule
- 24:53 The Notion template business
- 27:07 Are Notion templates a waste of time?
- 31:38 Is the template space too crowded?
- 34:53 Platform risk building on top of Notion
- 38:54 Coming up with template ideas
- 41:58 How to price Notion templates
- 45:27 Building a team
- 54:41 Book, YouTube and Theatre recommendations
As always thanks for being a listener of the Make Lemonade show. ...
Is YouTube going to kill the audio podcast? A conversation with Justin Jackson of Transistor.fm
Make Lemonade
01/18/24 • 46 min
Today we’re joined by Justin Jackson, co-founder of Transistor.fm, a podcast hosting platform that hosts over 27,000 podcasts. Justin has bootstrapped the business since 2018 and has used it to build a better life for himself and his employees. In this episode we discuss if video is essential for podcasts in 2024, is YouTube going to kill off the audio podcast? And we also touch on how Justin is taking the slow and steady approach to building Transistor.
Timestamps
- 00:00 Intro
- 00:55 Should you invest in a video podcast?
- 12:35 Can friction be a good thing?
- 16:41 Are we past peak podcasting?
- 23:43 What is the new north star for Transistor?
- 27:50 Finding different motivations
- 31:46 Building a business that you love
- 39:17 Would Justin sell Transistor?
As always thanks for being a listener of the Make Lemonade show. Hosted by @jrfarr & @jmckinven— brought to you by LemonSqueezy.com.
If you're looking to sell digital products online, be sure to check out Lemon Squeezy or follow us on Twitter @lmsqueezy.
02/15/24 • 38 min
Today we’re joined by Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel. A cloud platform that has built pioneering technology, including the Next.js framework for React. Their most recent funding round was a $150m Series D at a whopping $2.5b valuation back in 2021, to give you a sense of the size of the company.
This is an exciting episode, as it comes shortly after Guillermo announced that Vercel are partnering with Lemon Squeezy to build the world’s fastest checkout. So naturally, we had to get him on the podcast to discuss how exactly we’re going to achieve this.
Timestamps:
- 00:00 Intro
- 01:11 Partnering with Lemon Squeezy to build the world's fastest checkout
- 11:09 Being inspired by Wordpress' open source approach
- 15:11 Coming up with the idea for Next.js
- 21:07 Are there any disadvantages to the open source model?
- 25:04 Vercel's founding story
- 28:58 Pivotal moments in Vercel's growth
- 33:03 Anti Next.js sentiment
- 36:45 What G is excited about in the future for Vercel
As always thanks for being a listener of the Make Lemonade show. Hosted by @jrfarr & @jmckinven— brought to you by LemonSqueezy.com.
If you're looking to sell digital products online, be sure to check out Lemon Squeezy or follow us on Twitter @lmsqueezy.
03/10/22 • 45 min
As always thanks for being a listener of the Make Lemonade show. Hosted by @jrfarr — brought to you by LemonSqueezy.com.
If you're looking to sell digital products online, be sure to check out Lemon Squeezy or follow us on Twitter @lmsqueezy
08/19/22 • 36 min
In today's episode, I sit down with Simon Rohrbach, the Co-Founder & CEO of Plain.com — CS without the BS. Previously, Simon led design at Deliveroo and was the entrepreneur in residence at Index Ventures.
There's something to be said about building products within "nonsexy" categories. For example, customer service. When it comes to customer service solutions, not much has changed in the past decade.
Plain.com hopes to bring something fresh when it comes to the customer service tools that exist today.
In short, Plain is building the Stripe for customer service. The product is a customer service tool but with context. Their focus has been around making it easy for engineering teams easily integrate into their existing workflow.
Follow Simon:
As always thanks for being a listener of the Make Lemonade show. Hosted by @jrfarr — brought to you by LemonSqueezy.com.
If you're looking to sell digital products online, be sure to check out Lemon Squeezy or follow us on Twitter @lmsqueezy
The Great Gumroad Migration and Trends for 2023
Make Lemonade
02/23/23 • 42 min
The Make Lemonade podcast is back with a fresh new format. We’re going co-hosted, meaning co-founder J.R. is going to be joined each week by James McKinven (you might have heard his voice on the Indie Bites podcast).
Some episodes we'll be riffing on some topics, other times we’ll interview some of the best creators and entrepreneurs around and, finally, we’ll bring you some juicy behind the scenes content of how we’re squeezing those Lemons here at Lemon Squeezy.
This episode, we discuss how the Lemon Squeezy team have been capitalising on people looking to switch from Gumroad since made a huge pricing change, the trends creators should consider for 2023 and highlight an impressive course pre-sale.
Timestamps:
01:06 - The great Gumroad migration
11:56 - Merchant of record and taxes
18:30 - Lemon Squeezy hires
22:26 - Trends for creators
36:54 - Creator spotlight: Brett Williams
As always thanks for being a listener of the Make Lemonade show. Hosted by @jrfarr & @jmckinven— brought to you by LemonSqueezy.com.
If you're looking to sell digital products online, be sure to check out Lemon Squeezy or follow us on Twitter @lmsqueezy
04/14/22 • 31 min
Here's a list of ways to connect with Laura Eddy:
Twitter: @typeheist
Websites: Laura Eddy, Typeheist, Haunts.
(1:45) favorite type of design
(2:58) where does inspiration come from
(3:45) how long does it take to design a font
(8:11) favorite design tools
(9:29) design & development experience
(11:40) balancing work and side-hustles
(15:52) reading to learn
(17:39) getting started in font design
(20:15) advice and wrapping up
As always thanks for being a listener of the Make Lemonade show. Hosted by @jrfarr — brought to you by LemonSqueezy.com.
If you're looking to sell digital products online, be sure to check out Lemon Squeezy or follow us on Twitter @lmsqueezy
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FAQ
How many episodes does Make Lemonade have?
Make Lemonade currently has 52 episodes available.
What topics does Make Lemonade cover?
The podcast is about Entrepreneurship, Ecommerce, Podcasts, Entrepreneurs, Digital Marketing and Business.
What is the most popular episode on Make Lemonade?
The episode title 'Lemonhead: Are you building or capturing an audience?' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Make Lemonade?
The average episode length on Make Lemonade is 38 minutes.
How often are episodes of Make Lemonade released?
Episodes of Make Lemonade are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of Make Lemonade?
The first episode of Make Lemonade was released on Feb 24, 2022.
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