16. Catching Up, Time Boxing, and Leveling Up with A New Hire!

05/30/23 • 35 min

This episode is an off-the-cuff one where we decided to do an update on both Nathan and Laura's current state of affairs. We ended up talking about a couple of really interesting topics ranging from managing your time to making your first full-time hire.

We cover:

How Nathan's doing after his move into a new apartment
The challenges that come with managing your time when you're in different seasons of life (spoiler: every season has its own issues!)
What time-boxing is and how Nathan is going to experiment with it to see if he can balance client work with growing his business
Laura's big update: how she hired her first full-time employee (!)
Musings about why in-person everything seems to work better – even for introverts

I (Laura) mentioned a couple of episodes of the Diary of a CEO podcast. If anyone wants to give them a listen, here they are:

We cover:

How Nathan's doing after his move into a new apartment
The challenges that come with managing your time when you're in different seasons of life (spoiler: every season has its own issues!)
What time-boxing is and how Nathan is going to experiment with it to see if he can balance client work with growing his business
Laura's big update: how she hired her first full-time employee (!)
Musings about why in-person everything seems to work better – even for introverts

I (Laura) mentioned a couple of episodes of the Diary of a CEO podcast. If anyone wants to give them a listen, here they are:

Previous Episode

15. Finding product market fit and 12 months to failure for Nathan's SaaS

In this episode we delve into finding product market fit as a solo, non-tech founder – preferably as early and with as little up-front investment as possible.

We cover:

What exactly product market fit is – and how we define it
The three stages to determining product market fit (market research, creating an MVP, and looking for signs of traction)
How we think about product market fit for Client Portal and Feature Flux
Subtle signs that might indicate that you don't have product market fit (even if everyone is saying that you do)
Key considerations that every solo founder should keep in mind when determining product market fit
The least risky (but not necessarily fastest) way to build a SaaS with product market fit

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17. Our top tips for Becoming a Non-Tech Founder (and the Future of this Podcast)

Today's episode is a summary of our top advice on becoming a non-tech founder in this developer-dominated world.

We also cover an update on Laura's WordCamp EU experience and share some news about the future of this podcast.

We cover:

Laura's first WordCamp EU experience and overcoming fears about public speaking
Why Laura thinks non-tech founders should go audience first when launching a product
Nathan's tips on the importance of finding product-market fit and testing EARLY
Our views on bringing on a technical co-founder vs. going it alone
The question of building a product based on an existing company (e.g. an extension) and whether it's worth it
Some news about the future of this podcast

This episode is sponsored by Nusii, online proposal software.