Business of Software Podcast
Business & Economics Podcasts
Business of Software is a place that brings together the brightest minds and greatest practitioners in software into one place. World-Class software leaders such as Joel Spolsky, Gail Goodman, Seth Godin, DHH, Dharmesh Shah, & Kathy Sierra come to teach everything except the code in how to scale great software companies that stay profitable in the long term. Expect the latest thinking and fresh perspectives from some of the world's leading software practitioners. Stay up to date and hear about new talks, videos, podcasts and conference updates. http://businessofsoftware.org/updates
Location:
United Kingdom
Description:
Business of Software is a place that brings together the brightest minds and greatest practitioners in software into one place. World-Class software leaders such as Joel Spolsky, Gail Goodman, Seth Godin, DHH, Dharmesh Shah, & Kathy Sierra come to teach everything except the code in how to scale great software companies that stay profitable in the long term. Expect the latest thinking and fresh perspectives from some of the world's leading software practitioners. Stay up to date and hear about new talks, videos, podcasts and conference updates. http://businessofsoftware.org/updates
Twitter:
@bosconference
Language:
English
Episodes
Ep 115 Autobooks Connecting Sales with Marketing (with Derik Sutton and Kyle Bazzy)
8/9/2023
In our upcoming BoS USA conference in Raleigh NC on 2-4 October, we're doing a really interesting afternoon digging into a case study with the great folks at Autobooks. Mark sits down with to of the four Autobookers taking to the stage in the fall to discuss connecting sales with marketing. Happy listening!
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Duration:00:42:34
Ep. 114 How to Hire an Agency (with Lucy Heskins)
5/16/2023
Mark Littlewood talks to Oh Blimey's founder Lucy Heskins about how you can/should hire an agency.
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Duration:00:37:39
Ep 113: Mergers and Acquisitions (with Christopher Moore)
11/16/2022
Quiet Light knows how to help SaaS founders like you to get the best value and deal terms for selling the business on. Christopher Moore joins Mark for a chat about the market for SaaS and Software companies.
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Duration:00:36:21
Ep 112 Are You Recession Ready?
10/11/2022
Jason Cohen of WP Engine fame introduced Mark to Jonathan Slain at Recession.com earlier this year. He and the WP Engine team work with Jonathan and found he is a pretty interesting guy. We invited him on the podcast to discuss how SaaS and software companies can prepare for, and take advantage of, a recession.
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Duration:00:41:42
Ep 111 JTBD in your Copy (with Claire Suellentrop)
6/28/2022
Typically, when software companies write up their homepage, features page, or pricing page, they use messages and words their internal team is accustomed to using – but often, those words mean very little to their customers, users or prospects. Then they wonder why it’s so hard to acquire new customers.
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Duration:00:25:36
Ep 110 The Lost Art of Meaningful Content (with Dave Collins)
6/14/2022
Stand up against the pointless content that only distracts or overwhelms you, with Dave Collins
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Duration:00:53:47
Ep 109 Customer Centered Innovation (with Tony Ulwick)
6/7/2022
What are your customers trying to achieve, and how can you help them get there? Simple questions, but creating a disciplined approach to uncovering and capturing the answers is a huge step forward for your business.
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Duration:00:44:08
Ep 108 - Things I Wish I’d Known Before Selling My SaaS Business (with Jon Hainstock)
5/31/2022
Mark Littlewood talks to Quiet Light's Jon Hainstock about selling a SaaS Business.
Meet the Quiet Light team at Business of Softwares ONLINE Jobs to be Done Conf on 8 June and at the IN-PERSON conf in Boston, MA on 26-28 September 2022
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Duration:00:44:03
Ep 107 A BoS Conf Retrospective (with Steve McLeod & Joe Leech)
5/24/2022
Joe's website: https://mrjoe.uk/
Joe on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrjoe
Steve's company, Feature Upvote: https://featureupvote.com/
Steve's podcast: https://bootstrapped.fm/
Steve on Twitter: https://twitter.com/steveofmcleod
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Duration:00:29:36
Ep 106 Strategy and Making Progress (with Bob Moesta & April Dunford)
5/17/2022
BoS Online Fall 2021 started with a conversation on Jobs to be Done and marketing with April Dunford and Bob Moesta.
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Duration:00:35:08
Ep 105 Allyship (with B. Pagels-Minor)
5/10/2022
In this talk, B Pagels-Minor will help you understand a little bit more what allyship might look like and how you can actually be a great ally in your workplace.
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Duration:00:56:18
Ep 104 Setting up your business for a successful sale with FE International's Thomas Smale
5/3/2022
FE International works with founders and business owners to value, exit plan and ultimately sell their businesses on the best terms. FE uses hundreds of thousands of internal data points, accumulated from over a decade of successful exits to market and position businesses to the right buyers from day one.
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Duration:00:54:13
Ep 103 Mapping the Future of your Business with Simon Wardley
4/26/2022
In this talk from our Online Spring Conference in 2021, Simon Wardley walks us through how Wardley mapping helps you to understand where your business is, identify opportunities and threats to its existence, make plans for the future and, gameplay the routes to getting to where you want to be. It is a powerful tool to inform your strategy and monitor your progress.
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Duration:00:58:10
Ep 102 The Three Mistakes That Defined Our Company (with Chris Savage)
3/15/2022
Explore the good, the bad, and the downright dangerous as Wistia's Chris Savage talks about the three mistakes he and co-founder Brendan Schwartz learned from whilst building Wisita.
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Duration:00:46:01
Ep 101 Impossible Outcomes (with Bruce McCarthy)
3/8/2022
In this session, Bruce will walk you through the cultures and practices of these organisations and help you think about how to tackle the big, scary challenges in your organisation with a few examples where the right vision, team, and plan have led to winning formulas.
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Duration:00:42:11
Ep 100 The Pros and Cons of Setting Your Own Goals (with Sahil Lavingia)
2/22/2022
Sahil Lavingia discusses why and how he runs Gumroad with no full time employees, no meetings, no deadlines and no company perks.
NB, This was a talk that polarized opinions
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Duration:01:03:28
Ep 99 The Effort:Experience Ratio (with Ruth Everard)
2/15/2022
You will learn how to prioritise your goals and achievements in all aspects of your life by weighing up the effort necessary against the experience to be gained in pursuing them with more everyday, mainstream, examples.
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Duration:00:15:07
Ep 98 Positioning Jujitsu (with April Dunford)
2/1/2022
In this talk you will learn how to:
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Duration:00:57:26
Ep 97 Building an Accidental Business (with Cesar Kuriyama)
1/25/2022
Cesar worked in advertising before leaving it all behind to pursue his own personal creative endeavours; among them a personal project – 1SecondEveryday.
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Duration:01:07:46
Ep 96 Lessons learned in 2021
1/18/2022
We are back for another year!
To kick us off, BoS's own Mark Littlewood joins Kirk for a discussion about what he has learned and will take away from 2021.
Don't forget to sig up for the BoS newsletter and get regular updates about new events and talks at businessofsoftware.org/update
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Duration:00:33:22