We're the small team with a big passion for turning ideas into real products. We're the first step in making your product real and focused on connecting you with your first paying customers. We've launched products in retail, education, manufacturing, finance, and more. We've partnered with everyone from startups to Fortune 500 companies to take that next step and build something new. Our biggest success stories are when we team up with a founder with an innovative idea and a lot of enthusiasm.
Erick and Josh talk about big ideas, companies that are winning and those that aren’t, and current events in the crazy world of software startups.
Josh and Erick talk with a master of SaaS marketing, Sujan Patel! He touches on the topics of understanding what your customers value, growth from word of mouth, and making sure you hire the right people for your team.
Learn more about Mail Shake here: https://mailshake.com/
Learn more about Sujan here: https://sujanpatel.com/
Our friend and founder of Tellwell, Max Kringen, is our guest on this week’s episode. Max talks about the importance of brand messaging and making sure your persona online matches what you’re doing in real life. Erick also asks about the origins of a certain Tellwell muppet.
Learn more about Tellwell here: https://wetellwell.com/
Special guest Nick Horob discusses Harvest Profit, his business that offers business software to grain farmers. How ghost equity works for employees at Harvest Profit, how true stock options work, and deciding which feature requests need to be made are just a few of the topics discussed in this episode. Josh and Erick take a moment in the postshow to share their thoughts about the discussion with Nick.
Learn more about Harvest Profit here: https://www.harvestprofit.com/
Steve Young of App Masters is our special guest this week to discuss marketing your app! Josh, Erick, and Steve chat about the importance of focusing on the main feature that will set your idea apart. Having a narrow target audience and being able to have people understand your pitch in a few words are two other important topics covered in this episode. Josh and Erick also chat more in the postshow about what Steve discussed.
Learn more about Steve and App Masters here: https://appmasters.com/
Josh and Erick focus this week’s episode on the importance of keeping your team connected during crisis situations. They discuss how Codelation has been trying to keep our teams connected while working remote through business update videos, conference calls, etc.
In this week’s episode, intern Maddy asks Erick about his thoughts on Nintendo’s Animal Crossing New Horizons. Erick shares his daily tasks in the game, his goal to swipe up the tarantulas, and his hatred for Muffy the sheep. Erick also gives the game his own rating!
Marketing intern Maddy Boecker is our guest on this week’s episode to discuss Animal Crossing New Horizons for the Nintendo Switch. Erick asks questions about the game and how Maddy would rate it. Next week after Erick has had time to play we’ll see how he likes the game as well!
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