After a month hiatus, Brian and Jordan are back with stories about trips, waking up in pain, and prepping for competition. They also talk about growth in terms of profitability versus milestones, the newest developments with ZipMessage, and introducing “common, everyday tools” to people outside of the SaaS community.
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“Growth as headcount as an acceptable growth metric. And the reason for that is if you’re not shooting for
profitability and you’re shooting for milestones.” – Jordan )Powered By the Tweet This) PluginTweet This)
Here are today’s conversation points:
The relationship between founder and VC
Headcount versus profitability as growth
Hiring a recruiter
ZipMessage goals
Prioritizing requests
Setting up new features
Opening it up to the public
The Shipped podcast
Brian’s new technical marketer
Introduction of technology to others
Niche tools
Summit), whiteboards that do math. The easiest way to create, test, and present your logic.
Taming the chaos
“If profitability isn’t the goal on this path (which makes sense), what are the metrics that you’re looking at for the next 12 months or 18 months?” – Brian )Powered By the Tweet This) PluginTweet This)
Mentioned on today’s episode:
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Rally On)
ZipMessage)
SunriseKPI )
Productize )
Audience Ops)
ProcessKit)
Carthook)
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