Talking Businessly
We (John and Daniel) are co-founders of a small software development agency. This is a recording of our weekly "state of the company" call where we discuss the nitty gritty details of running our business day-to-day.
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- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 53 minutes
- Episodes
- 75
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
15: What kind of clients we do (and don't) want
We reflect on a problem with a client. Then we discuss the importance of learning new patterns, adopting new tools, and sticking to conventions.
14: Monday morning baseball
After a scheduling snafu, we needed to use our recording slot to have our weekly check-in with Jacob. This is our regular roundup of clients, plus some pleasantries and goofs.
13: Launching Verbs at Laracon AU
Daniel is jetlagged after returning from Sydney, where he launched Verbs at Laracon AU.
We talk about the launch, talk about John's Kickstarter for Colossi, and do a quick catchup on our OKRs.
12: Colossi + Verbs (it's shill day)
You can buy John's game on Kickstarter right now!
Daniel's new event sourcing package Verbs is nearly complete, and John loves it. Join us as we spend 40 minutes gassing each other up.
11: Trust issues
We do some bits. We talk about good practices while pair programming. Then we wonder if product development processes primarily exist to compensate for trust issues. High trust environments are the o…
10: Daniel is Going to Laracon AU!
- John is tanking a lot of bureaucracy
- Daniel is writing a LOT of code
- Daniel is going to Laracon Australia
- We discuss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgV6M1LyfNY
9: The Dawn of The Pricing Saga
According to ChatGPT we discussed:
- Mentoring and meetings
- Age discussion
- Product management
- Splitting time between two companies
- Home inspector conference in Atlantic City
- Billing strategies
- Different prici…
8: Progress!
We catch up as usual, and check in on the state of all our goals.
7: Our Great Shame
On this episode we dig deep and do a post-mortem on a messy wrap-up to a client engagement.
Our key takeaways:
- Overcommunicate
- Overcommunicate some more
6: How Thunk Will Die
This episode is late because of an interesting process breakdown.
- Verbs Vacation
- A New "vision-mission-value"
- The Pre-Mortem
5: Empanelling Aaron Francis
Aaron Francis (@aarondfrancis) officially joins Thunk's panel of mentors! Aaron gives John feedback on his blogs, and provides LOADS of good ideas for how to improve it and grow the audience.
4: Who Are Your Guys?
Who are our guys?
We run through a list of potential panelists for our panel of mentors and discuss what it would event look like to empanel them.
3: The Sales Funnel is Working
- John's game Colossi is almost ready
- The sales funnel is working
- Max is having a hard one
- We've made progress on our goals
- This is not the episode about hiring a mentor
2: Vision, Mission, Values
- We have glowing feedback for each other
- Daniel's blog feedback made the blog a lot better
- Getting creative with business development tactics
- We discuss the company's Vision, Mission, and Values
1: The FG Scale
- Daniel has feedback on John's blog posts.
- Why do feedback? Why is it so painful?
- The "FG Scale"
- Does Jacob feel empowered to give us feedback?
- Should we keep our docs in Slab?
- Why set goals? What are…