Ben does pretty much a straight rant podcast today. He talks a little bit of tech, recipes for success, and his general dissatisfaction with Agile zealots.
Ben welcomes Sara B. to the podcast for a spirited story about Swedish girls and dank basements. Sara tells of a chainsaw murderer, and today’s business idea, SceneBuddy, is met with a mixed reaction by Sara at first, but she eventually decides that it passes muster.
Ben spends podcast #15 talking about the importance of owning your problem. He talks about a business idea submitted by a listener, Marc H., who has an idea for an independent sales representative network: SaleStorm. He also talks about his girlfriend. Again.
Ben spends today’s podcast talking about his in-house framework, and how he’d turn it into a paid service named AppBuildr. He discusses differences in frameworks, why he was motivated to build his own, and even goes into some nitty gritty detail about languages vs. frameworks. Finally, enjoy listening to Ben rant about programming tests.
Ben’s hyped up on sugar today, but it’s a special podcast anyway. Ben features his first idea that came from someone else: Text-o-War! Ben talks about iTunes stats and distribution numbers.
Ben introduces Deborah Christobol to help host today’s podcast. Together, they talk about hair dye and highlights, and Ben invents a hair dye assistant tool right there on the podcast. Then he proceeds to recap his motorcycle jacket theft experience and his solution to it: PerpAlert.
Ben opens today with some new podcast equipment and a wandering story about hair highlights and stolen motorcycle jackets. He talks about looking like a novice when you’re new to biking. Finally, Ben introduces today’s concept: a system for finding and recovering your stolen goods called NoFences.
Ben opens today’s podcast explaining that this podcast is a series in a case study of a bootstrapping journey. He talks about rough mixes, and then dumps a bunch of stuff off his list of things to talk about. He rounds out the podcast with today’s idea: ChumpAlert.
Ben opens this time, pretty excited, and talks about banking podcats. He introduces the Launchpoint concept again, and reviews the idea of making a big study out of the podcast archive. He invites all the listeners to see how the podcast matures over the bootstrap phase. He rants on the value of an idea vs. execution, and then invites listeners to submit their ideas for podcast fodder. He ends with an inspirational rant about Coastal Living and Entrepreneur magazines.
Ben uses today’s podcast to explain in a little more detail how the Launchpoint process works, and how this series of podcasts is going to serve as a case study about Launchpoint. He talks about the importance of market timing, customer timing, and sticking to your pure vision. He finishes the podcast talking about SmartCam, the intelligent multicamera video recording system.