The whole Transistor team got together for a retreat in Montréal. Jon, Justin, Helen, and Jason chat about the experience.<ul>
<li>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/buildyoursaas">@buildyoursaas</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/mijustin">@mijustin</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/jonbuda">@jonbuda</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/jsonperl">@jsonpearl</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/helenryles">@helenryles</a>
</li>
<li>Leave a review/comment <a href="https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/build-your-saas-bootstrap-in-2-636493">on Podchaser</a>; it's like Reddit, but for podcasts.</li>
<li>Email us: support@transistor.fm</li>
</ul>Thanks to our monthly supporters:<ol>
<li>Jason Charnes</li>
<li>Mitchell Davis from <a href="http://recruitkit.com.au/">RecruitKit.com.au</a>
</li>
<li>Marcel Fahle, ​​<a href="https://wearebold.af/">wearebold.af</a>
</li>
<li>Alex Payne</li>
<li>Bill Condo</li>
<li>Anton Zorin from <a href="https://www.prodcamp.com/">ProdCamp.com</a>
</li>
<li>Harris Kenny, <a href="https://introcrm.com/podcast/">Intro CRM podcast</a>
</li>
<li>Oleg Kulyk</li>
<li>Ethan Gunderson</li>
<li>Ward Sandler, <a href="https://www.memberspace.com/">Memberspace</a>
</li>
<li>Russell Brown, <a href="https://photivo.com/">Photivo.com</a>
</li>
<li>Noah Prail</li>
<li>Colin Gray</li>
<li>Austin Loveless</li>
<li>Michael Sitver</li>
<li>Paul Jarvis and Jack Ellis, <a href="https://usefathom.com/ref/EJPZOB">Fathom</a>
</li>
<li>Dan Buda</li>
<li>Darby Frey</li>
<li>Adam DuVander</li>
<li>Dave Giunta (JOOnta)</li>
<li>Kyle Fox <a href="https://www.getrewardful.com/?via=justin">GetRewardful.com</a>
</li>
<li>Check out Simon and Volkan’s new bootstrappers podcast: <a href="https://shipsaasfaster.com/">https://shipsaasfaster.com/</a> 
</li>
</ol> Want to start a podcast on Transistor? Justin has a special coupon for you: get 15% off your first year of hosting: <a href="https://transistor.fm/justin">transistor.fm/justin</a>
 
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The whole Transistor team got together for a retreat in Montréal. Jon, Justin, Helen, and Jason chat about the experience.

The gang goes to Montréal

It's the <a href="https://transistor.fm/anniversary/">fourth anniversary</a> of Transistor's public launch! This is part 2 of "Jon and Justin answer your questions."<ul>
<li>00:37 - When did you start paying yourself how much you wanted to make?</li>
<li>01:39 - Any broad advice for startups?</li>
<li>11:43 - How did you decide on your tech stack?</li>
<li>14:21 - How did you prioritize features?</li>
<li>15:54 - Were you embarrassed by the first version you shipped?</li>
<li>17:53 - How did you decide on pricing?</li>
<li>21:12 - How would you have found employees without your network?</li>
<li>27:30 - Do you have more or less freedom or stress in your lives?</li>
</ul>What should we talk about next?<ul>
<li>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/buildyoursaas">@buildyoursaas</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/mijustin">@mijustin</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/jonbuda">@jonbuda</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/jsonperl">@jsonpearl</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/helenryles">@helenryles</a>
</li>
<li>Leave a review/comment <a href="https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/build-your-saas-bootstrap-in-2-636493">on Podchaser</a>; it's like Reddit, but for podcasts.</li>
<li>Email us: support@transistor.fm</li>
</ul>Thanks to our monthly supporters:<ol>
<li>Jason Charnes</li>
<li>Mitchell Davis from <a href="http://recruitkit.com.au/">RecruitKit.com.au</a>
</li>
<li>Marcel Fahle, ​​<a href="https://wearebold.af/">wearebold.af</a>
</li>
<li>Alex Payne</li>
<li>Bill Condo</li>
<li>Anton Zorin from <a href="https://www.prodcamp.com/">ProdCamp.com</a>
</li>
<li>Harris Kenny, <a href="https://introcrm.com/podcast/">Intro CRM podcast</a>
</li>
<li>Oleg Kulyk</li>
<li>Ethan Gunderson</li>
<li>Ward Sandler, <a href="https://www.memberspace.com/">Memberspace</a>
</li>
<li>Russell Brown, <a href="https://photivo.com/">Photivo.com</a>
</li>
<li>Noah Prail</li>
<li>Colin Gray</li>
<li>Austin Loveless</li>
<li>Michael Sitver</li>
<li>Paul Jarvis and Jack Ellis, <a href="https://usefathom.com/ref/EJPZOB">Fathom</a>
</li>
<li>Dan Buda</li>
<li>Darby Frey</li>
<li>Adam DuVander</li>
<li>Dave Giunta (JOOnta)</li>
<li>Kyle Fox <a href="https://www.getrewardful.com/?via=justin">GetRewardful.com</a>
</li>
</ol> Want to start a podcast on Transistor? Justin has a special coupon for you: get 15% off your first year of hosting: <a href="https://transistor.fm/justin">transistor.fm/justin</a>
 
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As a part of Transistor's 4-year anniversary, Jon and Justin answer your questions

Jon & Justin reveal everything (part 2)

It's the <a href="https://transistor.fm/anniversary/">fourth anniversary</a> of Transistor's public launch! In this two-part series, Jon and Justin answer your questions.<ul>
<li>01:22 - Our history</li>
<li>14:51 - What is the secret to running Transistor as a company? <a href="https://github.com/TransistorFM/handbook/blob/master/values.md%20">See our values here</a>.</li>
<li>21:19 - What was the most challenging aspect of the past 4 years?</li>
<li>22:14 - Where do you see Transistor at 5 or 10 year?</li>
<li>26:19 - Do you ever feel like you're not doing enough? Book: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Running-Dream-Training-World-Class-Runners/dp/1643135147">Running the Dream</a>.</li>
<li>32:09 - Have we reached peak podcast?</li>
<li>34:36 - What's something you've gotten better at over the past 4 years?</li>
<li>38:23 - What was the lowest point in Transistor's history?</li>
<li>40:09 - What have you learned about partnership?</li>
<li>43:17 - What has been the most fun memory of your journey?</li>
<li>47:04 - What is the definition of enough for Transistor?</li>
<li>50:49 - What are your thoughts on open startups vs private?</li>
<li>52:25 - What are the most impactful decisions you've made?</li>
<li>56:34 - How has your job changed year to year?</li>
</ul>What should we talk about next?<ul>
<li>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/buildyoursaas">@buildyoursaas</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/mijustin">@mijustin</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/jonbuda">@jonbuda</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/jsonperl">@jsonpearl</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/helenryles">@helenryles</a>
</li>
<li>Leave a review/comment <a href="https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/build-your-saas-bootstrap-in-2-636493">on Podchaser</a>; it's like Reddit, but for podcasts.</li>
<li>Email us: support@transistor.fm</li>
</ul>Thanks to our monthly supporters:<ol>
<li>Jason Charnes</li>
<li>Mitchell Davis from <a href="http://recruitkit.com.au/">RecruitKit.com.au</a>
</li>
<li>Marcel Fahle, ​​<a href="https://wearebold.af/">wearebold.af</a>
</li>
<li>Alex Payne</li>
<li>Bill Condo</li>
<li>Anton Zorin from <a href="https://www.prodcamp.com/">ProdCamp.com</a>
</li>
<li>Harris Kenny, <a href="https://introcrm.com/podcast/">Intro CRM podcast</a>
</li>
<li>Oleg Kulyk</li>
<li>Ethan Gunderson</li>
<li>Ward Sandler, <a href="https://www.memberspace.com/">Memberspace</a>
</li>
<li>Russell Brown, <a href="https://photivo.com/">Photivo.com</a>
</li>
<li>Noah Prail</li>
<li>Colin Gray</li>
<li>Austin Loveless</li>
<li>Michael Sitver</li>
<li>Paul Jarvis and Jack Ellis, <a href="https://usefathom.com/ref/EJPZOB">Fathom</a>
</li>
<li>Dan Buda</li>
<li>Darby Frey</li>
<li>Adam DuVander</li>
<li>Dave Giunta (JOOnta)</li>
<li>Kyle Fox <a href="https://www.getrewardful.com/?via=justin">GetRewardful.com</a>
</li>
</ol> Want to start a podcast on Transistor? Justin has a special coupon for you: get 15% off your first year of hosting: <a href="https://transistor.fm/justin">transistor.fm/justin</a>
 
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Transistor celebrates 4 years since the launch

Jon & Justin reveal everything (part 1)

<a href="https://twitter.com/baptistejamin?lang=en">Baptiste Jamin</a> co-founded <a href="https://crisp.chat/en/">Crisp</a> with a friend he met in high school. Highlights (go straight to 🔥 for the best stuff):<ul>
<li>1:42 – Crisp competes with massive companies: Zendesk, HelpScout, Intercom</li>
<li>2:52 – How did Crisp get started? (they started young!)</li>
<li>4:40 – The key insight that lead them to start Crisp 🔥</li>
<li>7:03 – "Being young and in France, how much did you know about the startup ecosystem?"</li>
<li>9:39 – How they bootstrapped Crisp in their twenties 🔥</li>
<li>12:52 – Market insights and how they found their first customers 🔥</li>
<li>16:02 – How they got a surge of new customers 🔥</li>
<li>22:39 – Why Crisp charges LESS than their competitors 🔥</li>
<li>30:14 – What it's like to have a customer base that is comprised of many niches 🔥</li>
<li>32:30 – How does a small team ship such high-quality software? 🔥</li>
<li>35:06 – Marketing strategy and tactics for small SaaS companies 🔥</li>
<li>40:36 – Key insight on Crisp's "job to be done." 🔥</li>
<li>45:52 – Crisp's simple sales trick for closing more deals 🔥</li>
<li>50:58 – Why some EU countries have an advantage in product differentiation 🔥</li>
<li>1:01:54 – Emerging global SaaS markets you might not have heard about</li>
</ul>What should we talk about next?<ul>
<li>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/buildyoursaas">@buildyoursaas</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/mijustin">@mijustin</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/jonbuda">@jonbuda</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/jsonperl">@jsonpearl</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/helenryles">@helenryles</a>
</li>
<li>Leave a review/comment <a href="https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/build-your-saas-bootstrap-in-2-636493">on Podchaser</a>; it's like Reddit, but for podcasts.</li>
<li>Email us: support@transistor.fm</li>
</ul>Thanks to our monthly supporters:<ol>
<li>Jason Charnes</li>
<li>Mitchell Davis from <a href="http://recruitkit.com.au/">RecruitKit.com.au</a>
</li>
<li>Marcel Fahle, ​​<a href="https://wearebold.af/">wearebold.af</a>
</li>
<li>Alex Payne</li>
<li>Bill Condo</li>
<li>Anton Zorin from <a href="https://www.prodcamp.com/">ProdCamp.com</a>
</li>
<li>Harris Kenny, <a href="https://introcrm.com/podcast/">Intro CRM podcast</a>
</li>
<li>Oleg Kulyk</li>
<li>Ethan Gunderson</li>
<li>Ward Sandler, <a href="https://www.memberspace.com/">Memberspace</a>
</li>
<li>Russell Brown, <a href="https://photivo.com/">Photivo.com</a>
</li>
<li>Noah Prail</li>
<li>Colin Gray</li>
<li>Austin Loveless</li>
<li>Michael Sitver</li>
<li>Paul Jarvis and Jack Ellis, <a href="https://usefathom.com/ref/EJPZOB">Fathom</a>
</li>
<li>Dan Buda</li>
<li>Darby Frey</li>
<li>Adam DuVander</li>
<li>Dave Giunta (JOOnta)</li>
<li>Kyle Fox <a href="https://www.getrewardful.com/?via=justin">GetRewardful.com</a>
</li>
</ol> Want to start a podcast on Transistor? Justin has a special coupon for you: get 15% off your first year of hosting: <a href="https://transistor.fm/justin">transistor.fm/justin</a>
 
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An interview with Baptiste Jamin, the co-founder of Crisp. Crisp is affordable, high-quality customer support software.

Bootstrapping in France (Baptiste Jamin from Crisp)

<a href="https://twitter.com/dzohrob?lang=en">Dave Zohrob</a> is the co-founder of <a href="https://chartable.com/">Chartable</a> (a podcast analytics startup), talks about selling his company to Spotify in <a href="https://newsroom.spotify.com/2022-02-16/spotify-acquires-podsights-and-chartable-to-advance-podcast-measurement-for-advertisers-and-insights-for-publishers/">February 2022</a>. Highlights (go straight to 🔥 for the best stuff):<ul>
<li>1:00 – What's the Spotify office in New York like?</li>
<li>5:24 – Dave's first startup: he started an indie record label (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080305010416/http://tellallrecords.com/">Tellall Records</a>)</li>
<li>7:12 – Founding in Chartable in 2017</li>
<li>8:00 – Behind the scenes: talking to <a href="https://twitter.com/ichris">Chris Enns</a> (our editor at <a href="https://www.lemonproductions.ca/">Lemon Productions</a>)</li>
<li>9:50 – Dave's first business as a kid: publishing programming tutorials on the internet (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19970327140843/http://qbasic.com/">Qbasic.com</a>)</li>
<li>12:25 – What made you want to make money on the internet?</li>
<li>14:25 – Do all geeks have the intuition to start a business? (<a href="https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1531817666117177344">Justin's tweet</a>) 🔥</li>
<li>19:23 – What's your real motivation for building a startup? 🔥</li>
<li>24:28 – Side-projects vs Bootstrapping vs Venture Funding (VC) 🔥</li>
<li>30:12 – Once you choose the VC-funded path, what's it like? 🔥</li>
<li>32:00 – The huge risk/cost for founders with families 🔥</li>
<li>34:30 – Public health insurance is the best way to boost entrepreneurship</li>
<li>36:30 – Bootstrappers and VC-funded founders have this same anxiety 🔥</li>
<li>40:00 – What it's like joining a massive company as a small 11-person company? 🔥</li>
<li>48:10 – What's next in podcast ad tech, analytics, and attribution 🔥</li>
</ul>What should we talk about next?<ul>
<li>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/buildyoursaas">@buildyoursaas</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/mijustin">@mijustin</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/jonbuda">@jonbuda</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/jsonperl">@jsonpearl</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/helenryles">@helenryles</a>
</li>
<li>Leave a review/comment <a href="https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/build-your-saas-bootstrap-in-2-636493">on Podchaser</a>; it's like Reddit, but for podcasts.</li>
<li>Email us: support@transistor.fm</li>
</ul>Thanks to our monthly supporters:<ol>
<li>Jason Charnes</li>
<li>Mitchell Davis from <a href="http://recruitkit.com.au/">RecruitKit.com.au</a>
</li>
<li>Marcel Fahle, ​​<a href="https://wearebold.af/">wearebold.af</a>
</li>
<li>Alex Payne</li>
<li>Bill Condo</li>
<li>Anton Zorin from <a href="https://www.prodcamp.com/">ProdCamp.com</a>
</li>
<li>Harris Kenny, <a href="https://introcrm.com/podcast/">Intro CRM podcast</a>
</li>
<li>Oleg Kulyk</li>
<li>Ethan Gunderson</li>
<li>Ward Sandler, <a href="https://www.memberspace.com/">Memberspace</a>
</li>
<li>Russell Brown, <a href="https://photivo.com/">Photivo.com</a>
</li>
<li>Noah Prail</li>
<li>Colin Gray</li>
<li>Austin Loveless</li>
<li>Michael Sitver</li>
<li>Paul Jarvis and Jack Ellis, <a href="https://usefathom.com/ref/EJPZOB">Fathom</a>
</li>
<li>Dan Buda</li>
<li>Darby Frey</li>
<li>Adam DuVander</li>
<li>Dave Giunta (JOOnta)</li>
<li>Kyle Fox <a href="https://www.getrewardful.com/?via=justin">GetRewardful.com</a>
</li>
</ol> Want to start a podcast on Transistor? Justin has a special coupon for you: get 15% off your first year of hosting: <a href="https://transistor.fm/justin">transistor.fm/justin</a>
 
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Justin Jackson (@mijustin)

Justin Jackson

Build Your SaaS

The gang goes to Montréal

Jon & Justin reveal everything (part 2)

Jon & Justin reveal everything (part 1)

Bootstrapping in France (Baptiste Jamin from Crisp)

What's it like getting acquired by Spotify? (Dave Zohrob from Chartable)