How does one of tech’s most trusted entrepreneurs use his past experience to launch a new product? This is how Joel Spolsky launched Trello, an online collaboration tool. So I invited him to teach how he built and launched it.
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Even though he was an introvert, Todd Smith HAD to learn to sell. My wife got pregnant before we got married, he said in this interview. We were living in a 600 square foot apartment. Every time we’d pay bills, we’d get in a fight because the pressure was so great. In this interview, you’ll hear how turned it all around.
You listen to my programs because I don’t do the cute let’s get to know the author interviews that others are know for. I hunt down information that you can use because I’m passionate about helping you build a business that your great-great-grandkids would admire you for. That’s why I kept digging in this interview. I want you (and me too, frankly) to be able to produce the kind of hits that Seth Godin keeps cranking out seemingly without breaking a sweat. Not only has Seth created 2 big hit businesses…
You and I have both know people who desperately promote their Twitter accounts because they want to see their follower numbers increase. I recorded this interview to help you learn how you can foster that kind of rabid enthusiasm for your product by adding game mechanics.
I used to think adding game mechanics was a simple as “throwing some kind of point system” on a site. After listening to Amy Jo Kim in this program, you’ll see that there’s more going on under the surface. You’ll understand the levels of activity that you need to build in. And you’ll get a virtual toolbox full of tools that you can use to add game mechanics to your business and build a passionate audience that competes to take more action on your site.
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In 2008, Noah Everett wanted to share photos on Twitter. Since there was no way to do it, he grabbed an old server and created Twitpic as a side project.
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We talked about more than Pownce and Twitter in this interview. Leah Culver is a developer who launched many projects. Pownce was just the highest profile of them. I asked her about it because I’m insanely curious about why it didn’t crush Twitter.
Here’s what I saw from the outside. In March 2007, when Pownce launched, Twitter didn’t have much of a head start. It only had about 250,000 members, and Twitter’s site was still unstable and often inaccessible. So Pownce launched at a good time. Plus it offered more features. Plus it had a real revenue plan with its premium accounts. Plus it was backed by Kevin Rose a Web celebrity with geek cred. Why didn’t it win?
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