#093 – Things You Learn from Starting 23 Businesses with "Parallel Founder" Danielle Baskin

Indie Hackers

Courtland Allen and Channing Allen

Startups, Entrepreneurship, Makers, Indie, Bootstrapping, Online, Technology, Business, Founders, Bootstrappers, Ideas, Tech, Indiehackers, Hackers

4.9 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Danielle Baskin (@djbaskin) gets really excited about new ideas. So excited, in fact, that she can't resist bringing them to life by making them into products. Then turning those products into businesses. Then never shutting those businesses down. In this episode, Danielle shares the lessons she's learned starting 23 businesses since 2007 and continuing to run all of them in parallel, indefinitely.Transcript, speaker information, and more: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/093-danielle-baskin-of-dialup

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0:00.0	What's up everybody?
0:08.4	This is Cortland from andyhackers.com and you are listening to the Andy Hackers podcast.
0:13.0	On this show, I talked to the founders of profitable internet businesses and I'm trying
0:16.3	to get a sense of what it's like to be in their shoes.
0:18.5	How do they get to where they are today?
0:20.0	How do they make decisions at their companies and in their personal lives? And what exactly makes their businesses
0:24.4	tick? And the goal here is always so that the rest of us can learn from their experiences and go on
0:28.9	to build our own successful internet businesses. Today I have with me the impressively multi-talented
0:34.1	Danielle Baskin. Danielle is an artist, a designer, an engineer, and an entrepreneur.
0:40.3	She has built products for pretty much everybody, including NASA, Nickelodeon, Amazon AWS, Mozilla,
0:46.3	Salesforce, et cetera. Danielle, I'm excited to have you on the show. Welcome. Thank you for having me.
0:51.5	So that was part one of my introduction. You're a hard person to introduce, so I have two parts. Okay. The second part of the introduction is that you are the creator of a voice chat app called Dialup. Yes. You are the founder of a conference swag company called branded fruit. You're the founder of a company called Peddler Pop-ups. You are the creatorwell Helmets, et cetera, and so on and so forth. And what's fascinating about this is you are running these companies all at the same time. Like, these are not, this is not a succession of companies. You're simultaneously running all these companies. Parallel entrepreneur. A parallel entrepreneur. That's what you are. How many did I leave out?
1:28.0	I think I named five. I have a lot of small businesses. So I have like 23 distinct products that I
1:33.3	sell on the internet. 23. Yes. And how long have you been creating these? I've been creating
1:39.0	businesses, I guess, since 2008. Wow. Yeah.
1:45.9	23 businesses.
1:48.0	Yeah, I mean, it's slow.
1:52.3	I mean, like for what, 2008 to 2011, it was just one.
1:54.0	And then it's easy. I mean, I've been creating businesses since 2008 too and I've nowhere near 23 active
1:58.5	businesses right now.
1:59.2	I mean, some are just single products and they're not like entire business or a service,
2:03.5	but some are some are businesses and I have like nine employees for for branded fruit.
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