Episode 501 | A Bluetick Update from Mike #Taber

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Entrepreneurship, Management, Business, Marketing

4.9 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In the first episode of Startups For The Rest Of Us since our 500th milestone, Rob checks in with Mike Taber about his progress with Bluetick. It's been nearly 7 weeks since Rob last checked in (Episode 494) and a lot has happened in the world since then. They talk about business trajectory amidst COVID-19, the health of the sales pipeline and unique partnership opportunities, as well as technical debt and making decisions about code optimization. What we discuss with Mike Taber 6:38 Rob and Mike reflect on what made the podcast successful 12:05 Has Bluetick seen an uptick in interest since COVID-19? 16:58 Is Mike an optimist, or a pessimist (and what would Mike's wife say)? 18:55 The highs and lows from the past few weeks 20:41 Mike on driving new prospects for Bluetick 22:38 Bluetick and unique partnership opportunities 30:47 Managing technical debt and making decisions on optimizing your code Links from the show: Mythical Man-Month | Book Mike Taber on Twitter BlueTick How can I support the podcast? If you enjoyed this episode with Mike Taber, let him know by clicking on the link below and sending him a quick shout out on Twitter: Click here to thank Mike Taber on Twitter. Click here to share your number one takeaway from the episode. Subscribe & Review: iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher

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0:00.0	I can barely believe my ears. It's another episode of startups for the rest of us.
0:04.2	Welcome to this week's episode. It's episode 501. Today I talk with Mike Tabor of Blue Tick to get his update that I get every month or two.
0:13.2	It's good to connect with Mike. Last time we spoke, it was the beginning of the COVID quarantine process.
0:19.2	And so it was good to catch up with him today. Before we dive
0:22.3	into that, through helpfounders.com, I have volunteered up a couple ad slots for startup founders.
0:29.9	And specifically, I'd add a few episodes back. And every so often, I will be talking about
0:35.2	someone in our community and this startup to the rest of us,
0:37.8	MicroConf, Bootstrapper, self-funded, indie-funded founder community.
0:41.3	And this week, the company I want to talk about is called Versoli, V-E-R-S-O-L-Y.com.
0:48.6	Versoli is a SaaS-focused landing page and website builder, aimed, of course, at SaaS marketers and founders.
0:55.3	I had the pleasure of speaking with the founder through an impromptu meeting on MicroConfConnect.
1:01.5	And MicroConf Connect, if you don't know, is our, I think it's about 1,100 founders and
1:06.4	aspiring founders in a Slack community that are helping each other out, sharing info, asking questions.
1:13.3	And we did a microcomf meetaway where we were paired up with individuals and just got to have a
1:18.4	conversation for five or ten minutes. And then it kind of rolled, spun the roulette wheel and
1:22.0	connected you with the next person. And it was, it was super fun to be able to meet other like-minded
1:26.3	people that I otherwise just wouldn't
1:28.3	have connected with. I wouldn't jump on Zoom or otherwise wind up in squadcast talking to them.
1:33.4	So I had the pleasure of meeting the founder of versoli.com. And Versoli solves that problem of,
1:38.4	well, I need this marketing side. I don't want to build it in my app so that I have to do a code push to change it. I don't really want to do it in WordPress.
1:45.7	Should I do it in Squarespace?
1:47.0	Do I do a static site builder?
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