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How to Start a Successful Bootstrapped Web App Business (12 hours of audio)

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Q: How do you Start a Successful Bootstrapped Web App Business?

A: Don't spend 12 hours listening to podcasts.

For some work that requires light attention, having a startup podcast going in the background can be very inspiring.

As someone seriously considering giving this a go (our consulting business is about to complete it's first year, we have built up a good war chest in the bank without any investment, and we're planning our web app right now), I would be foolish not to listen to the advice and experience (with a grain of salt) of those who have come before me and succeeded. Anything that helps me avoid mistakes that others have figured out is a good thing.

The comment above - while maybe tongue in cheek - is short-sighted to say the least.

Thanks for putting these together!

I don't think it was short-sighted. I think his point, while partly intended to be funny, of course, was that spending 12 hours to inject a certain amount of information is inefficient if the same substance could have been gleaned much more quickly in the form of concise, curated chunks of text.

On the other had, you don't have to listen to the podcasts in one session or one day.

And really with the amount of time you will be spending building your startup, 12 hours is nothing. :-)

No.

A: Don't be pessimistic and also, be analytical enough to understand that listening to audio doesn't necessarily distract you from creating great things.

I believe it was satire. :)

I see the digg crowd finally came to HN ;)

Unless you spend a lot of time in the car! :) I listen to 1 hour of audio each day whilst driving. This will be ideal now that I'm about to finish one of the Warren Buffet audio books

I downloaded all the mp3 file for listening later. Here is the list of direct download hope it may help to someone

http://traffic.libsyn.com/techzing/techzing-056.mp3

http://traffic.libsyn.com/techzing/techzing-076.mp3

http://traffic.libsyn.com/techzing/techzing-087.mp3

http://traffic.libsyn.com/techzing/techzing-079.mp3

http://traffic.libsyn.com/techzing/techzing-068.mp3

http://traffic.libsyn.com/techzing/techzing-004.mp3

http://traffic.libsyn.com/techzing/techzing-034.mp3

http://traffic.libsyn.com/techzing/techzing-012.mp3

http://traffic.libsyn.com/techzing/techzing-070.mp3

I made an RSS feed of just these episodes, that way you can download them all with one click in iTunes:

http://files.pierrespring.com/techzinglive_bootstrap.rss

I have also added instructions on how to add an RSS feed to iTunes on my blog, if you don't know how to do that:

http://pierrespring.com/2010/11/19/techzing-compilation-boot...

Enjoy and let me know if you like it ;)

Of course we know the real reason for this post is to beat Jason in the battle of the blogs :)

Doh! You got me!!! ;)

Well put together. I've been catching up with techzing shows for the past few months (while commuting), and this brings together some of the better podcasts (not sure why you don't have Pelti there from balsamiq, it was the first best interview on techzing in my opinion)

Sure! Which section would you like Peldi to go in?

Ok I've put Peldi in there in the marketing section

The techzing podcast is great easy listening for startup hacker types.

For those who don't know the techzing format is two developers having a regular chat about the startup projects they are working on, their consulting work and the stories they found interesting on hacker news.

There are also guest interview shows, sometimes with tech / startup people and sometimes with more exotic guests (one interview was with a geologist about peak oil and helium 3 fusion. Another was about the evidence behind alien sightings).

If you like startup podcasts I recommend you check out a few episodes of techzing and see if it's too your liking.

Deciding on and Idea

I think you meant "Deciding on an Idea." Right?

[EDIT] Also... Derek Sivers muses this question should properly be written, "...muses on this question."

Done. Thx :)

Step 1: self promote with how-to-start-a-successful-startup books, podcasts, and blog posts.

Files are missing!

Which ones? They all work for me...

Probably if people use a flash blocker, they don't see them.

nice

You see, Justin? We are paying attention.

This is the second comment of this form that I've seen made for a submission from this website. What's the context?

Heh -- Justin is the guy who coined "luck surface area" and apparently thinks no one knows it. I had answered a question in another thread about who made it up, and someone followed that up with "see Justin? they are paying attention" -- so I thought I'd be funny and repeat that.

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