Talking Businessly

Daniel Coulbourne & John Drexler•podcast.thunk.dev

We (John and Daniel) are co-founders of a small software development agency. This is a recording of our weekly "state of the company" call where we discuss the nitty gritty details of running our business day-to-day. Want to work with us? Reach out at thunk.dev

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Episodes

10: Daniel is Going to Laracon AU!

John is tanking a lot of bureaucracy Daniel is writing a LOT of code Daniel is going to Laracon Australia We discuss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgV6M1LyfNY

Oct 16, 2023•53 min•Ep. 10

9: The Dawn of The Pricing Saga

According to ChatGPT we discussed: Mentoring and meetings Age discussion Product management Splitting time between two companies Home inspector conference in Atlantic City Billing strategies Different pricing models (hourly, project-based, retainer) Composite team approach (offering product management, engineering, design) Value proposition for small companies Communicating and marketing the value proposition for Sunk...

Oct 11, 2023•45 min•Ep. 9

8: Progress!

We catch up as usual, and check in on the state of all our goals.

Oct 06, 2023•47 min•Ep. 8

7: Our Great Shame

On this episode we dig deep and do a post-mortem on a messy wrap-up to a client engagement. Our key takeaways: Overcommunicate Overcommunicate some more

Sep 25, 2023•51 min•Ep. 7

6: How Thunk Will Die

This episode is late because of an interesting process breakdown. Verbs Vacation A New "vision-mission-value" The Pre-Mortem

Sep 24, 2023•45 min•Ep. 6

5: Empanelling Aaron Francis

Aaron Francis (@aarondfrancis) officially joins Thunk's panel of mentors! Aaron gives John feedback on his blogs, and provides LOADS of good ideas for how to improve it and grow the audience.

Sep 15, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 5

4: Who Are Your Guys?

Who are our guys? We run through a list of potential panelists for our panel of mentors and discuss what it would event look like to empanel them.

Sep 05, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 4

3: The Sales Funnel is Working

John's game Colossi is almost ready The sales funnel is working Max is having a hard one We've made progress on our goals This is not the episode about hiring a mentor

Aug 30, 2023•43 min•Ep. 3

2: Vision, Mission, Values

We have glowing feedback for each other Daniel's blog feedback made the blog a lot better Getting creative with business development tactics We discuss the company's Vision, Mission, and Values

Aug 22, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 2

1: The FG Scale

Daniel has feedback on John's blog posts. Why do feedback? Why is it so painful? The "FG Scale" Does Jacob feel empowered to give us feedback? Should we keep our docs in Slab? Why set goals? What are OKRs? In the back half of the episode, we get super detailed deciding what our goals are for the rest of 2024.

Aug 18, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 1

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