Quail monitoring solutions etc
Episode 8 · March 23rd, 2020 · 46 mins 42 secs
About this Episode
- Alaskan Tapes is the music producer cam was talking about but never mentioned
- Kaelynd moves into a new apartment and starts her new job and talks about the first week.
- Kaelynd keeps sneaky tabs on her old company lol
- Kaelynd getting the lay of the land meeting new people and working with a new team
- Kaelynd enjoys some of the structure that working from an office brings compared to her previous gig which was mostly remote
- Cam talks about his experience starting a new contract in a larger company and the adjustment coming from a smaller start up.
- They discuss backlogs as inspired by the Founder Quest podcast
- Cam and Kaelynd talk about scaling up companies by hiring contractors, and how do you stay small
- Cam gives recommends that money is very helpful to have when starting up in contracting
- Cam discusses how he ended up setting up his business finances for contracting using Wave Accounting and setting up a separate credit card for the business
- Cam got declined by a potential client on a website proposal but talks about the importance of following up
- We discuss the importance of positioning
- We chat about the challenge of coming up with startup ideas
- Paul Graham - How to get startup ideas
- Cam is going to MicroConf!
- Kaelynd talks about her upcoming Raspberry Pi projects: a quail monitoring app, and a smart mirror