Today's guest is a handsome fellow called Simon Curran.

He is a founder and the CEO of an app building platform called Noloco. Noloco helps you instantly create customer portals, partner apps and internal tools from your air table or Google sheets.

Noloco has one of the most beautiful and simple interfaces on the market for building a data driven app with no code. They have been through Y Combinator and are growing their team. So Simon is full of useful advice around building products, no code and pivoting business ideas.

Try Noloco here
https://noloco.io

Twitter & LinkedIn for Noloco
@NolocoHQ

Twitter Simon
@simonalexcurran

Book pick

Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull

Software Pick
Loom

Get a job with Careers at Noloco

Remote Working, Algorithms and Naked Nomads

Remote working is here to stay. People demand a better work life balance, and companies can achieve a competitive edge by leaning into the changes.

In this episode, I have Liam Martin of Running Remote sharing some of his research and insights on remote working and will give you the confidence in the remote working model if you are on the fence.

Links:

• Running Remote
• Running Remote book
• Time Doctor

Liam on the web

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/liamremote
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/liammcivormartin/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RunningRemote

Book picks:

• Zero to One
• The Chrysalids

Software pick:

• Google Apps
• Oculus Quest 2

Today's guest is from Flipdish, Head of Product Chris Dermody. From Startup to its current Unicorn status, Chris was there to see it all, and it's a fascinating conversation about the shifting skill changes.

Tips for founders, product nerds and people curious about scaling a business in this one. ❤️

Product Management is complex, even harder when strapped to a rocketship!

Stay tuned!

Links from the show:

Noloco

Quattro Woodfire Pizza

Ken Sandy - https://influentialpm.com/

Book picks:

Inspired

Empowered

The 48 Laws Of Power

Software picks:

Figma

Notion

Noloco

Chris on the web:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/cderm

Website/Blog: http://chrisdermody.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisdermody/

Want to work with Flipdish?

Use this referral code so they know who sent you: https://t.co/z8eqQ4YCr3

Do you want to create good habits?

In this episode, I share the different steps that will help you turn your goal of creating a habit into reality. It's not easy, but it is doable! And with some of the research, I found it might even become intuitive.

Maybe not just an episode for founders (even though habits are what build our businesses). whether you're trying to get fit, be more productive, or just be a better person altogether, these tips will help!

Supercharge your life.

• Duke University study - https://dornsife.usc.edu/assets/sites/545/docs/Wendy_Wood_Research_Articles/Habits/Neal.Wood.Quinn.2006_Habits_a_repeat_performance.pdf
• B.J Fogg, Tiny Habits - https://amzn.to/3Idvzzi
• Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit - https://amzn.to/34IRCAt
• James Clear - “Master one thing” - https://jamesclear.com/master-one-thing
• Claudia Mueller and Carol Dweck reference from The New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/14/science/praise-children-for-effort-not-intelligence-study-says.html
• Locus of control - https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-locus-of-control-2795434
• Improvement Pill, The Locus Rule - https://youtu.be/8ZhoeSaPF-k

Josh Ho, the founder of Referral Rock, joins me to talk about all things SaaS and how to think about adding referrals into a software business.

If you're looking for a way to grow your SaaS business, I recommend that you check out this episode.

Links Josh

Twitter

Referral Rock

Books

Artemis Fowl

Obviously Awesome

Extreme Revenue Growth

Tools

Project Management with Asana

Alan McDonald, one of the founders of Unbanx joins me to talk about building a WEB3 business and giving passive income from transaction data.

WEB 3.0 is all the rage on the internet right now. But is there more than stoned apes?

Alan gives me some insights on how he is using WEB3 and advice for founders in the space.

We learn about WEB3, data unions, DAO's, legal issues and the community in this episode.

Section with video on “Wait what the f*ck is Web3?”

• https://www.getrevue.co/profile/niall/issues/web-3-0-and-crazy-nft-valuations-967681

Unbanx

• https://unbanx.me/
• https://twitter.com/Unbanx_app

Follow Alan everwhere

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanmcdonald1/
• https://twitter.com/Alanmdonald

Book picks

• Banking on It - https://amzn.to/3p6zqaS

Software Pick

• Canva - https://www.canva.com/

James Church, the best selling author of Investable Entrepreneur, joins me to talk about how to fundraise for your startup successfully.

This episode is packed with value because James and his business, Robot Mascot, have been helping companies be "40 times more likely to get investment".

Links to James Church:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamescchurch/
• https://twitter.com/jameschurch88
• https://www.robotmascot.co.uk/

Recommended Books:

• Key Person of Influence
• Oversubscribed

Tools to try from the show:

• https://zapier.com/

Pitch Ready - Benchmark if your business would catch an investor's interest and money.

• https://pitchready.co.uk

Curious about if a community could help you grow your business?

Major brands worldwide are investing in communities, but you don't need a big budget to start.
This week, Matt Studdert will chat about building a massive community that drives his business and allows him to scale with a small team.

Links from this show
State of startups:

https://stateofstartups2019.firstround.com/

Matt Studdert Links

https://www.frontendmentor.io/

https://twitter.com/_mattstuddert

https://twitter.com/frontendmentor

Matt's recommended books:
Shoe Dog

The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant

Company of One

The Minimalist Entrepreneur

Lost and Founder

Matt's recommended tools:
Fathom Analytics

Chargebee

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