Stop Saying No – How I Went From Fired, To Indie, To Over $1M In Revenue
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Is fired on December 3, 2012, then goes indie and builds roughly 40–50 iOS apps, launches pixagon Inc converting from an LLC to an S corp, hires four W‑2 developers plus contractors, uses time and materials contracts and paid, compensated coding tests, banks three months of payroll and saves ~35% for taxes, leans on Slack, Trello, Jira, QuickBooks, lands $136k (2013), $450k (2014) and projects $1.1M.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Start
- 1:05THE EARLY DAYS...
- 4:16WE NEED TO TALK
- 5:42THE HUSTLE BEGINS
- 7:43SALES TIPS
- 10:08CONTRACTS
- 11:35CONSISTENCY
- 13:32TAXES
- 14:57MORE INDIE ISSUES
- 16:37ENTER CONTRACTORS
- 22:09TRANSITIONING FROM INDIE
- 23:05REVENUE
- 23:50SUSTAINABILITY & THE FUTURE
- 24:41THANK YOU
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