Keynote: 23 Years Without A Proper Job
summary
Left salaried work 23 years ago, builds a digital-cash startup in 1995 that runs eight years, then freelances while running an ebook site for eight years that earns via affiliates and sold £100k of anonymized buying-data. Gives concrete examples: a self-published Meteor book earns $300k in 18 months, Balsamiq grows from solo founder to millions, Skyscanner exits near £2 billion. Recommends using Django, Django Channels, Firebase, React, Celery; start small, grow a mailing list from day one, price customers who can pay, and treat time as a cost.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:40Introduction
- 2:29Work for yourself
- 3:49Who am I
- 10:43You Dont Have To Have A Big Service
- 11:46You Dont Have To Think Of It As A LongTerm Investment
- 12:34You Can Do A Service
- 14:30You Can Publish
- 15:05Monetisation
- 20:17Making Money
- 22:06John Merrow
- 31:12Yet
- 32:23Questions
- 33:09Learning pace
- 36:04Finding your audience
- 38:47How to find your customers
- 41:03How to find mentors
- 44:31Freelancing
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