In this episode I have a returning guest, someone who is a keystone of the bootstrapping community, it’s Justin Jackson, co-founder of Transistor, MegaMaker and more. Today we have an unstructured but very useful chat about building a financial engine for your business. This is a topic that has come up countless times in my indie journey and I think it’s something that a lot of indie businesses don’t address as early and seriously as they should. There a ton of actionable tips in this conversation about how to manage your finances, building a solid, profitable business and what to do when things aren’t going well.

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Timestamps

• 00:00 Intro
• 01:45 James shocked by tax
• 02:31 Profit first
• 06:51 Building a financial engine
• 09:40 Things falling apart with depression
• 11:00 Desperation affects creativity
• 11:49 How to build your financial engine

Recommendations (from prev ep)

• Book: Life Profitability
• Podcast: Software Social
• Indie Hacker: Derek Sivers

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