How to Balance Your Time and Attention

Joe Masilotti is the founder of RailsDev —a reverse job board— and a Turbo Native consultant. In this conversation, we explore Joe Masilotti's philosophy on entrepreneurship and his focus on empowering software developers to find work. Joe's approach to monetizing Open Source is particularly interesting: he gives away his product for free with an eventual revenue share. We delve into the various marketing strategies that Joe uses for his different business ventures, including cold emailing, content marketing, and live coding.

The blog post: https://thebootstrappedfounder.com/joe-masilotti-building-in-public-and-monetizing-open-source

The podcast episode: https://share.transistor.fm/s/ebd473b8

The video: https://youtu.be/uxfUZ31QYGY

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• (00:00) - Introduction
• (04:00) - B2B vs. B2C
• (08:12) - How to monetize?
• (14:24) - Reverse job boards
• (19:27) - Coding in public.
• (25:06) - Transparency
• (32:23) - Monetizing open source projects
• (37:57) - Selling the business
• (44:48) - The ideal future
• (49:25) - Overlap between marketing and cold email marketing
• (56:30) - Building in public and empowering people