What has happened in the venture funding world in the past couple of months? How do you handle repositioning? Can you lean too heavily on your product, features, and roadmaps? What do you do when one of your features falls flat?

It’s the middle of the summer edition of Bootstrapped Web. Brian and Jordan are back behind the mic after surviving family vacations, COVID, and cancelled flights. Today, Brian dives deep into repositioning and how ZipMessage has refocused in the past couple weeks. Meanwhile, Jordan talks about the biggest mistake he has made with Rally so far.

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Talking Points: 

• ZipMessage and Rally updates
• The changes in the venture funding and the bootstrapped entrepreneur world
• Repositioning and refocusing at ZipMessage
  • Different pipelines: influencers, coaches, consultants, etc.
  • Building CRMs (Airtable, Pipedrive)
• Learning from mistakes
  • Being led by product
• How Jordan built a stronger working relationship with his team
  • Learning from an existential crisis
• The truth behind SaaS companies

What has happened in the venture funding world in the past couple of months? How do you handle repositioning? Can you lean too heavily on your product, features, and roadmaps? What do you do when one of your features falls flat? It’s the middle of the summer edition of Bootstrapped Web. Brian and Jordan are back behind the mic after surviving family vacations, COVID, and cancelled flights. Today, Brian dives deep into repositioning and how ZipMessage has refocused in the past couple weeks. Meanwhile, Jordan talks about the biggest mistake he has made with Rally so far. If you have any questions, comments, or topic ideas for Bootstrapped Web, leave us a message here “It went from, everyone’s growing and there’s plenty of money to fund what you want to do to, all of a sudden, the water went back out and it turns out a lot of people don’t have pants on.” – Jordan Powered By the Tweet This PluginTweet This Talking Points:  ZipMessage and Rally updatesThe changes in the venture funding and the bootstrapped entrepreneur worldRepositioning and refocusing at ZipMessageDifferent pipelines: influencers, coaches, consultants, etc.Building CRMs (Airtable, Pipedrive)Learning from mistakesBeing led by productHow Jordan built a stronger working relationship with his teamLearning from an existential crisisThe truth behind SaaS companies “It doesn’t make sense to focus on product unless we have a daily pipeline that is ready to present that product too.” – Brian Powered By the Tweet This Plugin