Talking Businessly

80: Late fees are unenforceable

Marketing works. Late fees don't. John is speaking at Laracon EU! We review our OKRs and cash situation. John has more mic issues.

79: The wire:live retro (empaneling Caleb Porzio)

Our dear friend Caleb Porzio [https://x.com/calebporzio] drops by for some laughs, and a retrospective on Wire:live. We discuss what went well, what could improve, and what we'll do differently next time.

78: Empaneling Matt Stauffer

Matt runs Tighten [https://tighten.com/], and is a kind of big brother to us. We ask him about running agencies, building teams, hiring senior developers, and a lot more. Watch his new Laracast series "How to Build a Dev Team [https://laracasts.com/series/how-to-build-a-dev-team]" now.

77: Silly season takes no prisoners

Our biggest client had a problem. We tried to get out in front of it, with mixed success. Here's what we learned. Join the new social game here [https://thesocialgame.gg/games/370174136659824640/pre-game-lobby]. Listen to John's clickbait episode about it here [https://notesonplay.transistor.fm/episodes/10-a-board-game-with-hundreds-of-players].

76: Pitching our next conference talks

We are busy as heck, with more work coming in. Forge [https://forge.laravel.com/] launches this week. Wire:live [https://wire-live.com/] is filling up fast. Listen to John's new game podcast [https://notesonplay.transistor.fm/]. We brainstorm the next conference talks we want to give.