Business of Software Podcast

Joel Spolsky says: "Never rewrite your software from scratch". DHH says: "Rewrite your damn software". In this interview, he explains why.

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Jenni Jepsen is a partner at goAgile, a Denmark-based Agile consulting firm. Her focus in on helping people deliver value faster and create lasting change. By getting to the core of WHY Agile works and helping people thrive through change, Organisations become Agile – increasing motivation, effectiveness and transparency. Watch her talk at BoS Europe 2015 here: http://bit.ly/2qu9O7O

This is probably one of the most important talks you will ever see if you are an entrepreneur in any discipline. Professor Clayton Christensen talks models of disruptive innovation, what the job of your product is and explains why there will always be room for disruptive innovation an entrepreneurs in the world. Trust us, you just don’t want to miss this talk.

Scott Berkun, bestselling author and popular speaker on philosophy, culture and business, introduces a fresh way to understand creative thinking, how ideas work, plus how to be more productive. He's recently published a new book, The Dance of the Possible with challenging chapters on topics like creative confidence, making bold decisions, and separating the need for feedback from the desire for en...

Things I Wish I Could Have Told Young Mr Fishkin | Rand Fishkin | BOS EU 2016 by Business of Software

Beware! Jeff knows a lot of words that could offend some. It doesn’t stop him giving one of the sharpest talks on Software Pricing we have ever seen at the 2011 Business of Software Conference. He is also an expert in drawing owls and can teach you his patented method… Learn about the simple, universal pricing formula that is used by many SaaS providers and how to measure value and put a price on...

Recorded at BoS2014 Europe, Tim Barker draws on his years of experience in cloud enterprises, not just to write a great click bait talk title, but also to think about the ways great SaaS businesses move the needle. In this talk, Tim will discuss the top-5 lessons for building and scaling a tech business based on his first-hand in his own startups, his experience at Salesforce.com (one of the faste...

In this revealing presentation, Web Psychologist Nathalie Nahai reveals how you can understand the brain’s primal, emotional and rational systems to predict the behaviour of prospects and tailor your marketing communications for more engagement.

Bridget is the co-founder and CEO of YouCanBook.me, a SaaS tool which allows your customers to easily book your time, fuss free. At BoS Conference Europe 2016, she discussed the growth of the company, and likened her busking background to that of her experience of growing a company. She touched on many of her experiences in growing YouCanBook.me, from dealing to VC’s, to remote working, to the hir...

According to Noam Wasserman, a professor at Harvard Business School, if you're an entrepreneur then you will often face situations where you need to confront this dichotomy. When you start up, do you set off on your own (and stay king), or find a co-founder (losing control, but increasing the odds of success)? Do you choose investors who stay in the shadows (remain king), or ones who are hands-on...

Derek A/B tests his possible talks with the audience before talking about how and why he grew one of the most successful online music distribution businesses in the world. Why did he sell it and why has he given the money away?

What’s the primary goal of your website? Not to sell software. With most visitors returning multiple times before making a purchase, your primary goal should be to draw visitors back to your site. In this talk, Rob looks in-depth at why this is the case, and how to make it happen.

Jason has been worried that too many people take A/B Testing too seriously, or at least take it seriously without understanding what it can do for your business. He is worried that not enough people know when to use AB Testing and when you should do something else. In this talk, he makes the case for optimising for the big wins in any start up, before you start to dig too deep into data: “When you...

Kathy takes a deep dive into the psychology of motivation and look at simple but powerful tools to help us think about and create products, services, support, and marketing. But secrets to motivation are counter-intuitive. Typically we struggle to get and keep our users motivated by trying to ADD motivation, when the real solution is to find and fix what’s BLOCKING the motivation they already have...

Dharmesh is obsessed by code and making customers happy. In this talk at Business of Software 2010, Dharmesh talks about why venture capital is neither necessary, nor evil, how value is created, why user experience is EVERYTHING and how Hubspot developed its key metric, the ‘CHI’ – Customer Happiness Index.

The inbound dream: Every sale you make comes to you magically through the internet with no human touch. Does that mean you can’t do better? Is there another way to more sales? Steli has accelerated sales in some of the fastest growing Silicon Valley startups as well as growing his own SaaS business, Close.io. Steli offers some proven techniques to grow your sales revenue and improve your sales pro...

Rand Fishkin, Founder, now Wizard of, Moz gave a very honest and open talk at BoS Europe this year reflecting on what he could have told his younger self. We’ll let Rand provide some context for the talk from his blog post about it but take it from us, it will both make you smarter and move you. A talk that is not just about SEO and Inbound marketing but the entrepreneurial journey. Thanks to Rand...

Jennifer Aaker gives a talk on how we can achieve happiness, and how the pursuit of that is a miserable business.

This is probably one of the most important talks you will ever hear if you are an entrepreneur in any discipline. Professor Clayton Christensen talks models of disruptive innovation, what the job of your product is and explains why there will always be room for disruptive innovation an entrepreneurs in the world. Trust us, you just don’t want to miss this talk.

Difficult Conversations for Growing Companies. Every business person faces hard conversations at some point in their growth. One of Paul Kenny’s best talks at Business of Software Conference. Not about sales, but about the challenges that everyone faces in growing a business. He discusses why having those difficult conversations, with co-founders, co-workers, employees, employers, partners are so...