Kalzumeus Software

Patrick McKenzie

Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics.

  1. 05/10/2017

    Kalzumeus Podcast Episode 14: Running A Business Portfolio with Jonathan Siegel

    Jonathan Siegel is a buddy of mine who lives in Tokyo. I can’t decide whether I’m more floored by the fact that he runs five businesses at once or has eight kids. He recently wrote a book The San Francisco Fallacy, mostly to share his experience with running software businesses...

    51 min

  2. 08/26/2016

    Kalzumeus Podcast Episode 13: Selling Online Businesses With Thomas Smale

    I sold Bingo Card Creator, the business I’m probably best known for, through FEI last year. Thomas Smale, the principal of that brokerage, is now a buddy of mine, and he agreed to chat with me a bit about what goes into buying and selling online businesses. I think it...

    50 min

  3. 06/03/2016

    Kalzumeus Podcast Episode 12: Salary Negotiation with Josh Doody

    Several years ago I wrote a blog post on salary negotiation for engineers. This probably created more value than anything else I’ve ever written — I have a folder in Gmail with thank-you messages from people, and my running total is something north of $2.3 million in added salary per...

    50 min

  4. 02/26/2015

    Kalzumeus Podcast Episode 11: Bootstrapping vs. Raising Money

    Keith and I are joined by special guest Jay Winder, CEO of MakeLeaps, in this 11th episode of the podcast.  We talk a bit about doing business in Japan, raising money vs. bootstrapping as a SaaS company, how AngelList is going to eat the world, and the usual eclectic mix of topics....

    1h 2m

  5. 01/15/2015

    Kalzumeus Podcast Episode 10: Putting the “Family” in Family Business

    Keith and I are back with the 10th episode of the podcast.  This time we’re talking about our wives and kids, how much they mean to us (lots!), and how we try to fit being good husbands/fathers around our mutual desire to keep growing the businesses.

    54 min

  6. 10/15/2014

    Kalzumeus Podcast Episode 9: Customer Onboarding With Samuel Hulick

    Samuel Hulick, one of the guys I trust most with regards to SaaS user onboarding, joined us for this episode of the podcast.  I met Sam first when he was writing a book on the topic.  The best evidence I can give you for the proposition “Sam knows more than the...

    1h 16m

  7. 07/24/2014

    Kalzumeus Podcast Episode 8: High Touch Software Sales with Steli Efti

    I recently met Steli Efti, founder of Close.io, in Palo Alto, and did a podcast episode with him.  Transcript and links below as per the usual.

    1h 18m

  8. 06/19/2014

    Kalzumeus Podcast Episode 7: Launching New Products

    Keith and I recorded a new episode of the podcast last year, but we didn’t get around to releasing it.

    1h 55m
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Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics.

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  • Creator
    Patrick McKenzie
  • Years Active
    2012 - 2017
  • Episodes
    16
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Show Website
    Kalzumeus Software