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#46 - Josh Comeau - How to Have an Amazing Course Launch
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Josh is a senior software developer from Montreal. He’s worked at organizations like Khan Academy, DigitalOcean, and Gatsby, and is now working as an independent course creator. He recently released CSS for JavaScript Developers, an interactive learning experience designed to help JavaScript developers become confident with CSS. Josh's Links CSS fo…
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#45 - Gonto - Billion Dollar Marketing Practices
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Gonto is a software engineer turned marketer who is a strong proponent of the “engineering approach to marketing”. He spent seven years at Auth0 where he led marketing and helped grow the company to 9 figures before it’s sale to Okta for $6.5b. Gonto is now running his own company as co-founder of Hypergrowth Partners, a sweat equity advisor that i…
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#44 - Monica Lent - How to Build a Blog with Great SEO
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Monica Lent is a software engineer and former engineering manager who has been coding since the age of 10. Her main focus now is Affilimate, a SaaS product which provides a unified dashboard and content analytics for affiliates. Monica also writes a weekly newsletter called Blogging for Devs which teaches developers about blogging and SEO. Monica's…
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#43 - Arvid Kahl - How to Build and Sell a SaaS Company
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Arvid is a software engineer, entrepreneur, and writer. He co-founded and bootstrapped FeedbackPanda, an online teacher productivity SaaS company with his partner Danielle Simpson. They sold the business for a life-changing amount of money in 2019, two years after founding the company. He writes on TheBootstrappedFounder.com to share his experience…
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#42 - Michael Lynch - How to Hit the Front Page of Hacker News
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Michael is a developer and blogger who has worked as a software engineer at Microsoft and Google. He left Microsoft in 2018 to try building his own businesses. His current business is TinyPilot, where he makes $15,000/month selling an open source server administration device. He recently created his first first-ever video course, entitled Hit the F…
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#41 - Hassan El Mghari - Building/Selling a Game Publishing Company and How to Stay Productive
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Hassan is a two-time startup founder, consultant, and final year student majoring in Computer Engineering. He founded UltraShock Gaming, a game marketing startup with a community of 500,000 members on Steam, and ran it for five years before selling it. He's passionate about startups and solving problems using software. Hassan's Links Hassan's Blog …
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#40 - Kyle Mathews - How To Know If You Should Start a Startup
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Kyle Mathews is the founder and CEO of Gatsby, one of the most popular frameworks around for creating websites with React. After authoring Gatsby as an open source project in 2015, he later started a company of the same name to take it even further. He's fascinated by technology, open source, and making the web better. Kyle's Links Gatsby Kyle and …
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#39 - Shawn Wang (swyx) - How to Launch Your Product and Sustain Revenue
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Shawn Wang (aka swyx) is an Infinite Builder passionate about Developer Tooling and Developer Communities. He currently works as a Senior Developer Advocate for AWS Amplify and recently published the Coding Career Handbook for Junior to Senior developer careers. In his free time he teaches React, TypeScript, Storybook and Node.js CLI's at Egghead.i…
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#38 - Peter Piekarczyk - Going From Solopreneur to Startup Co-Founder
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Peter (PieCarChick) Piekarczyk is the co-founder and CTO of Draftbit, a platform that helps teams build React Native and Expo apps visually. He's been an entrepreneur his whole life but still has trouble spelling the word. Peter's built and maintained projects for React Native, React Navigation, Apollo GraphQL and now ReasonML. He strongly believes…
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#37 - Greg Thomas - The Benefits of Writing for a Specific Audience
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Greg is a veteran software developer, a consultant, and is the author of Code Your Way Up, a guide for junior developers to rise to the challenge of team leadership roles. When not coding, Greg can be found coaching his kid’s sports or fixing up his cottage. Greg has two free coupons for his book for the first two to get in touch with him. To get a…
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#36 - Joe Eames - Building and Running a Conference Business
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Joe is the CEO of Thinkster.io where he works to improve online learning for developers. He also organizes ng-conf, React Conf, and the Framework Summit. He gives a lot of talks and workshops, is a Google Developer Expert, and loves board games, Dungeons and Dragons, and Star Wars. Joe's Links Joe on Twitter Thinkster Joe on Pluralsight ng-conf 10k…
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#35 - Noah Labhart - Leaving Corporate America to Build a Startup
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Noah is the CTO and cofounder of Veryable and the founder and CEO of Touchtap, a digital solutions studio. A tech veteran himself, he’s intimately familiar with the challenges, risks and rewards of introducing new tech into the world. Noah is also the host of CodeStory, a podcast featuring tech leaders, reflecting on their human story in creating w…
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#34 - Helen Ryles - Building and Selling Side-Projects
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Helen is a full time project manager and helps out with support for MakerPad and TransistorFM. She’s the founder of NamesAce, PodWords and OfficeHourCards. Helen is a strong proponent of side-projects and helps makers understand how they can benefit from creating and selling their own side hustle. Helen's Links NamesAce PodWords OfficeHourCards Hel…
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#33 - Scott Mathson - Bootstrapping a Profitable Side Project
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Scott is the Senior Web Strategy Manager at Netlify and the bootstrapped founder of Plink. Plink makes smart podcast links that podcasters love and listeners deserve. Scott has been working remotely full-time in software and tech for over a decade, previously with Auth0 and onXmaps. With a background in woodworking, audio production, songwriting, a…
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#32 - Randall Kanna - How To Rapidly Build a Twitter Audience
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Randall is a senior software engineer and published O’Reilly author and has worked at companies such as Eventbrite and Pandora in the past. She’s currently finishing up her second book, a guide on helping developers land jobs. Randall's Links The Standout Developer Randall on Twitter Randall's Website Smart Contract Development…
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#31 - Zeno Rocha - Monetizing an Open Source Project
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Zeno Rocha is the Chief Product Officer at Liferay Cloud, a newly created Liferay, Inc division. His lifelong appreciation for building software and sharing knowledge led him to speak in over 110 conferences all over the world. He’s now focused on bringing the cloud revolution to the enterprise market while also building and selling digital product…
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#30 - Philip Kiely - Nailing a Book Launch With Only 13 Twitter Followers
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Philip is a developer, writer, and entrepreneur who focuses on where code and words intersect. He has written for the likes of CSS tricks, Smashing Magazine, and Twilio. He’s a very recent college grad and is the author of Writing for Software Developers which is available now. Philip's Links Writing for Software Developers Who Pays Technical Write…
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#29 - Christopher Gimmer - Bootstrapping a SaaS Product to $1,000,000 ARR
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Christopher is an entrepreneur and investor and is the co-founder of Snappa, a self-funded SaaS app that helps non-designers create online graphics. Christopher left his day job in 2014 to work on startups full-time and has been focusing on business and investing ever since. Christopher's Links Snappa Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive…
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#28 - Saron Yitbarek - The Business of Running a Tech Conference
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Saron is a developer, international tech speaker, and podcaster, and is the founder of the recently acquired CodeNewbie, the most supportive community around for people learning to code. She’s the host of the Command Line Heros podcast and you can find her online at saron.io. Saron's Links Codeland Saron's Website Saron on Twitter…
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#27 - Dan Wahlin - How to Establish Yourself as an Entrepreneurial Coder
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Dan founded Wahlin Consulting which provides training and architecture services on front-end and back-end web technologies, Docker/Kubernetes, and Cloud technologies. He’s published multiple courses on Pluralsight.com and is a Docker Captain, Microsoft MVP/Regional Director, and Google GDE. Dan speaks at multiple conferences and runs the Code with …
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#26 - Marc-André Giroux - The Road to a $70,000 E-Book Launch
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Marc is a GraphQL expert who currently works as a platform interface engineer at Github where he builds GraphQL APIs. He previously did the same at Shopify and the experience from both of these roles has led him to write his new book, “Production Ready GraphQL”. Marc is also a frequent conference speaker and travels the world to share his knowledge…
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#25 - Jamon Holmgren - Scaling Up and Sustaining an Agency
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Jamon is a co-founder and the CTO of Infinite Red, an app design and development studio specializing in UX/UI design and React Native. He’s also the organizer of ChainReactConf, a two-day conference focusing on React Native in Portland, OR. Jamon's Links Jamon on Twitter Jamon's Website Chain React Building Infinite Red Podcast Building Infinite Re…
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#24 - Dominic Monn - How to Test Ideas and Ship Products Quickly
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Dominic Monn is a Machine Learning engineer and product founder from Zurich, Switzerland. He has created a number of products focused around communities, including MentorCruise, a mentorship resource, RemoteML, a remote machine learning community, and Intravert, an online billboard for communities. Dominic's Links MentorCruise Dominic on Twitter Do…
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#23 - Eve Porcello & Alex Banks - How to Build a Business as a Workshop Instructor
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Eve and Alex operate Moon Highway where they teach cutting edge JavaScript to developers of all skill levels. They are the authors of Learning GraphQL and Learning React for O’Reilly and they have a workshop offering focused on full stack GraphQL. When not coding, they enjoy their time in beautiful Lake Tahoe. Eve and Alex's Links Moon Highway Eve …
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#22 - Kelly Vaughn - How To Build a Successful Agency
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Kelly is a front end developer and entrepreneur who runs The Taproom Agency, a marketing agency specializing in building excellent Shopify storefronts. She’s a Shopify Plus partner, co-host of the Ladybug Podcast, and runs the most important store on the web, dev merch at kvlly.com. Kelly's Links Kvlly.com Kelly on Twitter The Taproom Agency Ladybu…
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#21 - Preethi Kasireddy - The Tradeoffs Between Entrepreneurship and Employment
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Preethi is engineer, author, and blogger who writes on a wide range of topics at her site, preethikasireddy.com. She’s the author of “Fundamentals of Functional Programming” which focuses on teaching functional programming from a beginner’s mindset. Preethi is an avid traveler and you can find her on Instagram at preethikasireddy where you can foll…
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#20 - Michaela Greiler - How to Pick Which Business Idea to Focus On
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Dr. Michaela Greiler helps software teams build high-quality software in an efficient and effective way. Her mission is to lead teams to unlock their full potential in company workshops and during team coaching sessions. She specializes in teaching effective code review techniques. Michaela's Links michaelagreiler.com Podcast: Software Engineering …
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#19 - Kent C. Dodds - How To Replace Your Salary by Creating Content
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Kent is a world renowned speaker, teacher, and trainer and he's actively involved in the open source community as a maintainer and contributor of hundreds of popular npm packages. Kent is the creator of TestingJavaScript.com and he's an instructor on egghead.io and Frontend Masters. He's also a Google Developer Expert. Kent is happily married and t…
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#18 - Shirley Wu - How To Be A Successful Niche Freelancer
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Shirley is an award-winning creative who focuses on art and data visualizations. She’s a freelancer who helps companies with tough data visualization problems. In her spare time, Shirley enjoys traveling and spending time with family and friends. Shirley's Links Shirley's Website Shirley's Twitter Work For Money, Design For Love Data Visualization …
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#17 - Greg Schier - How I Built and Sold Insomnia
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Greg is a developer, product creator, and entrepreneur from Montreal, Canada. He built Insomnia, a cross-platform and open source tool for debugging REST and GraphQL APIs that is loved by developers around the world. When not building beautiful products, Greg can be found cooking tasty dishes, going for a run, or eating a burrito. Greg's Links Inso…
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#16 - Daniel Vassallo - Why I Left a $500k/year Job at AWS to Work For Myself
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Daniel is a software engineer and entrepreneur who recently took the plunge to go independent. Before that, he was with Amazon for 8 years where he worked on building tools for developers and was handsomely rewarded, getting up to a half million dollar per year salary prior to leaving. Daniel lives with his family in Seattle where he is now focusin…
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#15 - Joel Hooks - The Benefits of Building a Calm Company
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Joel is a software developer living outside Portland, OR who is passionate about home educating his 5 kids. Joel helps run egghead.io, the internet’s best resource for teaching developers modern programming. When not running egghead or hanging out with his family, Joel likes to read, cook, and spend time with his local community of friends. Joel's …
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#14 - Kitze - Github Stars Won't Pay Your Rent
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Kitze is a JavaScript developer and founder of React Academy where he teaches React and GraphQL around the world. He's the maker of Sizzy - the browser for designers and developers and he's documenting his journey building Sizzy on YouTube. He’s made products like JSUI, Twizzy, Lucky Retweet, OK Google, and more. Kitze's Links GitHub stars won't pa…
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#13 - Sean Grove - What It's Like to Go Through Y Combinator, Twice
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Sean is a software engineer turned startup founder who has gone through Y-Combinator twice - first in the summer of 2011 with a company called Bushido, and more recently in Summer of 2018 with a company called OneGraph. In the gap, he ran engineering for a payments company, gave dozens of conference talks, contributed to several open-source project…
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#12 - Jason Resnick - How to Network and Stand Out by Serving
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Jason's Bio Jason Resnick helps freelancers discover their niche, plan out and market themselves to build recurring revenue, and stay in the feast. So that they can live the life that they want and ultimately reach the goals of why they started their own business in the first place. He has run his own web development business since 2010 helping est…
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#11 - Chris Ferdinandi - Building an Audience by Being Consistent
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Chris's Bio Chris Ferdinandi helps people learn vanilla JavaScript. He believes there’s a simpler, more resilient way to make things for the web. Chris is the author of the Vanilla JS Pocket Guide series, creator of the Vanilla JS Academy training program, and host of the Vanilla JS Podcast. His developer tips newsletter is read by thousands of dev…
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#10 - Nader Dabit - How to Be a Prosperous Software Consultant
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Nader Dabit is a web and mobile developer currently working as a Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services. He's also the founder of React Native Training, the author of React Native In Action, & the creator of React Native Elements and an aspiring futurist. When he's not programming he's probably traveling, spending time with his family, or readin…
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#9 - Jeff Cross - Leaving Google and The Secrets of Enterprise Sales
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Jeff Cross is the CEO of Nrwl (Narwhal), where he works with the world's best companies to develop highly-collaborative software engineering organizations. Prior to Narwhal, Jeff was one of the early members of the Angular team at Google and tech lead of the Angular Mobile team. Jeff's Links NrwlPar Ryan Chenkie
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#8 - Chris Sevilleja - How to Build Traffic and Generate Revenue for Your Blog
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Chris is a full stack developer from Las Vegas, NV and is the founder of the popular web development tutorial site Scotch.io. He is a Google Developer Expert in web technologies and is a frequent live-coder on Twitch. When not coding he can be found rolling up the Vegas strip in his Model 3 or squatting, bench-pressing, or deadlifting major weight.…
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#7 - Justin Jackson - The Ups and Downs of Building a SaaS
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Justin the co-founder of Transistor.fm, a podcast hosting and analytics platform. He's worked with SaaS companies since 2008, mostly as a Product Manager. Justin also runs a community for bootstrappers called MegaMaker. Justin's Links Justin's Website Justin on Twitter Build Your SaaS Transistor.fm on Baremetrics Rewardful Affiliate Links Profit Fi…
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#6 - Eric Elliott - Effective and Impactful Content Marketing
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Eric Elliott is a distributed systems expert, and author of the books "Programming JavaScript Applications" and "Composing Software". He builds and advises development teams for crypto projects, and has contributed to software experiences for Adobe Systems, Zumba Fitness, The Wall Street Journal, ESPN, BBC, and top recording artists including Usher…
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#5 - Jesse Sanders - Building and Scaling a Consultancy
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Jesse is the founder and CEO of BrieBug Software and an Angular Google Developer Expert (GDE). He regularly speaks around the world on Angular and related web technologies to inform and inspire developers on how to build the next generation of web applications. He regularly teaches workshops on Angular fundamentals, NgRx, and advanced Angular topic…
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#4 - Jeff Whelpley - How to Experiment with Startups
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Jeff Whelpley is the CTO and co-founder of GetHuman, one of the most popular websites in the world for customer service information and tools. He is also a Google Developer Expert and a leader in the tech community, organizing a number of local meetups in Boston and speaking at many different tech conferences around the globe. Jeff's Sites GetHuman…
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#3 - Tracy Lee - From Startup Exit to Building a Top-Tier Consultancy
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Tracy is the Co-Founder of This Dot Labs, a consultancy helping teams build front end applications and is focused on hiring women. She is also a Google Developer Expert, RxJS Core Team member, a Women Techmakers Lead, and a frequent keynote speaker at conferences. She heads up Community Relations at Node Foundation, is the host of the Modern Web po…
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#2 - Brad Hussey - How to Get Freelancing Freedom
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A web developer by trade, Brad is an entrepreneur and educator who lives in Southern Alberta with his wife and two children. He teaches people how to get their start in the world of web design, and has helped hundreds of thousands of students learn how to design and code beautiful websites. Brad's mission is to teach aspiring entrepreneurs how to s…
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#1 - Adam Wathan - Creating and Launching Courses for Developers
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Adam is a full-stack developer and entrepreneur from Canada. He's an active contributor in the Laravel and Vue communities, the host of the Full Stack Radio podcast, and the creator of Tailwind CSS. He runs his own business creating books and courses for other developers full-time. Links Blog Posts The $61,392 Book Launch That Let Me Quit My Job Ad…
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