Microconf Recap

Growth 2019

• Rob Walling: The State of Bootstrapping in 2019
• Taylor Hendricksen: 80/20 Marketing – what's crushing it right now
• Chris Savage: How an Offer to Sell Wistia Inspired Us to Take On $17M in Debt
• Jason Fried: Q+A with Jason Fried
• Joanna Wiebe: Money Words: Seven of the words and phrases we use most often in high-converting copy
• Alli Blum: The Root of the Retention Problem: How to Get the Qualitative Data You Need to Understand and Stop Churn
• Travis Jamison: The 80/20 of SEO For Software & Service Companies – What it Takes in 2019
• Sophia Dagnon: When's it time to pay for help?
• Michele Hansen: How to Get Useful User Feedback
• Sahil Lavingia: Reflecting on my failure to make gumroad a billion-dollar company
• Patti Haus: More Users, More Sales, and More High Fives
• Adam DuVander: SaaS Integration Strategies That Won't Drive You Crazy
• Charles Max Wood: Sponsorships the Devchat Way
• Jonathan Zacks: SEO for Startups
• Hanne Vervaeck: How to read your customers' mind and develop a best-in-class product
• Patrick McKenzie: Microconf Advice
• Patrick Campbell: Leverage, Truth, and Fear

Starter 2019

• Patrick Campbell: Pricing
• Christopher Gimmer: From desk job to startup founder: how multiple side projects lead to a $60k mrr saas business.
• Abi Noda: From side project to full-time business in 8 months
• Omar Zenhom: From 0 to 14,000 customers: the survival guide to bootstrapping a SaaS
• Christian Genco: Microconf Starter 2018 Recap
• Lianna Patch: 9 Ways to Write Higher-Converting Copy
• Laura Lopuch: How to double your conversion rate on cold outreach
• Rob Walling: Question and Answer with Rob Walling
• Asia Matos: How to acquire your first 100 customers
• Becky Davis: CRO: the art and science of guiding the drunk
• Ben Orenstein: Idea to validation to launch: the first 365 days of Tuple

Starter 2018

• Justin Jackson: An Unconventional Way to Validate Your Product Idea
• Adam Wathan: Nailing Your First (Info-Product) Launch
• Alli Blum: Putting the (Onboarding) Cart Before the (Product) Horse
• Chris Achard: How to Conduct a Great User Interview
• Matthew Du Pont: Cold email to get informational interviews - a 9-item checklist
• James Tayler: Why there is no downside in going for it
• Thomas Smale: Lessons From Over 100 Million Dollars in Deals
• Mike Taber: Following up... Without looking and feeling like a dirt bag
• Patrick McKenzie: Your First 60 Days
• Mojca Žove (Mars): How to Launch and Scale Your Business With Facebook Ads
• Garrett Dimon: It Won't Be A Straight Line: A Founder's Journey Starting Growing And Selling A SaaS
• Marie Poulin: The Sustainable SaaS: What Permaculture Can Teach Us About Building Software
• Courtland Allen: Navigating the Startup Landscape

Growth 2018

• Justin Mares: How We've Taken Fomo 20 -> 80K MRR in 18 Months
• Dave Collins: SEO Tasks That Produce Results
• Nadya Khoja: 12 Principles Of Viral Content
• Patrick Collison: Q+A With Patrick Collison, Co-Founder of Stripe
• Dave Kiss: The Case Against Growth
• Ryan Buckley: The Path to Parallel Entrepreneurship
• Brian Casel: How My Weekly Podcast Runs Itself
• Rob Walling: 12 Lessons I learned Moving from Bootstrapped to Venture Backed
• Lianna Patch: How to Be Funny (Even If You’re Not): Improv-Inspired Copywriting Tips for Software Founders
• Val Geisler: The Dinner Party Strategy: A SaaS Customer Onboarding Framework That Connects and Converts
• Matt Molter: Micropreneur Hiring, get the right team so you can relax a little
• Chad DeShon: Everything You've Learned at MicroConf is Wrong*
• Brian Parks, CFA: When and How to Acquire and Invest Capital into Your SaaS Business
• Ankur Nagpal: From $0 To $10M ARR: The Tactics We Used To Scale Teachable
• Anna Jacobsen: Stop Aiming At Happiness: Unconventional Wisdom for Customer Success
• Claire Suellentrop: How To Use Jobs To Be Done To Perfect Your Positioning
• Jordan Gal: The Killer Combo Of Free Content With Paid Promotion

Past Recaps

• Shai Schechter: Microconf Recap 2017
• remarq.io: Microconf Recap 2016
• Kai Davis: Microconf Recap 2015