Use Sam's secret growth sauce: generate more traffic with HubSpot's Free Landing Page Builder 🔥 https://clickhubspot.com/f3l Episode 553: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) talk to Syed Balkhi about the business ideas he would go after if he wasn’t already running WPBeginner. Watch Syed's $0 To +$100M story here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzHdrQ5pDFo — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (3:30) Offshore bookkeeping (6:00) Level it up with reseller and white label (9:30) Sourcing your outsourced talent (13:00) Barnacle on the Whale: Quickbooks plugins (20:00) The most powerful idea of our generation (23:30) X but open source (x= popular platform) (28:30) Creating disproportionate value (32:30) Flavors of capital funds (40:30) Is $10-50M the perfect amount in the bank? (46:30) First you own your things, then they own you (48:30) The true cost of luxury (53:30) Paid marketing vs. acquiring resellers (59:00) Compounding goodwill is the best form of compounding — Links: • Syed Balkhi Twitter - https://twitter.com/syedbalkhi • WPBeginner - https://www.wpbeginner.com/ • Appflowy - https://www.appflowy.io/ • Stability AI - https://stability.ai/ • Cal.com - http://cal.com/ • OSS Capital Twitter - http://tinyurl.com/ynvpmu7j • Automattic - https://automattic.com/ • WooCommerce - https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/ • CleanShot X - https://cleanshot.com/ • GitLab - https://about.gitlab.com/ • Guy Spier - https://www.guyspier.com/ — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire global talent (like Shaan does) and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than their US equivalents. — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth 💰 Pitch your startup for a shot at a $1M investment with Sam Parr as the MC https://clickhubspot.com/pitch My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano For more quality videos subscribe here → https://tinyurl.com/46rjnckx 🔔 Turn on notifications to stay updated with new uploads