Overview<\/p>\n
Making the leap from employee or freelancer to plugin business owner is daunting to say the least. Building a successful plugin business while working full-time on other things seems next to impossible. Yet plenty of people have done it including me.<\/p>\n
In this talk, I’ll layout a roadmap for how you can build a product, what you should do, what you should avoid, and all backed up by stories from my experiences and those of my friends who have plugin businesses.<\/p>\n
5 Things Audience Members Will Learn<\/p>\n
1. How to come up with a product idea: aspirin vs vitamin
\n2. Why your first product shouldn’t be a SaaS
\n3. How to make time to work on your product
\n4. Why you should hire at the very start
\n5. How to live very well while self-funding your product development<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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