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Smart Bear Live

by Jason Cohen

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About the show

A room of founders, a different crew for each episode, taking the time to dig into the details of a real, live business, being brutally honest with facts (and with love for people), being vulnerable (but with hope), explaining our approach, mindset, frameworks, and life experiences, so that listeners learn tactics but also strategic thinking, and the star of the show — the founder in the arena — makes progress. No ads, no affiliate links, no heavy editing, no follow-on courses or consulting. We're doing this for each other and for the love the game. It's a workshop, but also it's therapy. Because for founders, there's little distinction.

Latest episodes

E09 w/ Jon Sturgeon: AI changed his agency's model. Should he grow or sell?

October 4, 2026 · 1 hr 54 min

Mario Peshev reduced his agency from 60 to 30 employees thanks to his own AI innovations. But almost nobody there is working on landing new clients.Pouring money into sales means building a machine he has never had. He could sell, but then…
E08: Creating customer interview questions before you have customers

September 27, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min

He built it, and they didn't come.Rison Simon built PainPointy to scan Reddit so that marketers could learn the pain points of their customers and come up with article ideas. The problem is he's never had more than six customers. So he has…
E07 w/ Dan Martell: 1 big logo won't get him the next 10

September 20, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min

How can George Paladichuk take his startup NaiL from 1 huge customer, to the next 100 customers? Cohost Dan Martell and I dig in: A candid working session including: - finding early adopters in public data- reading job postings to find…
E06 w/ Bryce Adams: Pivoting his strategy into his strengths

September 13, 2026 · 1 hr 41 min

Carl Alexander built Ymir — a serverless AWS platform that deploys WordPress and PHP applications onto a customer's own AWS account — and the twenty-five customers who run production stores on it never leave. They also all pay $39 a month…
E05 w/ Laura Roeder: Scared to commit to his best customers

September 6, 2026 · 2 hr 2 min

Hasan Cagli tripled PostPlanify to $3K MRR the month he started selling to agencies instead of indie hackers. The agencies use it every day, ask for features, and stay. Everyone else signs up, pokes around, and churns. Which means the…
E04 w/ Dr. Sherry Walling: He built a great business, but it doesn't feel like it

August 30, 2026 · 1 hr 57 min

Every founder faces this eventually. You spend every waking second just trying not to fail completely, so when it's actually working, you barely recognize it and don't know what to do with yourself. That's where Patrik Inzinger is…
E03 w/ Craig Hewitt: Restarting growth after stuck at €16k/mo

August 23, 2026 · 2 hr 31 min

Tiago Ferreira and João Amaro bootstrapped their AI podcast-repurposing tool Podsqueeze from zero to €16K/mo in less than a year, but then watched it sit flat for two years despite more features, better SEO, and free trials. Cohost Craig…
E02 w/ Rob Walling: $1M ARR, how to expand into a new market

August 16, 2026 · 2 hr 14 min

DropInBlog's Jesse Schoberg has 2,000 happy customers, 2% monthly churn, a Bangkok-nomad life—and a growth curve that has plateaued. I and co-host Rob Walling tear into the real problem: a proven new cohort without a go-to-market plan. Two…