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Welcome to the Novice No Longer Podcast
Welcome to the Novice No Longer podcast! Every week, I’ll be talking to entrepreneurs, builders, designers, and journalists to give you information to help you build better products and get the press...
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001 : It’s never too late to become a coder with Will Larche
In this inaugural episode of the Novice No Longer Podcast, I’m joined by Will Larche, the Lead iOS Developer at LearnVest. This episode is a little different than the stuff I usually teach — I almost...
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(Short) 5 easy changes that will drastically improve your life
These are five little changes that will have the biggest impact on your life and productivity. This is a Novice No Longer Podcast short. Read the full article here:...
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002 : Getting press in a crowded marketplace with Daniel Howley
LAPTOP Magazine’s Daniel Howley joins me to talk about the do’s and don’ts about pitching your product to the press. Tech journalists’ email inboxes are particularly full this time of year because of...
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003 : Building the ultimate roommate finder with Ajay Yadav
What would you do if you came back to your apartment after a trip abroad to find out that your roommate had disappeared with the deposit, the locks had been changed, and your stuff was missing? I know...
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004 : Conquering the niche app and reaping the rewards with Massimo Biolcati
Some entrepreneurs spend their entire lives trying to build the Next Big Thing, but there’s another much more successful group of business owners: lifestyle entrepreneurs. The best part about being in...
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005 : Fostering good design when you’re artistically inept with Mike Blea
I first met Mike Blea (of Michael Blea Design) when I worked at LAPTOP Magazine. He was part of the magazine’s design team, building the magazine’s layout, mocking up covers, and helping with graphics...
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006 : Screw the Queue with Gabe Velez
Waiting in line sucks. It sucks so much that many people are willing to pay to avoid lines. Whether you’re dying to be the first with an iPhone 5S (without waiting 100 hours in line) or you want to...
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007 : Getting The Verge to take notice with Dan Seifert
When you’re launching a new product or service, getting press on a website like The Verge can really be the deciding factor between massive success and slipping into obscurity. Yet entrepreneurs still...
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008 : Securing your startup’s foundation with Nihal Parthasarathi
In this week’s episode of the podcast, I talk to Nihal Parthasarathi, the cofounder of CourseHorse, an online marketplace for finding and taking local classes. He shares the story of how CourseHorse...
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009 : Speaking Tech, the required language of the future with Vinay Trivedi
When you come from a non-technical background, listening to developers speak can sound a lot like FDJKFJ CJ KCDJK REJISJ KLSSJ K SKD. Fortunately, my guest this week is here to help. Vinay Trivedi is...
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010 : Getting Investor-Ready with Einas Ibrahim
Do you have an app or a business? Are you trying to find an investor? Do you really need an investor? Where can you even find an investor? What would you say to an interested investor? What’s the value...
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011 : Using Adwords for Rapid Business Growth with Brian Kaldenberg
Successful entrepreneurs aren’t the people who come up with brilliant, unique ideas. Instead, they’re the ones who solve people’s problems. If you’re banging your head against your desk trying to think...
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012 : Making Sex Tech Mainstream with Cindy Gallop
There’s a technology sector that has the potential for insanely high returns, yet no investor wants anywhere near it. On this week’s podcast, I talk to Cindy Gallop, founder of MakeLoveNotPorn.tv...
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013 : It’s not just SEO, it’s building a brand with John DeFeo
Search engine optimization (SEO) can mean a lot of things to a lot of different people. We all know the results of SEO — your website gets launched to the front page of Google search results, but very...
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014 : The User Doesn’t Always Need It Easy with Mona Patel
You probably have an idea for an app or website, and you think that people would use it, but how can you find out what will really happen when you put your product out into the world? The field of user...
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015 : Podcasting for business and pleasure with Steve Young
The Novice No Longer Podcast is getting meta. This week’s guest is the talented Steve Young, post of the Mobile App Chat podcast. I’m so excited to have another podcaster on the show because we get to...
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016 : When the consultant gets interns with Lis Hubert
I love talking to programmers who no longer spend majority of their time writing code. Having a background in software development bring such a unique and analytical perspective to even project, and...
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017 : Using apps to fund apps with Bobby Gill
I was really into zines when I was in high school. I spent almost all my time on alt.zines, spent way too much time hunting for old issues of Urban Hermitt, and constantly found myself browsing the...
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018 : Peering into the future of tech with Dan Howley
This episode of the podcast is a little different from the others. Usually my guests share their entrepreneurial stories, step-by-step, in order to help you on your journey. But sometimes we need to...
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019 : Passive income through YouTube and Kindle with Brian Yang
Most people think securing passive income is all about releasing a killer online product that generates a boatload of income and will continue to sell itself in perpetuity. With this mindset, people...
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020 : Gotta keep hustling with Laura and Sara of DigitalFlash
Have you ever gone to an event and thought it was just “meh”? Maybe you signed up because of the awesome lineup of panelists, but the questions posed by the moderator were just boring and there wasn’t...
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021 : Pitching, press, and passion with TechRadar’s Joe Osborne
When I was in high school, I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. I ended up taking a theater class as an elective freshman year (my mother’s suggestion) and loved it. I took more and more...
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022 : Why you should have started a blog yesterday
In this week’s podcast episode, I share how I escaped the retail world and got into tech journalism. It’s all because of a little personal website I started. I also explain how you, too, can benefit...
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023 : An entity’s warm blanket with Matthew Moisan
When I was talking to my friend Andrew about joining him to help co-found TripExpert, I was handed a big stack of legal papers to trudge through and eventually sign. As I was reading them, my eyes...
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024 : Becoming a life-long learner with Scott Britton
I first met Scott Britton when I took his in-person Skillshare class titled “30+ Life Hacks to have more money, time, energy, and well-being.” Since then, he’s built himself an empire, building his...
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025 : From Crash Bandicoot to a smarter inbox with Dave Baggett
How many unread emails do you have in your inbox? If you went all the way back to the very oldest unread email, do you think you’d actually need it? If not, why is it still there? When are you going to...
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026 : How to hire a coder without learning code
You have an idea for an app. Maybe you’ve even made some sketches or you have the full wireframes done. Now it’s time to hire a developer…but you don’t have any idea where to begin. In this episode of...
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027 : Growth hacking Guides.co with Franco Varriano
The growth tactics you use when your company is just starting out are different from when the company is a few months old. They change even more as the company grows to handle more and more users....
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028 : Better products through storytelling with Donna Lichaw
Storytelling has been a part of the human experience since the beginning of history (one of the reasons that we even have history). Our brains are wired to respond to stories — whether it’s an urban...
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029 : Novice No Longer goes back to apps
I was still working retail when I truly felt what it was like to be a novice. I was just starting the second chapter of a book on Objective-C (after two other books and a video course couldn’t help me)...
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030 : A carefully crafted app launch with Jeremy Olson
It’s easy to look at somebody like Jeremy Olson and think, “wow, this guy came out of nowhere and just dominated the app scene!” His created his first app, Grades, while still in college, and it won...
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031 : How to raise money to fund your app with Hunter Gray
In 2011, Hunter Gray turned his app idea into the capital needed in order to get the product built. In this episode of the podcast, he shares exactly how he pitched his idea for the original version of...
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032 : Building an app business not just a product with Dan Counsell
What is one of the biggest mistakes made by aspiring app entrepreneurs? Confusing a product with a business. If you build and release an app, you’re selling a product. What happens when sales dwindle?...
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033 : Bestselling indie games with A Dark Room’s Amir Rajan
awake. head throbbing. vision blurry. So begins one of the most unique games to ever hit the App Store. What follows is an experience that takes the player through a dystopian world that starts with...
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034 : The UX of time travel with SFCD Agency
It’s a seemingly simple problem — tell the user what time it is in different countries around the world — with an endless number of solutions. There are a few questions you need to ask yourself before...
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