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  <title>Episode 37: Starting an e-commerce store. Deep dive + Tips &amp; Tricks.</title>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2018 07:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Kent got into the Mission this week, and Nick has some questions. Most of the episode centers around the article Kent wrote about how to start an e-commerce store that doesn't dropship. It goes into the weeds around starting a business, finding and pricing products, Google vs. Facebook marketing and more. Nick also confronts Kent on the question of whether this was all an elaborate piece of content marketing</itunes:subtitle>
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  <title>Episode 28: Let's Jam | A Social Podcasting App</title>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2018 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Kent and Nick chat about a product idea: A social podcasting app.  Really interesting idea and lots of different directions it can go.  Let's jam!</itunes:subtitle>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Nick and Kent give their perspective on the age old debate between product and marketing. Where does product end and marketing begin, what should product people know about marketing? What should good marketers know about the product? How can you apply all of this to your side projects?

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&lt;p&gt;This is our most edited episode, please forgive the audio at points. &lt;/p&gt;
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