Conversations With Bacon Archives

Michael Zipursky on Building an Incredible Consulting Business

by Jono Bacon | Jan 12, 2021 | Conversations With Bacon, Conversations With Bacon Frontpage

A while back when I was promoting People Powered, I was invited to go on a podcast all about consulting. As a consultant, it is rare that I get an opportunity to be interviewed about the business itself as opposed to the focus and subject of my work. Little did I know...

Lane Shackleton on Design, Product, and Coda

by Jono Bacon | Nov 11, 2020 | Conversations With Bacon, Conversations With Bacon Frontpage

Recently I was introduced to Coda – a platform that aims to re-invent the document – bridging live data, views, and more to enable people to collaborate more effectively together. What really struck me, aside from the technology, is how well designed and...

Allan Dib on Delivering Thoughtful Marketing

by Jono Bacon | Oct 28, 2020 | Conversations With Bacon, Conversations With Bacon Frontpage

I first discovered Allan Dib when I read his book, ‘The One Page Marketing Plan’. It was refreshing: there weren’t the glitzy, sensationalist, unrealistic techniques that some of the marketing gurus use – it was simple, effective, practical...

Mark Shuttleworth on Life, Business, and Ubuntu

by Jono Bacon | Oct 6, 2020 | Conversations With Bacon, Conversations With Bacon Frontpage

Mark Shuttleworth has weaved a fascinating story in his life so far. He founded and sold his company, Thawte, was the first South African in space, created one of the most popular open source projects, Ubuntu, and has built a successful company, Canonical. There is...

Ian Tien on Mattermost, Messaging, and Building a Business

by Jono Bacon | Sep 28, 2020 | Conversations With Bacon, Conversations With Bacon Frontpage

There is little doubt that realtime discussion, collaboration, and chat has had a significant impact on businesses and communities. While Slack has risen as a dominant leader, open source powered Mattermost has gone on to grow more and more significantly as a powerful...

John Vrionis on a New Approach to Venture Capital and Building Businesses

by Jono Bacon | Sep 20, 2020 | Conversations With Bacon, Conversations With Bacon Frontpage, Uncategorized

We are all familiar with the venture capital model: invest money into a company, provide advice and guidance to help them succeed, and work towards a positive exit. Unusual Ventures are taking a very different approach. Unusual focus on embedding members of their team...