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From The Product Bus comes The Bootstrap: Building Startups from Scratch - your source of news and practical support for early stage founders. The Bootstrap unpacks strategies that any founder can apply to make smart, data-informed decisions as they navigate the early stages of building a startup. We focus on helping founders avoid the common pitfalls that stop many great ideas from becoming a reality. Each episode host Scotty Allen (Founder of The Product Bus) is joined by a guest who brings their experience and subject matter to a specific topic with practical, actionable strategies that founders can take away and apply immediately to their own business. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Product Bus hosts The Bootstrap - Building Startups from Scratch, a business show with 75 episodes published.
Natalie Ellis, who has just joined The Product Bus full time as Partner & CEO, joins host Scotty Allen to talk about fractional leadership, particularly in the product strategy space. We discuss the pros and cons of frac
Scotty speaks with Callum Holt, software engineer at Shopfront and 13 Labs founder, to explain Agentic AI for early-stage founders. They also discuss the rapid rise of OpenClaw — an open-source AI tool making waves for b
In our first episode of 2026 Scotty Allen speaks with Yaniv Bernstein, ex-Google, Chief Product Officer of Vera, and host of The Startup Podcast, about how AI is changing what it takes to build a startup in 2026, what "t
Founder Friday is about works still in progress. Learning from success stories is important, but learning from founders still in the thick of getting to market is just as useful - and sometimes much more realistic. This
In this episode Scotty is joined by Summer Howarth - director of Eventful Learnings Co - to discuss what is involved in maintaining a founder led business and how Summer's experience, interest and expertise in learning d
This week on Founder Friday Scotty is joined by founder of Filament Analytics Tom Maitland. Filament is an automated data warehouse that unifies business data, making it easy to analyse with natural language. Tom speaks
In this Industry Episode Scotty talks to Scott Glew - co-founder of Fastvue and also the network Morning Startup - based in Western Australia. Exploring Scott's journey in bootstrapping Fastvue to great success, in what
This Founder Friday Scotty is joined by Jesse Gordon, founder of Study Pulse, to talk about the early journey bootstrapping journey in ed tech; including all the learnings and reflections involved in the process. Jesse i
Community means a lot of things to a lot of different people in the startup ecosystem. But someone who has been doing something or several really interesting things in that space is our guest today, Amber Main. She is an
In this Founder Friday Scotty is joined by Nathan MacPhee, founder of Invest Inya Farmer (IIF) to discuss how bootstrapping proved effective for IIF in the early idea validation stage. Find out more at: iif.today Founder
If you've been around the startup space for more than a hot second, you certainly have heard the terms low code and no code. Today we have someone that is going to help us understand what they mean, how they might be bes
If you are building a digital product and you want other people to use it, then there is probably a cybersecurity element that has to be considered at some point. When is too soon to be focusing on that? When is it too l
In this week of Founder Friday Scotty is joined by Chris Rickard, founder and CEO of Userdoc. Exploring how his background and experience, particularly in agencies, led to the creation of Userdoc and what advice he can g
This week on Founder Friday we are replaying a conversation with start up mentor and coach Matt Ainsworth, originally published in October of 2023, Matt and Scotty discuss effective strategies for idea validation and how
Are we sick of talking about AI yet? We're going to have to continue to talk about it for some time to come, it's becoming ubiquitous in our everyday life. On other levels, particularly when it comes to business and busi
Founder Friday is about works still in progress. Learning from success stories is important, but learning from founders still in the thick of getting to market is just as useful - and sometimes much more realistic. In th
As AI transforms the kind of tech we’re using and job we’re doing, are any of the “old” product and sales playbooks still relevant when it comes to B2B Software as a Service? And if not, what should we be doing instead?
In our latest Founder Friday episode we're chatting to Sean Duffy, CEO and Founder of Stackle - an EdTech tool that is gaining momentum in the High Ed Space. Sean shares the journey and learnings to date with some strong
It's a Scotty solo episode! Occasionally we'll be including an episode that is a (hot or not) take from our host Scotty Allen, and in this first edition he's going to reveal the Top Three Startup Pitches that need to go
In this Founder Friday we are joined by Pip Stocks, founder of The Startup Muse. With two decades building, advising, and investing in customer-led businesses, Pip has founded twp ventures in Brandhook and Hearsay. Now b
Natalie Ellis
CEO & Co-Founder Of bossbabe · The Product Bus
1 appearance on this show
Summer Howarth
The Eventful Learning Company
1 appearance on this show
Dr Paul Browning
Headmaster · St. Paul’s School, Brisbane
1 appearance on this show
Craig Brown
CBE, former Director and ambassador at Aberdeen Football Club, former Director of Football Development and International Team Manager at the Scottish Football Association · European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
1 appearance on this show
Sean Duffy
U.S. Transportation Secretary · Big River Coalition
1 appearance on this show
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