Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 357 | Bryan Colligan - Dragon Slayer
Guest:
Bryan Colligan talks with Dave Rael about dragons, software, business, audio, and growth
Bryan Colligan is a 3 time founder and developer with over 15 years experience and 10 years of startup experience. Bryan loves building channels of growth has helped multiple companies Hack Growth and expand their customer base including, TalkDesk, Equidate, Sliced Investing, Lumity, Sendoso and Aquila(A-Quill-A). Currently Bryan spends his time advising companies and growing AlphaVoice a podcast marketing platform.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Bryan Colligan
- - Why Bryan uses dragons as the symbol for problems to tackle
- - Bryan, the entrepreneur
- - The story of the Panama Canal and relevance to building products and businesses
- - How Bryan got started in software
- - AlphaVoice - what Bryan is building
- - Bryan's immense interest in audio
- - Discoverability of internet content and learning
- - Why Bryan is creating products and why voice is so compelling
- - Bryan's story of failure - buliding unwanted technology
- - Bryan's book recommendations
- - Bryan's top 2 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Bryan
Resources:
- AlphaVoice
- AlphaVoice on Twitter
- Back to the Future - Doc Brown - "We don't need roads"
- Dr. Jordan Peterson
- The Flinch - Julien Smith
- Julien Smith on the Bulletproof podcast
- Johannes Gutenberg
- Printing Press
- Dominance Hierarchy
- Her (film)
- Jaron Lanier
- Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now - Jaron Lanier
- Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products - Nir Eyal
- Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth - Gabriel Weinberg
Bryan's book recommendation:
Bryan's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Be as good as you can with estimation so you don't lose credibility
- Be empathetic and pay attention to people when they're speaking
