Hasty Treat - Costs of Running a Business

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the costs of running a business when you’re a solopreneur or solo founder.

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Show Notes

3:48 - Email

• GSuite
• Missive
• Drip
• Postmark
• Mailchimp
• Mandrill
• SendGrid
• Mailgun

10:44 - Transactional Costs

• Stripe
• PayPal
• Braintree

12:31 - Software

• Sketch
• Figma
• Screenflow
• iShowU
• DaVinci
• Notion
• Todoist
• Things
• Principle For Mac
• Textexpander
• Transmit
• Cyberduck

17:03 - Services

• PO Box

17:18 - Domains

• Hover
• Cloudflare
• Name.com
• Gandi

19:30 - Backup

• NAS
• Dropbox
• Backblaze
• S3

22:12 - Labor

• Assistant
• Part-time developer
• Contractors for projects

24:53 - Insurance

• Prescriptions
• Dental
• Optical
• Critical illness
• Home insurance is higher because of business

26:51 - Professional

• Accountant
• Lawyer
• Bookkeeper
• TransferWise

29:08 - Hosting

• CDNs
• Galaxy
• Heroku
• Dokku
• Netlify
• Compose
• Vimeo
• Amazon S3
• Digital Ocean
• Now.sh
• Bluehost
• mlab

34:16 - Travel

• Taxi / Hotel
• Dinner
• Transportation
• Uber

Links

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