Zack Burt talks with Dave Rael about software consulting, becoming an author, testing markets, and serving needs
Zack Burt is a developer and an entrepreneur. He's been programming for 20 years and consulting for 10 years and he truly loves programming. Over the years, he has worked for large companies and startups in both individual contributor and leadership roles. He is passionate about open source, both in submitting pull requests and launching open source projects. His first book is called Code For Cash and teaches developers about breaking into the world of freelance consulting; it's available at https://www.breakingintoconsulting.com. He lives in Manhattan where he enjoys playing basketball and meeting new and diverse people; he encourages you to ping him if you'd like to meet.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Zack Burt
- - Zack's practice of reading a book every week
- - Getting attention from building an app for the Facebook platform and learning about freelancing and marketing - ultimately writing a book
- - The nature of Zack's book, Code For Cash, and who should read it
- - Zack's marketing and business expertise and emphasis on proving a market before tackling it
- - Zach, the entrepreneur
- - The things that "light Zack up"
- - Zack's story of failure - inability to scale and misunderstanding the market, getting bitten by mishandling an interaction
- - Zack's success story - CompassionPit - providing therapeutic help for people in need via software that connected people
- - How Zack stays current with what he needs to know
- - Zack's book recommendation
- - The things that have Zack most excited
- - Zack's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Zack
Resources:
- Code For Cash - Break INto Consulting
- Zack's Book - Code For Cash - Get It For $5 With Code: onfire
- The Controversial Tai Lopez
- The Pareto Principle
- Alex Rampell
- DidTheyReadIt
- Cody Brocious
- 7 Cups of Tea
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell) - Joseph Campbell
- Streak - CRM in your inbox
Zack's book recommendation:
Zack's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Get yourself as close as you can to serving the core human needs of others
- Give first
- Do something that doesn't scale and figure out a way to scale it