543: Stackify: Hard Work, Daily Persistence, Continuous Improvement, Constant Focus, and Brand Innovation with Matt Watson

Matt Watson is the Founder & CEO of Stackify. He has been a developer/hacker for over 15 years and loves solving hard problems with code. He sold his first startup, VinSolutions, for $150 million and started Stackify to solve the biggest challenge he had as the CTO of VinSolutions. Matt is skilled at SEO, blogging and content marketing. Stackify receives hundreds of thousands of monthly visits as a result of Matt’s successful content marketing.

Quotes:                                                                                                                                   

“One of the best things somebody ever told me is to try to aim to get 1% better every day. And over the course of a month, you get 30% better.” – Matt Watson

“Business is tough, and so you just have to keep grinding through it.” - Matt Watson

“It's hard to be an entrepreneur. There's no doubt about it. It's just the daily persistence of chipping away at it.” - Matt Watson

Takeaways:

01:28 Daily 1% improvements compound into significant growth over time.

16:24 Content marketing is crucial for reaching hard-to-access professional audiences like software developers.

22:29 Entrepreneurs must focus on growth and be willing to work on tasks outside their comfort zone.

24:09 Simplifying complex data into an easy-to-understand score can be a powerful product differentiator.

26:33 Persistence and hard work are the most critical factors in entrepreneurial success.

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