{"id":205,"date":"2019-10-10T06:15:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T06:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pagely.com\/podcast\/?post_type=episodes&#038;p=205"},"modified":"2020-07-02T20:50:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T20:50:13","slug":"ep-9-mike-roberts","status":"publish","type":"episodes","link":"https:\/\/pagely.com\/podcast\/episodes\/ep-9-mike-roberts\/","title":{"rendered":"Bootstrapping a multi-million dollar company and reshaping the landscape of search marketing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Roberts started SpyFu back in 2005 and has managed to grow it to become a healthy, profitable, entirely-bootstrapped company having never taken investment. This has given him a lot of freedom in terms of how he runs things and latitude to maintain a course with the business that closely aligns with his values. In this interview we discuss points from Mike&#8217;s talk at PressNomics 6 on what staying bootstrapped affords you, advice for early-stage companies intending to not raise capital, some gangster veteran tips about how to handle your ISP when your internet goes down and the &#8220;finer points&#8221; of Segway jousting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-205","1":"episodes","2":"type-episodes","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"odd"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagely.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/episodes\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagely.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/episodes"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagely.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/episodes"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pagely.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pagely.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/episodes\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pagely.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagely.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}