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Published: March 6, 2016, 6:15 p.m.

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EP 191 Tony Stubblebine, the CEO and co-founder at Coach.me. Listen as Nathan and Tony talk about different branches of coaching and the latter\\u2019s claim to fame as Jack Dorsey\\u2019s last boss.

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Bio Tony Stubblebine co-founded Coach.Me (formerly knows as Lift) on the idea that positive reinforcement and community support could be deployed universally to help people achieve their goals. Prior to Coach.Me, he was the founder and CEO of CrowdVine Event Social Networks, which builds simple and powerful social software to help people connect and meet. He was part of the Wesabe launch team, Director of Engineering at Odeo.com and Engineering Lead for O\\u2019Reilly Media. He is the author of Regular Expression Pocket Reference (O\\u2019Reilly).

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Time Stamped Show Notes:

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01:00 \\u2013 Nathan\\u2019s introduction to today\\u2019s show

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01:54 \\u2013 Tony joins the show. * 02:27 \\u2013 Tony refused to be interviewed for the book Hatching Twitter so that he could write his own book one day. His claim to fame is \\u2018the last boss of Jack Dorsey.\\u2019

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05:01 \\u2013 Tony talks about Coach.me which hit 1 million users.

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07:16 \\u2013 Mechanically Coach.me was a success because it was successful in revenue, conversion, and results from the service.

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09:10 \\u2013 Coach.me takes a 50% cut of coaching fees as a revenue source.

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10:03 \\u2013 Digital coaching is when the coaching happens on a messaging based relationship. Coaches can pay a smaller cut to use the tools from Coach.me.

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11:18 \\u2013 In 2014, they grossed 82K$, 2015 they grossed 650K$. They project 2 million dollars in 2016.

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12:22 \\u2013 There are roughly 5K coaches in the database, of which there are varying degrees of commitment by the coaches.

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13:49 \\u2013 Rolling notes can be open or closed based on a business\\u2019s scaling.

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14:34 \\u2013 Tony talks about LTV (lifetime value) and how his business interacts with the metric.

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16:12 \\u2013 Many people tend to hire more than one coach. Unlike other branches of coaching, Coach.me has enough information to know what\\u2019s working and what isn\\u2019t.

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16:47 \\u2013 Jack Dorsey was a good employee while he worked under Tony. * 17:42 \\u2013 Host Gator: Powerful web hosting made easy and affordable

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18:20 \\u2013 Famous Five

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Famous 5 * Favorite Book? \\u2013 The Hard Thing About Hard Things * What CEO do you follow?\\u2014 Evan Williams * What is your favorite online tool?\\u2014 Evernote

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Do you get 8 hours of sleep?\\u2014 Sometimes

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If you could let your 20 year old self know one thing, what would it be?\\u2014 Have faith in yourself to work on a life mission instead of thinking about salary and location of a job.

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3 Key Points:

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1. Digital coaching is a branch of coaching when the client maintains constant communication through digital media.

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2. Rolling notes is a way of raising funds that can be open or closed depending on business scalability. Burned money is cash that is leaving the bank account while running a business.

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3. Many people tend to hire more than one coach. Unlike other branches of coaching, Coach.me has enough information to know what\\u2019s working and what isn\\u2019t.

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Resources Mentioned: * Edgar \\u2013 Nathan uses Edgar instead of other scheduling tools for Twitter because Edgar cycles through content over and over (buffer/others you have to re-input content over and over \\u2013 time consuming). In the last several months, Edgar has driven Nathan over 3728 clicks that he didn\\u2019t have to work or pay for. * Host Gator - Powerful web hosting made easy and affordable * Coach.me \\u2013 Tony\\u2019s business * LinkedIn \\u2013 Tony\\u2019s LinkedIn * The Hard Thing About Hard Things \\u2013 Tony\\u2019s favorite business book * Evan Williams - CEO Tony follows * Evernote \\u2013 Tony\\u2019s favorite online tool

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Credits Show Notes provided by Mallard Creatives

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