John Baluka talks with Dave Rael about business and software, presence in daily activity, the power of mastermind groups, and creating useful content
John has been developing software with the Microsoft stack for 20+ years. For most of the last 10 years, John has been a sub-contractor, business owner, and a dad. John enjoys researching and applying new technologies to real world examples.
Chapters:
0:45 - Dave introduces the show and John Baluka2:46 - John's business emphasis6:41 - Becoming fearless8:39 - John and subcontracting12:14 - John's experiences with Visual Basic and moving to C# - "It's okay to be a beginner"14:48 - The things that "light John up"18:01 - Becoming a speaker and creating content22:16 - Parallels between business and producing content - testing an audience to see if there is interest23:48 - John's story of failure - getting in too deep on borrowed funds26:15 - J