Startup to Last

By Rick Lindquist and Tyler King

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Two founders talk about how to build software businesses that are meant to last. Each episode includes a deep dive into a different topic related to starting, growing, and sustaining a healthy business.

Episode Date
Leveling up the team
Apr 25, 2024
The first step of a flywheel
Apr 11, 2024
Sometimes you need to touch the hot stove
Mar 28, 2024
When to outsource
Feb 29, 2024
Talk to sales
Feb 15, 2024
Learnings from a few days of snowboarding
Feb 01, 2024
Profit first
Jan 18, 2024
Looking back at 2023 and forward to 2024
Dec 29, 2023
DEI isn't dead
Dec 15, 2023
Growth is hard
Dec 01, 2023
Inflection point
Nov 09, 2023
Reducing Friction
Oct 27, 2023
Build it and they will come
Oct 13, 2023
The pricing change I didn’t want to make
Sep 28, 2023
Reorg
Aug 31, 2023
Execution eats strategy for breakfast
Aug 15, 2023
Getting unstuck
Jul 23, 2023
You can't optimize nothing
Jul 06, 2023
Handling sales tax as a SaaS
Jun 08, 2023
Recapping the Product Hunt launch
May 26, 2023
Pivots and renegotiations
Apr 23, 2023
Yet another podcast about AI
Apr 03, 2023
An inside look at building a new product
Mar 23, 2023
How to win against well-funded competitors
Mar 03, 2023
The one where we negotiate Tyler’s compensation
Feb 17, 2023
How we deal with security questionnaires
Feb 03, 2023
Something new to announce
Jan 20, 2023
Looking back at 2022 and forward to 2023
Dec 31, 2022
Big bets vs small bets
Dec 13, 2022
How can founders use the new AI tech?
Dec 02, 2022
Professional hater
Nov 11, 2022
An opportunity that comes along once per year
Oct 27, 2022
What's priority #1?
Oct 14, 2022
The marketing tech stack
Sep 30, 2022
How much to spend acquiring a customer
Sep 16, 2022
The great re-org
Sep 02, 2022
Is SaaS getting harder?
Aug 19, 2022
Single points of failure
Jul 28, 2022
Should you hire a marketing agency?
Jul 14, 2022
Healthy urgency
Jun 28, 2022
Prioritizing effectiveness over efficiency
Jun 10, 2022
Charge Less
May 27, 2022
Recession?
May 10, 2022
How to be a mentor when you aren't knowledgeable about a topic
Apr 29, 2022
Mission, Vision, and Values
Apr 15, 2022
Tools don't solve problems
Apr 01, 2022
Putting together a growth plan
Mar 18, 2022
The importance of patience and impatience when hiring
Mar 01, 2022
Funding your startup with a day job
Feb 15, 2022
Giving early hires skin in the game
Feb 04, 2022
Rebirth / Welcoming 2022
Jan 21, 2022
The final episode
Aug 17, 2021
Sustainability starts with planning
Aug 10, 2021
What to cut and what to keep
Aug 05, 2021
Home runs vs. consistency
Jul 26, 2021
Throwing things at the wall to see what sticks
Jul 20, 2021
The thing about utopias is that they're not real
Jul 13, 2021
Sharing profit with employees
Jul 06, 2021
When platform risk goes wrong
Jun 29, 2021
When churn and word of mouth cancel each other out
Jun 22, 2021
What we've learned about podcasting after 100 episodes
Jun 15, 2021
Content marketing: Putting all our eggs in one basket
Jun 08, 2021
What does a $100k/year support person look like?
Jun 01, 2021
Can a course business succeed even if no one finishes them?
May 25, 2021
Making your first hire
May 18, 2021
When customer expectations aren't met
May 13, 2021
The Theory of Constraints
May 06, 2021
The importance of internal communication
Apr 29, 2021
Empowering employees to be leaders
Apr 22, 2021
Time management
Apr 15, 2021
$2k MRR
Apr 08, 2021
Jamming with Dru Riley from Trends.vc
Apr 01, 2021
Deep dive into an execution retreat
Mar 25, 2021
Burnout
Mar 18, 2021
Enterprise sales is just project management
Mar 11, 2021
What does Indie.vc's move mean for startup to last companies?
Mar 04, 2021
Hardcore week building a content site
Feb 25, 2021
Content marketing when you're not a domain expert
Feb 18, 2021
Separating decision making from executing
Feb 11, 2021
Getting marketing ideas from Hubspot's acquisition of The Hustle
Feb 04, 2021
The paradox of success
Jan 29, 2021
Is building an audience worth it?
Jan 21, 2021
The future of no-code
Jan 15, 2021
What it's like to get DDoSed
Jan 07, 2021
End of 2020 mega-episode
Dec 31, 2020
Should your startup donate to charity?
Dec 24, 2020
Product Market Fit
Dec 17, 2020
Celebrating wins in the early days
Dec 11, 2020
Info products moving to a subscription model
Dec 03, 2020
Planning a marketing sprint
Nov 26, 2020
Traction vs distraction
Nov 19, 2020
Setting goals when you're just getting started
Nov 12, 2020
How big to go when moving upmarket
Nov 05, 2020
Startup community fatigue
Oct 29, 2020
Offering night and weekend support without burning out your team
Oct 22, 2020
The perils of being dependent on a platform
Oct 16, 2020
Building a moat
Oct 08, 2020
Should multiple products share a single brand
Oct 01, 2020
All-nighters
Sep 24, 2020
Handling capacity at a seasonal business
Sep 17, 2020
Pricing annual plans when users are added mid-year
Sep 11, 2020
Learning no-code
Sep 03, 2020
Networking without being annoying
Aug 27, 2020
What if you get hit by a bus?
Aug 20, 2020
How college students can prepare for entrepreneurship
Aug 13, 2020
The Sims, but way more boring
Aug 07, 2020
Product positioning
Jul 30, 2020
Asking for too much info during signup
Jul 23, 2020
Building trust when you're an unproven business
Jul 16, 2020
Winning awards
Jul 09, 2020
The dummy curve
Jul 02, 2020
A price increase is coming
Jun 25, 2020
How should a self-serve SaaS handle inbound enterprise leads?
Jun 18, 2020
Curiosity or conviction
Jun 11, 2020
Racism
Jun 04, 2020
Weighing options
May 29, 2020
First revenue in the bank
May 22, 2020
The interns are coming
May 14, 2020
It's all about the updates
May 07, 2020
The first 100 customers for a B2C company
Apr 30, 2020
Marketing during a recession
Apr 23, 2020
Attracting and compensating operating partners
Apr 16, 2020
Building remote culture
Apr 09, 2020
Dealing with impatience as a founder
Apr 02, 2020
Optimizing a customer service team
Mar 26, 2020
Writing a startup manifesto
Mar 19, 2020
Coronavirus and the stock market crash
Mar 13, 2020
Industry-specific marketing
Feb 27, 2020
Raising non-dilutive funding for your startup
Feb 21, 2020
Running one-on-one meetings with employees
Feb 13, 2020
Structuring your time to maximize productivity
Feb 07, 2020
What programmers can do to help with marketing
Jan 30, 2020
How to acquire customers in the early days
Jan 23, 2020
Building a simple financial model
Jan 17, 2020
What it means to startup to last
Jan 09, 2020
Onboarding a new hire
Jan 03, 2020
Looking back at 2019 and forward to 2020
Dec 26, 2019
Delivering awesome customer service for a low ARPU product
Dec 19, 2019
Planning a marketing site redesign
Dec 13, 2019
The role of emotions in business
Dec 06, 2019
How to balance building new features vs. maintaining existing ones
Nov 27, 2019
Should you consult on the side while launching a startup?
Nov 21, 2019
How to price and position your second product
Nov 14, 2019
Getting beta testers to use your product
Nov 07, 2019
How to get job candidates to accept an offer
Oct 31, 2019
How to know when a product is minimally viable
Oct 24, 2019
How to improve a customer referral program
Oct 17, 2019
Resetting stakeholder expectations when things change at your business
Oct 10, 2019
Interview with Rick Lindquist, founder of LegUp Ventures
Oct 03, 2019
Why we started this podcast
Sep 29, 2019
How to recruit interns
Sep 26, 2019
Interview with Tyler King, co-founder and CEO of Less Annoying CRM
Sep 20, 2019
How to market a podcast
Sep 05, 2019
How to teach yourself to code a web-based application
Aug 30, 2019
How to communicate major product changes to your users
Aug 22, 2019
How a non-technical founder can make their first technical hire
Aug 08, 2019
How an employee handbook can help with recruiting
Aug 01, 2019
Working remotely vs. working in an office
Jul 25, 2019
The role of a CEO
Jul 18, 2019
Impostor syndrome and fear-based decision making
Jul 11, 2019
Salary transparency
Jun 29, 2019