Startups For the Rest of Us

By Rob Walling

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 Nov 26, 2020

Nick Mair
 Apr 4, 2019
Superb resource for any founder self funding their software startup with two legends of the bootstrapping world.

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The original podcast for bootstrapped and mostly bootstrapped startups, this show follow the stories of founders as they start, acquire, and grow SaaS companies. Hear when they fail, struggle, succeed, and take you with them through the tumultuous life of a SaaS founder. If you like Mixergy, This Week in Startups, or SaaStr, you’ll enjoy Startup for the Rest of Us.

Episode Date
Episode 710 | Is Coding Dead?, The "Right" Tech Stack, Funded Competition, and More Listener Questions
Apr 23, 2024
Episode 709 | The 7 Greatest Investments of My Life
Apr 16, 2024
Episode 708 | Outsourcing Marketing, Competitive Markets, and More Listener Questions (with Derrick Reimer)
Apr 09, 2024
Episode 707 | Once.com, Open Source to FT Income, and More (Hot Take Tuesday)
Apr 02, 2024
Episode 706.5 | Rethinking My Most Common Advice
Apr 01, 2024
Episode 706.1 | MicroConf US Tickets Will Sell Out Soon!
Mar 28, 2024
Episode 706 | 2/20/200 Validation, Prior Art, and Designing by Committee (A Rob Solo Adventure)
Mar 26, 2024
Episode 705 | From Bootstrapped to Mostly Bootstrapped to Venture Backed
Mar 19, 2024
Episode 704 | Landing Pages, Buying a SaaS, the Right Tech Stack, and More Listener Questions
Mar 12, 2024
Episode 703 | The Accidental SaaS Entrepreneur
Mar 05, 2024
Episode 702 | Revenue vs. Profit Multiples, When to Lower Prices, and More Listener Questions
Feb 27, 2024
Episode 701 | The Long Journey to Product-Market Fit
Feb 20, 2024
Episode 700 | Playing the Long Game
Feb 13, 2024
Episode 699 | How to Build Elegant, Scalable Software Products with Derrick Reimer
Feb 06, 2024
Episode 698 | How to Launch a Million Dollar Business (With Noah Kagan)
Jan 30, 2024
Episode 697 | 7 Predictions for SaaS Bootstrappers in 2024
Jan 23, 2024
Episode 696 | The Truth about Product-Market Fit + Doing Sales as an Introvert (With Ruben Gamez)
Jan 16, 2024
Episode 695 | Ideal Customers, Moving from B2C to B2B, and More Listener Questions (with Asia Orangio)
Jan 09, 2024
Episode 694 | 2023 In Review: Amazing Growth & Fighting Burnout
Jan 02, 2024
Episode 693 | Building a Mid-Six-Figure SaaS in Less Than 3 Years
Dec 26, 2023
Episode 692 | Learn the Rules Like a Pro So You Can Break Them Like an Artist (A Rob Solo Adventure)
Dec 19, 2023
Episode 691 | Freemium, High-touch vs. Low-touch, Selling as an Introvert, and More Listener Questions
Dec 12, 2023
Episode 690 | When Opt-in Email Could Be Spam, Collecting Customer Feedback, and More Listener Questions
Dec 05, 2023
Episode 689 | How to Keep Your Remote Team Motivated and Engaged
Nov 28, 2023
Episode 688 | Growing Boot.dev From $6k to $110k in Monthly Revenue in 15 Months
Nov 21, 2023
Episode 687 | An 8th Thing You Should Never Do, Things That Don't Scale, and More Rob Solo Topics
Nov 14, 2023
Episode 686 | How Much is Enough?, Outsourcing Marketing, and More Listener Questions
Nov 07, 2023
Episode 685 | 7 Things You Should Never Do (A Rob Solo Adventure)
Oct 31, 2023
Episode 684 | Key Takeaways from MicroConf Europe 2023
Oct 24, 2023
Episode 683 | Bringing on a Partner, Attending Trade Shows, Pre-launch Discounts, and More Listener Questions
Oct 17, 2023
Episode 682 | The Pros and Cons of Large vs. Small Startup Events
Oct 10, 2023
Episode 681 | Why Launching a Second Product is Usually a Bad Idea
Oct 03, 2023
Episode 680 | Problems vs. Solutions, Doing What it Takes, and More Listener Questions (A Rob Solo Adventure)
Sep 26, 2023
Episode 679.5 | The Future of MicroConf (7 Announcements!)
Sep 21, 2023
Episode 679 | Mock Features, A Failed Launch, Becoming a Freelancer, and More Listener Questions (A Rob Solo Adventure)
Sep 19, 2023
Episode 678 | Selling a Half-Finished Product, Phased Launches, and More Listener Questions (Rob Solo Adventure)
Sep 12, 2023
Episode 677 | Design Faster and More Effectively With Wireframing
Sep 05, 2023
Episode 676 | Exit Valuations, Choosing Between Ideas, and More Listener Questions
Aug 29, 2023
Episode 675 | Storytelling as a Sales Superpower (Book Recommendation)
Aug 22, 2023
Episode 674 | SparkToro Pays Back Investors, When to Raise Funding, and X.com (Hot Take Tuesday)
Aug 15, 2023
Episode 673 | Lifetime Plans vs Subscriptions, Testing an Idea With a Landing Page, and More Listener Questions
Aug 08, 2023
Episode 672 | Bootstrapping, Building, Buying, and Selling SaaS Companies
Aug 01, 2023
Episode 671 | Working on What Matters, Left-handed Threads, and Being Lucky (A Rob Solo Adventure)
Jul 25, 2023
Episode 670 | Relying on Luck, Avoiding Burnout, and Bad Player vs. Bad Instrument (A Rob Solo Adventure)
Jul 18, 2023
Episode 669 | 10 Years to Overnight Success: Bootstrapping to a Multi-Million Dollar Exit
Jul 11, 2023
Episode 668 | 9 Key Takeaways from MicroConf U.S. 2023 in Denver
Jul 04, 2023
Episode 667 | Increase Your Exit Price by Decoupling Yourself from Your Business with John Warrillow
Jun 27, 2023
Episode 666 | Entering a Competitive Market, Books for SaaS Founders, and More Listener Questions with Derrick Reimer
Jun 20, 2023
Episode 665 | How to Find More "Best Fit" Customers for Your SaaS
Jun 13, 2023
Episode 664 | The Challenges of Horizontal SaaS, Adding Services to a SaaS, and More Listener Questions
Jun 06, 2023
Episode 663 | 5 Insights SaaS Founders Should Know About A.I. (Ignore at Your Peril)
May 30, 2023
Episode 662 | Selling for Five Years of Runway, Profit vs. Revenue Multiples, and More Listener Questions (Rob Solo)
May 23, 2023
Episode 661 | Millions in Revenue As a One-Person Software Company
May 16, 2023
Episode 660 | Make Ever-Increasing and Manageably-Sized Mistakes (A Rob Solo Adventure)
May 09, 2023
Episode 659 | Indie Hackers' Newfound Independence + The SaaS Playbook with Courtland and Channing
May 02, 2023
Episode 658 | As a SaaS Founder, When Should You Care About Sales Tax?
Apr 25, 2023
Episode 657 | Concierge Onboarding, Building a Great Brand, and More Listener Questions
Apr 18, 2023
Episode 656 | Taste vs. Shipping + Being First vs. Being the Best (A Rob Solo Adventure)
Apr 11, 2023
Startups For The Rest Of Us Podcast Trailer
Apr 06, 2023
Episode 655 | Seat-Based Pricing, Can Churn Be Too Low? and More Listener Questions (A Rob Solo Adventure)
Apr 04, 2023
Episode 654 | Shipping Every Day for 10 Years with Tom Merritt
Mar 28, 2023
Episode 653 | Armageddon Beer, Developing Taste, and What if I Succeed? (A Rob Solo Adventure)
Mar 21, 2023
Episode 652 | Mixing No-code with Code, Developer Superpowers, $5k Angel Check, and More Listener Questions
Mar 14, 2023
Episode 651 | From Side Hustle to Full-time & Profitable (with Mike Taber)
Mar 07, 2023
Episode 650 | Building vs. Buying a SaaS, Day Job Constraints, and More Listener Questions
Feb 28, 2023
Episode 649 | Learning to Sell SaaS as a Founder (Book Recommendation)
Feb 21, 2023
Episode 648 | Competing with a Non-Profit, Driving Traffic to A Landing Page, and More Listener Questions
Feb 14, 2023
Episode 647.5 | Bonus Episode: TinySeed Application Q&A Livestream
Feb 09, 2023
Episode 647 | Equipping Sales & Support With Critical Product Knowledge As You Grow
Feb 07, 2023
Episode 646.5 | Bonus Episode: A Big Change to MicroConf
Feb 02, 2023
Episode 646 | Building a Recurring, Annual Price Increase Into Your SaaS
Jan 31, 2023
Episode 645.5 | Bonus Episode: Mastermind Matching Applications Are Open
Jan 26, 2023
Episode 645 | Anti-Bro, Nuanced Thinking, and Being Good vs. Being Great (A Rob Solo Adventure)
Jan 24, 2023
Episode 644 | Buying Back Your Time with Dan Martell
Jan 17, 2023
Episode 643 | Feature Flags, Impostor Syndrome, and More Listener Questions with Derrick Reimer
Jan 10, 2023
Episode 642 | The Pros and Cons of Building a No-Code MVP
Jan 03, 2023
Episode 641 | Dealing with High Churn, Rolling Out an MVP, and More Listener Questions
Dec 27, 2022
Episode 640 | Hot Take Tuesday: Recession and Bootstrappers, ChatGPT, Twitter Drama
Dec 20, 2022
Episode 639 | The Secret Sauce to Building Happy, Motivated Teams
Dec 13, 2022
Episode 638 | How to Generate Startup Ideas (Plus 8 Ideas You Can Steal)
Dec 06, 2022
Episode 637 | B2B vs. B2C, Hiring for Sales, and Bootstrapping a 2-Sided Marketplace
Nov 29, 2022
Episode 636 | A Customer-Led Approach to Driving More Recurring Revenue
Nov 22, 2022
Episode 635 | Where Are They Now? Catching up with TinySeed Tales' Tony Chan
Nov 15, 2022
Episode 634 | Naming Your Startup, Tapping Out a Niche, and Licensing Your IP
Nov 08, 2022
Episode 633 | Building SaaS Plus a Two-Sided Marketplace
Nov 01, 2022
Episode 632 | Hot Take Tuesday: Figma Exit, Side Project Distraction, No Code Dogma
Oct 25, 2022
Episode 631 | Re-writing Your Codebase, Stair Stepping, and Difficult Founder Decisions
Oct 18, 2022
Episode 630 | Approaching $1M ARR as a Niche SaaS Founder
Oct 11, 2022
Episode 629 | TinySeed Tales s3e6: Looking Ahead to $1M ARR
Oct 06, 2022
Episode 628 | The 5 P.M. Idea Validation Framework
Oct 04, 2022
Episode 627 | TinySeed Tales s3e5: Meeting the Co-Founder
Sep 29, 2022
Episode 626 | Scratching an Itch, Launching a Free SEO Tool, and Growing to $18k MRR
Sep 27, 2022
Episode 625 | TinySeed Tales s3e4: Doubling MRR
Sep 22, 2022
Episode 624 | Moving from Free to Paid, Prioritizing Marketing vs. Development, and More Listener Questions
Sep 20, 2022
Episode 623 | TinySeed Tales s3e3: Paternity Leave
Sep 15, 2022
Episode 622 | Making Hard Product Decisions & Growth vs. Profitability with Derrick Reimer
Sep 13, 2022
Episode 621 | TinySeed Tales s3e2: Onboarding Their First Hires
Sep 08, 2022
Episode 620 | Finding SaaS Ideas, Customer Pain, SaaS Metrics, and More Listener Questions
Sep 06, 2022
Episode 619 | TinySeed Tales s3e1: Moving from Bootstrapped to Mostly Bootstrapped
Sep 01, 2022
Episode 618 | How to Achieve Financial Freedom
Aug 30, 2022
Episode 617 | News Roundup: Profitwell $200M Exit, Spreadsheet Mentality, and Watching an Acquirer Ruin Your Company
Aug 23, 2022
Episode 616 | An 8-Figure SaaS Founder's Approach to Remote Work
Aug 16, 2022
Episode 615 | Bootstrappable Businesses, Cargo Culting, and How Pricing Affects Growth (A Rob Solo Adventure)
Aug 09, 2022
Episode 614 | Deciding When to Quit Your Day Job, Founder Anxiety, and More Listener Questions
Aug 02, 2022
Episode 613 | Hacking Your Founder Psychology
Jul 26, 2022
Episode 612 | Balancing a Side Project and Going Full-time on Your Product
Jul 19, 2022
Episode 611 | Bootstrapping ProfitWell to a $200M Exit (with Patrick Campbell)
Jul 12, 2022
Episode 610 | How I Would Start Over Today, Bad Habits of Solopreneurs, and the Benefits of a Day Job (A Rob Solo Adventure)
Jul 05, 2022
Episode 609 | Building Your MVP, the Bug Fix Hamster Wheel, and More Listener Questions
Jun 28, 2022
Episode 608 | Bootstrapping (and Exiting) a 7-Figure Info Product
Jun 21, 2022
Episode 607 | Overcoming Plateaus, Stealth Launches, Founder-Driven Sales, and More Listener Questions
Jun 14, 2022
Episode 606 | The Podcasting Landscape, Keeping Your Saw Sharpened, and Scaling Your Team with Craig Hewitt
Jun 07, 2022
Episode 605 | Building a SaaS with Little Dev Experience, Using No Code for Your MVP, Bootstrapping a Two-Sided Marketplace, and More Listener Questions
May 31, 2022
Episode 604 | How to Decide Which Features to Build (with Derrick Reimer)
May 24, 2022
Episode 603 | Bootstrapping HotJar to $40M ARR Using D2C Marketing
May 17, 2022
Episode 602 | Explaining SaaS Metrics to a Child
May 10, 2022
Episode 601 | Bootstrapping B2B vs. B2C
May 03, 2022
Episode 600 | When to Hire Your First Manager + What You Should Be Focused On (A Rob Solo Adventure)
Apr 26, 2022
Episode 599 | Finding the Bootstrapper Hockey Stick
Apr 19, 2022
Episode 598 | Diversity, Mission & Values, How to Start, and More Listener Questions
Apr 12, 2022
Episode 597 | The Challenge of Building a Business in a Regulated Industry
Apr 05, 2022
Episode 596 | News Round-Up: Google Ends WFH, Founder Salaries, How to Use Email
Mar 29, 2022
Episode 595 | TinySeed Tales Season 2: Where Are They Now?
Mar 22, 2022
Episode 594 | Starting Over with the TropicalMBA's Dan & Ian
Mar 15, 2022
Episode 593 | Retaining Employees + The Ideal SaaS Business (A Rob Solo Adventure)
Mar 08, 2022
Episode 592 | Nine Tactics for Amazing Customer Support
Mar 01, 2022
Episode 591 | Acquiring and Scaling in a Crowded Space
Feb 22, 2022
Episode 590 | Buying vs Building, Zombie Companies, and More Listener Questions with Craig Hewitt
Feb 15, 2022
Episode 589 | Finding a SaaS Idea Through 70 Cold Calls
Feb 08, 2022
Episode 588 | In Which Courtland Allen and I Cover a Lot of Startups Topics
Feb 01, 2022
Episode 587 | Renaming a Company, Revisiting Inflation, and Micropreneurship (Listener Email Edition)
Jan 25, 2022
Episode 586 | Mastering Customer Interviews with Michele Hansen
Jan 18, 2022
Episode 585 | Moving Outside Your Comfort Zone with Dr. Sherry Walling
Jan 11, 2022
Episode 584 | Looking Back and Looking Ahead
Jan 04, 2022
Episode 583 | Finding Startup Ideas with Sam Parr
Dec 28, 2021
Episode 582 | Enterprise Sales, Crowdfunding, Replacing Yourself, and More Listener Questions
Dec 21, 2021
Episode 581 | Inflation for Founders
Dec 14, 2021
Episode 580 | Seven SEO Tips Every SaaS Can Use (with Ross Hudgens)
Dec 07, 2021
Episode 579 | The SaaS Fundraising Landscape (+The TinySeed Syndicate)
Dec 01, 2021
Episode 578 | How Mike's Merger Panned Out
Nov 30, 2021
Episode 577 | Finding the Right Problem to Solve
Nov 23, 2021
Episode 576 | Don't Become a Media Company (A Rob Solo Adventure)
Nov 16, 2021
Episode 575 | Shipping Code, Pivoting, and More Listener Questions with Derrick Reimer
Nov 09, 2021
Bonus Episode: The 2021 TinySeed Batch Announcement
Nov 04, 2021
Episode 574 | The Deep Need to Be a Software Entrepreneur
Nov 02, 2021
Bonus | The 2022 State of Independent SaaS Survey is Live
Nov 01, 2021
Episode 573| Hiring FT vs. PT, WordPress Consolidation, and More Bootstrapper News
Oct 26, 2021
Episode 572 | Fault vs. Responsibility & Games vs. Practice (A Rob Solo Adventure)
Oct 19, 2021
Episode 571 | Deciding When to Move on to Your Next Idea
Oct 12, 2021
Episode 570 | Bootstrappable Businesses, Selling as an Introvert, and More Listener Questions
Oct 05, 2021
Episode 569 | The Life Changing Decision of When to Sell Your Company
Sep 28, 2021
Episode 568 | MailChimp Sells for $12 billion
Sep 21, 2021
Episode 567 | From Developer to CTO to Buying the Company for $1
Sep 14, 2021
Episode 566 | From Bootstrapped to Venture Backed with Hana Mohan
Sep 07, 2021
Episode 565 | Correlation vs. Causation, Focus, Sharing MRR, and More Listener Questions
Aug 31, 2021
Episode 564 | Running a Business with 10,000 Paid Subscribers
Aug 24, 2021
Episode 563 | The Struggle, Calls to Action, Selling Above $1M ARR, and More Listener Questions
Aug 17, 2021
Episode 562.5 | TinySeed Fall 2021 SaaS Accelerator Application Info Session
Aug 16, 2021
Episode 562 | "Measure Twice, Cut Once" + SaaS Holy Grails (A Rob Solo Adventure)
Aug 10, 2021
Episode 561 | Launching on Product Hunt and DIY vs. DFY
Aug 03, 2021
Episode 560 | When to Hire, Square Business Banking, and More Bootstrapper News
Jul 27, 2021
Episode 559 | Bootstrapping a Two-Sided Marketplace with MicroAquire
Jul 20, 2021
Episode 558 | Thinking Through Funding as a Bootstrapper
Jul 13, 2021
Episode 557 | Investing for Founders
Jul 06, 2021
Episode 556 | Zero to $26k MRR as the Solo Founder of Rails Autoscale
Jun 29, 2021
Episode 555 | Businesses You Can Bootstrap, W2 vs. Contract, Enterprise Pricing, and More Listener Questions with Ruben Gamez
Jun 22, 2021
Episode 554 | Thinking Through Your Exit + Grief and Entrepreneurship with Dr. Sherry Walling
Jun 15, 2021
Episode 553 | Stack Overflow and Moz Acquired, Quitting Instead of Giving Up Remote Work, and More Bootstrapper News
Jun 08, 2021
Episode 552 | Google Audits, Partnerships, and Freemium with Mike Taber
Jun 01, 2021
Episode 551 | Task-level vs. Project-level Thinkers, No Such Thing as an Autopilot Business, and More (A Rob Solo Adventure)
May 25, 2021
Episode 550 | Three Years of Grind to Six Figures in ARR with CloudForecast
May 18, 2021
Episode 549 | Hiring vs. Outsourcing, E-commerce SaaS, and More Listener Questions with Jordan Gal
May 11, 2021
Episode 548.5 | The Companies in TinySeed's Spring 2021 Batch
May 06, 2021
Episode 548 | The Grind of Building a SaaS During Nights & Weekends
May 04, 2021
Episode 547 | Private Podcasting, Apple's Announcement, and Accelerating Growth with Craig Hewitt
Apr 27, 2021
Episode 546 | Hiring Entrepreneurial People, Anonymity, Disruptive Innovation, and More Listener Questions
Apr 20, 2021
Episode 545 | The Value of Learning 80/20 Design Fundamentals
Apr 13, 2021
Episode 544 | Annual Raises, Finding Good Startup People, and More Listener Questions with Josh Pigford
Apr 06, 2021
Episode 543 | All Things Startup with #Mike Taber
Apr 01, 2021
Episode 542 | 10x in Two Years, Past $3M ARR with SquadCast
Mar 30, 2021
Episode 541 | Faster Horses & Product Myths, Life-changing Money, Dual Funnels, and More
Mar 23, 2021
Episode 540 | Bootstrapper News. Twitter Spaces, Indie.vc Closing, Shopify, and More
Mar 16, 2021
Episode 539 | Post-Exit Life, Writing Six Books, and Brewing Beer with Dan Norris
Mar 09, 2021
Episode 538 | When to Sunset a Product, Enterprise Security Assessments, Lifetime Deals, and More Listener Questions
Mar 02, 2021
Episode 537 | On Launching, Funding, and Growth with Serial SaaS Founder Rand Fishkin
Feb 23, 2021
Episode 536 | A Few Things I Learned in 2020 (A Rob Solo Adventure)
Feb 16, 2021
Episode 535 | A Bluetick Update with Mike Taber
Feb 09, 2021
Episode 534 | A $4M Exit with Josh Pigford of Baremetrics
Feb 02, 2021
Episode 533: Life Profitability After Two Exits (with Adii Pienaar)
Jan 26, 2021
Episode 532 | The Art of Selling Your Business with John Warrillow
Jan 19, 2021
Episode 531 | How a Non-Technical Founder Grew Past $45k MRR
Jan 12, 2021
Episode 530 | Making Development Decisions, Regrets about Selling, and More Listener Questions (with Derrick Reimer)
Jan 05, 2021
Episode 529 | A Pricing Deep Dive with Slingshot
Dec 29, 2020
Episode 528 | 2021 Predictions from Rob and Mike
Dec 22, 2020
Episode 527 | From Agency to SaaS, Equity Splits, and More Listener Questions with Courtland Allen
Dec 15, 2020
Episode 526 | Launching, Learning, and Teaching with Justin Vincent
Dec 08, 2020
Episode 525 | A Bootstrapping Artifact from 2005
Dec 01, 2020
Episode 524 | Bootstrapping a Commodity SaaS
Nov 24, 2020
Episode 523 | Breaking Through Plateaus, Entrepreneurship for Kids, Common Bootstrapper Mistakes, and More Listener Questions
Nov 17, 2020
Episode 522 | Revisiting Castos, One Year Later
Nov 10, 2020
TinySeed Tales S2E9 | Playing the Long Game
Nov 05, 2020
Episode 521 | A Roundtable Discussion about a Potential Recession, Working from Home, Google Anti-trust, and More
Nov 03, 2020
TinySeed Tales S2E8 | Upmarket Starts to Pay Off
Oct 29, 2020
Episode 520 | Why a Million Dollar Agency Quit It All and Moved to SaaS
Oct 27, 2020
TinySeed Tales S2E7 | A Global Pandemic
Oct 22, 2020
Episode 519 | Profit Sharing, Stock Options, and Equity (A Rob Solo Adventure)
Oct 20, 2020
TinySeed Tales S2E6 | Best Growth Month Ever
Oct 15, 2020
Episode 518 | A Live LinkedIn Ads Consult with Anthony Blatner and Scatterspoke
Oct 13, 2020
Episode 517.5 | The 2nd State of Independent SaaS Survey is Live
Oct 09, 2020
TinySeed Tales S2E5 | The Gamble of Raising Prices
Oct 08, 2020
Episode 517 | Married Co-founders Who Turned a Free Tool Into a Fast-Growing SaaS Product
Oct 06, 2020
TinySeed Tales S2E4 | Being Married and Being Co-Founders
Oct 01, 2020
Episode 516 | When to Re-write Your SaaS Codebase
Sep 29, 2020
TinySeed Tales S2E3 | Is This All Worth It?
Sep 24, 2020
Episode 515 | Finding a Co-Founder, Getting Better at Sales, and More Listener Questions
Sep 22, 2020
TinySeed Tales S2E2 | Moving Upmarket
Sep 17, 2020
Episode 514 | An Inside Look at MicroConf Remote
Sep 15, 2020
TinySeed Tales S2E1 | Introducing Gather
Sep 10, 2020
Episode 513 | SaaS Valuations + Dos and Don'ts When Selling A SaaS
Sep 08, 2020
Episode 512 | The Power of Options (A Rob Solo Adventure)
Sep 01, 2020
Episode 511 | Raising Prices & Re-writing Your Codebase
Aug 25, 2020
Episode 510 | The Story of Startups.com
Aug 18, 2020
Episode 509 | Revisiting the Six Stages of SaaS Growth with DNSimple
Aug 11, 2020
Episode 508 | Finding Marketing Channels, Seat-Limited Trials, Building a Brand, and More Listener Questions
Aug 04, 2020
Episode 507 | Making Cold Email Work in B2B SaaS
Jul 28, 2020
Episode 506 | Shutting Down and Starting Up with Derrick Reimer
Jul 21, 2020
Episode 505 | 42 Side Projects and the #NoCode Movement
Jul 14, 2020
Episode 504 | 15 Tools We Use to Run Our Business
Jul 07, 2020
Episode 503 | Idea Validation, Expanding Internationally, Affiliate Programs, and More Listener Questions
Jun 30, 2020
Episode 502 | Accelerating Growth and a Failed Product Hunt Launch
Jun 23, 2020
Episode 501 | A Bluetick Update from Mike #Taber
Jun 16, 2020
Episode 500
Jun 09, 2020
Episode 499.5 | The (First) Six Stages of SaaS Growth - Part 2
Jun 05, 2020
Bonus | The Struggle for Lasting Change
Jun 04, 2020
Episode 499 | The (First) Six Stages of SaaS Growth - Part 1
Jun 02, 2020
Episode 498 | Selling During a Pandemic with Steli Efti
May 26, 2020
Episode 497 | Documenting SaaS for a Sale, Email Harvesting and Spam, and More Listener Questions
May 19, 2020
Episode 496 | "The Press Covers Exceptions, Don't Compare Yourself to Slack or Zoom"
May 12, 2020
Episode 495 | Advice, Competition, Marketing, and Managing Developers (A Rob Solo Adventure)
May 05, 2020
Episode 494 | A Bluetick Update From Mike Taber
Apr 28, 2020
Episode 493 | A Roundtable Discussion about COVID-19, Working From Home, Payroll Protection and More
Apr 21, 2020
Bonus Episode: What Courtland Allen Has Learned Interviewing 155 Startup Founders
Apr 16, 2020
Episode 492 | From Zero to $55k MRR to Exit (in 2 Years) with Feedback Panda
Apr 14, 2020
Episode 491 | Hard Lessons Learned, Reaching High-Touch Prospects, Finding Advisors, and More Listener Questions
Apr 07, 2020
Episode 490 | How Founders Should Be Thinking About the Current Crisis
Mar 31, 2020
Episode 489.5 | It All Started 10 Years Ago Today
Mar 30, 2020
Episode 489 | 15 Years to a SaaS Exit (Plus Why Forecasting is Crucial)
Mar 24, 2020
Episode 488 | A Bluetick Progress Update from Mike Taber
Mar 17, 2020
Episode 487 | Startup Roundtable Discussing Hey.com, Leadpages’ Acquisition, and More Hot Topics
Mar 10, 2020
Episode 486 | The Shocking Collapse of Zirtual and Maren Kate’s Next Act (plus How to Hire Well)
Mar 03, 2020
Episode 485 | Catching Up with Rob (An Interview by Dr. Sherry Walling)
Feb 25, 2020
Episode 484 | Marketing That’s Working Today, Moving from 5 to 10 Employees, SaaS Longevity, and More Listener Questions
Feb 18, 2020
Episode 483 | Building a Mindset for SaaS Growth with Andy Baldacci
Feb 11, 2020
Episode 482 | The Value vs. Stress of Twitter, Pros and Cons of Remote Work, and Digital Minimalism - A Discussion Show with Derrick Reimer
Feb 04, 2020
Episode 481 | A Bluetick Update from Mike #Taber
Jan 28, 2020
Episode 480 | Stairstepping Your Way to SaaS with Christopher Gimmer
Jan 21, 2020
Episode 479 | Two-Sided Marketplaces, Hotseats, Forgotten Subscriptions, and More Listener Questions
Jan 14, 2020
Episode 478 | A Few Things I Learned in 2019
Jan 07, 2020
Episode 477 | Assessing Product-Market Fit, How to Find a Mastermind, and More Listener Questions with Brian Casel
Dec 31, 2019
Episode 476 | “We Went from Hundreds of Free Trials to a Few Dozen...On Purpose” with Jordan Gal
Dec 24, 2019
Episode 475 | A Bluetick Update from #Mike Taber
Dec 17, 2019
Episode 474.5 | The Future of MicroConf
Dec 13, 2019
TinySeed Tales 8 | Success and the Ongoing Struggle
Dec 12, 2019
Episode 474 | Overcoming a 40% Decline in MRR with Brian Casel
Dec 10, 2019
TinySeed Tales 7 | The Growing Pains of Delegation
Dec 05, 2019
Episode 473 | Managing Annual Subscriptions, Low-price vs. High, Being a Non-Developer Founder, and More Listener Questions with Laura Roeder
Dec 03, 2019
TinySeed Tales 6 | The No Credit Card Trial
Nov 28, 2019
Episode 472 | From Amazing Launch to Near Bankruptcy to Profitability with Shai Schechter
Nov 26, 2019
TinySeed Tales 5 | Building a Business That Runs Itself
Nov 21, 2019
Episode 471 | Fighting to Gain Traction in a Crowded Space with Jane Portman of Userlist
Nov 19, 2019
TinySeed Tales 4 | A Bug in the Funnel and Giving Up Control
Nov 14, 2019
Episode 470 | A Bluetick Update from Mike Taber
Nov 12, 2019
TinySeed Tales 3 | The Best News Ever and the Slog
Nov 07, 2019
Episode 469 | Key Takeaways from MicroConf Europe 2019
Nov 05, 2019
TinySeed Tales 2 | Riding the Startup Wave
Oct 31, 2019
Episode 468 | Tables Are Turned As Tracy Osborn Interviews Rob About the Past Year
Oct 29, 2019
TinySeed Tales 1 | A Non-Technical SaaS Founder
Oct 24, 2019
Episode 467 | “A Life-Changing Exit” with Adii Pienaar of Conversio
Oct 22, 2019
TinySeed Tales | Season 1 Trailer (Castos)
Oct 17, 2019
Episode 466 | Answering Listener Questions With Craig Hewitt
Oct 15, 2019
Episode 465 | A Bluetick Update from Mike Taber
Oct 08, 2019
Episode 464 | Highs, Lows, and Building Your First Sales Process with Steli Efti
Oct 01, 2019
Episode 463.5 | Be Part of “The State of Independent SaaS”
Sep 27, 2019
Episode 463 | Troubleshooting Enterprise Sales (A Founder Hotseat with David Heller)
Sep 24, 2019
Episode 462 | Competing Against an 800 lb. Gorilla, Splitting from Your Co-founder, and More Listener Questions (with Jeff Epstein)
Sep 17, 2019
Episode 461 | Doubling Down on Bluetick
Sep 10, 2019
Episode 460 | Funded Competition, Growing an Email Newsletter Audience, White-Labeling and More Listener Questions
Sep 03, 2019
Episode 459 | From Day Job to Productized Service to Fast-Growing SaaS as a Non-Technical Founder
Aug 27, 2019
Episode 458 | The Return of Mike Taber
Aug 20, 2019
Episode 457 | Starting a Marketplace, Marketing Channels, Resellers, and More Listener Questions
Aug 13, 2019
Episode 456 | Launching a 2nd Product + Revisiting Freemium with Ruben Gamez
Aug 06, 2019
Episode 455 | “Things I Would Have Done Differently” with Tracy Osborn of WeddingLovely
Jul 30, 2019
Episode 454 | Overcoming Fear (Throwback Episode)
Jul 23, 2019
Episode 453 | How a Non-Technical Founder Built and Sold a Multi-million Dollar SaaS Startup with Jeff Epstein
Jul 16, 2019
Episode 452 | LinkedIn Outreach, New Features vs. Fixing Bugs and More Listener Questions with Jordan Gal
Jul 09, 2019
Episode 451 | Stellar Growth, Platform Risk, Layoffs and Powering Through Roadblocks with Laura Roeder
Jul 02, 2019
Episode 450 | Founder Hotseat: Matt Wensing of SimSaaS on Making Consistent, Needle-Moving Progress
Jun 25, 2019
Episode 449 | Two-Sided Marketplaces, How Much Testing is Too Much, and More Listener Questions
Jun 18, 2019
Episode 448 | Let’s Talk About Bluetick
Jun 11, 2019
Episode 447 | Platform Risk, Pricing, and Customer Development
Jun 04, 2019
Episode 446 | How to Build More Successful Integrations
May 28, 2019
Episode 445 | Why Absolute Thinking Is ALWAYS Bad
May 21, 2019
Episode 444 | Our Biggest Regrets, Feelings of Isolation, Impact of Management Tasks on Deep Work and More Listener Questions
May 14, 2019
Episode 443 | Determining Which Signals Matter, Staying on Task Without Extrinsic Motivation, and More Listener Questions
May 07, 2019
Episode 442 | Corporate Structures and How the Choice You Make Now Can Impact You Years Down the Line
Apr 30, 2019
Episode 441 | Revisiting 2019 Goals, Why Remote Companies Grow Slower, and A Couple Listener Questions
Apr 23, 2019
Episode 440 | How to Build Case Studies That Don’t Suck
Apr 16, 2019
Episode 439 | 9 Key Takeaways from MicroConf 2019
Apr 09, 2019
Episode 438 | Casual Conversations with Rob & Mike
Apr 02, 2019
Episode 437 | Monetizing B2C, Selling a Small SaaS, and More Listener Questions
Mar 26, 2019
Episode 436 | How to Respond to Customer Suggestions
Mar 19, 2019
Episode 435 | The Value of Startup Accelerators, Better Onboarding, Liability Insurance, and More Listener Questions
Mar 12, 2019
Episode 434 | SaaS KPIs You Should Focus on From Day 1
Mar 05, 2019
Episode 433 | Managing Your Emotions, the Cost of an MVP, and More Listener Questions
Feb 26, 2019
Episode 432 | How to Indirectly Overcome Sales Objections
Feb 19, 2019
Episode 431 | Converting Free Users to Paid, Vesting, Business Ethics, and More Listener Questions
Feb 12, 2019
Episode 430 | What to Look For In a Co-Founder
Feb 05, 2019
Episode 429 | Building a Launch List of 5,900 and Grinding Out Customer Development
Jan 29, 2019
Episode 428 | Building Relationships with Agency Partners, Determining Equity Splits, and More Listener Questions
Jan 22, 2019
Episode 427 | Scaling a Software Product, Raising Prices, When to Consider CRM, and More Listener Questions
Jan 15, 2019
Episode 426 | Getting Started with Event Tracking
Jan 08, 2019
Episode 425 | How to Launch a Product Into a Mature Market
Jan 01, 2019
Episode 424 | Our Predictions for 2019
Dec 25, 2018
Episode 423 | Our Goals for 2019
Dec 18, 2018
Episode 422 | Impact of GDPR on Mailing Lists, Keyword Stuffing, Shady Competition, and More Listener Questions
Dec 11, 2018
Episode 421 | The “Science” of Why “Charge More” Works
Dec 04, 2018
Episode 420 | An Alternative Form of Startup Funding
Nov 27, 2018
Episode 419 | VC Prospecting Emails, Building Features vs. Integrations and More Listener Questions
Nov 20, 2018
Episode 418 | Creators Versus Fans
Nov 13, 2018