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Startups For the Rest of Us — 339 episodes

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Episode 840 | 5 PM Revisited, Starting Over After Failure, Never Shipping, and More Listener Questions (Rob Solo)

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Episode 839 | The Journey Growing Help Scout to $35M ARR

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Episode 838 | 6 Key Takeaways From a TinySeed Batch Kick-Off

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Episode 837 | How Do You Learn Product? and Optimizing Your Trial Funnel (with Ruben Gamez)

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Episode 836 | The 5 A.I. Moats Acquirers Value Most

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Episode 835 | The Right Way to Use AI in Your Startup Marketing

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Episode 834 | Eric Ries Revisits The Lean Startup and Discusses How to Become Incorruptible

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Episode 833 | Success Patterns of Nobel Laureates, Developing Expertise, and From Zero to $10k (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 832 | Going Full-time, When to Pivot, Building With Young Kids, and More Listener Questions (Rob Solo)

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Episode 831 | Written vs. Verbal Ad Copy, Selling Into a Low-Awareness Market, and More Listener Questions (Rob Solo)

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Episode 830 | Breaking Through Plateaus, Zero-Click Marketing, and More from MicroConf 2026 (with Derrick Reimer)

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Episode 829 | AI is Bad at Product, Top 5 Startup Success Factors, and the Beastie Boys (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 828 | Am I Building a SaaS?, Serving Both B2C and B2B, Pricing, and More Listener Questions (Rob Solo)

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Episode 827 | The Founder's Guide to Selling Your SaaS for What It's Actually Worth

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Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinkers

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Episode 825 | Talking Tailwind CSS and Founder Fitness (with Adam Wathan)

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Episode 824 | Crowded Markets, Problem Aware, A Stolen Idea, and More Listener Questions (with Jordan Gal)

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Episode 823 | Hot Take Tuesday: Is A.I. Killing B2B SaaS?, ChatGPT Ads, OpenClaw

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Episode 822 | No-code vs. A.I. Coding, SaaS Margins in the A.I. Age, and More Listener Questions (with Derrick Reimer)

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Episode 821 | How to Do Founder-Led Marketing (with Jay Clouse)

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Episode 820 | When to Quit Your Day Job, A.I. Feasibility Risk, and More Listener Questions (Rob Solo)

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Episode 819 | QSBS, Exit Multiples, How to Learn Marketing, and More Listener Questions (Rob Solo)

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Episode 818 | What Does It Take to Be Successful? with Russ Walling

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Episode 817 | Bootstrapping in the Age of AI with Jason Cohen

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Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stubborn, and The Power of Focus (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 815 | Unexpected Skills Your Day Job Can Teach You About Entrepreneurship (Rob Solo)

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Episode 814 | How to Beat a Venture-Backed Competitor (with Laura Roeder)

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Episode 813 | SaaS Predictions for 2026 (+ Reflections on 2025)

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Episode 812 | The 2025 State of TinySeed

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Episode 811 | When to Delegate the "Core Four SaaS Skills," Freemium Retention Rates, and More Listener Questions (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 810 | The Best A.I. Coding Stack, Shipping Fast, and More Listener Questions (With Derrick Reimer)

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Episode 809 | What I Learned Diving into A.I. for 100 Days (with Craig Hewitt)

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Episode 808 | A $500k "Step 1" Business, When to Consider SOC2, and More Listener Questions

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Episode 807 | The "Core Four" SaaS Skills and Knowing When You Should Find a Co-founder (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 806 | Bootstrapping Missive to $8M ARR Over 10 Years

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Episode 805 | Gatekeeping vs. Paying Dues, Raw Material, and Surrounding Yourself with the Right People (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 804 | Positioning, Inventing a Category, Marketing Globally, and More Listener Questions (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 803 | 8 Key Takeaways from MicroConf Europe 2025

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Episode 802 | Marketing Not Scaling, Where to Publish Content, and More Listener Questions (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 801 | Competing Against Incumbents, Technical Co-Founders, Trademarks, and More Listener Questions with Derrick Reimer

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Episode 800 | The 12 Commandments of Startups for the Rest of Us

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Episode 799 | TinySeed Tales s5e6: $500k ARR!

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Episode 798 | Lessons From 10 Years of SaaS Growth Without a Hockey Stick

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Episode 797 | TinySeed Tales s5e5: Should I Raise More Funding?

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Episode 796 | Marketing Isn't Easy?, How to Grow Your Company, and Be Careful Who You Listen To (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 795 | TinySeed Tales s5e4: The $20K Milestone

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Episode 794 | From Struggling Side Project to Life-Changing SaaS Exit

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Episode 793 | TinySeed Tales s5e3: Building Momentum

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Episode 792 | Hot Take Tuesday: GPT-5 Struggles, the A.I. Bubble, and the Windsurf Debacle

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Episode 791 | TinySeed Tales s5e2: Growing Pains

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Episode 790 | From Scrappy to Scalable: Evolving Your Role as a Founder

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Episode 789 | TinySeed Tales s5e1: From Agency to SaaS

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Episode 788 | Do I Need a Co-founder? And More Listener Questions (with Derrick Reimer)

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Episode 787 | "We Shut Down a $1.5M Product, and Raised $10M Instead"

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Episode 786 | Questions About Bootstrapping SaaS to a $90M Exit (with Kevin Wagstaff)

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Episode 785 | Choosing Between AI Products, Building Multiple Apps, and More Listener Questions (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 784 | The Wealth Ladder: Six Levels of Financial Freedom

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Episode 783 | Bootstrapping ScrapingBee to $5M ARR and an 8-Figure Exit

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Episode 782 | Why I Succeeded: My 10 Best Entrepreneurial Decisions

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Episode 781 | A Founder's Regret List: 12 Mistakes I’ll Never Make Again

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Episode 780 | "I'll Never Sell My Company" and Other Myths Founders Tell Themselves

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Episode 779 | 10 Myths Most SaaS Founders Believe

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Episode 778 | Pricing Pilot Projects, Niching Down, Skipping Stairsteps, and More Listener Questions (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 777 | Why Retiring Might Be the Worst Goal for Entrepreneurs

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Episode 776 | How Bootstrapping Led to a Life-Changing $90M SaaS Exit

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Episode 775 | A.I. Coding Tools, User Experience, Racking Your Own Servers, and More Listener Questions (with Derrick Reimer)

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Episode 774 | How a Non-Technical Founder Bootstrapped to Millions in Revenue

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Episode 773 | How to Find Your Early Customer Profile (ECP)

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Episode 772 | A Highly Effective Framework for SaaS Positioning

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Episode 771 | What Changes As You Grow, AI Agents, Patents, and More Listener Questions (with Craig Hewitt)

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Episode 770 | Revenue vs. Profit, Asking for Permission, and Mike Tyson (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 769 | Key Insights from MicroConf 2025 in New Orleans

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Episode 768 | Reacting to Controversial Startup Advice

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Episode 767 | Finding Your ICP, Prioritizing Feature Requests, Pricing, and More Product-Focused Listener Questions

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Episode 766 | Close.com's Amazing Run to $40M ARR (with Steli Efti)

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Episode 765 | TinySeed Tales s4e9: Making the hardest decision

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Episode 764 | Finding Hockey Stick Growth with an A.I. Wrapper (with Jordan Gal)

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Episode 763 | TinySeed Tales s4e8: One Last Pivot

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Episode 762 | Doing Great Work, Hierarchy of SaaS Skills, and Public Deadlines (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 761 | TinySeed Tales s4e7: Identifying Pain Points

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Episode 760 | White-Labeling, Founder Mindset, and More Listener Questions (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 759 | TinySeed Tales s4e6: Does AI + Pivot = Success?

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Episode 758 | Do Free Trials Suck?, What Moves the Needle, and More Listener Questions (with Derrick Reimer)

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Episode 757 | TinySeed Tales s4e5: Founder Breakups, Crushing Failures, and the Future

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Episode 756 | Why Great Product Management Is Critical for Your Startup

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Episode 755 | TinySeed Tales s4e4: Customer Interviews + Pivoting

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Episode 754 | Broken Freemium, SaaS Plateaus, and More Listener Questions (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 753 | TinySeed Tales s4e3: Co-Founder Conflicts + Renaming a Business

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Episode 752 | The State of SEO in 2025

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Episode 751 | TinySeed Tales s4e2: From Developer to Manager

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Episode 750 | Making Your First Hire, Testing Prices, And More Listener Questions (with Laura Roeder)

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Episode 749 | TinySeed Tales s4e1: Introducing Hammerstone.dev

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Episode 748 | The Ins and Outs of Startup Investing

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Episode 747 | Evolving SaaS Customer Success Over 7 Years (with Jane Portman)

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Episode 746 | 9 Startup Predictions for 2025

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Episode 745 | Reflecting on 2024: Revisiting My Predictions, The Best Episodes, My Favorite Frameworks, and More (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 744 | Bluesky, TinySeed is Raising, YC Backs Competitors, and More Hot Take Tuesday Topics

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Episode 743 | How to Sell Your Business Without Regret

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Episode 742 | Normalizing Hard Things, Facing Your Biggest Threat, and Making it Fast (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 741 | What Actually is Product Led Growth? (with Wes Bush)

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Episode 740 | My New Book! The Entrepreneur's Guide to Selling Your Business Without Regret

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Episode 739 | Selling SaaS to Customers Who Don't Know They Have a Problem

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Episode 738 | Encouraging Word of Mouth, Educating a Market, and More Listener Questions (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 737 | Key Takeaways from MicroConf Europe 2024 (With Derrick Reimer)

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Episode 736 | Founder Regrets, DIY vs. Hiring, Defining your ICP, and More Later Stage Listener Questions

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Episode 735 | The 8 Levels of SaaS Platform Risk (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 734 | The 20 Year Bootstrapper (With Ian Landsman)

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Episode 733 | Good vs. Bad Distractions, Weaknesses vs. Blind Spots, And Everyone Struggles (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 732 | Lessons Learned Bootstrapping to a $615M Exit

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Episode 731 | How to Delegate as a Perfectionist, SaaS Partnerships, Planning Your Next Quarter, and More Listener Questions (with Derrick Reimer)

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Episode 730 | The SaaS Launchpad: The Ultimate Course for Launching Your Product

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Episode 729 | 9 Things I've Learned Investing in 170+ SaaS Companies

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Episode 728 | Bootstrapping Gymdesk to a More Than $32.5M Exit

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Episode 727 | Gymdesk Sells for More than $32.5 million, Hiring Gets Easier, and More Hot Take Tuesday Topics

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Episode 726 | Selling 29,000 Copies, Information vs. Motivation, and Making Your First Level Last (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 725 | SEO in the Age of AI, Freemium, When Brand Becomes Important, and More Advanced Listener Questions (with Ruben Gamez)

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Episode 724 | Managing Managers, Breaking Through Plateaus, Thoughts on EOS, and More Later-Stage Listener Questions

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Episode 723 | How to Be a Supercommunicator (and Why it Matters as a Bootstrapper) with Charles Duhigg

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Episode 722 | Bootstrapping a Vertical SaaS to 7-Figures in 18 Months

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Episode 721 | 7 Key Takeaways from the 2024 State of Independent SaaS Report

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Episode 720 | How to Prioritize Your Focus (In Both Your Startup and Personal Life)

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Episode 719 | How to Test Pricing, Lifetime Deals, and Building Something for Everyone (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 718 | When to Give Up, Open Source Competition, Painful Features, and More (with Derrick Reimer)

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Episode 717 | Bootstrapping to $1.3M ARR and 300,000 Free Users

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Episode 716 | Positioning Against Incumbents, Changing Your H1, How Tech Stack Affects Valuation, and More Listener Questions

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Episode 715 | Best Uses of the Internet, a Book about Selling Your Company, and a Circus Show

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Episode 714 | TRM not TAM, Acquiring a Competitor, and Finding a Developer Co-founder (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 713 | Our Top 5 Takeaways from MicroConf US 2024 (with Arvid Kahl)

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Episode 712 | Revisiting Burnout + Updates on My Progress in 2024 (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 711 | Finding Early Customers, Horizontal vs. Vertical, Prosumer SaaS, and More Listener Questions (with Ruben Gamez)

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Episode 710 | Is Coding Dead?, The "Right" Tech Stack, Funded Competition, and More Listener Questions

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Episode 709 | The 7 Greatest Investments of My Life

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Episode 708 | Outsourcing Marketing, Competitive Markets, and More Listener Questions (with Derrick Reimer)

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Episode 707 | Once.com, Open Source to FT Income, and More (Hot Take Tuesday)

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Episode 706.5 | Rethinking My Most Common Advice

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Episode 706.1 | MicroConf US Tickets Will Sell Out Soon!

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Episode 706 | 2/20/200 Validation, Prior Art, and Designing by Committee (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 705 | From Bootstrapped to Mostly Bootstrapped to Venture Backed

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Episode 704 | Landing Pages, Buying a SaaS, the Right Tech Stack, and More Listener Questions

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Episode 703 | The Accidental SaaS Entrepreneur

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Episode 702 | Revenue vs. Profit Multiples, When to Lower Prices, and More Listener Questions

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Episode 701 | The Long Journey to Product-Market Fit

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Episode 700 | Playing the Long Game

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Episode 699 | How to Build Elegant, Scalable Software Products with Derrick Reimer

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Episode 698 | How to Launch a Million Dollar Business (With Noah Kagan)

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Episode 697 | 7 Predictions for SaaS Bootstrappers in 2024

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Episode 696 | The Truth about Product-Market Fit + Doing Sales as an Introvert (With Ruben Gamez)

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Episode 695 | Ideal Customers, Moving from B2C to B2B, and More Listener Questions (with Asia Orangio)

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Episode 694 | 2023 In Review: Amazing Growth & Fighting Burnout

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Episode 693 | Building a Mid-Six-Figure SaaS in Less Than 3 Years

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Episode 692 | Learn the Rules Like a Pro So You Can Break Them Like an Artist (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 691 | Freemium, High-touch vs. Low-touch, Selling as an Introvert, and More Listener Questions

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Episode 690 | When Opt-in Email Could Be Spam, Collecting Customer Feedback, and More Listener Questions

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Episode 689 | How to Keep Your Remote Team Motivated and Engaged

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Episode 688 | Growing Boot.dev From $6k to $110k in Monthly Revenue in 15 Months

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Episode 687 | An 8th Thing You Should Never Do, Things That Don't Scale, and More Rob Solo Topics

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Episode 686 | How Much is Enough?, Outsourcing Marketing, and More Listener Questions

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Episode 685 | 7 Things You Should Never Do (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 684 | Key Takeaways from MicroConf Europe 2023

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Episode 683 | Bringing on a Partner, Attending Trade Shows, Pre-launch Discounts, and More Listener Questions

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Episode 682 | The Pros and Cons of Large vs. Small Startup Events

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Episode 681 | Why Launching a Second Product is Usually a Bad Idea

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Episode 680 | Problems vs. Solutions, Doing What it Takes, and More Listener Questions (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 679.5 | The Future of MicroConf (7 Announcements!)

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Episode 679 | Mock Features, A Failed Launch, Becoming a Freelancer, and More Listener Questions (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 678 | Selling a Half-Finished Product, Phased Launches, and More Listener Questions (Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 677 | Design Faster and More Effectively With Wireframing

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Episode 676 | Exit Valuations, Choosing Between Ideas, and More Listener Questions

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Episode 675 | Storytelling as a Sales Superpower (Book Recommendation)

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Episode 674 | SparkToro Pays Back Investors, When to Raise Funding, and X.com (Hot Take Tuesday)

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Episode 673 | Lifetime Plans vs Subscriptions, Testing an Idea With a Landing Page, and More Listener Questions

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Episode 672 | Bootstrapping, Building, Buying, and Selling SaaS Companies

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Episode 671 | Working on What Matters, Left-handed Threads, and Being Lucky (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 670 | Relying on Luck, Avoiding Burnout, and Bad Player vs. Bad Instrument (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 669 | 10 Years to Overnight Success: Bootstrapping to a Multi-Million Dollar Exit

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Episode 668 | 9 Key Takeaways from MicroConf U.S. 2023 in Denver

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Episode 667 | Increase Your Exit Price by Decoupling Yourself from Your Business with John Warrillow

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Episode 666 | Entering a Competitive Market, Books for SaaS Founders, and More Listener Questions with Derrick Reimer

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Episode 665 | How to Find More "Best Fit" Customers for Your SaaS

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Episode 664 | The Challenges of Horizontal SaaS, Adding Services to a SaaS, and More Listener Questions

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Episode 663 | 5 Insights SaaS Founders Should Know About A.I. (Ignore at Your Peril)

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Episode 662 | Selling for Five Years of Runway, Profit vs. Revenue Multiples, and More Listener Questions (Rob Solo)

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Episode 661 | Millions in Revenue As a One-Person Software Company

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Episode 660 | Make Ever-Increasing and Manageably-Sized Mistakes (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 659 | Indie Hackers' Newfound Independence + The SaaS Playbook with Courtland and Channing

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Episode 658 | As a SaaS Founder, When Should You Care About Sales Tax?

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Episode 657 | Concierge Onboarding, Building a Great Brand, and More Listener Questions

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Episode 656 | Taste vs. Shipping + Being First vs. Being the Best (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Startups For The Rest Of Us Podcast Trailer

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Episode 655 | Seat-Based Pricing, Can Churn Be Too Low? and More Listener Questions (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 654 | Shipping Every Day for 10 Years with Tom Merritt

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Episode 653 | Armageddon Beer, Developing Taste, and What if I Succeed? (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 652 | Mixing No-code with Code, Developer Superpowers, $5k Angel Check, and More Listener Questions

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Episode 651 | From Side Hustle to Full-time & Profitable (with Mike Taber)

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Episode 650 | Building vs. Buying a SaaS, Day Job Constraints, and More Listener Questions

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Episode 649 | Learning to Sell SaaS as a Founder (Book Recommendation)

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Episode 648 | Competing with a Non-Profit, Driving Traffic to A Landing Page, and More Listener Questions

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Episode 647.5 | Bonus Episode: TinySeed Application Q&A Livestream

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Episode 647 | Equipping Sales & Support With Critical Product Knowledge As You Grow

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Episode 646.5 | Bonus Episode: A Big Change to MicroConf

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Episode 646 | Building a Recurring, Annual Price Increase Into Your SaaS

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Episode 645.5 | Bonus Episode: Mastermind Matching Applications Are Open

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Episode 645 | Anti-Bro, Nuanced Thinking, and Being Good vs. Being Great (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 644 | Buying Back Your Time with Dan Martell

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Episode 643 | Feature Flags, Impostor Syndrome, and More Listener Questions with Derrick Reimer

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Episode 642 | The Pros and Cons of Building a No-Code MVP

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Episode 641 | Dealing with High Churn, Rolling Out an MVP, and More Listener Questions

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Episode 640 | Hot Take Tuesday: Recession and Bootstrappers, ChatGPT, Twitter Drama

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Episode 639 | The Secret Sauce to Building Happy, Motivated Teams

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Episode 638 | How to Generate Startup Ideas (Plus 8 Ideas You Can Steal)

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Episode 637 | B2B vs. B2C, Hiring for Sales, and Bootstrapping a 2-Sided Marketplace

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Episode 636 | A Customer-Led Approach to Driving More Recurring Revenue

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Episode 635 | Where Are They Now? Catching up with TinySeed Tales' Tony Chan

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Episode 634 | Naming Your Startup, Tapping Out a Niche, and Licensing Your IP

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Episode 633 | Building SaaS Plus a Two-Sided Marketplace

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Episode 632 | Hot Take Tuesday: Figma Exit, Side Project Distraction, No Code Dogma

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Episode 631 | Re-writing Your Codebase, Stair Stepping, and Difficult Founder Decisions

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Episode 630 | Approaching $1M ARR as a Niche SaaS Founder

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Episode 629 | TinySeed Tales s3e6: Looking Ahead to $1M ARR

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Episode 628 | The 5 PM Pre-Validation Framework

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Episode 627 | TinySeed Tales s3e5: Meeting the Co-Founder

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Episode 626 | Scratching an Itch, Launching a Free SEO Tool, and Growing to $18k MRR

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Episode 625 | TinySeed Tales s3e4: Doubling MRR

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Episode 624 | Moving from Free to Paid, Prioritizing Marketing vs. Development, and More Listener Questions

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Episode 623 | TinySeed Tales s3e3: Paternity Leave

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Episode 622 | Making Hard Product Decisions & Growth vs. Profitability with Derrick Reimer

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Episode 621 | TinySeed Tales s3e2: Onboarding Their First Hires

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Episode 620 | Finding SaaS Ideas, Customer Pain, SaaS Metrics, and More Listener Questions

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Episode 619 | TinySeed Tales s3e1: Moving from Bootstrapped to Mostly Bootstrapped

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Episode 618 | How to Achieve Financial Freedom

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Episode 617 | News Roundup: Profitwell $200M Exit, Spreadsheet Mentality, and Watching an Acquirer Ruin Your Company

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Episode 616 | An 8-Figure SaaS Founder's Approach to Remote Work

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Episode 615 | Bootstrappable Businesses, Cargo Culting, and How Pricing Affects Growth (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 614 | Deciding When to Quit Your Day Job, Founder Anxiety, and More Listener Questions

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Episode 613 | Hacking Your Founder Psychology

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Episode 612 | Balancing a Side Project and Going Full-time on Your Product

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Episode 611 | Bootstrapping ProfitWell to a $200M Exit (with Patrick Campbell)

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Episode 610 | How I Would Start Over Today, Bad Habits of Solopreneurs, and the Benefits of a Day Job (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 609 | Building Your MVP, the Bug Fix Hamster Wheel, and More Listener Questions

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Episode 608 | Bootstrapping (and Exiting) a 7-Figure Info Product

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Episode 607 | Overcoming Plateaus, Stealth Launches, Founder-Driven Sales, and More Listener Questions

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Episode 606 | The Podcasting Landscape, Keeping Your Saw Sharpened, and Scaling Your Team with Craig Hewitt

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Episode 605 | Building a SaaS with Little Dev Experience, Using No Code for Your MVP, Bootstrapping a Two-Sided Marketplace, and More Listener Questions

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Episode 604 | How to Decide Which Features to Build (with Derrick Reimer)

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Episode 603 | Bootstrapping HotJar to $40M ARR Using D2C Marketing

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Episode 602 | Explaining SaaS Metrics to a Child

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Episode 601 | Bootstrapping B2B vs. B2C

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Episode 600 | When to Hire Your First Manager + What You Should Be Focused On (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 599 | Finding the Bootstrapper Hockey Stick

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Episode 598 | Diversity, Mission & Values, How to Start, and More Listener Questions

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Episode 597 | The Challenge of Building a Business in a Regulated Industry

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Episode 596 | News Round-Up: Google Ends WFH, Founder Salaries, How to Use Email

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Episode 595 | TinySeed Tales Season 2: Where Are They Now?

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Episode 594 | Starting Over with the TropicalMBA's Dan & Ian

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Episode 593 | Retaining Employees + The Ideal SaaS Business (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 592 | Nine Tactics for Amazing Customer Support

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Episode 591 | Acquiring and Scaling in a Crowded Space

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Episode 590 | Buying vs Building, Zombie Companies, and More Listener Questions with Craig Hewitt

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Episode 589 | Finding a SaaS Idea Through 70 Cold Calls

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Episode 588 | In Which Courtland Allen and I Cover a Lot of Startups Topics

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Episode 587 | Renaming a Company, Revisiting Inflation, and Micropreneurship (Listener Email Edition)

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Episode 586 | Mastering Customer Interviews with Michele Hansen

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Episode 585 | Moving Outside Your Comfort Zone with Dr. Sherry Walling

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Episode 584 | Looking Back and Looking Ahead

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Episode 583 | Finding Startup Ideas with Sam Parr

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Episode 582 | Enterprise Sales, Crowdfunding, Replacing Yourself, and More Listener Questions

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Episode 581 | Inflation for Founders

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Episode 580 | Seven SEO Tips Every SaaS Can Use (with Ross Hudgens)

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Episode 579 | The SaaS Fundraising Landscape (+The TinySeed Syndicate)

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Episode 578 | How Mike's Merger Panned Out

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Episode 577 | Finding the Right Problem to Solve

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Episode 576 | Don't Become a Media Company (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 575 | Shipping Code, Pivoting, and More Listener Questions with Derrick Reimer

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Bonus Episode: The 2021 TinySeed Batch Announcement

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Episode 574 | The Deep Need to Be a Software Entrepreneur

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Bonus | The 2022 State of Independent SaaS Survey is Live

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Episode 573| Hiring FT vs. PT, WordPress Consolidation, and More Bootstrapper News

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Episode 572 | Fault vs. Responsibility & Games vs. Practice (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 571 | Deciding When to Move on to Your Next Idea

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Episode 570 | Bootstrappable Businesses, Selling as an Introvert, and More Listener Questions

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Episode 569 | The Life Changing Decision of When to Sell Your Company

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Episode 568 | MailChimp Sells for $12 billion

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Episode 567 | From Developer to CTO to Buying the Company for $1

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Episode 566 | From Bootstrapped to Venture Backed with Hana Mohan

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Episode 565 | Correlation vs. Causation, Focus, Sharing MRR, and More Listener Questions

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Episode 564 | Running a Business with 10,000 Paid Subscribers

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Episode 563 | The Struggle, Calls to Action, Selling Above $1M ARR, and More Listener Questions

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Episode 562.5 | TinySeed Fall 2021 SaaS Accelerator Application Info Session

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Episode 562 | "Measure Twice, Cut Once" + SaaS Holy Grails (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 561 | Launching on Product Hunt and DIY vs. DFY

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Episode 560 | When to Hire, Square Business Banking, and More Bootstrapper News

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Episode 559 | Bootstrapping a Two-Sided Marketplace with MicroAquire

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Episode 558 | Thinking Through Funding as a Bootstrapper

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Episode 557 | Investing for Founders

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Episode 556 | Zero to $26k MRR as the Solo Founder of Rails Autoscale

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Episode 555 | Businesses You Can Bootstrap, W2 vs. Contract, Enterprise Pricing, and More Listener Questions with Ruben Gamez

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Episode 554 | Thinking Through Your Exit + Grief and Entrepreneurship with Dr. Sherry Walling

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Episode 553 | Stack Overflow and Moz Acquired, Quitting Instead of Giving Up Remote Work, and More Bootstrapper News

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Episode 552 | Google Audits, Partnerships, and Freemium with Mike Taber

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Episode 551 | Task-level vs. Project-level Thinkers, No Such Thing as an Autopilot Business, and More (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 550 | Three Years of Grind to Six Figures in ARR with CloudForecast

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Episode 549 | Hiring vs. Outsourcing, E-commerce SaaS, and More Listener Questions with Jordan Gal

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Episode 548.5 | The Companies in TinySeed's Spring 2021 Batch

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Episode 548 | The Grind of Building a SaaS During Nights & Weekends

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Episode 547 | Private Podcasting, Apple's Announcement, and Accelerating Growth with Craig Hewitt

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Episode 546 | Hiring Entrepreneurial People, Anonymity, Disruptive Innovation, and More Listener Questions

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Episode 545 | The Value of Learning 80/20 Design Fundamentals

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Episode 544 | Annual Raises, Finding Good Startup People, and More Listener Questions with Josh Pigford

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Episode 543 | All Things Startup with #Mike Taber

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Episode 542 | 10x in Two Years, Past $3M ARR with SquadCast

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Episode 541 | Faster Horses & Product Myths, Life-changing Money, Dual Funnels, and More

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Episode 540 | Bootstrapper News. Twitter Spaces, Indie.vc Closing, Shopify, and More

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Episode 539 | Post-Exit Life, Writing Six Books, and Brewing Beer with Dan Norris

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Episode 538 | When to Sunset a Product, Enterprise Security Assessments, Lifetime Deals, and More Listener Questions

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Episode 537 | On Launching, Funding, and Growth with Serial SaaS Founder Rand Fishkin

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Episode 536 | A Few Things I Learned in 2020 (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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Episode 535 | A Bluetick Update with Mike Taber

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Episode 534 | A $4M Exit with Josh Pigford of Baremetrics

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Episode 533: Life Profitability After Two Exits (with Adii Pienaar)

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Episode 532 | The Art of Selling Your Business with John Warrillow

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Episode 531 | How a Non-Technical Founder Grew Past $45k MRR

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Episode 530 | Making Development Decisions, Regrets about Selling, and More Listener Questions (with Derrick Reimer)

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Episode 529 | A Pricing Deep Dive with Slingshot

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Episode 528 | 2021 Predictions from Rob and Mike

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Episode 527 | From Agency to SaaS, Equity Splits, and More Listener Questions with Courtland Allen

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Episode 526 | Launching, Learning, and Teaching with Justin Vincent

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Episode 525 | A Bootstrapping Artifact from 2005

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Episode 524 | Bootstrapping a Commodity SaaS

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Episode 523 | Breaking Through Plateaus, Entrepreneurship for Kids, Common Bootstrapper Mistakes, and More Listener Questions

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Episode 522 | Revisiting Castos, One Year Later

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TinySeed Tales S2E9 | Playing the Long Game

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Episode 521 | A Roundtable Discussion about a Potential Recession, Working from Home, Google Anti-trust, and More

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TinySeed Tales S2E8 | Upmarket Starts to Pay Off

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Episode 520 | Why a Million Dollar Agency Quit It All and Moved to SaaS

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TinySeed Tales S2E7 | A Global Pandemic

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Episode 519 | Profit Sharing, Stock Options, and Equity (A Rob Solo Adventure)

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TinySeed Tales S2E6 | Best Growth Month Ever

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Episode 518 | A Live LinkedIn Ads Consult with Anthony Blatner and Scatterspoke

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Episode 517.5 | The 2nd State of Independent SaaS Survey is Live