Startups For the Rest of Us
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Episode 726 | Selling 29,000 Copies, Information vs. Motivation, and Making Your First Level Last (A Rob Solo Adventure)
23 mins; August 13, 2024
Episode 725 | SEO in the Age of AI, Freemium, When Brand Becomes Important, and More Advanced Listener Questions (with Ruben Gamez)
46 mins; August 06, 2024
Episode 724 | Managing Managers, Breaking Through Plateaus, Thoughts on EOS, and More Later-Stage Listener Questions
30 mins; July 30, 2024
Episode 723 | How to Be a Supercommunicator (and Why it Matters as a Bootstrapper) with Charles Duhigg
31 mins; July 23, 2024
Episode 722 | Bootstrapping a Vertical SaaS to 7-Figures in 18 Months
39 mins; July 16, 2024
Episode 721 | 7 Key Takeaways from the 2024 State of Independent SaaS Report
35 mins; July 09, 2024
Episode 720 | How to Prioritize Your Focus (In Both Your Startup and Personal Life)
46 mins; July 02, 2024
Episode 719 | How to Test Pricing, Lifetime Deals, and Building Something for Everyone (A Rob Solo Adventure)
26 mins; June 25, 2024
Episode 718 | When to Give Up, Open Source Competition, Painful Features, and More (with Derrick Reimer)
43 mins; June 18, 2024
Episode 717 | Bootstrapping to $1.3M ARR and 300,000 Free Users
34 mins; June 11, 2024
Episode 716 | Positioning Against Incumbents, Changing Your H1, How Tech Stack Affects Valuation, and More Listener Questions
31 mins; June 04, 2024
Episode 715 | Best Uses of the Internet, a Book about Selling Your Company, and a Circus Show
35 mins; May 28, 2024
Episode 714 | TRM not TAM, Acquiring a Competitor, and Finding a Developer Co-founder (A Rob Solo Adventure)
31 mins; May 21, 2024
Episode 713 | Our Top 5 Takeaways from MicroConf US 2024 (with Arvid Kahl)
34 mins; May 14, 2024
Episode 712 | Revisiting Burnout + Updates on My Progress in 2024 (A Rob Solo Adventure)
28 mins; May 07, 2024
Episode 711 | Finding Early Customers, Horizontal vs. Vertical, Prosumer SaaS, and More Listener Questions (with Ruben Gamez)
51 mins; April 30, 2024
Episode 710 | Is Coding Dead?, The "Right" Tech Stack, Funded Competition, and More Listener Questions
34 mins; April 23, 2024
Episode 709 | The 7 Greatest Investments of My Life
32 mins; April 16, 2024
Episode 708 | Outsourcing Marketing, Competitive Markets, and More Listener Questions (with Derrick Reimer)
47 mins; April 09, 2024
Episode 707 | Once.com, Open Source to FT Income, and More (Hot Take Tuesday)
37 mins; April 02, 2024
Episode 706.5 | Rethinking My Most Common Advice
13 mins; April 01, 2024
Episode 706.1 | MicroConf US Tickets Will Sell Out Soon!
2 mins; March 28, 2024
Episode 706 | 2/20/200 Validation, Prior Art, and Designing by Committee (A Rob Solo Adventure)
25 mins; March 26, 2024
Episode 705 | From Bootstrapped to Mostly Bootstrapped to Venture Backed
36 mins; March 19, 2024
Episode 704 | Landing Pages, Buying a SaaS, the Right Tech Stack, and More Listener Questions
37 mins; March 12, 2024
Episode 703 | The Accidental SaaS Entrepreneur
34 mins; March 05, 2024
Episode 702 | Revenue vs. Profit Multiples, When to Lower Prices, and More Listener Questions
31 mins; February 27, 2024
Episode 701 | The Long Journey to Product-Market Fit
33 mins; February 20, 2024
Episode 700 | Playing the Long Game
30 mins; February 13, 2024
Episode 699 | How to Build Elegant, Scalable Software Products with Derrick Reimer
47 mins; February 06, 2024
Episode 698 | How to Launch a Million Dollar Business (With Noah Kagan)
44 mins; January 30, 2024
Episode 697 | 7 Predictions for SaaS Bootstrappers in 2024
31 mins; January 23, 2024
Episode 696 | The Truth about Product-Market Fit + Doing Sales as an Introvert (With Ruben Gamez)
50 mins; January 16, 2024
Episode 695 | Ideal Customers, Moving from B2C to B2B, and More Listener Questions (with Asia Orangio)
53 mins; January 09, 2024
Episode 694 | 2023 In Review: Amazing Growth & Fighting Burnout
19 mins; January 02, 2024
Episode 693 | Building a Mid-Six-Figure SaaS in Less Than 3 Years
28 mins; December 26, 2023
Episode 692 | Learn the Rules Like a Pro So You Can Break Them Like an Artist (A Rob Solo Adventure)
23 mins; December 19, 2023
Episode 691 | Freemium, High-touch vs. Low-touch, Selling as an Introvert, and More Listener Questions
23 mins; December 12, 2023
Episode 690 | When Opt-in Email Could Be Spam, Collecting Customer Feedback, and More Listener Questions
33 mins; December 05, 2023
Episode 689 | How to Keep Your Remote Team Motivated and Engaged
30 mins; November 28, 2023
Episode 688 | Growing Boot.dev From $6k to $110k in Monthly Revenue in 15 Months
32 mins; November 21, 2023
Episode 687 | An 8th Thing You Should Never Do, Things That Don't Scale, and More Rob Solo Topics
23 mins; November 14, 2023
Episode 686 | How Much is Enough?, Outsourcing Marketing, and More Listener Questions
33 mins; November 07, 2023
Episode 685 | 7 Things You Should Never Do (A Rob Solo Adventure)
36 mins; October 31, 2023
Episode 684 | Key Takeaways from MicroConf Europe 2023
26 mins; October 24, 2023
Episode 683 | Bringing on a Partner, Attending Trade Shows, Pre-launch Discounts, and More Listener Questions
28 mins; October 17, 2023
Episode 682 | The Pros and Cons of Large vs. Small Startup Events
27 mins; October 10, 2023
Episode 681 | Why Launching a Second Product is Usually a Bad Idea
50 mins; October 03, 2023
Episode 680 | Problems vs. Solutions, Doing What it Takes, and More Listener Questions (A Rob Solo Adventure)
23 mins; September 26, 2023
Episode 679.5 | The Future of MicroConf (7 Announcements!)
7 mins; September 21, 2023
Episode 679 | Mock Features, A Failed Launch, Becoming a Freelancer, and More Listener Questions (A Rob Solo Adventure)
26 mins; September 19, 2023
Episode 678 | Selling a Half-Finished Product, Phased Launches, and More Listener Questions (Rob Solo Adventure)
26 mins; September 12, 2023
Episode 677 | Design Faster and More Effectively With Wireframing
35 mins; September 05, 2023
Episode 676 | Exit Valuations, Choosing Between Ideas, and More Listener Questions
33 mins; August 29, 2023
Episode 675 | Storytelling as a Sales Superpower (Book Recommendation)
34 mins; August 22, 2023
Episode 674 | SparkToro Pays Back Investors, When to Raise Funding, and X.com (Hot Take Tuesday)
43 mins; August 15, 2023
Episode 673 | Lifetime Plans vs Subscriptions, Testing an Idea With a Landing Page, and More Listener Questions
51 mins; August 08, 2023
Episode 672 | Bootstrapping, Building, Buying, and Selling SaaS Companies
41 mins; August 01, 2023
Episode 671 | Working on What Matters, Left-handed Threads, and Being Lucky (A Rob Solo Adventure)
23 mins; July 25, 2023
Episode 670 | Relying on Luck, Avoiding Burnout, and Bad Player vs. Bad Instrument (A Rob Solo Adventure)
26 mins; July 18, 2023
Episode 669 | 10 Years to Overnight Success: Bootstrapping to a Multi-Million Dollar Exit
36 mins; July 11, 2023
Episode 668 | 9 Key Takeaways from MicroConf U.S. 2023 in Denver
49 mins; July 04, 2023
Episode 667 | Increase Your Exit Price by Decoupling Yourself from Your Business with John Warrillow
30 mins; June 27, 2023
Episode 666 | Entering a Competitive Market, Books for SaaS Founders, and More Listener Questions with Derrick Reimer
53 mins; June 20, 2023
Episode 665 | How to Find More "Best Fit" Customers for Your SaaS
33 mins; June 13, 2023
Episode 664 | The Challenges of Horizontal SaaS, Adding Services to a SaaS, and More Listener Questions
34 mins; June 06, 2023
Episode 663 | 5 Insights SaaS Founders Should Know About A.I. (Ignore at Your Peril)
36 mins; May 30, 2023
Episode 662 | Selling for Five Years of Runway, Profit vs. Revenue Multiples, and More Listener Questions (Rob Solo)
33 mins; May 23, 2023
Episode 661 | Millions in Revenue As a One-Person Software Company
29 mins; May 16, 2023
Episode 660 | Make Ever-Increasing and Manageably-Sized Mistakes (A Rob Solo Adventure)
24 mins; May 09, 2023
Episode 659 | Indie Hackers' Newfound Independence + The SaaS Playbook with Courtland and Channing
70 hours 30 mins; May 02, 2023
Episode 658 | As a SaaS Founder, When Should You Care About Sales Tax?
30 mins; April 25, 2023
Episode 657 | Concierge Onboarding, Building a Great Brand, and More Listener Questions
27 mins; April 18, 2023
Episode 656 | Taste vs. Shipping + Being First vs. Being the Best (A Rob Solo Adventure)
25 mins; April 11, 2023
Startups For The Rest Of Us Podcast Trailer
1 min; April 06, 2023
Episode 655 | Seat-Based Pricing, Can Churn Be Too Low? and More Listener Questions (A Rob Solo Adventure)
38 mins; April 04, 2023
Episode 654 | Shipping Every Day for 10 Years with Tom Merritt
46 mins; March 28, 2023
Episode 653 | Armageddon Beer, Developing Taste, and What if I Succeed? (A Rob Solo Adventure)
24 mins; March 21, 2023
Episode 652 | Mixing No-code with Code, Developer Superpowers, $5k Angel Check, and More Listener Questions
42 mins; March 14, 2023
Episode 651 | From Side Hustle to Full-time & Profitable (with Mike Taber)
36 mins; March 07, 2023
Episode 650 | Building vs. Buying a SaaS, Day Job Constraints, and More Listener Questions
25 mins; February 28, 2023
Episode 649 | Learning to Sell SaaS as a Founder (Book Recommendation)
39 mins; February 21, 2023
Episode 648 | Competing with a Non-Profit, Driving Traffic to A Landing Page, and More Listener Questions
27 mins; February 14, 2023
Episode 647.5 | Bonus Episode: TinySeed Application Q&A Livestream
58 mins; February 09, 2023
Episode 647 | Equipping Sales & Support With Critical Product Knowledge As You Grow
40 mins; February 07, 2023
Episode 646.5 | Bonus Episode: A Big Change to MicroConf
5 mins; February 02, 2023
Episode 646 | Building a Recurring, Annual Price Increase Into Your SaaS
26 mins; January 31, 2023
Episode 645.5 | Bonus Episode: Mastermind Matching Applications Are Open
6 mins; January 26, 2023
Episode 645 | Anti-Bro, Nuanced Thinking, and Being Good vs. Being Great (A Rob Solo Adventure)
24 mins; January 24, 2023
Episode 644 | Buying Back Your Time with Dan Martell
36 mins; January 17, 2023
Episode 643 | Feature Flags, Impostor Syndrome, and More Listener Questions with Derrick Reimer
41 mins; January 10, 2023
Episode 642 | The Pros and Cons of Building a No-Code MVP
37 mins; January 03, 2023
Episode 641 | Dealing with High Churn, Rolling Out an MVP, and More Listener Questions
31 mins; December 27, 2022
Episode 640 | Hot Take Tuesday: Recession and Bootstrappers, ChatGPT, Twitter Drama
44 mins; December 20, 2022
Episode 639 | The Secret Sauce to Building Happy, Motivated Teams
38 mins; December 13, 2022
Episode 638 | How to Generate Startup Ideas (Plus 8 Ideas You Can Steal)
38 mins; December 06, 2022
Episode 637 | B2B vs. B2C, Hiring for Sales, and Bootstrapping a 2-Sided Marketplace
23 mins; November 29, 2022
Episode 636 | A Customer-Led Approach to Driving More Recurring Revenue
27 mins; November 22, 2022
Episode 635 | Where Are They Now? Catching up with TinySeed Tales' Tony Chan
32 mins; November 15, 2022
Episode 634 | Naming Your Startup, Tapping Out a Niche, and Licensing Your IP
31 mins; November 08, 2022