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Stefan Rossler

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
196 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1103 When should he quit his agency and go all in on software?

Because that's kind of like what we want is something that's easy to sell, something where if a customer, for example, kind of complains about something, you just transfer the money back to their account.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1103 When should he quit his agency and go all in on software?

No problem there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1103 When should he quit his agency and go all in on software?

Not unlike the consultancy business where you're like, oh, no.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1103 When should he quit his agency and go all in on software?

client has problems you really have to focus because it's a big project and so on and so forth uh so it's like this very typical sas product and just to give you a bit of an understanding of where it's coming from you're very inspired at least especially me personally from 37 signals jason fried david hannemeyer they were doing things

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1103 When should he quit his agency and go all in on software?

and the whole story about Basecamp.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1103 When should he quit his agency and go all in on software?

So I think like five or six years ago, we just said, well, we don't want to be in the client business forever because yes, it can be stressful.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1103 When should he quit his agency and go all in on software?

We want to go to the SaaS business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1103 When should he quit his agency and go all in on software?

But since we have it for three years now on the site, we realized, well, it's stressful too.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1103 When should he quit his agency and go all in on software?

What do you find most stressful about it?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1103 When should he quit his agency and go all in on software?

For me personally, to have so many people there, so many people involved.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1103 When should he quit his agency and go all in on software?

How many people are involved?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1103 When should he quit his agency and go all in on software?

Yeah, a lot of people, we have testers and customers buying it and all of this stuff.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1103 When should he quit his agency and go all in on software?

So like this is all just people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1103 When should he quit his agency and go all in on software?

But for me, the big problem is this, you want to build something and scale it up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1103 When should he quit his agency and go all in on software?

So, which is perfectly fine and everything.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1103 When should he quit his agency and go all in on software?

And it makes sense in my mind if I think about it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1103 When should he quit his agency and go all in on software?

But the problem with this is as soon as something really big is happening on the market, you're kind of like, maybe this destroys our whole company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1103 When should he quit his agency and go all in on software?

Where on the other hand, in the consultancy business, we are using our minds.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1103 When should he quit his agency and go all in on software?

So nothing can ever happen to us if we're smart about making decisions and we're kind of like moving one step at a time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1103 When should he quit his agency and go all in on software?

Yeah.