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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)

Tue, 17 Sep 2024

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In episode 731, join Rob Walling and Derrick Reimer as they tackle some more advanced listener questions. They discuss delegation and giving up areas of control as a founder, including examples from their time together at Drip. Derrick describes how he approaches partnering with other SaaS businesses and why planning a full quarter ahead doesn’t work for many bootstrapped founders. Episode Sponsor: Hiring senior developers can really move the needle in your business, but if you bring on the wrong person, you can quickly burn through your runway. If you need help finding a vetted, senior, results-oriented developer, you should reach out to today’s sponsor, Lemon.io.  For years, they’ve been helping our audience find high quality, global talent at competitive rates, and they can help you too. Longtime listener Chaz Yoon, hired a senior developer from Lemon.io and said his hire ”definitely knew his stuff, provided appropriate feedback and pushback, and had great communication, including very fluent English. He really exceeded my expectations.”  Chaz said he’d definitely use Lemon.io again when he’s looking for a senior level engineer.  To learn more and get a 15% discount on your first four weeks of working with a developer at lemon.io/startups.  Topics we cover:  1:17 – Delegating as a perfectionist 7:19 – Learning to hire those that are better than you in some domains 14:50 – Risk vs. certainty 19:01 – Finding specialized marketing roles vs. a generalist 24:04 – Managing partnerships with other SaaS products 31:17 – Reaching out about partnerships 32:46 – Quarterly planning for your SaaS 34:20 – Planning in smaller time blocks 40:58 – Quizzing developers’ on their knowledge Links from the Show:  Purchase The SaaS Launchpad TinySeed The SaaS Playbook MicroConf YouTube Channel Derrick Reimer (@derrickreimer) | X SavvyCal Finding Fulfillment by Jason Cohen Shape Up If you have questions about starting or scaling a software business that you’d like for us to cover, please submit your question for an upcoming episode. We’d love to hear from you! Subscribe & Review: iTunes | Spotify

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0.169 - 23.459 Rob Walling

You're listening to Startups for the Rest of Us. My name is Rob Walling, and I am your host this week and every week on the show. Today, I welcome back Derek Reimer, and we talk through some really interesting listener questions. How to delegate as a perfectionist, how to organize and think about SaaS partnerships, and planning your next quarter as a bootstrapper, as a super small team.

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24.079 - 44.232 Rob Walling

We'll jump into those questions in just a moment. If you haven't checked out my new course, the SAS Launchpad, head to saslaunchpad.co. This is the first course I have created in 14 years. It is incredibly in-depth. It's a video course with transcripts and worksheets and quizzes, and it's all about early stage.

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44.273 - 76.646 Rob Walling

It's all about going from zero to one, going from finding ideas to vetting them to getting them launched successfully. saslaunchpad.co if you want to check it out. questions Derek Reimer thanks for coming back on the show pleasure to be back So I have some really good questions today continuing on this topic of more intermediate to advanced questions.

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77.127 - 101.084 Rob Walling

The first one is from HelloIt'sOli on Twitter. Oli asks, we're at $32,000. I'm going to assume that's MRR. And we've done it through long hours, endless experimentation, and a lot of good luck. Hard work, luck, and skill sounds like it. My question is, how should co-founders with perfectionist tendencies delegate work? And what qualities should they look for when hiring?

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101.424 - 114.395 Rob Walling

And then Ali actually goes on to ask two or three more questions, which we can take in due time. But as someone with perfectionist tendencies... We laugh because you and I are both that way in certain areas.

114.475 - 118.517 Derrick Reimer

That's the name of our band. Co-founders with Perfectionist Tendencies.

119.358 - 124.141 Rob Walling

Just Perfectionist Tendencies for short. What are we, like a third wave ska band?

124.721 - 126.483 Derrick Reimer

Perfectionist Tendencies.

126.523 - 134.51 Rob Walling

I think that's it. You're the guy just dancing on stage. You know I love to dance. Tuba? No, drum major.

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