Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episode 612 | Balancing a Side Project and Going Full-time on Your Product
19 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In episode 612, Rob Walling chats with longtime friend and repeat podcast guest Dave Rodenbaugh. Dav...
Episode 611 | Bootstrapping ProfitWell to a $200M Exit (with Patrick Campbell)
12 Jul 2022
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In episode 611, join Rob Walling as he chats with Patrick Campbell, the cofounder of ProfitWell, on ...
Episode 610 | How I Would Start Over Today, Bad Habits of Solopreneurs, and the Benefits of a Day Job (A Rob Solo Adventure)
05 Jul 2022
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In episode 610, join Rob Walling for a solo adventure where he talks about the benefits of working a...
Episode 609 | Building Your MVP, the Bug Fix Hamster Wheel, and More Listener Questions
28 Jun 2022
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In episode 609, join Rob Walling for a solo adventure as he answers a handful of listener questions ...
Episode 608 | Bootstrapping (and Exiting) a 7-Figure Info Product
21 Jun 2022
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In episode 608, Rob Walling chats with Adrian Rosebrock, who bootstrapped and successfully exited hi...
Episode 607 | Overcoming Plateaus, Stealth Launches, Founder-Driven Sales, and More Listener Questions
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In episode 607, Rob Walling chats with Asia Orangio, and they answer listener questions about custom...
Episode 606 | The Podcasting Landscape, Keeping Your Saw Sharpened, and Scaling Your Team with Craig Hewitt
07 Jun 2022
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In episode 606, Rob Walling chats with Craig Hewitt, the founder of Castos. They talk about company ...
Episode 605 | Building a SaaS with Little Dev Experience, Using No Code for Your MVP, Bootstrapping a Two-Sided Marketplace, and More Listener Questions
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In episode 605, Rob Walling is joined by Ruben Gamez, and they dig into a handful of listener questi...
Episode 604 | How to Decide Which Features to Build (with Derrick Reimer)
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In episode 604, Rob Walling talks with Derrick Reimer and gets the latest update on SavvyCal, how he...
Episode 603 | Bootstrapping HotJar to $40M ARR Using D2C Marketing
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In episode 603, Rob Walling chats with David Darmanin, one of the founders of Hotjar. Hotjar was boo...
Episode 602 | Explaining SaaS Metrics to a Child
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In episode 602, Rob Walling explains SaaS metrics to his kid. This is a great episode to listen to i...
Episode 601 | Bootstrapping B2B vs. B2C
03 May 2022
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In episode 601, Rob Walling chats with Nick Fogle of ChurnKey. Nick previously cofounded Wavve which...
Episode 600 | When to Hire Your First Manager + What You Should Be Focused On (A Rob Solo Adventure)
26 Apr 2022
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In episode 600, join Rob Walling for a solo adventure as he dives into topics ranging from when to h...
Episode 599 | Finding the Bootstrapper Hockey Stick
19 Apr 2022
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In episode 599, Rob Walling chats with Dominic “Dom” and Tracy Phillips of CodeSubmit. CodeSubmi...
Episode 598 | Diversity, Mission & Values, How to Start, and More Listener Questions
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In episode 598, join Rob Walling as he answers listener emails. Topics range from diversity in the s...
Episode 597 | The Challenge of Building a Business in a Regulated Industry
05 Apr 2022
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In episode 597, Rob Walling chats with Ashley Baxter, the founder of With Jack. With Jack gives peac...
Episode 596 | News Round-Up: Google Ends WFH, Founder Salaries, How to Use Email
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In episode 596, Rob Walling is joined by Einar Vollset and Tracy Osborn for a bootstrapper news roun...
Episode 595 | TinySeed Tales Season 2: Where Are They Now?
22 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In episode 595, Rob Walling catches up with Brian and Scottie Elliott, the husband and wife co-found...
Episode 594 | Starting Over with the TropicalMBA's Dan & Ian
15 Mar 2022
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In Episode 594, Rob Walling chats with Dan Andrews and Ian Schoen, the founders of Dynamite Jobs and...
Episode 593 | Retaining Employees + The Ideal SaaS Business (A Rob Solo Adventure)
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Episode 593, join Rob Walling for a Solo Adventure as he chats about accidentally deleting all of...
Episode 592 | Nine Tactics for Amazing Customer Support
01 Mar 2022
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In Episode 592, Rob Walling is joined again by Cody Duval for a technical conversation about the dos...
Episode 591 | Acquiring and Scaling in a Crowded Space
22 Feb 2022
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In Episode 591, Rob Walling chats with Cody Duvall about his story of acquiring and growing Keeping ...
Episode 590 | Buying vs Building, Zombie Companies, and More Listener Questions with Craig Hewitt
15 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Episode 590, Rob Walling chats with Craig Hewitt about building versus buying internal tools, how...
Episode 589 | Finding a SaaS Idea Through 70 Cold Calls
08 Feb 2022
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In Episode 589, Rob Walling chats with Jason Buckingham about how he found a startup idea from makin...
Episode 588 | In Which Courtland Allen and I Cover a Lot of Startups Topics
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Episode 588, Rob Walling chats with Courtland Allen about a wide range of bootstrapper and indie ...
Episode 587 | Renaming a Company, Revisiting Inflation, and Micropreneurship (Listener Email Edition)
25 Jan 2022
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In Episode 587, join Rob Walling as he answers listener emails including feedback and a critique abo...
Episode 586 | Mastering Customer Interviews with Michele Hansen
18 Jan 2022
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In Episode 586, Rob Walling chats with Michele Hansen about her new book where she talks about how t...
Episode 585 | Moving Outside Your Comfort Zone with Dr. Sherry Walling
11 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Episode 585, Rob Walling chats with Sherry Walling about moving outside your comfort zone, the po...
Episode 584 | Looking Back and Looking Ahead
04 Jan 2022
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In Episode 584, Join Rob Walling for a Happy New Year edition of the show where looks ahead to 2022 ...
Episode 583 | Finding Startup Ideas with Sam Parr
28 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Episode 583, Rob Walling chats with Sam Parr about about building an email list, selling to Hubsp...
Episode 582 | Enterprise Sales, Crowdfunding, Replacing Yourself, and More Listener Questions
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Episode 582, Rob Walling is joined by Einar Vollset to answer listener questions about enterprise...
Episode 581 | Inflation for Founders
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Episode 581, Rob Walling discusses how to grow money sensibly while protecting the principle duri...
Episode 580 | Seven SEO Tips Every SaaS Can Use (with Ross Hudgens)
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Episode 580, Rob Walling chats with Ross Hudgins, an SEO expert, about seven common things that S...
Episode 579 | The SaaS Fundraising Landscape (+The TinySeed Syndicate)
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this special episode of Startups For the Rest of Us, Rob Walling chats with Einar Vollset about n...
Episode 578 | How Mike's Merger Panned Out
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Episode 578, Rob Walling is joined again by co-host emeritus, Mike Taber for an update on his pro...
Episode 577 | Finding the Right Problem to Solve
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Episode 577, Rob Walling chats with Jim Kalbach about how to uncover the right problem to solve w...
Episode 576 | Don't Become a Media Company (A Rob Solo Adventure)
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Episode 576, Rob Walling chats about permissionless entrepreneurship, why you probably shouldn't ...
Episode 575 | Shipping Code, Pivoting, and More Listener Questions with Derrick Reimer
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Episode 575, Rob Walling is joined by Derrick Reimer for a quick update on SavvyCal and some rece...
Bonus Episode: The 2021 TinySeed Batch Announcement
04 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
TinySeed, MicroConf's venture fund and SaaS accelerator, is launching their Fall 2021 accelerator ba...
Episode 574 | The Deep Need to Be a Software Entrepreneur
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Episode 574, Rob Walling chats with Andrew Fiebert, a founder who just couldn't get away from sof...
Bonus | The 2022 State of Independent SaaS Survey is Live
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
We need your help! The 2022 State of Independent SaaS Survey is now live and we need as many elig...
Episode 573| Hiring FT vs. PT, WordPress Consolidation, and More Bootstrapper News
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Episode 573, Rob Walling chats with Einar Vollset and Tracy Osborne about the part-time contracto...
Episode 572 | Fault vs. Responsibility & Games vs. Practice (A Rob Solo Adventure)
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Episode 572, Rob Walling does another solo adventure to talk about taking responsibility for the ...
Episode 571 | Deciding When to Move on to Your Next Idea
12 Oct 2021
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In Episode 571, Rob Walling chats with Peter Suhm about moving on from WP Pusher and Branch. We also...
Episode 570 | Bootstrappable Businesses, Selling as an Introvert, and More Listener Questions
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Episode 570, Rob Walling answers listener questions about the ideal business for bootstrapping, h...
Episode 569 | The Life Changing Decision of When to Sell Your Company
28 Sep 2021
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In Episode 569, Rob Walling chats with Anna Maste, a founder who's been a part of the MicroConf comm...
Episode 568 | MailChimp Sells for $12 billion
21 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Episode 568, Rob Walling talks about MailChimp selling for $12 billion to Intuit, the largest exi...
Episode 567 | From Developer to CTO to Buying the Company for $1
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Episode 567, Rob Walling chats with Don Pottinger about joining a company as a developer, transit...
Episode 566 | From Bootstrapped to Venture Backed with Hana Mohan
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Episode 566, Rob Walling chats with Hana Mohan about her journey as a SaaS founder. They compare ...
Episode 565 | Correlation vs. Causation, Focus, Sharing MRR, and More Listener Questions
31 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Episode 565, Rob Walling answers listener questions about focusing on one product vs multiple, sh...
Episode 564 | Running a Business with 10,000 Paid Subscribers
24 Aug 2021
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In Episode 564, Rob Walling chats with Sol Orwell about growing his website, examine.com to millio...
Episode 563 | The Struggle, Calls to Action, Selling Above $1M ARR, and More Listener Questions
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Episode 563, Rob Walling answers listener questions about startup operating agreements for co-fou...
Episode 562.5 | TinySeed Fall 2021 SaaS Accelerator Application Info Session
16 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The application for TinySeed’s Fall 2021 SaaS accelerator batch of startups will open for two week...
Episode 562 | "Measure Twice, Cut Once" + SaaS Holy Grails (A Rob Solo Adventure)
10 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Episode 562, join Rob Walling for another solo adventure to talk about enterprise sales, mental f...
Episode 561 | Launching on Product Hunt and DIY vs. DFY
03 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Episode 561, Rob Walling chats with Andy Cabasso, co-founder of Postaga, about launching on Produ...
Episode 560 | When to Hire, Square Business Banking, and More Bootstrapper News
27 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Episode 560, Rob Walling is joined by Einar Vollset and Tracy Osborn to talk about deciding when ...
Episode 559 | Bootstrapping a Two-Sided Marketplace with MicroAquire
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Episode 559, Rob Walling chats with Andrew Gazdecki, the founder of MicroAcquire, about bootstrap...
Episode 558 | Thinking Through Funding as a Bootstrapper
13 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Episode 558, Rob Walling chats with Einar Vollset about bootstrapping versus funding and the many...
Episode 557 | Investing for Founders
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Episode 557, Rob Walling flies solo to talk about investing for founders, with an emphasis on ret...
Episode 556 | Zero to $26k MRR as the Solo Founder of Rails Autoscale
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Episode 556, Rob Walling chats with Adam McCrea about growing from zero to $300,000 in ARR over t...
Episode 555 | Businesses You Can Bootstrap, W2 vs. Contract, Enterprise Pricing, and More Listener Questions with Ruben Gamez
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Episode 555, Rob Walling answers listener questions with Ruben Gamez. They discuss different mode...
Episode 554 | Thinking Through Your Exit + Grief and Entrepreneurship with Dr. Sherry Walling
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Episode 554, Rob Walling chats with Sherry Walling about grief as a part of entrepreneurship and ...
Episode 553 | Stack Overflow and Moz Acquired, Quitting Instead of Giving Up Remote Work, and More Bootstrapper News
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Episode 553, Rob Walling chats with Tracy Osborn about the latest bootstrapper news, including th...
Episode 552 | Google Audits, Partnerships, and Freemium with Mike Taber
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Episode 552, Rob Walling is joined by co-host emeritus, Mike Taber to chat about his decision-mak...
Episode 551 | Task-level vs. Project-level Thinkers, No Such Thing as an Autopilot Business, and More (A Rob Solo Adventure)
25 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In episode 551 of Startups For the Rest of Us, Rob does another solo adventure to talk about hiring ...
Episode 550 | Three Years of Grind to Six Figures in ARR with CloudForecast
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Episode 550, Rob Walling chats with Tony Chan, co-founder of CloudForecast, about his incredible ...
Episode 549 | Hiring vs. Outsourcing, E-commerce SaaS, and More Listener Questions with Jordan Gal
11 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Episode 439, Rob Walling is joined by Jordan Gal to answer listener questions about starting an e...
Episode 548.5 | The Companies in TinySeed's Spring 2021 Batch
06 May 2021
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Episode 548 | The Grind of Building a SaaS During Nights & Weekends
04 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Episode 548, Rob Walling chats with Zack Naylor about Aurelius and the harrowing tale of launchin...
Episode 547 | Private Podcasting, Apple's Announcement, and Accelerating Growth with Craig Hewitt
27 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Episode 547, Rob Walling chats with Craig Hewitt about private podcasting, Apple's announcement a...
Episode 546 | Hiring Entrepreneurial People, Anonymity, Disruptive Innovation, and More Listener Questions
20 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Episode 546, Rob Walling flies solo for a Q&A episode. With a backlog of great listener quest...
Episode 545 | The Value of Learning 80/20 Design Fundamentals
13 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Episode 545, Rob Walling chats with Tracy Osborn about the importance of learning design fundamen...
Episode 544 | Annual Raises, Finding Good Startup People, and More Listener Questions with Josh Pigford
06 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this episode, Rob Walling is joined by Josh Pigford to answer listener questions, covering topics...
Episode 543 | All Things Startup with #Mike Taber
01 Apr 2021
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In Episode 543 of Startups For the Rest of Us, Rob is joined again by co-host emeritus, Mike Taber a...
Episode 542 | 10x in Two Years, Past $3M ARR with SquadCast
30 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In episode 542, Rob Walling chats with Zach Moreno, the Co-Founder and CEO of Squadcast about how th...
Episode 541 | Faster Horses & Product Myths, Life-changing Money, Dual Funnels, and More
23 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In episode 541, Rob Walling flies solo to discuss things like product myths and the misinterpreted H...
Episode 540 | Bootstrapper News. Twitter Spaces, Indie.vc Closing, Shopify, and More
16 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this episode, Rob talks with Tracy Osborn and Einar Vollset, about the recent news that's come ou...
Episode 539 | Post-Exit Life, Writing Six Books, and Brewing Beer with Dan Norris
09 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this episode, Rob chats with Dan Norris about selling his productized service to GoDaddy, his lat...
Episode 538 | When to Sunset a Product, Enterprise Security Assessments, Lifetime Deals, and More Listener Questions
02 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this episode, Rob Walling is joined by Einar Vollset as they answer listener questions ranging fr...
Episode 537 | On Launching, Funding, and Growth with Serial SaaS Founder Rand Fishkin
23 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this episode, Rob is joined by Rand Fishkin for an honest and transparent conversation about his ...
Episode 536 | A Few Things I Learned in 2020 (A Rob Solo Adventure)
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In episode 536 of Startups For the Rest of Us, Rob does another solo adventure. As we all faced perh...
Episode 535 | A Bluetick Update with Mike Taber
09 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Episode 535, Rob is joined by co-host emeritus, Mike Taber to talk about what Mike has been up to...
Episode 534 | A $4M Exit with Josh Pigford of Baremetrics
02 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this episode, Rob talks with Josh Pigford in a first appearance since the sale of Baremetrics for...
Episode 533: Life Profitability After Two Exits (with Adii Pienaar)
26 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this episode, Rob speaks with Adii Pienaar, a multi-time founder with multiple exits under his be...
Episode 532 | The Art of Selling Your Business with John Warrillow
19 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this episode, Rob sits down with John Warrillow, author of multiple bestselling books and someone...
Episode 531 | How a Non-Technical Founder Grew Past $45k MRR
12 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Episode 531, Rob talks with Colin Gray, the founder of The Podcast Host and Alitu. Join us for th...
Episode 530 | Making Development Decisions, Regrets about Selling, and More Listener Questions (with Derrick Reimer)
05 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this week's episode, Rob sits down with Derrick Reimer to answer listener questions. They discuss...
Episode 529 | A Pricing Deep Dive with Slingshot
29 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this episode, Rob chats with John Howard, a MicroConf Connect member and founder of Slingshot. Th...
Episode 528 | 2021 Predictions from Rob and Mike
22 Dec 2020
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In today's episode, Rob and Mike Taber review and rank their past yearly predictions and then make b...
Episode 527 | From Agency to SaaS, Equity Splits, and More Listener Questions with Courtland Allen
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In today's episode, Rob is joined by Courtland Allen as they answer listener questions. They talk ab...
Episode 526 | Launching, Learning, and Teaching with Justin Vincent
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In episode 526 of Startups For the Rest of Us, Rob chats with a long-time friend, Justin Vincent abo...
Episode 525 | A Bootstrapping Artifact from 2005
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This episode is a walk down memory lane as Rob shares the story of acquiring his first product 15 ye...
Episode 524 | Bootstrapping a Commodity SaaS
24 Nov 2020
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In this episode, Rob chats with Michele and Mathias Hansen, the married co-founders of Geocodio. ...
Episode 523 | Breaking Through Plateaus, Entrepreneurship for Kids, Common Bootstrapper Mistakes, and More Listener Questions
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In episode 523, Rob hosts a rapid-fire lightning round of listener questions ranging from whether to...
Episode 522 | Revisiting Castos, One Year Later
10 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Rob welcomes back to the show a frequent guest, Craig Hewitt for a "Where Are They Now?" syle episod...
TinySeed Tales S2E9 | Playing the Long Game
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Brian & Scottie Elliott are the husband & wife co-founders of Gather, an interior design pr...
Episode 521 | A Roundtable Discussion about a Potential Recession, Working from Home, Google Anti-trust, and More
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Episode 521 is a roundtable episode where Rob brings on a couple of guests to talk through topics to...
TinySeed Tales S2E8 | Upmarket Starts to Pay Off
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Brian & Scottie Elliott are the husband & wife co-founders of Gather, an interior design pr...
Episode 520 | Why a Million Dollar Agency Quit It All and Moved to SaaS
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this episode, Rob talks with the founder of SegMetrics, Keith Perhac. SegMetrics is a SaaS produc...
TinySeed Tales S2E7 | A Global Pandemic
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Brian & Scottie Elliott are the husband & wife co-founders of Gather, an interior design pr...