Startups For the Rest of Us

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

01 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to Season 3 of TinySeed Tales, where we follow the founders of one SaaS startup throughout a year as they share their struggles, victories, an...

Episode 618 | How to Achieve Financial Freedom

30 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In episode 618, join Rob Walling as he chats with Sam Dogen, the founder of Financial Samurai, which is one of the longest-running and most popular pe...

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

23 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In episode 617, Einar Vollset and Tracy Osborn join Rob Walling for a bootstrapper news roundup episode. They cover a wide range of topics from Profit...

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

16 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In episode 616, Rob Walling chats with Liam Martin, the co-founder of Time Doctor and author of the new book, “Running Remote: Master the Lessons fr...

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

09 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In episode 615, join Rob Walling for a solo adventure where he covers what makes a business bootstrappable (and things to avoid), cargo culting, and h...

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

02 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In episode 614, Rob Walling chats with fan favorite Derrick Reimer. They start out by talking about Derrick’s decision to take a sabbatical from The...

Episode 613 | Hacking Your Founder Psychology

26 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In episode 613, Rob Walling chats with Dr. Sherry Walling about the release of her new book, Touching Two Worlds: A guide for finding hope in the land...

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

19 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In episode 612, Rob Walling chats with longtime friend and repeat podcast guest Dave Rodenbaugh. Dave was even at the very first MicroConf back in 201...

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

12 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In episode 611, join Rob Walling as he chats with Patrick Campbell, the cofounder of ProfitWell, on how he and his co-founders bootstrapped ProfitWell...

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

Contributed by Lukas

In episode 610, join Rob Walling for a solo adventure where he talks about the benefits of working a day job before launching your company, some bad h...

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

28 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In episode 609, join Rob Walling for a solo adventure as he answers a handful of listener questions ranging from when it makes sense to have multiple ...

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

21 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In episode 608, Rob Walling chats with Adrian Rosebrock, who bootstrapped and successfully exited his seven-figure info product company, PyImageSearch...

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

14 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In episode 607, Rob Walling chats with Asia Orangio, and they answer listener questions about customer onboarding videos, overcoming revenue plateaus,...

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

07 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In episode 606, Rob Walling chats with Craig Hewitt, the founder of Castos. They talk about company building, staying up to speed when you are no long...

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

In episode 605, Rob Walling is joined by Ruben Gamez, and they dig into a handful of listener questions. Topics range from building a SaaS with little...

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

24 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In episode 604, Rob Walling talks with Derrick Reimer and gets the latest update on SavvyCal, how he makes product decisions, and they also share the ...

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

17 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In episode 603, Rob Walling chats with David Darmanin, one of the founders of Hotjar. Hotjar was bootstrapped to $40 million ARR with a fully distribu...

Episode 602 | Explaining SaaS Metrics to a Child

10 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In episode 602, Rob Walling explains SaaS metrics to his kid. This is a great episode to listen to if you are unfamiliar or not well-versed in SaaS be...

Episode 601 | Bootstrapping B2B vs. B2C

03 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In episode 601, Rob Walling chats with Nick Fogle of ChurnKey. Nick previously cofounded Wavve which was acquired in early 2021. In this conversation,...

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

26 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In episode 600, join Rob Walling for a solo adventure as he dives into topics ranging from when to hire your first manager to a mental framework for d...

Episode 599 | Finding the Bootstrapper Hockey Stick

19 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In episode 599, Rob Walling chats with Dominic “Dom” and Tracy Phillips of CodeSubmit. CodeSubmit provides a library of real-world, take-home task...

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

12 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In episode 598, join Rob Walling as he answers listener emails. Topics range from diversity in the startup ecosystem and when’s the right time to wr...

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

05 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In episode 597, Rob Walling chats with Ashley Baxter, the founder of With Jack. With Jack gives peace of mind and protection for UK freelancers throug...

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

29 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In episode 596, Rob Walling is joined by Einar Vollset and Tracy Osborn for a bootstrapper news roundup episode. They cover a wide range of topics fro...

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

22 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In episode 595, Rob Walling catches up with Brian and Scottie Elliott, the husband and wife co-founders of Gather, an interior design project manageme...

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

15 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 594, Rob Walling chats with Dan Andrews and Ian Schoen, the founders of Dynamite Jobs and the TropicalMBA podcast. We talk about how they s...

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

08 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 593, join Rob Walling for a Solo Adventure as he chats about accidentally deleting all of his old tweets, retaining talent, the ideal marke...

Episode 592 | Nine Tactics for Amazing Customer Support

01 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 592, Rob Walling is joined again by Cody Duval for a technical conversation about the dos and don'ts for amazing customer support. The t...

Episode 591 | Acquiring and Scaling in a Crowded Space

22 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 591, Rob Walling chats with Cody Duvall about his story of acquiring and growing Keeping in a really crowded space of help desk and custome...

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

15 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 590, Rob Walling chats with Craig Hewitt about building versus buying internal tools, how to compete in a competitive space, accounting sof...

Episode 589 | Finding a SaaS Idea Through 70 Cold Calls

08 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 589, Rob Walling chats with Jason Buckingham about how he found a startup idea from making more than 70 cold calls. It's a great story abou...

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

01 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 588, Rob Walling chats with Courtland Allen about a wide range of bootstrapper and indie hacker topics including the struggles with motivat...

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

25 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 587, join Rob Walling as he answers listener emails including feedback and a critique about the podcast, the state of microentrepreneurship...

Episode 586 | Mastering Customer Interviews with Michele Hansen

18 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 586, Rob Walling chats with Michele Hansen about her new book where she talks about how to master customer interviews as a startup founder....

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

11 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 585, Rob Walling chats with Sherry Walling about moving outside your comfort zone, the power of relationships, psychedelic-assisted therapy...

Episode 584 | Looking Back and Looking Ahead

04 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 584, Join Rob Walling for a Happy New Year edition of the show where looks ahead to 2022 and evaluates what he wants to focus on. The thing...

Episode 583 | Finding Startup Ideas with Sam Parr

28 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 583, Rob Walling chats with Sam Parr about about building an email list, selling to Hubspot, podcast growth, and how to spot business oppor...

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

21 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 582, Rob Walling is joined by Einar Vollset to answer listener questions about enterprise sales, crowdfunding, replacing yourself, and thin...

Episode 581 | Inflation for Founders

14 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 581, Rob Walling discusses how to grow money sensibly while protecting the principle during inflationary times. He explores real estate, co...

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

07 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 580, Rob Walling chats with Ross Hudgins, an SEO expert, about seven common things that SaaS founders either do well or frequently get wron...

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

01 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this special episode of Startups For the Rest of Us, Rob Walling chats with Einar Vollset about not only the announcement of the TinySeed Syndicate...

Episode 578 | How Mike's Merger Panned Out

30 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 578, Rob Walling is joined again by co-host emeritus, Mike Taber for an update on his progress with Bluetick. Today we find out how Mike's ...

Episode 577 | Finding the Right Problem to Solve

23 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 577, Rob Walling chats with Jim Kalbach about how to uncover the right problem to solve with the Jobs to Be Done (JTBD) framework. If you h...

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

16 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 576, Rob Walling chats about permissionless entrepreneurship, why you probably shouldn't be a media company if you're an early stage or boo...

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

09 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 575, Rob Walling is joined by Derrick Reimer for a quick update on SavvyCal and some recent hiring decisions he has made. They also answer ...

Bonus Episode: The 2021 TinySeed Batch Announcement

04 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

TinySeed, MicroConf's venture fund and SaaS accelerator, is launching their Fall 2021 accelerator batch this week.

Episode 574 | The Deep Need to Be a Software Entrepreneur

02 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 574, Rob Walling chats with Andrew Fiebert, a founder who just couldn't get away from software. He's a software developer, turned podcaster...

Bonus | The 2022 State of Independent SaaS Survey is Live

01 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We need your help!  The 2022 State of Independent SaaS Survey is now live and we need as many eligible founders of B2B SaaS businesses to complete ...

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

26 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 573, Rob Walling chats with Einar Vollset and Tracy Osborne about the part-time contractor versus hiring full-time debate, the acquisition ...

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

19 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 572, Rob Walling does another solo adventure to talk about taking responsibility for the outcomes of your business and the importance of pu...

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

12 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 571, Rob Walling chats with Peter Suhm about moving on from WP Pusher and Branch. We also dive into how he came up with the idea for Reform...

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

05 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 570, Rob Walling answers listener questions about the ideal business for bootstrapping, how to create trust with potential customers, navig...

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

28 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 569, Rob Walling chats with Anna Maste, a founder who's been a part of the MicroConf community for several years. They talk about how Anna ...

Episode 568 | MailChimp Sells for $12 billion

21 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 568, Rob Walling talks about MailChimp selling for $12 billion to Intuit, the largest exit for a bootstrap company, ever. Not that all foun...

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

14 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 567, Rob Walling chats with Don Pottinger about joining a company as a developer, transitioning to CTO within 6 months, buying the company ...

Episode 566 | From Bootstrapped to Venture Backed with Hana Mohan

07 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 566, Rob Walling chats with Hana Mohan about her journey as a SaaS founder. They compare and contrast bootstrapping and being venture-backe...

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

31 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 565, Rob Walling answers listener questions about focusing on one product vs multiple, sharing revenue metrics with early employees, and ho...

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

24 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 564, Rob Walling chats with Sol Orwell about growing his website, examine.com to millions of views per month, changing revenue models, an...

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

17 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 563, Rob Walling answers listener questions about startup operating agreements for co-founders, common cloud hosting solutions, struggling ...

Episode 562.5 | TinySeed Fall 2021 SaaS Accelerator Application Info Session

16 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The application for TinySeed’s Fall 2021 SaaS accelerator batch of startups will open for two weeks starting on August 9th, 2021. Watch the video r...

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

10 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 562, join Rob Walling for another solo adventure to talk about enterprise sales, mental frameworks for founders, undoable decisions, and ho...

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

03 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 561, Rob Walling chats with Andy Cabasso, co-founder of Postaga, about launching on Product Hunt, having a done-for-you service in addition...

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

27 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 560, Rob Walling is joined by Einar Vollset and Tracy Osborn to talk about deciding when it's time to hire someone, how to think about whic...

Episode 559 | Bootstrapping a Two-Sided Marketplace with MicroAquire

20 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 559, Rob Walling chats with Andrew Gazdecki, the founder of MicroAcquire, about bootstrapping a two-sided marketplace in a competitive indu...

Episode 558 | Thinking Through Funding as a Bootstrapper

13 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 558, Rob Walling chats with Einar Vollset about bootstrapping versus funding and the many options that exist in between. No longer is it a ...

Episode 557 | Investing for Founders

06 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 557, Rob Walling flies solo to talk about investing for founders, with an emphasis on retirement. Rob views investing as a long-term game, ...

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

29 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 556, Rob Walling chats with Adam McCrea about growing from zero to $300,000 in ARR over the course of three years as a Heroku add-on. Adam ...

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

22 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 555, Rob Walling answers listener questions with Ruben Gamez. They discuss different models of bootstrapping success, hiring W2 versus hiri...

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

15 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 554, Rob Walling chats with Sherry Walling about grief as a part of entrepreneurship and how to get better at handling grief as an entrepre...

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

08 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 553, Rob Walling chats with Tracy Osborn about the latest bootstrapper news, including the recent Stack Overflow and Moz acquisitions, quit...

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

01 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 552, Rob Walling is joined by co-host emeritus, Mike Taber to chat about his decision-making around whether to launch a freemium plan, whet...

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

In episode 551 of Startups For the Rest of Us, Rob does another solo adventure to talk about hiring owner-level thinkers, the fallacy of an autopilot ...

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

18 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 550, Rob Walling chats with Tony Chan, co-founder of CloudForecast, about his incredible story of perseverance after getting rejected multi...

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

11 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 439, Rob Walling is joined by Jordan Gal to answer listener questions about starting an e-commerce SaaS and the laws and regulations, and c...

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

06 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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

04 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 548, Rob Walling chats with Zack Naylor about Aurelius and the harrowing tale of launching multiple times and having to rewrite and re-plat...

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

27 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 547, Rob Walling chats with Craig Hewitt about private podcasting, Apple's announcement around their subscription podcast offering as well ...

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

20 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 546, Rob Walling flies solo for a Q&A episode. With a backlog of great listener questions, Rob discusses qualified small business stock...

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

13 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 545, Rob Walling chats with Tracy Osborn about the importance of learning design fundamentals for startup founders. They also discuss her n...

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

06 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Rob Walling is joined by Josh Pigford to answer listener questions, covering topics like annual pay increases, B2B SaaS price increas...

Episode 543 | All Things Startup with #Mike Taber

01 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 543 of Startups For the Rest of Us, Rob is joined again by co-host emeritus, Mike Taber as he gives an update on all things startups and th...

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

30 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In episode 542, Rob Walling chats with Zach Moreno, the Co-Founder and CEO of Squadcast about how they grew their revenue and surpassed $3 million in ...

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

23 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In episode 541, Rob Walling flies solo to discuss things like product myths and the misinterpreted Henry Ford quote, selling a company, defining life-...

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

16 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Rob talks with Tracy Osborn and Einar Vollset, about the recent news that's come out in the bootstrapper community. They talk about t...

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

09 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Rob chats with Dan Norris about selling his productized service to GoDaddy, his latest book, and latest business, a very successful b...

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

02 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Rob Walling is joined by Einar Vollset as they answer listener questions ranging from when to sunset a product, filling out enterpris...

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

23 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Rob is joined by Rand Fishkin for an honest and transparent conversation about his time at Moz, raising funding, his book Lost and F...

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

16 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In episode 536 of Startups For the Rest of Us, Rob does another solo adventure. As we all faced perhaps one of the worst years on record, Rob talks th...

Episode 535 | A Bluetick Update with Mike Taber

09 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 535, Rob is joined by co-host emeritus, Mike Taber to talk about what Mike has been up to over the past seven months with Bluetick, includi...

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

02 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Rob talks with Josh Pigford in a first appearance since the sale of Baremetrics for $4m. They discuss his seven-year journey to build...

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

26 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Rob speaks with Adii Pienaar, a multi-time founder with multiple exits under his belt. They discuss life probability and the importan...

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

19 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Rob sits down with John Warrillow, author of multiple bestselling books and someone who has years of experience in building and selli...

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

12 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 531, Rob talks with Colin Gray, the founder of The Podcast Host and Alitu. Join us for this great conversation as we talk about Colin's ear...

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

05 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's episode, Rob sits down with Derrick Reimer to answer listener questions. They discuss whether they have any regrets about selling Drip,...

Episode 529 | A Pricing Deep Dive with Slingshot

29 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Rob chats with John Howard, a MicroConf Connect member and founder of Slingshot. They unpack the business model of measurable swag gi...

Episode 528 | 2021 Predictions from Rob and Mike

22 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, Rob and Mike Taber review and rank their past yearly predictions and then make big, bold projections for 2021 with bets ranging fr...

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

15 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, Rob is joined by Courtland Allen as they answer listener questions. They talk about equity splits, the best cities for bootstrappe...

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

08 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In episode 526 of Startups For the Rest of Us, Rob chats with a long-time friend, Justin Vincent about his startup successes and failures and the impo...

Episode 525 | A Bootstrapping Artifact from 2005

01 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is a walk down memory lane as Rob shares the story of acquiring his first product 15 years ago. We hear how Rob navigated the purchase of...

Episode 524 | Bootstrapping a Commodity SaaS

24 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Rob chats with Michele and Mathias Hansen, the married co-founders of Geocodio. We talk about bootstrapping into a commoditized sp...