Bonus Episode: What Courtland Allen Has Learned Interviewing 155 Startup Founders

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Entrepreneurship, Management, Business, Marketing

4.9 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This bonus episode of Startup For The Rest Of Us is from a MicroConf On Air live stream in which Rob interviews Courtland Allen, founder of Indie Hackers, about interviewing 155 startup founders and what he learned from building a community from scratch. It was such a great conversation, I wanted to put it in this podcast feed, so more people can benefit from Courtland’s insight. The finer points of the episode: 6:28 - Why B2C businesses are more attractive, but B2B may be more lucrative 11:30 - Competitive advantages that can’t be surmounted by the competition. 17:50 - How Courtland jumpstarted the Indie Hackers online community 22:46 - Why you can’t just rely on internal motivation to get your startup off the ground 25:36 - The common thread Courtland has seen in successful founders 30:00 - The truth about how hard you have to work when building a business 31:57 - Overcoming imposter syndrome when entering a new industry Items mentioned in the episode: Indie Hackers Podcast Join the MicroConf Slack Community MicroConf On Air Podcast Base Camp Stripe

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to this bonus episode of Startups to the Rest of Us. I'm your host, Rob Walling.
0:04.2	Several weeks ago, along with producer Xander on the microconf team, we started doing a live
0:09.5	stream called MicroConf on air. And first, it was every day and then we transitioned to do it
0:13.5	twice a week. And I had some really good conversations with founders, with copywriters, like
0:20.5	Leanna Patch came on and did live copy
0:22.1	audits that were super valuable for the microconf audience, the microcomf community.
0:26.8	And late last week, I had a really interesting conversation with Cortland Allen, the founder
0:30.0	of indie hackers.
0:31.6	And we shaped the conversation around what Cortland Allen has learned interviewing 155 startup
0:36.6	founders, but we also talked about
0:38.3	what he's learned building a community from scratch. And it was such a good conversation that I
0:43.9	wanted to throw it here in this podcast feed because as I listened to it, I was inspired. And I felt
0:48.9	like I took things away from it and felt like it would make a great short startups for the rest
0:54.0	of us episode.
0:54.9	So here it is.
0:56.0	I hope you enjoy it.
1:00.7	Cortland Allen, sir.
1:08.4	Nice to see you.
1:09.1	Thanks for joining me on MicroConf on Air today.
1:12.6	Thanks for having me, Rob. It's nice to see you as well. Absolutely. So I have my standard intro stuff I'm going to run through, and then we're going to dig in
1:18.6	just a pretty cool topic with Cortland, who has a lot of experience, you know, working with developers,
1:23.6	indie hackers who are building their companies. So welcome to today's episode of MicroConfonair.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Rob Walling, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Rob Walling and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.