In this episode of Startups for the Rest of us, Mike and I talk about our goals for 2019,

and we also look back at our goals for 2018 and evaluate how well we did.

This is Startups for the Rest of Us, episode 423.

Welcome to Startups to the Rest of us, the podcast.

It helps developers, designers, and entrepreneurs be awesome at building, launching, and growing software products.

Whether you've built your first product, you're just thinking about it.

I'm Rob.

And I'm Mike.

And we're here to share our experiences to help you avoid the same mistakes we made.

So where this week, sir?

Well, it's the middle of December, so I'm just kind of working on microconf sponsorships and scholarships

at the moment. So having various conversations with people about different options, because

things are a little bit different for sponsorship options for microconf. And there's a few different

options that are on there that also include

the scholarships. So last year, we kind of quietly and under the radar offered 14 scholarships

to people for starter edition. And I'm looking to expand that this year and talking to various

people about it. I've already got some people who've committed funds and already actually

put the money in and started sponsoring

those. So that's good to see. And we'll just kind of see where things shake out at the end of it.

I kind of have a mental goal in mind, but I don't want to, you know, shoot myself on the foot by sharing

it. Sure. And so if someone was interested in either sponsoring either the conferences or

offering a scholarship ticket to starter.

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