In this episode of Startups to the Rest of us, Mike and I talk about the value of startup accelerators,

better onboarding, liability insurance, and answer more listener questions.

This is Startups to the Rest of Us, episode 435.

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. It's a word this week, sir.

Well, I wanted to give a congratulations to Ty Wood.

He was the winner of the Absumo contest last month, and he won a all-expense-paid trip to both microcomps.

Nice.

So that was courtesy of Absumo.

So just wanted to say a big shout-out to those guys

and say thank you to them for sponsoring that.

And we'll see Ty Wood at MicroConf.

Yeah, Ty, please come up, introduce yourself for being good to meet you.

Thanks to Absumo for that. Speaking of MicroConf, I believe this episode goes live just a couple weeks before MicroConf.

I'm guessing we might have a few tickets left,

either for starter or growth. If you're interested in hanging around with a couple hundred

other serious SaaS, software, startup founders, you should head over to microcomf.com. Take a peek

at it and hopefully we'll see you in Vegas. So today we're going to dig

into some listener questions after we were down to absolute zero a couple episodes ago. We got a

nice little influx. We got a few voicemails. But I wanted to kick us off with first a thank

you from James and he says, hi Mike and Rob. I've been listening since 2014. I'm a solo entrepreneur

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