Welcome to this week's episode of Startups for the Rest of Us.

I'm your host, Rob Walling.

This week, I'll be covering a few listener questions about starting a marketplace,

which marketing channels to pursue with a new app,

evaluating resellers, and why the path from agency work to SaaS is so hard.

This is Startups to the Rest of Us, episode 457.

Music to the rest of us, episode 457. Welcome to Startups for the Rest of Us, the podcast that helps developers, designers,

and entrepreneurs be awesome at building, launching, and growing startups.

Whether you've built your fifth startup or you're working on your first. I'm Rob, and today I'm going to share my experiences to help you avoid the mistakes

I've made in the past. I tweaked the intro a little bit today based on a suggestion from my

13-year-old. He said, built your first product or just thinking about it is too narrow. He says,

aren't there people who've started their first,

second, third, fourth that are still listening? And I said, yeah. So tweaked it there. Each week on the show,

I talk about topics relating to building and growing startups in order to better your life and

improve the world in a small way. In our world of startups, we strive to have a positive impact on

other people, be it your customers, your team, your family, yourself. We are ambitious founders, but we're not willing to sacrifice

our life or our health to grow our company. We have many different show formats. Sometimes we

come on and we teach a tactic, talk about philosophies and thoughts of starting startups

and growing them. Other times we do interviews. I've done several of those over the past

weeks. We have listener questions, which is what we'll be doing today, founder hot seats and other

things like that. My co-host, Mike Tabor, is on a brief hiatus. I do think he'll be back in the next

few weeks, and we can catch up with him, find out what he's been doing with the enormous amount of free time he's had not doing this podcast.

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