Episode 459 | From Day Job to Productized Service to Fast-Growing SaaS as a Non-Technical Founder
Startups For the Rest of Us
Rob Walling
4.9 • 819 Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this week's episode of Startups for the Rest of Us. I'm your host, Rob Walling. |
| 0:03.8 | Each week on the show, we cover topics relating to building and growing startups in an ambitious, but in a sustainable and repeatable fashion. |
| 0:11.3 | These are not the typical Silicon Valley startups where fundraising can be a goal in itself and where people build slide decks instead of building businesses. |
| 0:18.9 | We want to be meticulous, disciplined, and have a way to repeat |
| 0:22.6 | our success instead of relying on so much luck and so many things to come together that it's a one-and-a-thousand-a-thousand-a-thousand-a-thousand-a-thousand-a-thus. |
| 0:29.7 | We want to build real businesses withgrowing SaaS application called Castos. |
| 0:43.5 | All this as a non-technical founder. |
| 0:45.8 | This is Startups for the Rest of Us, episode 459. |
| 0:48.5 | Music Welcome to Startup to The Rest of Us, the podcast helps developers, designers, and entrepreneurs be awesome at building, launching, and growing startups. |
| 1:04.3 | Whether you've built your fifth startup or you're working on your first. |
| 1:07.3 | I'm Rob, and today with Craig Hewitt, we're going to share our experiences to help you avoid the |
| 1:11.2 | mistakes we've made on our journeys. Thanks for joining me this week. I'm excited to talk to |
| 1:16.3 | Craig Hewitt. You may know him from his podcast, Rogue Startups, where he has chronicled his |
| 1:21.6 | journey over the past several years. And if I recall correctly, that's where I first heard about |
| 1:27.1 | Craig. What I like about Craig |
| 1:29.0 | is he has been doing this for four and a half years ago. He started a productized consulting |
| 1:34.1 | service. Two years later, he quit his day job. He acquired a WordPress plugin. He started Castos, |
| 1:40.0 | which is a SaaS app for podcast hosting. And he's built that up to the point where he has four full-time |
| 1:45.7 | employees, two part-time employees, and he is part of our inaugural tiny seed batch. |
| 1:51.2 | I think you're going to enjoy the conversation with Craig. We dive into a lot of stuff that he |
| 1:54.6 | hasn't talked about on his podcast. And, you know, per the interviews I've been doing recently, |
| 1:59.1 | I try to dig into some points in |
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