Episode 462 | Competing Against an 800 lb. Gorilla, Splitting from Your Co-founder, and More Listener Questions (with Jeff Epstein)
Startups For the Rest of Us
Rob Walling
4.9 • 819 Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this week's episode of Start Up for the Rest of Us. |
| 0:02.4 | I'm your host, Rob Walling. |
| 0:03.8 | On this week's show, we answer listener questions on topics like competing against a 900-pound gorilla, |
| 0:09.6 | splitting from your co-founder, and whether there is such a thing as having enough features in your app. |
| 0:15.3 | And I welcome Jeff Epstein back on the show to help me answer your questions. |
| 0:19.6 | This is Start Up to the Rest of Us, episode |
| 0:20.9 | 462. Welcome to Startups for the Rest of Us, the podcast that helps developers, designers, |
| 0:34.7 | and entrepreneurs be awesome at building, launching, and growing startups. Whether you've built your fifth startup or you're thinking about your first. I'm Rob, |
| 0:41.1 | and today with Jeff Epstein, we're here to share our experiences to help you avoid the mistakes |
| 0:45.3 | we've made in the past. Welcome back to startups for the rest of us. Thanks for joining me. Each |
| 0:49.4 | week on the show, we cover topics relating to building and growing startups in order to provide ourselves of the better life, prove the world in a small way. We strive to have a positive impact on other people, |
| 0:58.0 | be it your customers, your team, your family. We're ambitious founders, but we're not willing to |
| 1:02.3 | sacrifice our life, our health, or our families to grow a company. We have several show formats |
| 1:07.4 | for startups for the rest of us. You know, every month or two, Mike Tabor comes on and |
| 1:11.7 | updates us on his entrepreneurial journey. We also have some tactic and teaching episodes. I do |
| 1:17.1 | some interviews now and again, founder hot seats. And today's episode is all about listener questions. |
| 1:22.3 | So it's questions from you and folks like you who are listening and they write in or send an |
| 1:27.3 | audio question and we do |
| 1:28.4 | our best to think it through. I really think about what would I do in their shoes and then answer |
| 1:34.7 | the question. So Jeff Epstein comes to join me today and if you remember back to episode 453, |
| 1:39.8 | we talked through his journey as a non-technical founder of building a SaaS app to between |
| 1:44.5 | 5 and 10 million ARR and then exiting that. |
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