In this week's episode of Startups for the Rest of Us, I catch up with Mike Tabor, and he gives us

an update on what he's been up to with Blue Tick for the past five weeks. Welcome to this week's

episode. I'm your host, Rob Walling. Each week on the show, we cover topics and tactics related to

building and growing startups in order to better your life and improve the world in a small way.

This is a show made by and

for ambitious startup founders who want to build ambitious startups but want to stay sane

at the same time and aren't willing to sacrifice our life or our health in order to grow our

company. We want to make interesting things. We want to be constantly learning and growing and evolving.

And we want to be in control of our time.

I think that's a big motivation why a lot of us start these companies is so that we can work

on stuff that is super interesting to us and that we're able to create and push things out

into the world and do things in public, create opportunity for ourselves and own

our own destiny. We have many show formats, interviews, hot seats, listener questions, but about every

five weeks or so, Mike Tabor comes on the show. He and I co-hosted the show for the first 448 episodes,

and now he is spending a lot of time focusing on his startup, Blue Tick at

bluetick.io. And he updates us on his journey. He's taking a social media hiatus, podcast

hiatus, and he's really focusing on trying to grow this startup. And so if you haven't listened

to episode 470 and maybe even 465, you can get a little more background on, you know, what's been going on.

But this has been an ongoing conversation and you hear me refer back to things that Mike has been dealing with and fighting through and struggling with for quite some time.

So it was a good conversation this week.

I think Mike's making some progress

on some fronts, not as much progress on the marketing side. You'll hear me bust his chops about that

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