In this episode of Startups for the Rest of Us, I talk with Christopher Gimmer about stair stepping your way to SaaS.

This is Startups for the Rest of Us, episode 480.

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Today with Chris Gimmer, we're here to share our experiences to help you avoid the mistakes we've made.

Welcome back to the show.

Thanks for joining me this week.

Pretty interesting story this week. Pretty interesting story this week. Christopher Gimmer did a talk at MicroConf starter back in April,

and he and his co-founder really stair stepped. They launched an app that had one-time sales. It was a

marketplace. They grew that to where it plateaued, which wasn't enough that they could live on,

and they saw an opportunity and started almost like a B2C type

stock photo site. I guess not B2C, but kind of B2B, and then use that to parlay into a SaaS app.

So I don't want to belabor it because we get into Chris's entire experience in the interview.

And one thing I really like about Chris's story is that he and his co-founder, they learned

small things first.

And they didn't try to go play in the major leagues when they didn't have the skills to do

that.

They went and they played Little League.

And then they went and played high school ball.

Then they played college ball.

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