Welcome to this week's episode of Startups for the Rest of Us. I'm your host, Rob Walling.

This week we catch up with Mike Tabor. Again, update on his progress with Blue Tick. Mike was my co-host

for the first 448 episodes of this podcast, and now he's a host emeritus and he comes on every

couple months and updates us on his story and his progress with his software product,

blutick.io. It's a good update this week. I don't want to spoil it for you, but needless to say,

things are going up and to the right for Mike. But before we dive into that, I want to give you two things. Number one is invitations for MicroConf Connect, which is our online community.

The first invitations have been sent out. And if you haven't checked out MicroConf Connect, which is our online community. The first invitations have been sent out.

And if you haven't checked out microconnect.com and you are interested in being in a community of,

well, there's more than 1,100 applicants at this point.

So depending on how many, you know, actually come through and sign up,

let's say it's going to be many hundreds, if not, you know, close to a thousand of indie funded and self-funded startup founders around from around the

world. If you're interested in that, head to microconnect.com. And number two, if you haven't

shared this podcast with someone that you think could get value out of it, it would mean a ton to me.

If you feel like you've gotten value out of the episodes over the past three months you've been listening, three years you've

been listening, the biggest thing that I look at, when I look at the success of the podcast,

there's a couple things. When I look at the feedback from listeners and the comments that we

receive and the growth of the subscriber base and really been focusing on that

over the past six to nine months to try to get the message out to more people, you know, the

message that that we can be ambitious and we can build life-changing businesses without sacrificing

our life or our health or family or our relationships in order to do that. So we'd really

appreciate it.

You know, whether, even if that's just a tweet that says, you know, startups with us as a

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