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

Every week on the show, I get on the mic. I often have a guest or sometimes do an entire

roundtable of guests. But today I'm flying solo, and I do this two, maybe three times a year

when I either have trouble finding a guest or I find that I have stuff on my mind that I've been

thinking about and developing a framework for. And I just want to kind of get it out there in a way

that I don't have time to spend four, six, eight hours to write a blog post. And I think it's more

substantive and perhaps we'll reach more people in a deep fashion than

posting it to Twitter. So today's episode is going to be me walking through seven different,

I would almost call them it's advice, but it's more like these are things that I've learned

in my 20 years of entrepreneurship and some things that are going on in the world today that I feel

like I have commentary on. And when I say in the world, I don't mean COVID-19. I mean more in our

startup communities. So I'm going to be talking about advice and feedback, a little bit about

how to give it, a little bit, how about taking it? And I'm going to be talking about competition

and some specific experiences

I've had around it talk a little bit about some marketing stuff and it's not going to be high

level this is how you market it's just some specific advice and mistakes I think anti-patterns

in ways that I think people have been thinking about marketing as well as managing developers

these all revolve around

sometimes just one, but often it's five, 10, 20 conversations that I've had with colleagues or

founders or aspiring founders. And when I start hearing the same thing over and over, and I realize

that, you know, I'm thinking about this in a different way than perhaps the common,

maybe the early stage founder or just someone who hasn't been in our space for a long time.

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