Episode 515 | Finding a Co-Founder, Getting Better at Sales, and More Listener Questions

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Entrepreneurship, Management, Business, Marketing

4.9 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Rob is joined by Anthony Eden from DNSimple as they answer your listener questions. They cover topics ranging from tax liabilities with contractors, getting feedback on a prototype, and finding a technical cofounder. If you have questions about starting or scaling a SaaS that you’d like for us to cover, please submit your question for the next episode. We’d love to hear from you! The topics we cover [01:26] Tax liabilities and managing international contractors [10:45] Starting when stair stepping isn't feasible [16:38] Getting better at sales as a solo founder [24:00] Finding a sales/marketing cofounder [30:28] Getting feedback on a prototype, finding the right developer co-founder, and protecting your startup idea [40:11] Considering a technical cofounder vs hiring a developer Links from the show Episode 509 | Revisiting the Six Stages of SaaS Growth with DNSimple Intellectual Property Agreement W-8BEN Episode 498 | Selling During a Pandemic with Steli Efti The Startup Chat with Steli & Hiten Episode 507 | Making Cold Email Work in B2B SaaS Indie Hackers Activity Messenger Jobs to be Done DNSimple | Twitter DNSimple | Website Anthony Eden | Twitter If you enjoyed this episode, let us know by clicking the link and sharing what you learned. Click here to share your number one takeaway from the episode. Subscribe & Review: iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher

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0:00.0	Welcome to this week's episode of startups for the rest of us. This is episode 515, and I'm your host, Rob Walling.
0:06.3	Every week on this show, we cover topics related to building and growing startups using an ambitious but a sane approach.
0:12.2	We're not willing to sacrifice our health or our relationships to grow our companies. This week,
0:16.7	we answer listener questions, and I have founder of D.N DN Simple, Anthony Eden, back on the show.
0:23.0	We tackled a bunch of questions about stair stepping, about becoming better at sales,
0:28.0	and about looking for and finding co-founders.
0:30.5	So with that, let's dive right in.
0:33.2	Anthony Eden, sir, thanks so much for coming back on the show.
0:35.9	Thanks for having me on again, Rob.
0:37.3	Appreciate it. As a reminder to much for coming back on the show. Thanks for having me on again, Rob. Appreciate it.
0:38.3	As a reminder to folks, you were on episode 509, just about, was about six weeks ago, and you are the founder of D.N. Simple, bootstrapped business for a decade, 15 employees, multiple millions in revenue, and you are a domain name registrar and
0:56.3	domain management. Do I have, is that a relatively accurate picture? Yeah, that's a pretty good
1:01.4	picture. That sums it up. Awesome. So today we are going to dive into listener questions,
1:06.1	as I've been letting folks know. And our first question is a voicemail from, I mispronounce his name. I think it's
1:12.0	Gehr. I pronounce it Gehr, but it's like hair. It's one of those sounds that we don't make in
1:16.9	like Western English. So I'll let him say his name and we'll roll into that voicemail right now.
1:26.6	Hi, Roop. This isf from Routine Factory again.
1:30.3	A while ago I sent you a question about going international with our SaaS for people with special needs.
1:36.0	A few months ago, one of our US customers left us a message that he uses Routine Factory for his brother-in-law and loves the experience.
1:43.5	We've had some great conversations
1:45.1	online and ended up hiring him part-time. A few months later, he's already helped us by making
1:50.6	our international website sound more natural, and our social media page is no longer dead in the water.
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