Episode 530 | Making Development Decisions, Regrets about Selling, and More Listener Questions (with Derrick Reimer)

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Entrepreneurship, Management, Business, Marketing

4.9 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode, Rob sits down with Derrick Reimer to answer listener questions. They discuss whether they have any regrets about selling Drip, protecting against web scraping, making the leap from side project to full-time, and making decisions as a development team. The topics we cover [2:10] How development teams think about decisions together [13:42] Do you ever regret selling Drip to Leadpages? [21:00] Preventing against web scraping [27:16] Jumping ship from a full-time job [37:20] Advice on starting a mastermind group in 2021 Links from the show The Mom Test The Personal MBA The Ultimate Sales Letter Traction The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Keeping Your Sh*t Together Start Small Stay Small The Art of Product 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. If you have questions about starting or scaling a software business that you’d like for us to cover, please submit your question for an upcoming episode. We’d love to hear from you! Subscribe & Review: iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher

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0:00.0	Thanks for checking out this week's episode of Startups for the rest of us. It's episode 530. I'm Rob Walling.
0:05.4	Every week we cover topics relating to building and growing startups that are ambitious but
0:10.7	sustainable. We know that starting a company is hard and that more than half of being a startup
0:14.6	founder is managing your own psychology and that so much of this journey is making difficult
0:19.3	decisions with incomplete information
0:21.4	where the right answer is impossible to find through math or data. And that is one thing that makes
0:26.2	it so hard for us. And so it's great to sit down once a week and to think about this, to hear
0:31.1	from other founders that are going through it and to just feel like we're not alone in this journey.
0:36.1	This week I sat down with Derek Rimer.
0:38.6	You may know him from the Art of Product podcast,
0:41.5	and he's the founder of Sabby Cal,
0:43.5	which is a competitor to tools like Callandley,
0:45.6	and you can book me.
0:47.0	Derek and I take on a bunch of listener questions this week,
0:49.6	including how to make good decisions on a dev team,
0:52.4	whether we have regrets about selling drip, the effects
0:55.0	of web scraping on your business, and how you can potentially block web scraping, how much of your
0:59.1	journey and success can you share with family and friends, and more. Derek and I have known each
1:03.4	other for almost a decade at this point, so it's always a pleasure to have them on the show. I think
1:07.7	we have great chemistry, and it's just really comfortable when we sit down on the mic together. So I hope you enjoy our conversation.
1:15.1	Derek Reimer, thanks so much for joining me today. Yeah, thanks for having me back on the show.
1:18.8	Always a pleasure. I know, man. You've been on several times for folks who don't recall. You are
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