Episode 531 | How a Non-Technical Founder Grew Past $45k MRR

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Entrepreneurship, Management, Business, Marketing

4.9 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 531, Rob talks with Colin Gray, the founder of The Podcast Host and Alitu. Join us for this great conversation as we talk about Colin's early days of building a hobby project in podcast hosting, hiring a freelancer to start producing shows. and building a SaaS app on top of an audience. The topics we cover [7:05] Launching The Podcast Host [16:10] Growing and launching eight businesses at once [21:08] Making the switch to SaaS [30:49] Temptations of shutting down vs. accelerating growth Links from the show The Podcast Host Alitu Hostile Worlds Product/Founder Fit 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	Welcome to this week's episode of Startups for the Rest of Us. As always, I'm your host, Rob Walling.
0:04.6	This week I talk with Colin Gray, the founder of the podcast host and Alley Too. It's a really
0:11.0	interesting conversation as I follow Colin from his days of building a hobby project in podcast
0:17.8	hosting to hiring a freelancer to start producing shows, then starting to create
0:23.8	educational content, creating courses, and finally building a SaaS app on top of that very much
0:28.6	a stair step approach in action. But before we dive into that, I wanted to let you know that
0:33.4	Tiny Seed batch three applications are open as of yesterday. You can head to tinyseed.com.
0:40.2	If you run a SaaS app with revenue, I'd really encourage you to apply. You can head to
0:44.4	tinyseed.com to learn more about the funding and mentorship and guidance we provide in our
0:49.9	year-long remote accelerator program. And at tinyseed.com, you'll see an apply here button.
0:55.7	And it typically takes people 10 to 15 minutes to apply. It's not a huge process. And I would love
1:00.6	to connect with you and learn more about your company if you're interested in potentially being
1:04.3	part of Tiny Seed Batch 3. On a separate note, I wanted to mention that I often get contacted
1:09.3	with private questions that folks don't want to
1:12.2	appear on the podcast. It's things like, hey, I'm thinking through an exit, you know, potentially I have an
1:17.6	acquisition offer or some interest, or I need to potentially fire a co-founder, you know, pretty
1:22.2	tough things that you can't have on the air. But one that I do get relatively frequently, and I think
1:26.6	it's because I've been so public about growing drip and then selling it, is should I sell my company? Should I think
1:32.8	about selling my company? What does that entail? Or even I have an offer or I have someone sniffing around
1:38.5	and I'm thinking about selling, you know, what should I do? And I'll tell you, I've received these
1:43.1	emails and it is such a life-changing
1:46.0	moment that there can be such a huge swing from selling for net profit versus selling for revenue
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