Episode 536 | A Few Things I Learned in 2020 (A Rob Solo Adventure)

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Entrepreneurship, Management, Business, Marketing

4.9 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In episode 536 of Startups For the Rest of Us, Rob does another solo adventure. As we all faced perhaps one of the worst years on record, Rob talks through some things that 2020 taught him personally, professionally, and at a higher level, philosophically. He also looks beyond 2020 and discusses opportunities for 2021 for software entrepreneurs. The topics we cover [01:53] Keeping perspective during difficult startup times [04:03] We can make it through scary and dangerous moments [07:04] There is always opportunity [09:53] Doing things in public creates opportunity [12:02] Growing niches/industries in 2021 [18:31] In search of problems Links from the show Episode 490 | How Founders Should Be Thinking About the Current Crisis Dynamite Jobs 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. I'm your host, Rob Walling, and this is
0:04.6	episode 536, I believe. I guess I should have checked that before I hit record. Thanks for joining me
0:11.9	this week. I'm doing a Rob Solo adventure. I want to talk through some things that 2020 taught me.
0:20.0	And hopefully, as you're listening, it brings up some things that 2020 taught me. And hopefully, as you're listening, it brings up some things that 2020 maybe taught you.
0:26.2	Maybe we learned the same things, or maybe you had different experiences.
0:29.4	But as I was driving across the country, I just drove from Minneapolis all the way to the
0:34.3	central coast of California with a car filled with instruments and bikes
0:39.6	attached on the back and several pieces of luggage and an aerial rig, if you know what that is,
0:47.4	and a dog, and it was just me and the dog and all that stuff.
0:51.1	And I had a lot of time to think.
0:52.3	It was four eight-hour days of driving.
0:54.5	And along the way, I was reflecting back, It was almost a mini retreat for me. I was reflecting back
1:00.6	on the year and thinking, what are some lessons that I can take away, both personally, professionally,
1:08.0	and even higher level, just philosophically, from what we all experienced
1:13.8	in what I think will be perhaps one of the worst years on record for a lot of us for quite some
1:20.2	time. And so that's what I'm going to talk through today. And in true entrepreneurial form,
1:26.1	these lessons are positive, right? I'm not going to belabor the
1:30.2	terrible things that happened. And then at the end, I have a little section that I've just
1:34.9	titled Opportunities in 2021. And I'm thinking about software entrepreneurs, starting new
1:42.1	SaaS apps, and just trends that I think are going to continue to play
1:45.7	out that will need more and better software over the next year or two or three as things pan out.
1:53.2	So I have four things to cover today in addition to that opportunities in 2021.
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