Episode 540 | Bootstrapper News. Twitter Spaces, Indie.vc Closing, Shopify, and More

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Entrepreneurship, Management, Business, Marketing

4.9 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Rob talks with Tracy Osborn and Einar Vollset, about the recent news that's come out in the bootstrapper community. They talk about the Indie.vc shutdown, the new features coming out on Twitter, LinkedIn’s new gig marketplace, and more. The topics we cover [03:18] Twitter Spaces [10:05] The Network Effect and Twitter Verification [14:32] The Indie.vc shutdown [24:20] Shopify removing the option to work directly with Stripe [32:34] The new ‘Super Follow’ feature in Twitter [35:43] Comparing Google Cloud and AWS onboarding [40:04] The new LinkedIn Gig Marketplace Links from the show TinySeed Tinyseed Thesis Remail Voxer Shopify says remove Stripe billing or get booted from their app store Substack Indie.vc Google Cloud vs AWS onboarding 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 back to startups for the rest of us. I'm Rob Walling, and we're going to be hanging out today,
0:04.5	talking about some bootstrapper news, news that is relevant to those of us who are bootstrapping
0:09.0	or mostly bootstrapping SaaS companies. Today we're going to talk about Twitter spaces,
0:14.0	the closing of indie.bc, some Shopify app store drama, and a few other topics. I have Tracy Osborne and Anar Volset on the show
0:23.9	again today. Those are my two teammates with Tiny Seed. They've been on many episodes in the past.
0:30.2	As you know, Tracy was the founder of Wedding Lovely and is now the program manager for Tiny Seed.
0:37.9	And Aner Volset is my co-founder with Tiny Seed.
0:40.1	He has a ton of experience in SaaS, MNA, as well as enterprise sales, cold email, along with
0:47.6	his CS in computer science that I like to say, I won't hold against him.
0:51.8	Before we dive into that, I want to remind you that MicroConf Remote is coming up next Tuesday.
0:57.6	If you have not purchased your ticket, MicroConf Remote.com.
1:01.7	I highly recommend it.
1:02.6	It's for earlier stage folks, I'd say pre-5 or 10K MRR.
1:08.1	But if you're anywhere from idea up to about 10K, we're going to be diving into four
1:12.9	in-depth case studies of early stage marketing approaches that folks have used to get traction.
1:19.0	And it'll either be founders or subject matter experts who can share numbers, thoughts,
1:22.3	ideas, best practices, as well as some really cool opportunities to interact with fellow founders.
1:29.2	Producer Zander has really outdone himself on this one,
1:33.5	and there's an entire video game aspect to it where you're an avatar,
1:36.8	and you can walk around, you can walk into the venue itself, the auditorium.
1:40.7	You see this visually in your browser, and then you're seeing the live stream,
1:44.5	and it's going to be me talking with these founders and going through keynote-type stuff.
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