Episode 541 | Faster Horses & Product Myths, Life-changing Money, Dual Funnels, and More

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Entrepreneurship, Management, Business, Marketing

4.9 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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In episode 541, Rob Walling flies solo to discuss things like product myths and the misinterpreted Henry Ford quote, selling a company, defining life-changing money, and dual funnels. The topics we cover [02:48] Product myths and the misinterpreted Henry Ford quote [07:21] Post-exit thoughts [15:32] Life-changing money [22:30] The power of dual-funnels Links from the show Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader Rob Walling - Mailing List Episode 510 | The Story of Startups.com 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	In this episode of Startups for the Rest of Us, filled with mystery and intrigue, I fly solo,
0:04.9	and I talk through things like product myths and that famous quote from Henry Ford about
0:09.6	building a faster horse. Talk through some thoughts around how people think about selling their
0:15.1	company, what would I do if I sold it, what is life-changing money, and I dive into a bunch of other
0:19.9	topics in this Rob solo adventure.
0:22.4	But first, I wanted to let you know that MicroConf Remote is happening today. Microcomf Remote
0:27.2	V2, which is a take on the 8-bit video game theme. If you have not checked out this platform,
0:34.6	gather.com. That's what we're running this version of remote on.
0:38.2	It's pretty amazing. And I think it's going to be good. And right now I'm probably doing a,
0:43.9	as this comes out, doing a live keynote with one of the several amazing speakers we have.
0:49.1	We're going to be covering five topics specific to early stage SaaS and gaining traction. So it's for folks who are
0:56.7	pre, let's say, pre 10K MRR. And we dig into Ruben Gomez's absumo deal that he did,
1:02.5	complete with numbers and advice and how he thought about it and, you know, do's and don'ts,
1:06.5	pros and cons, all that. We look at Derek Rimer's product hunt launch that happened a few months
1:10.3	ago. We look at some content marketing. We look at Derek Rimer's product hunt launch that happened a few months ago.
1:15.7	We look at some content marketing. We look at several topics that if you're not in there,
1:20.3	you should head to microcomfremote.com, you can still buy tickets. And whether you just watch the keynotes or just watch the videos, whether you participate in the hallway track in the gather.
1:25.1	Dot town environment, it's really a unique event and props again
1:29.0	to producer Xander for putting it all together. Hope to see you there. And finally, before I dive
1:34.3	into today's episode, Startups for the rest of us has 899 worldwide ratings and I'm trying to get to
1:41.3	a thousand. It would be amazing if you could give us a five-star review
1:45.6	in Apple Podcasts. Sitter, Spotify, wherever greater podcasts are sold. Our most recent review,
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