Episode 544 | Annual Raises, Finding Good Startup People, and More Listener Questions with Josh Pigford

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Entrepreneurship, Management, Business, Marketing

4.9 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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In this episode, Rob Walling is joined by Josh Pigford to answer listener questions, covering topics like annual pay increases, B2B SaaS price increases, white-label vs branded product, and hiring startup-minded people. The topics we cover [03:04] Building Maybe, and Rob busts Josh's chops about starting a business so soon [10:02] Question #1: Annual Raises - Anonymous [18:24] Question #2: Explaining a Price Increase - Steve McLeod Bootstrap FM [23:11] Question #3: Free or Discounted Plans in Exchange for Branding - Adam Wohlberg [29:28] Question #4: Finding startup people to hire - Anonymous Links from the show maybe Transparent Salaries | Buffer Radford | Compensation Surveys Episode 537 | On Launching, Funding, and Growth with Serial SaaS Founder Rand Fishkin Parachute List We Work Remotely Authentic Jobs Dynamite Jobs Josh Pigford (@Shpigford) | Twitter 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 Rob Walling. I'm your host today,
0:05.7	and I'm excited to have Josh Pigford back on the show. And we run through listener questions
0:11.0	covering topics like annual pay increases. Should my B2B SaaS write a blog post about our price increase,
0:18.0	whether offering discounted plans in exchange for people to have your
0:22.4	powered by link or your branding is a good idea. Find a good start of people and all kinds of other
0:27.0	stuff. We actually chat about Josh's new effort, which is called maybe at maybe.com. I'm pretty
0:33.6	excited for him. You'll hear me bust his chops about getting started with something so soon.
0:37.4	Before we dive into our questions, startup for the rest of us has 900. I'm pretty excited for him. You'll hear me bust his chops about getting started with something so soon.
0:45.6	Before we dive into our questions, start-ups for the rest of us has 905 ratings across 47 countries.
0:49.1	Our most recent is from Da Boom, 1234.
0:52.2	Title is Gateway Drug for starting a company.
0:55.9	This podcast inspired me to start my own company and changed my life for the better. Awesome. Love to hear it. If you want to give us a rating or review,
1:01.7	log into your podcatcher. Give us five stars. Really appreciate it. And that'll help me get to
1:07.1	the 1,000 rating mark that I am trying to achieve by some unknown date.
1:13.5	But I definitely would appreciate it.
1:15.2	There are very few podcasts with four figures of ratings, and I think that we can get there.
1:21.0	And with that, let's dive into my conversation with Josh Pigford.
1:23.7	You may remember him from an episode.
1:26.1	I was within the past couple of months where we talked about
1:28.5	him selling bear metrics for 4.7 million dollars and he dug through all the details of that and you know
1:36.4	he'd run bar metrics for for years and hired up to up to 12 people and so he has a lot of thoughts on
1:42.4	on these topics we're going to talk about today.
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