Episode 549 | Hiring vs. Outsourcing, E-commerce SaaS, and More Listener Questions with Jordan Gal

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Entrepreneurship, Management, Business, Marketing

4.9 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 439, Rob Walling is joined by Jordan Gal to answer listener questions about starting an e-commerce SaaS and the laws and regulations, and compliance requirements required. They talk about managing enterprise perceptions of risk towards bootstrap startups. They also answer questions about bootstrapping and enterprise SaaS as well as hiring a growth role and whether you should hire full-time or outsource to a contractor or an agency. The topics we cover [01:11] Regulatory requirements for starting an e-commerce platform (Solman Ahmed) [06:18] Managing enterprise perception of risk when selling as a bootstrapper (Noah Stall) [16:26] Are some markets not feasible with a bootstrapped approach? (Declan Sweeney) [22:42] Finding someone who is experienced growing SaaS companies (Russ) [30:10] Hiring full-time versus outsourcing (Filip Kis) Links from the show Crossing the Chasm DemandMaven || Growth Marketing Consultancy for SaaS & Startups MicroConf Connect — MicroConf Episode 537 | On Launching, Funding, and Growth with Serial SaaS Founder Rand Fishkin Episode 499 | The (First) Six Stages of SaaS Growth - Part 1 Episode 499.5 | The (First) Six Stages of SaaS Growth - Part 2 Jordan Gal (@jordangal) | Twitter 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 This episode is sponsored by Rewardful, turning your biggest fans into your best marketers. Get 30% off your first 3 months by heading to getRewardful.com/startups. Offer expires May 31st.

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0:00.0	Welcome to this week's episode of Startup for the Rest of Us, Jordan Gall, founder of Cart Hook,
0:04.9	now working on his next SaaS effort.
0:08.3	It joins me today and we run through listener questions.
0:10.6	Jordan's been on the podcast many times and he's done at least one Q&A episode in the past.
0:15.7	And we run through things about starting an e-commerce SaaS and whether you need compliance in order to do that or whether
0:22.1	there are laws and regulations around it. We talk about managing enterprise perceptions of risk
0:26.9	towards bootstrap startups. We answer a question about bootstrapping and enterprise SaaS about
0:31.2	growth, about hiring versus outsourcing. It's all kinds of tasty goodness. Without further ado,
0:36.8	let's dive into the questions.
0:38.8	Jordan Gall, welcome back to the program, man.
0:41.4	Rob, it's great to be here.
0:42.7	The last time I was here, I spoke so much we had to break it up into two episodes.
0:46.8	That's right.
0:47.7	No, it wasn't you.
0:48.7	That was one of the all-time best episodes.
0:51.3	People keep coming back, 499 and 499.
0:57.3	We walked through the six stages of Saskworth, I believe, and you and I were comparing notes, drip to hardhook, and people just kept
1:02.1	writing in on that, like, oh my gosh, do more things like that. So, this is a fun one.
1:06.1	It was a fun one. It was a great chance to kind of look back. Indeed. This one's a little different. What are we doing today?
1:13.9	Next to coming back. We're answering some questions, man. You know, we always have listener questions coming in from folks in today. I got about a half dozen picked out.
1:17.9	We'll see how many we were able to work through. All right, man. So let's dive into our
1:21.7	first listener question. It's from Salman Ahmed. And appropriately enough, it's about e-commerce compliance.
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