Welcome back to startups for the rest of us. This is episode 560 where we're going to dig into

Bootstrapper News. It's news that relates to you as a Bootstrap founder, mostly Bootstrap

Founder. We're going to talk about things like deciding when it's time to hire someone,

how to think about which role to hire next, talking about location and how it can force

productivity. I chuckle because this is just a long-time hack of mine.

And one of my guests today, Tracy Osborne, had a tweet a couple weeks ago talking about being on a plane and how productive it makes her.

So today I'm welcoming Tracy Osborne, the program director of Tiny Seed.

And Anar Volset, the general partner of Tiny Seed and my co-founder in this amazing epic adventure, this journey that we are on.

The two of you have been on so many of these episodes now. I almost wonder like, yeah, how should I reintroduce any of you? What, what is new? What do the people need to know?

Or maybe you shouldn't. Maybe you should just be like, yeah, I'm once again with Tracy and

Anar. Diem. Don't call attention to it. There it is. Yeah, Anar's in the UK. He's actually

just an hour outside of London. I think I mentioned this in the outro of last week's episode, but we're getting

started on raising our European Tiny Seed Fund. So if you are an accredited investor and interested

in potentially investing in EU companies that Tiny Seed would be investing in over the next couple

years, you should hit them up, Tinyseed.com slash invest. Yeah. And I don't even know if it's, because it's an EU fund, I actually don't know

if the same accreditation rules apply. So you may want to be able to give us money even

without being an accredited investor. We're in the early stages. You can tell. This is all

still being researched. Yeah. In other news, before we dive into the topics, I want to let you know that microconf is back.

In person, microcomps are starting in September. Right now, we have five scheduled in five weeks.

That was a bit of a, I'll say, you know, an effect of the pandemic that we had to condense that.

But we have one day local events in Portland, Oregon, Austin, Texas, Boston, Massachusetts, and London.

And then we have a two and a half day growth event in Croatia. It's our third and final year

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