Right, if you've raised half a million dollars and you're making decisions about $1,000 here, $5,000 there, you are able to throw that money around and basically move faster.

And you don't get the decision fatigue or kind of the nitpick fatigue that you get when you are truly bootstrapping.

This is sort of for the rest of us.

I'm your host, Rob Walling.

For more than 10 years on this show, we've covered topics relating to building and growing

startups using an ambitious but a sustainable approach.

We're not willing to sacrifice our health or our relationships to grow a company.

We want to build real businesses with real customers who pay us

real money. Welcome back to the show. Thanks so much for joining me. This week, it's a Rob Solo

Adventure. I'm going to be diving into a couple things that I found on Twitter. It's actually a

tweet that I sent out a couple weeks ago, as well as a really interesting thread on

enterprise sales from Josh Ledgard of Kickoff Labs and talk about a couple other

mental frameworks and things that have been on my mind recently. As I've said before,

a lot of these topics that I talk about in these solo adventures, 10 years ago would have been

a blog post or a chapter of a book. And these days, given everything that I have going on with

MicroConf and Tiny Seed in this podcast,

I don't have as much time to write as I would like, but I'm still exposed to so many new

ideas on a weekly basis as I look across 60 companies that I'm invested in. A chunk of those

are through Tiny Seed and a chunk are private angel investments that I made before starting Tiny Seed.

And I'm seeing a lot of patterns. And I'm talking to a lot of founders who are facing things like

massive growth or not enough growth or planning for an exit or getting an offer or considering

selling and wondering what they might sell for, having to fire an employee,

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