Episode 570 | Bootstrappable Businesses, Selling as an Introvert, and More Listener Questions

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Entrepreneurship, Management, Business, Marketing

4.9 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 570, Rob Walling answers listener questions about the ideal business for bootstrapping, how to create trust with potential customers, navigating depression as an entrepreneur as well as advice for introverted founders. The topics we cover [1:42] Problems that are more conducive to bootstrapping [8:51] Creating trust with potential customers [10:51] Battling depression or mental illness as an entrepreneur [13:45] Advice for introverted founders [18:95] Standard operating agreement for co-founders 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	Frankly, when we started DRIP, it wasn't like I was going meeting in person with people.
0:03.8	I was marketing the shit out of that app.
0:06.2	I was warm emailing people in my network and saying, hey, I built this thing.
0:10.1	If you're using MailChimp, I think these are the differences is perhaps how it's a better,
0:13.8	might be a better fit for you.
0:15.0	But I was not doing a big hard sell and I didn't need to go build a bunch of network-y fake
0:19.9	relationships to do it.
0:21.3	I just showed up and built a great product.
0:31.6	Welcome back to startups for the rest of us.
0:33.6	I'm Rob Walling.
0:34.8	And if you can believe it, this is episode 570.
0:37.9	I think we're approaching 100 listener question episodes where me or myself and a guest answer questions from you, the listener.
0:46.4	This is another one.
0:47.5	We dig into some really interesting topics today.
0:49.6	If you want to get your question answered in a future episode of Startups for the Rest of Us, you have some options. You can go to Startups for the Rest of Us.com. There's an Ask a
0:57.7	question link in the header. And if you click on that, we use Video Ask, and that allows you
1:02.7	to click a button on your phone, click a button on your laptop, and send in either an audio
1:06.8	or a video question. And you can obviously record an audio or video question on your laptop
1:12.0	and just email it to us, send us a Dropbox link or GDrive link. Those questions go to the top of the
1:17.1	stack. We always answer those first. Or you can just email questions at Startups for the rest of us.com
1:22.4	or submit it via our contact form. And if you submit it in text, we will get to it at some point.
1:28.1	And I think we'll have time today to dig into a few of those as well.
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