Episode 573| Hiring FT vs. PT, WordPress Consolidation, and More Bootstrapper News

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Entrepreneurship, Management, Business, Marketing

4.9 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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In Episode 573, Rob Walling chats with Einar Vollset and Tracy Osborne about the part-time contractor versus hiring full-time debate, the acquisition of Sandhills Development, as well as the launch of a TinySeed Europe. The topics we cover [02:14] FT vs PT Contractor [09:06] When could part time contracting work? [10:25] Sandhills Development acquisition [14:50] TinySeed Europe announced [21:04] DuckDuckGo and Privacy Links from the show Episode 551 | Task-level vs. Project-level Thinkers, No Such Thing as an Autopilot Business, and More (A Rob Solo Adventure) Awesome Motive has acquired our WordPress products and services – Sandhills Development, LLC Josh Pigford on Twitter Regarding FT vs PT Contractor DuckDuckGo and Privacy Careers — TinySeed Invest — TinySeed Tracy Osborne on Twitter Einar Vollset (@einarvollset) | Twitter This episode of Startups for the Rest of Us is sponsored by Software Promotions. Get better results from google. 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 back to startups for the rest of us. I'm your host, Rob Walling. This week, I sit down with Anar Volset and Tracy Osborne to talk through some bootstrapper news stories. I've received feedback from several listeners that they really enjoy these episodes. And oftentimes things we bring up here, it's the first time that they've heard about them, you know, that they weren't paying attention to Twitter or Hacker News or wherever we might have heard about these.
0:23.6	So hopefully these are not only educational, but also entertain you and hopefully help drive your business forward.
0:30.3	Today we talk about the part-time contractor versus hiring full-time debate.
0:36.1	We talk about the acquisition of Sand Hills development,
0:40.0	which is one of the largest independent WordPress product companies. We talk about the launch
0:44.9	of Tiny Seed Europe, and we talk about a few other news stories. So hope you enjoy these. If you
0:49.8	recall, Anar Volset is my co-founder and general partner at Tiny Seed. He's been on the podcast many
0:56.6	times he knows enterprise sales, cold outbound outreach. He knows a ton about SaaS M&A. And then Tracy
1:03.5	Osborne is our program director at Tiny Seed. And she is a former startup founder who has written
1:10.5	several books on design and development,
1:13.5	and now she keeps the trains running on time internally with Tiny Seed.
1:18.8	So hope you enjoy today's conversation. Tracy Osborne, welcome to startups for the rest of us.
1:35.3	Yeah, happy to be back.
1:37.3	Hey, Narvoldset, you as well?
1:38.8	Thanks for having me.
1:40.0	All right.
1:40.7	I'm excited to dip into some bootstrapper news, as we like to call it.
1:45.4	First story is there has been discussion. I've seen most of it on Twitter, although we have one Hacker News link as well.
1:53.7	Or maybe it is, oh, it's a tweet that links out to Hacker News. So yes, it's all on Twitter.
1:58.3	Found a friend of mine back in, I think it was April of this year, had pointed me to a tweet
2:03.3	by Josh Pigford that talked about him being curious with his new effort, maybe, about hiring
2:08.9	everyone as part-time contractors, meaning no W-2 and no full-time.
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