Episode 578 | How Mike's Merger Panned Out

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Entrepreneurship, Management, Business, Marketing

4.9 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 578, Rob Walling is joined again by co-host emeritus, Mike Taber for an update on his progress with Bluetick. Today we find out how Mike's merger that he has been working on for the past year has panned out. The topics we cover [3:55] Mike reflects on time and effort working on partnership [7:20] What to do when a deal stalls [9:00] Doubling down on Bluetick [14:50] Differentiating Bluetick [17:47] Moving fast as a startup [19:03] Finding your intrinsic motivation [26:10] Mike's 90 day plan Links from the show Bluetick.io Mike Taber (@SingleFounder) | 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	My inclination is to believe that the business may not even exist right now if I hadn't done that.
0:05.5	So I feel like I would have had a hard time walking away because of that because I know the person and, you know, wanted to maintain a relationship.
0:12.9	But would it have been better for me?
0:14.6	Probably.
0:15.2	Would it have been better for him or his business?
0:17.4	No, probably not.
0:18.5	And I just don't know what the repercussions would have been had I walked away.
0:21.8	My suspicion is they would have been bad.
0:31.7	Welcome back to Start Up for the Rest of Us.
0:34.0	I'm your host, Rob Walling.
0:35.3	And every week, for more than 11 years, we've turned out
0:38.0	episodes of this podcast. And in fact, for the first 448 episodes, I had a co-host named Mike Tabor.
0:44.2	And now every three to six months, Mike makes it back on the show. He comes back, he updates us on his
0:50.4	progress with his startup, bluetick.io. It's been almost two and a half years since he stepped back from his co-hosting duties.
0:57.3	And he's had several ups and downs during that time.
0:59.6	And frankly, has had some challenges making progress with his product.
1:04.6	And recently, in the last couple episodes where we talked about it,
1:07.7	he was looking into merging Blue Tick with another company. And today,
1:13.1	we find out about the result of that, about whether that merger was successful or not. If you're
1:18.2	interested in learning more about Mike, maybe you haven't heard the prior episodes, you can go
1:22.6	just search for Mike Tabor on the website, and it will show you the last four or five episodes
1:27.1	he has appeared on,
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