Episode 583 | Finding Startup Ideas with Sam Parr

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Management, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.8 • 792 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 583, Rob Walling chats with Sam Parr about about building an email list, selling to Hubspot, podcast growth, and how to spot business opportunities. The topics we cover [3:53] Building Hustle to 8 figures in revenue [5:52] Growing an email list [11:01] Selling to a B2B SaaS [19:00] My First Million and growing podcasts [23:45] TikTok marketing [27:30] Spotting interesting opportunities [34:70] Manifest cowboy Links from the show Sam Parr (@theSamParr) | Twitter 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	It's not just any show, it's startups for the rest of us.
0:02.9	It's episode 583.
0:05.1	I'm your host, Rob Walling, and I catch up with Sam Parr.
0:09.1	He's the founder of The Hustle, a wildly popular email newsletter.
0:13.9	He grew to several million subscribers, eight figures of annual revenue,
0:19.4	and he sold it to HubSpot earlier this year.
0:22.4	Sam's also the co-host of My First Million, which is a podcast that really dissects business
0:29.2	ideas and looks with a pretty unique lens about areas in our economy or in specific industries
0:36.9	or just in the world where new business ideas
0:40.6	and new startup ideas can take shape. I really enjoyed today's conversation with Sam because
0:46.4	he's just an interesting person to talk to and he's thinking about so many things he's educating
0:50.9	himself by reading books and he goes off on like research tangents.
0:55.6	I can tell. I've heard some episodes of their podcast and you can tell that he's just constantly
0:59.9	thinking about how do these things work. Why do they work? Why are they maybe broken on the edges?
1:05.5	Where are there opportunities to be found? And as a result, I felt like the conversation he
1:09.8	and I had was super interesting.
1:12.0	And I hope you do as well. So let's dive in.
1:21.6	Sam Parr, thanks for joining me on the show.
1:23.7	What's up, man? It's good to have you on here.
1:26.1	I was reading your blog, and I couldn't afford to go to your event when I first started
1:30.3	out but I read your blog for, I mean, you've been doing it for like 10 years maybe, right?
1:34.3	I feel like it's been since 2012-ish.
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