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Startups For the Rest of Us

Episode 588 | In Which Courtland Allen and I Cover a Lot of Startups Topics

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Entrepreneurship, Management, Business, Marketing

4.9819 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 588, Rob Walling chats with Courtland Allen about a wide range of bootstrapper and indie hacker topics including the struggles with motivation/depression, bootstrapping today, fighting the urge to quit, and frameworks for getting your first dollar. The topics we cover [3:43] Hiring a podcast producer [6:21] Letting go in business [7:09] Invite-only experiment on Indie Hackers [16:03] Thinking about the future [20:47] Financial freedom and starting a business [25:05] Depression as a founder and rediscovering purpose [37:10] Fighting the urge to quit [41:10] Getting your first dollar [52:35] The bootstrapper scene in 2010 and the relevance of bootstrapping Links from the show Rob Walling on Twitter The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life Courtland Allen (@csallen) | 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! Also, if you haven't seen, applications are open for TinySeed's Spring 2022 programs. TinySeed is a year-long remote accelerator program is designed to help founders with a revenue-generating SaaS optimize product-market fit and grow faster. Read about the program and how to apply here. Subscribe & Review: iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher

Transcript

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0:00.0

You've tuned in to start up to the rest of us.

0:02.3

We are approaching episode 600 here in another 12 episodes or so, and today's episode is really good.

0:09.9

I really enjoyed this conversation with Cortland Allen.

0:12.1

He and I basically wander through topics that are relevant to bootstrappers and indie hackers and non-bootstrappers and mostly bootstrappers.

0:24.6

We talk about things ranging from inside baseball on podcast production to talking about, you know, struggles with motivation and depression

0:30.1

to whether it's easier to bootstrap today, what it looked like 10 years ago,

0:35.6

at the end we talk about base camp. I don't know.

0:39.4

We just covered a lot of things.

0:43.2

I did a little ask on Twitter of what topics we should cover.

0:45.4

And, of course, we got 30 topics or something.

0:47.3

So we couldn't possibly cover all of them,

0:51.0

but I am bookmarking that tweet for future episodes because I think some of the topics and questions were really interesting.

0:54.0

Before we dive into our conversation, I want to let you know that there's just a few more

0:57.5

days in the Tiny Seed application process. If you are a bootstrapped or mostly bootstrapped

1:02.5

SaaS founder, you're doing at least $500 a month, and you're interested in a year-long

1:07.2

mentorship, advice, community program, as well as a little bit of funding just enough funding

1:13.2

the right amount of funding for a bootstrapper should head to tini c.com slash apply and find out more

1:18.0

the application process is pretty seamless it's 15 20 minutes most people if you know your numbers

1:23.2

it's not that arduous and you'd be following in the footsteps of some pretty great SaaS companies that have been coming through our ranks.

1:30.1

So we are running batches both in the America's time zones, north and South America, as well as the European time zones.

1:38.5

So Europe, Middle East, and Africa.

1:41.2

TinyC.com slash apply if you're interested.

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