Episode 596 | News Round-Up: Google Ends WFH, Founder Salaries, How to Use Email

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Management, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.8 • 792 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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In episode 596, Rob Walling is joined by Einar Vollset and Tracy Osborn for a bootstrapper news roundup episode. They cover a wide range of topics from Google’s decision to bring employees back into the office (and the potential implications for bootstrapped companies), founder salary data trends, email management strategies, and much more. Episode Sponsor: Microsoft for Startups Founder Hub Microsoft for Startups is on a mission to help all founders innovate and grow no matter their background, location, or progress. Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub is a platform that provides founders with free resources to help solve startup challenges, including access to Azure credits, development tools like Github, mentorship resources, Microsoft collaboration and productivity software like Teams and Outlook and more. The program is open to all and takes 5 minutes to sign up, with no funding required. Learn more aka.ms/startupsfortherestofus Topics we cover: [0:59] The State of Independent SaaS Report & Livestream [5:38] Google is ending work from home options for most Bay Area employees [12:11] How much do startup founders pay themselves? [14:51] The impact on having cofounders and salaries [19:41] Why you are probably using email wrong [26:21] Rob’s system for filtering emails [30:45] Twitter is making it harder to choose the reverse chronological feed [37:37] Practical strategies for working with and getting money to your existing developers in Ukraine and Russia Links from the Show: Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other offices from April 4 I Reuters What do startup founders pay themselves? I Sifted Twitter makes it harder to choose the old reverse-chronological feed I The Verge 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	This is Startups for the rest of us. I'm Rob Walling. Thanks for joining me again this week.
0:03.9	We have a bootstrapper News Roundup where we look at Google ending, work from home.
0:09.7	We take a look at some founder salary data in North America, the UK, and Europe.
0:15.5	And we talk about how to use email, at least according to a blog post. I saw on Hacker News.
0:21.5	It's got some interesting insights and ideas that we throw around,
0:25.3	as well as we talk a bit about Twitter and how they are now favoring the algorithmic
0:31.1	timeline and almost kind of burying the reverse chrono timeline and how I didn't even
0:36.6	really know that the reverse chrono timeline was still available didn't even really know that the reverse
0:37.8	chrono timeline was still available. This was a fun episode to record. I had Tracy Osborne,
0:43.8	the program director from Tiny Seed and Anar Volsat, my co-founder at Tiny Seed back on the show
0:49.4	as I have for the past many news roundups to hear their thoughts and opinions on the stories today.
0:57.0	But before we dive into that, the third annual State of Independent SaaS report comes out next week.
1:03.1	We're doing a live stream straight from microcomf growth in Minneapolis.
1:08.3	So if you have not headed to state of indysass.com and entered your email to be
1:14.5	notified, you should do that now because I'm going to be going through all kinds of cool findings
1:19.6	from this year's report. We changed up almost a quarter of the questions. And we asked some
1:25.7	differently. We're doing some different analysis.
1:28.0	So this report is going to have new insights and findings.
1:31.9	We also asked a bunch of sentiment questions about, as a founder, how are you feeling
1:36.3	about hiring this year versus last?
1:38.0	What do you think about no code?
1:39.5	I don't know.
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