Episode 605 | Building a SaaS with Little Dev Experience, Using No Code for Your MVP, Bootstrapping a Two-Sided Marketplace, and More Listener Questions

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Management, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.8 • 792 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In episode 605, Rob Walling is joined by Ruben Gamez, and they dig into a handful of listener questions. Topics range from building a SaaS with little development experience and using no-code tools to build your MVP to stair-stepping bootstrapping a two-sided marketplace. Topics we cover: [0:55] Selling to the enterprise [4:31] What level of development expertise would you say the founders of a B2B SaaS should have in order to create a successful product? [13:26] Should you launch a productized service to validate a SaaS idea before building it? [20:47] Can you use the stairstep method to bootstrap a two-sided marketplace business? [31:34] Is no-code something you see mainly for building an MVP, or is it something that you could sustainably build an actual SaaS startup on without running into scaling issues? What are the downside risks to no-code tools other than platform risk? [37:08] Do you think no-code tools will ever get to the point where you can build a full SaaS business? Links from the Show: Ruben Gamez (@earthlingworks) I Twitter SignWell RocketGems Castos Bubble Airtable Dynamite Jobs Clarity.fm MicroConf Masterminds The SaaS Founder Guide to No-Code 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

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Today on Startups for the rest of us, we dig into listener questions.
0:03.7	And we discuss building a SaaS with little development experience,
0:07.7	using no code for your MVP, product-tized services, stair stepping, bootstrapping a two-sided marketplace.
0:15.3	Really, questions ran the gamut.
0:16.8	There's some great questions today that Ruben Gomez and I cover.
0:20.6	You know Ruben is the founder of sinewell.com and EarthlingWorks on Twitter.
0:25.1	And I really appreciate him joining me today.
0:27.6	Before we dive into those questions, Steve from SkillsDB Pro sent in a video ask.
0:33.2	He went to Startups for the Rest of Us.com.
0:34.8	He clicked Ask a Question at the top.
0:36.6	And he didn't ask a question this time. He said they do a lot of enterprise sales. And he wanted to offer
0:41.6	some thoughts and ideas that haven't been covered on the podcast, but that have helped him
0:46.6	and his team scale his company. So we'll roll that here.
1:00.4	Hey, Rob, Steve from SkillsDB Pro coming to you from Bozeman, Montana, long-term listener.
1:02.3	Appreciate all your help.
1:05.7	I started my business by accident, and I think I would be totally lost without you.
1:08.1	I'm going to talk a little bit about selling to the enterprise. It seems to be a big subject on your podcast, and it's
1:11.5	something that we do a lot of. So I have a fair amount of experience with it. And we have
1:15.9	different approaches to it than you've mentioned in your show before, so I thought I'd
1:19.8	chair them quickly. First, what we will do is when we're selling into the enterprise, we keep
1:24.3	our dollar a seat SaaS model. But then what will happen is, so for example,
1:28.7	we took on a brand new client, state, one of the states, who I'm not going to mention their name,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Rob Walling, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Rob Walling and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.