Episode 609 | Building Your MVP, the Bug Fix Hamster Wheel, and More Listener Questions

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Management, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.8 • 792 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In episode 609, join Rob Walling for a solo adventure as he answers a handful of listener questions ranging from when it makes sense to have multiple LLCs and hiring task-level vs. project-level thinkers to planning for large projects. He also shares his thought process behind ways you can build a complex mobile app prototype in a capital efficient manner. Topics we cover: [1:56] Is it worth it to create multiple LLCs? [6:10] Do you have any tips for how to find the time to work on future improvements when it feels like you don't have time to do anything but fix bugs and answer support tickets? [13:01] Do you have any advice around how to build a complex mobile app MVP in a capital efficient manner? [20:30] Should internal company, marketing and transactional emails be on the same domain? [22:27] How do you plan for a large project? Links from the Show: Episode 551 I Task-level vs. Project-level Thinkers, No such Thing as an Autopilot Business, and More MicroConf Connect Episode 505 I 42 Side Projects and the #NoCode Movement Github Issues Episode 311 I What’s It’s Like Selling a $128k Side Project 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	I think the idea here is if he already has some folks helping in part-time, are they task-level,
0:06.1	project level, or owner-level thinkers, right? Because back in the day, I had eight or nine
0:10.0	task-level thinkers. And it was great. They were inexpensive. I was doing the four-hour work week
0:14.6	thing. The problem was, is I was the only one that was thinking about projects and certainly the
0:18.7	only one thinking at an owner level. And so anything that wasn't within this really well-defined process bubbled up to me.
0:25.2	And that got really old and it wasn't fun.
0:27.8	And my four-hour work week, which was actually eight to 12 hours a week at the time,
0:32.0	my week was filled with a bunch of crap that I didn't want to do.
0:34.6	It wasn't interesting work.
0:36.1	It was answering questions that,
0:38.2	frankly, a project-level thinker could have answered. Welcome back. It'sups to the rest of us. I'm Rob Walling. Thanks so much for joining me this week.
1:00.9	If you haven't checked us out on Twitter at StartupsPod, you get to see every week a little 60 to 90 second snippet of the episodes in their video snippets.
1:10.2	So you get to see my cool background
1:11.5	with my Millennium Falcon, kind of blueprint-ish thing, my Beatles gold record up behind me.
1:18.5	And of course, the startups for the rest of us, episode one album cover. What is a micropreneur?
1:23.6	Thanks to producers, Ander, for having that LP pressed of our first episode.
1:28.5	This week, I'm diving into listener questions.
1:31.7	As always, video and audio questions go to the top of the stack.
1:36.3	You can ask questions by email and questions at Startup to The Rest of Us.com or head
1:39.8	into the website and click on Ask a Question.
1:42.4	First question is from Josh Duffy longtime listener,
1:46.1	and he is asking about whether it's worth having multiple LLCs.
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