Episode 610 | How I Would Start Over Today, Bad Habits of Solopreneurs, and the Benefits of a Day Job (A Rob Solo Adventure)

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Management, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.8 • 792 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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In episode 610, join Rob Walling for a solo adventure where he talks about the benefits of working a day job before launching your company, some bad habits he picked up in the early days, why the college dropout narrative is annoying, and what he would do if he was starting over today. Topics we cover: [1:08] The benefits of working a day job [6:20] Some bad habits Rob learned as a solopreneur in the early days [9:45] Why the college dropout narrative is bs [12:51] What would Rob do if he was starting over today [19:22] The benefits of starting a business today vs. 10 years ago Links from the Show: Episode 551 I Task-level vs. Project-level Thinkers, No such Thing as an Autopilot Business, and More The Stair Step Approach to bootstrapping Quiet Light 68 B2B SaaS marketplaces with opportunities for indie hackers 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	They're commenting on things that they haven't themselves done.
0:02.3	And so I think it is easy to follow a path of too many voices
0:05.8	and too many people saying too many things, trying to be experts.
0:09.1	And that wasn't necessarily the case.
0:11.1	There was a lot less valuable information back in the day.
0:13.4	But the couple sources of it, at least you could probably trust that they were valid
0:17.5	and that they were giving you good advice versus today
0:19.3	where you really have to separate the wheat from the shaft.
0:33.5	This just might be another episode of startups for the rest of us.
0:37.2	I'm Rob Walling. Thanks for joining me today.
0:39.1	I'm doing a Rob Solo Adventure, and I'm going to be talking about four topics.
0:44.2	The first is the benefits, even for software founders who want to start their own company,
0:49.0	the benefits of working a day job.
0:51.2	Second topic is bad habits I learned as a solopreneur.
0:55.2	Then I'll talk about why the college dropout narrative is such annoying bullshit. And lastly, cover what would I do if I
1:01.4	were starting over today? I get asked that question now and again, and I'd like to have a more
1:06.4	or less definitive answer to share with you today. So my first topic is on the benefits of working at day
1:12.0	jobs. So even if you're going to be a founder, you're going to start your own company,
1:14.7	there are tremendous things that I have learned and I've seen other founders learn at day jobs,
1:19.9	at full-time jobs. And frankly, ideally working at a startup, I think you can learn some good,
1:24.6	but some bad habits at Fortune 5,000 companies, at large companies. The good
1:29.3	habits often are process and structure, how to work with others, structure of the company.
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