Episode 621 | TinySeed Tales s3e2: Onboarding Their First Hires

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Management, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.8 • 792 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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In this episode of TinySeed Tales, Rob chats with Tony Chan from CloudForecast about the progress his rapidly growing team has made over the previous few weeks. Tony is riding the roller coaster that is entrepreneurship and in this episode you get to follow along. Topics we cover: 1:47 - New full time engineering hire onboarding results 4:50 - Part time SDR hire onboarding results 7:31 - How hiring affects company culture 10:19 - Tony’s biggest wins in the last few weeks 14:30 - Growing the product to grow Expansion Revenue 15:45 - CloudForecast’s summer sales lull 19:40 - Keeping sane as a founder 22:00 - What Tony is worried about coming out of summer 24:00 - The next MRR target Links from the Show: Tony Chan (@toeknee123) I Twitter CloudForecast TinySeed Applications open September 12, 2022 TinySeed Tales S2E1 I Introducing Gather TinySeed Tales 1 I A Non-Technical Saas Founder 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	Welcome back to episode two, season three of Tiny Seed Tales, where we continue hearing Tony and
0:05.0	Cloud Forecast's story as they try to grow their company. Quick reminder before we dive in,
0:11.0	applications for our next Tiny Seed batch, both our Europe, Middle East and Africa batch,
0:16.3	and our America's batch. They open next week, September 12th. If you're interested in applying,
0:21.8	head to tiny seed.com slash apply. And with that, let's dive back into our story.
0:26.5	It literally went from not having clear path, and then a month later, having a clear path,
0:31.7	right? And that's the never-ending cycle of being a start of fonder.
0:36.8	Yeah. the never-ending cycle of being a startup founder.
0:50.4	Welcome back to Tiny Seed Tales, a series where I follow a founder through their struggles,
0:55.3	victories, and failures as they build their startup. I'm your host Rob Walling. I'm a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Tiny Seed, the first startup accelerator designed for bootstrappers.
1:01.8	Last episode, we met Tony Chan, CEO and co-founder of Cloud Forecasts. Cloud Forecast sends
1:08.2	engineering teams a daily email report that summarizes their Amazon
1:12.2	web service expenses.
1:13.8	It's been a few weeks since that conversation, so let's check in with Tony.
1:17.8	So last episode, we talked about your biggest wins.
1:21.7	You mentioned we're getting into Tiny Seed and finalizing your first full-time engineering
1:26.4	hire.
1:27.2	And one of your biggest fears was onboarding that first engineering hire, plus there was another
1:32.3	part-time hire.
1:34.1	And your fear was that they wouldn't be successful in the role.
1:37.3	And you had mentioned you feel responsible for their success in the role.
1:41.3	So I'd love to hear how those two are doing in the new roles,
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