Episode 623 | TinySeed Tales s3e3: Paternity Leave

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Management, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.8 • 792 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In the third episode of season 3 of TinySeed Tales, Rob Walling checks in with Tony Chan of CloudForecast to see how he is faring since his co-founder is now on paternity leave. During this time, Tony shares a big win along with dealing with some hiring and growth setbacks. Topics we cover: 1:24 - How the business is doing while Francois is on paternity leave 2:36 - Tony’s perspective on being a solo founder for the past 6 weeks 5:04 - Managing your own founder psychology 7:49 - How Tony is dealing with an unexpected sales slump 16:16 - Did Tony end up hiring a full-time SDR? 21:04 - Dealing with setbacks 22:41 - What Tony is looking forward to in the next couple of months Links from the Show: Tony Chan (@toeknee123) I Twitter CloudForecast TinySeed Applications are now open Episode 613 | Hacking Your Founder Psychology Summit 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 startups for the rest of us. This is season three, episode three of Tiny Seed Tales,
0:05.0	where Tony's co-founder goes on paternity leave. It's a really good episode. As a reminder,
0:10.9	applications for our next batch of Tiny Seed founders, both in Europe, Middle East and Africa,
0:18.3	and the Americas are now open. Head to tiny seed.com slash apply.
0:22.3	If you're interested, applications are open for the next, almost two weeks until September 25th.
0:27.7	And with that, let's dive into this episode of Tiny Seatales. I get to wake up and have the freedom
0:32.8	to set my own day. I get to help people. I get to record this podcast. That is stuff that is
0:39.8	really important. And I just had to remind myself of that.
0:51.2	Welcome back to Tiny Seatales, a series where I follow a founder through their struggles,
0:55.3	victories, and failures as they build their startup.
0:58.1	I'm your host, Rob Walling.
0:59.2	I'm a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Tiny Seed, the first startup accelerator designed
1:03.8	for bootstrappers.
1:06.5	The last time I spoke to Tony, his co-founder Francois was about to go on paternity leave, and he had just
1:11.3	started working with a new full-time engineer named Katya. Katya showed up with a more
1:16.1	expansive skill set than Tony and Francois had realized, and she started contributing to the team very
1:21.2	quickly. That was about three months ago. Let's catch up and see how things have gone in Francois's
1:26.3	absence. With Katia's been going really well, I things have gone in Francois's absence.
1:32.7	With Katia's been going really well, I mean, even with Francois being gone, we had a good plan for her and what she needs to do and what she needs to execute on.
1:36.3	We felt that we needed to give her something tangible and it gives her opportunity to learn
1:39.9	about the app as well.
1:41.5	So she's actually working on a redesign of our full front end to just make
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