Episode 629 | TinySeed Tales s3e6: Looking Ahead to $1M ARR

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Management, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.8 • 792 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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In the final episode of TinySeed Tales Season 3, Rob Walling checks in with Tony Chan of CloudForecast. They reflect on some of the most prominent challenges and milestones that the business has faced over the last year. Topics we cover: 1:31 - Tony reflects on attending his first MicroConf Growth in Minneapolis 3:30 - An update on how CloudForecast’s content marketing efforts are going 7:59 - Getting an article featured at the top of Reddit 11:16 - An update on how their new senior engineer is doing 16:18 - Why Tony prefers to hire full-time employees 18:26 - An update on CloudForecast’s sales pipeline 20:50 - Tony reflects on the challenges of figuring out where to invest time and capital 24:30 - The importance of getting low-level tasks off your plate 28:36 - What is Tony least looking forward to in the next year? 30:38 - What is Tony most looking forward to in the next year? Links from the Show: Tony Chan (@toeknee123) I Twitter CloudForecast Cost of living the cloud life: Fossil fuel consumption as a service 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 to Tiny Seed Tales. This is the final episode of Season 6, where I spoke with Tony from Cloud
0:06.0	Forecast and covered their journey for just about a year when they were part of the Tiny Seed Accelerator
0:11.0	batch. This episode serves as a nice capstone to the season. We reflect on where they've come from,
0:16.7	and we look ahead at where they're going. Thanks so much for joining me for season three of
0:21.0	Tiny Seed Tales. Feel free to reach out at Rob Walling on Twitter and let me know if you enjoy these
0:25.9	episodes and would like to hear a season four. And with that, let's dive into this episode of Tiny Seat
0:31.3	Tales. It is very hard to switch from being tactical where we're at right now to being more strategic and looking at the bigger
0:38.8	picture of our business, right? And it does feel very scary and it's hard to remove control over
0:46.7	what I've been doing for the last three or four years.
1:02.5	Yeah. Welcome back to Tiny Seed Tales, a series where I follow a founder through their struggles,
1:07.5	victories, and failures as they build their startup. I'm your host, Rob Wallen. I'm a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Tiny Seed, the first startup accelerator designed for bootstrappers.
1:13.6	This is the final episode of our season with Cloud Forecast, the AWS Cost Monitoring Service.
1:18.9	Today, Tony and I are going to revisit some of the most prominent challenges and milestones that the business has faced over the last year or so.
1:25.7	Sir, it's been two months since we last spoke, and I feel like there's a lot to catch up
1:31.2	on.
1:31.8	Yeah, we had micro-comf.
1:33.0	That was really cool.
1:34.0	That's right.
1:34.6	Good seeing you in person and Tiny Seed Retreat, and we're at the end of Tiny Seat.
1:38.9	So a lot has happened.
1:41.0	I mean, like, every time we meet up, there's always something crazy going on.
1:44.6	Yeah. For people to level set, this was microconf in Minneapolis in early 2022.
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