Episode 631 | Re-writing Your Codebase, Stair Stepping, and Difficult Founder Decisions

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Management, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.8 • 792 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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In episode 631, join Rob Walling for a solo adventure as he answers listener questions on topics ranging from when to rewrite your codebase to founder salaries and balancing your founder vs. developer mindset. Episode Sponsor Find your perfect developer or a team at Lemon.io The competition for incredible engineers and developers has never been more fierce. Lemon.io helps you cut through the noise and find great talent through its network of engineers in Europe and Latin America. They take care of the vetting, interviewing, and testing of candidates to make sure that you are working with someone who can hit the ground running. When it comes to hiring, the time it takes to write your job description, list the position, review resumes, schedule interviews, and make an offer can take weeks, if not months. With Lemon.io, you can cut down on a lot of that time by tapping into their wide network of developers who can get started in as early as a week. And for subscribers of Startups For the Rest of Us, you can get 15% off your first 4 week contract with a developer by visiting lemon.io/startups Topics we cover: 2:32 - Is there any validity that rewriting our code and changing our tech stack will get us to a higher multiple at a future exit? 8:08 - Founder salaries 12:16 - Using the stair step approach to create a course 15:20 - Can you sell a Zapier-type connection between several products as an early MVP for your target market? 20:06 - Founder mindset vs. developer mindset Links from the Show: Episode 622 I Making Hard Product Decisions & Growth vs. Profitability with Derrick Reimer The Stair Step Approach to Bootstrapping 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	So what I did is I emailed Anar Volset, who as many of you have heard on the show, has a lot of experience with, in particular, SAS M&A.
0:08.0	And his response to that question was, and I quote, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
0:15.2	This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my entire life.
0:20.1	Ha ha ha ha, ha, ha, ha.
0:35.0	Welcome back to startups for the rest of us. I'm Rob Walling, and this week, I was going to walk through some Rob Solo Adventure topics, but I realized that we have such a backlog of questions.
0:43.5	And actually, several of the questions are kind of Rob Solo Adventure type topics, asking questions about broader strategic things rather than just detailed tactics.
0:53.3	So I am excited to answer several of those.
0:56.1	There are many video questions and audio questions. And if you don't catch the video
1:00.2	snippet that we throw up on Twitter each week, you should follow at Startups Pod on Twitter,
1:05.4	because oftentimes you can see the question asker and then see a bit of my response. Before we dive into listener questions,
1:13.7	I really wanted to thank everyone who has posted a rating into iTunes, a five-star rating or
1:19.6	review. We passed a thousand ratings. I'm stoked, 1024 as of a couple hours ago. And reviews ranging from great content every week,
1:30.0	thanks Rob for putting out a great show, to Tom's Carb, who used the phrase,
1:34.3	Startups for the rest of us is truly an MBA on my iPhone. Tuesday mornings are incomplete,
1:39.3	if I don't listen to the latest episode. And lastly, this one from Mark 79, I really like.
1:43.9	He said, pretty much all the
1:45.2	episodes are timeless. So even though a show might be a few years old, the information is still relevant.
1:49.9	Thanks so much for helping me on this drive to get north of 1,000 ratings. We have now joined a
1:56.5	select few podcasts that have that many ratings and reviews in the iTunes Apple Podcast Store.
2:04.4	I know they keep changing the name. And for the record, we have 1,024 worldwide ratings and
2:08.6	498 worldwide reviews. So I'm guessing within the next few weeks here, we will also cross
2:13.8	the 500 mark there. So thanks again for that. As this episode airs, I am in Atlanta
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