Episode 632 | Hot Take Tuesday: Figma Exit, Side Project Distraction, No Code Dogma

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Management, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.8 • 792 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In episode 632, join Rob Walling and Einar Vollset for Hot Take Tuesday, where they analyze and discuss some of the latest news. Some topics covered include the Figma exit, side project distractions, no-code apps, and more. Episode Sponsor: Find your perfect developer or a team at Lemon.io/startups 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: 2:35 - Adobe acquires Figma 8:20 - Growing one product to $20k MRR vs. launching a bunch of side projects 18:43 - Apple’s anti-ad tracking crackdown 25:58 - Building no-code apps 31:12 - Watching movies at 1.5x speed Links from the Show: Einar Vollset (@einarvollset) I Twitter MicroConf Remote Adobe snaps up Figma for $20 billion Pierre de Wulf’s tweet Apple’s ad business set to boom on the back of its own anti-tracking crackdown Hana’s tweet Ruben’s tweet 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 |

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Startups for the rest of us. I'm your host, Rob Walling. This week we have a show format that I've adapted and renamed instead of the news roundup. This is Hot Take Tuesday, where Anar Volset comes on the show and he and I analyze and discuss the Figma exit. We talk about side project distractions, talk about no code and bootstrapping,
0:22.8	and look at a tweet that calls them a bit dogmatic. Similar to our news roundup episodes,
0:29.2	normally it would be Tracy, Anar, and myself, but Tracy is out of pocket this week. And I, of course,
0:34.4	I give people no notice on these things. It's not like I book them two weeks out. So I literally, I think I slacked them yesterday and said, can you do this at this time tomorrow?
0:41.3	So I really appreciate AnR taking the time out of his schedule to come on the show. I hope you
0:45.1	enjoy this format that we do every few months. But before we dive into the show, I want to let
0:49.3	you know that MicroConf Remote is next week, and we're diving into early stage marketing.
0:59.5	We're going to be talking about marketing with Kaptara through SEO, through conversions versus recessions, and more.
1:00.9	We have Amanda Natividad, who heads up marketing at SparkToro.
1:04.6	We have the founder of Jim Desk, who is just crushing it and doing really well with Kaptara.
1:09.8	We have Whitney Detarding from Co-Schedule and Gia Loudie,
1:12.4	one of the founders of Forget the Funnel.
1:15.1	Dates are November 1st through the 3rd.
1:16.9	So it's next week.
1:17.9	It's 11 to 1230 Eastern Time.
1:19.9	So it's three days, one and a half hours per day.
1:22.4	If you buy a ticket, you get the videos if you can't make it. Tickets are at microconfremote.com.
1:28.3	Very inexpensive.
1:31.3	This is the least expensive microcomf remote we've ever done.
1:33.1	So if you're in doubt, check it out.
1:36.1	I'll be there live and I hope to see you there.
1:38.2	And with that, let's dive into the show. And our bowl set, welcome back to the show.
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