Episode 635 | Where Are They Now? Catching up with TinySeed Tales' Tony Chan

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Management, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.8 • 792 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In episode 635, Rob Walling catches up with Tony Chan, the co-founder of CloudForecast, an AWS cost monitoring tool. Tony shared his victories, challenges, and failures in TinySeed Tales Season 3. It has been over eight months since we recorded the final episode. In this episode, we reflect and catch up on what’s been happening with Tony and CloudForecast. 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: 3:03 - Losing one of CloudForecast’s engineers 5:35 - Tony’s approach to hiring engineers 8:31 - Did Tony end up hiring someone to help with content marketing? 17:32 - What is Tony struggling with right now? 21:07 - Managing your founder psychology 25:08 - Tony’s recent conundrum Links from the Show: Tony Chan (@toeknee123) I Twitter CloudForecast TinySeed Tales Season 3 MicroConf Local: Austin 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	If you love the smell of startups in the morning, you're in the right place.
0:03.3	It's startups for the rest of us.
0:04.4	I'm Rob Walling, and here we are, diving into a Where Are They Now episode.
0:08.5	Today I'm talking with Tony Chan.
0:10.7	You just heard his season just a month or two ago.
0:13.9	Tiny Seatale, Season 3, wrapped in this podcast feed,
0:16.3	but what most people don't know is that the last time Tony and I spoke to record that final episode was eight months ago. So a lot has happened since then. Before we dev into that, if you haven't checked out our YouTube channel, it is content like this. It's bootstrapped and mostly bootstrapped startup topics. I often am deep diving into how to do something. Like some recent videos include five secrets to hiring top-tier talent for your startup,
0:41.1	eight awesome developer tools you're not using,
0:43.4	seven new SaaS ideas you can steal,
0:45.9	the number one reason why startups fail, and more.
0:48.3	That's at microconf.com slash YouTube.
0:51.0	If you want to check it out,
0:52.1	we're about to hit 30,000 subscribers on that channel and it is growing every day.
0:56.5	And with that, let's dive into my conversation with Tony Chan.
1:10.5	Tony Chan. Thanks for coming back on the show.
1:14.1	Tiny Seatails slash start-ups for the rest of us.
1:16.5	Yeah, last time I saw you was at MicroConf.
1:19.5	April in Minneapolis.
1:21.0	Yep.
1:21.6	Yeah, yeah.
1:22.2	And you've been busy with the European batch and the American batch and so on.
1:26.6	So it's been a while since we've
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