Episode 641 | Dealing with High Churn, Rolling Out an MVP, and More Listener Questions

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Management, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.8 • 792 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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In episode 641, join Rob Walling for a solo adventure as he answers more listener questions. Topics covered range from dealing with high churn when your tool is project-based, what product feedback to listen to in the early days, and when to hire project-level thinkers vs. task-level thinkers. Topics we cover: 3:18 - Dealing with high churn when your tool is project-based 8:38 - Going upmarket 9:42 - Who to listen to in the early days to improve your product 15:47 - Should I worry about people copying my business idea? 24:26 - Should I join MicroConf Connect if I’m still in the idea validation phase? 25:54 - Hiring project-level thinkers vs. task-level workers Links from the Show: The SaaS Playbook MicroConf 2023 Accountability Challenge MicroConf Connect 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	Over the past probably five, 10 years, I've done a bunch of work to get better at that.
0:04.0	So I worry about a lot fewer things, even though those are possible.
0:08.0	So is it possible I'll get struck by lightning?
0:09.8	Is it possible?
0:10.8	I'll get in a car accident.
0:12.3	Is it possible I can go out of business next week or get sued or have something terrible happen?
0:17.0	Yes, all of those things are possible.
0:19.2	Should I be worrying about those?
0:21.4	That's the real question, right?
0:41.4	Welcome back to another episode of startups for the rest of us.
0:46.2	I'm your host Rob Walling, and today I'm going to be answering listener questions from bootstrapped and mostly bootstrapped startup founders who are thinking through things like
0:50.9	dealing with high churn when your tool is project-based, who to listen to in the early
0:55.8	days to improve your product, and many more topics than that. I did want to let you know that
1:00.4	the website for my new book is live. Title of the book is The SaaS Playbook, Build a Multimillion
1:05.7	Dollar Startup without venture capital. So it's not solely focused on bootstrapping, but it's bootstrapped
1:11.5	and mostly bootstrapped SaaS companies, as you often hear me say on this show. So head to
1:16.5	SaaSplaybook.com. If you want to check it out, you can obviously sign up to the email list so I can
1:21.6	notify you when the Kickstarter for the book begins. And of course, if you're on other email lists of mine, you'll hear from me as well.
1:28.6	But I'm excited about this. It took me a lot longer to write the book than I would have liked.
1:32.1	I had a bit of writer's block in the midst of it. But in the end, I'm really excited about the end product.
1:38.7	And I've had, I don't know, dozen people, maybe 15 people who might trust, who are SaaS founders, some really experienced,
1:46.6	some still in the early days, read through it and gotten a lot of helpful feedback that allowed
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