Episode 650 | Building vs. Buying a SaaS, Day Job Constraints, and More Listener Questions

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Management, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.8 • 792 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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In episode 650, Rob Walling answers more listener questions. We cover topics like how to get more customers while working a full-time job, talking to users when there is a language barrier, and whether to buy vs. build a SaaS product. Topics we cover: 1:59 - Buying a small SaaS for $10,000 vs. getting financing and buying a SaaS for 6-figures 8:00 - How to get more customers while working full-time 13:33 - Can you hire someone to find an established SaaS business for you to buy? 16:40 - Diverse entrepreneurship podcast recommendations 20:08 - Talking to users when there is a language barrier Links from the Show: MicroConf Remote 6.0 SaaS Playbook Zen Founder Software Social Indie Hackers In Demand: How To Grow Your SaaS to $100k MRR They Got Acquired Afford Anything Deploy Empathy: A Practical Guide To Interviewing Customers The Jobs-To-Be-Done Handbook 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	Buying lets you skip the line, so to speak. It lets you skip 12, 18, 24 months of building,
0:05.2	launching, finding product market fit. And while there are obvious pros and cons to buying versus
0:10.4	building, I am a huge proponent of it if you have the resources. In fact, if you go back to a lot of
0:17.0	the speaking and the teaching I was doing from about 2008 until maybe 2011, a lot of that
0:24.5	emphasized buying equally with building from scratch.
0:37.4	It's that time of the week for another episode of Startups for the Rest of Us.
0:43.3	I'm Rob Walling, and this week I am answering listener questions.
0:47.5	Got some really good questions that have come in, people asking for thoughts on acquiring a SaaS app,
0:53.5	how to get more customers while working full timetime, and advice for talking to users when there's a language barrier.
0:59.6	But before we dive into that, our next microcomf remote is coming up in just a few weeks, March 21st and 22nd.
1:06.1	Level up your SaaS sales. That's the title. It's totally focused on SaaS sales. It's a fully
1:13.0	virtual event. Happens over two days, one and a half hours per day. It's $30 price tag. I'm going
1:19.8	to be hosting it, some baller speakers, Jen Abel from Jellyfish, John Endegay from Rapper to
1:25.2	apply, Pete Kazanji, who you heard on this podcast
1:27.9	just a few weeks back, author of Founding Sales, and Valentin, the founder of FindE Mail.
1:33.8	So if you want to learn sales as a SaaS founder or level up your game, you're not going to want
1:38.2	to miss this. And of course, if you buy a ticket, we do record the sessions and you'll get
1:43.2	the recordings after.
1:44.8	MicroConf.com slash remote if you want to check it out. I hope to see you there.
1:49.1	So with that, let's dive in to our first question of the day from Tim Young.
1:58.7	Hey Rob, Tim here. Longtime listener. first time submitting a question. Really love the pod and
2:03.7	appreciate everything you do. I've got a question about acquisition entrepreneurship. I'm thinking
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