Episode 653 | Armageddon Beer, Developing Taste, and What if I Succeed? (A Rob Solo Adventure)

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Management, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.8 • 792 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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In episode 653, join Rob Walling for a solo adventure where he talks through three topics, including the story of an Armageddon beer, developing taste, and an important question that all entrepreneurs should ask themselves. 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: 1:41 - The Armageddon beer story 10:49 - Developing taste as an entrepreneur 18:25 - What if I succeed? Links from the Show: MicroConf U.S. MicroConf Remote 6.0 The Gap by Ira Glass TinySeed 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	The Armageddon beer is there for when things get so bad that there is no hope.
0:05.2	It's when it's absolute Armageddon.
0:07.0	And when that happens, you and I are going to come into this trailer alone.
0:10.5	We're going to open that beer, each going to drink half.
0:13.1	Then we're going to drive to the shop, the corporate headquarters.
0:16.2	We're going to turn in our keys and we're going to walk.
0:18.8	If it's that bad, we're going to drink the beer.
0:21.6	And if it's not, then we're going to finish this job.
0:42.3	Welcome back to another episode of Startups for the Rest of Us.
0:43.3	I'm Rob Walling.
0:47.9	And this week, we have a Rob Solo adventure where I'm going to talk through a few topics,
0:54.0	including a story about an Armageddon beer, how I would think about attacking a competitive market, asking yourself, what will I
0:55.9	do if I succeed, and maybe more if time allows? Before we dive into that, I want to let you know
1:02.1	that MicroConf US tickets are now sold out. So if you want to come to MicroConf US here in Denver
1:07.9	in a few weeks, get on the wait list at microconf.com.com slash
1:11.0	Americas. I would expect a few additional tickets to become available. Sorry you missed out on tickets,
1:17.0	but I hope to see you there. And also, microcomf remote 6.0 starts today. It is solely focused on sales,
1:25.5	leveling up your sales game as a SaaS founder. For tickets,
1:29.1	head to microconf.com slash remote. Even if you missed today's session, which is about a 90-minute
1:34.4	session, recordings will be available for those with tickets. So microconf.com slash remote.
1:40.7	I'm going to tell a story that I've told once on another podcast, but I've never done it here and I've always felt like it should be solidified in this archive.
1:50.2	A good friend of mine, whom I've known for decades, is a project manager at a big construction firm.
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