Episode 694 | 2023 In Review: Amazing Growth & Fighting Burnout

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Entrepreneurship, Management, Business, Marketing

4.9 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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In episode 694, join Rob Walling as he recaps 2023. He reflects on growing TinySeed, MicroConf, the YouTube channel and this podcast. Rob also addresses his struggle with "arrival fallacy" and the continuous journey of success. Alongside the growth, he describes seeing burnout on the horizon, emphasizes the importances of addressing that early, and what it means for him and his team in 2024. Episode Sponsor: Going from an idea sketched on the back of a napkin to a robust, stable product requires a wide range of skills. You can spend ages looking for a one-in-a-million developer who can do it all, or you can quickly ramp up an entire product team to help you build and launch your product with our sponsor - DevSquad. DevSquad provides an entire development team packed with top talent from Latin America. Your elite squad will include between 2 to 6 Full Stack Developers, a technical product manager, plus experts in product strategy, UI/UX design, DevOps, and QA - all working together to make your SaaS Product a success. You can ramp up an entire product team fast, in your timezone, and at rates 75% cheaper than a comparable US-based team. And with DevSquad, you pay month to month with no long-term contracts. Take the hassle out of assembling and managing a sprawling team of freelancers and work with a group that’s ready to hit the ground running. Visit DevSquad.com/startups and get 10% off your engagement. Topics we cover: 4:20 – 2023 growth, launch of The SaaS Playbook 6:04 – Audience growth and supporting the mission 7:24 – Seeing burnout on the horizon, content calendars, and travel 11:49 – Dealing with burnout if you are experiencing it 14:18 – Adjusting travel schedules and amount 15:39 – Doing the things that “give me life”, sustainably Links from the Show: TinySeed Get Your tickets for MicroConf Atlanta State of Independent SaaS Report The SaaS Playbook Subscribe to the MicroConf YouTube channel Start Small Stay Small Episode 670 | Relying on Luck, Avoiding Burnout, and Bad Player vs. Bad Instrument (A Rob Solo Adventure) The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Keeping Your Sh*t Together The Zen Founder Guide to Founder Retreats 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 & Revie...

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0:00.0	Going from an idea sketched on the back of a napkin to a robust, stable product requires a wide range of skills.
0:07.0	You can spend ages looking for a one in a million developer who can do it all, or you can quickly ramp up an entire product team to help you build and launch your product with our sponsor, DevSquad.
0:17.0	DevSquad provides an entire development team packed with top talent from Latin
0:21.9	America. Your elite squad will include from two to six full-stack developers, a technical product
0:27.4	manager, plus experts in product strategy, UIUX design, DevOps, and QA, all working together to
0:34.5	make your SaaS product a success. You can ramp up an entire product team fast in your time zone,
0:40.1	and it rates 75% cheaper than a comparable U.S.-based team.
0:44.8	And with DevS. Squad, you pay month to month with no long-term contracts.
0:48.8	Take the hassle out of assembling and managing a sprawling team of freelancers
0:52.1	and work with a group that's ready to hit the ground running.
0:55.0	Visit devsquad.com slash startups and get 10% off your engagement.
1:00.0	That's devsquad.com slash startups.
1:07.4	Welcome back to Startups for the rest of us.
1:09.3	I'm your host Rob Walling.
1:10.1	And today I look back at my 2023, and I reflect on the highs and the lows of the year.
1:18.9	I'm going to talk through my experiences working on and growing Tiny Seed and Microcomp and this podcast,
1:24.6	because those are the three things that I focused on throughout the year, as well as give some reflections on how I can improve and make things better for myself
1:32.5	and those around me in the year ahead. If this is your first episode of startups for the rest of us,
1:37.5	or you'd prefer not to hear inside baseball about what's going on with me and my professional
1:42.7	life, maybe even a little bit personal.
1:44.5	We'll see where it goes.
1:45.9	You probably want to either go backwards or go forwards.
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