Episode 712 | Revisiting Burnout + Updates on My Progress in 2024 (A Rob Solo Adventure)

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Entrepreneurship, Management, Business, Marketing

4.9 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In episode 712, join Rob Walling for another solo adventure. He starts by revisiting past predictions and provides an update on how he successfully staved off full burnout. Rob then gives updates on this podcast, the progress of TinySeed and MicroConf, and teases two new books that he’s working on. Episode Sponsor: Is your outsourced development team dropping the ball? Maybe you’ve worked with a team that just couldn't grasp your vision and needed constant oversight because they weren’t thinking strategically. Or maybe you ended up wasting hours micromanaging, often needing to jump on late-night calls across massive time zone differences to get alignment. And in the end, they delivered a sluggish app with a frustrating UI that didn’t come close to the solution you had envisioned. If any of that sounds familiar, you need to reach out to 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. Get the committed, responsive development team that your business deserves. Visit DevSquad.com/startups and get 10% off the first three months of your engagement. Topics we cover: 1:21 – Revisiting past predictions and reporting back on burnout 2:45 – Revisiting predictions for SaaS bootstrappers in 2024 5:29 – Twitter changes hands in 2024? 6:29 – Reducing travel to quell burnout on the horizon 11:45 – State of Startups For the Rest of Us 14:40 – TinySeed invested in over 170+ companies 17:54 – First annual TinyFest 18:42 – TinySeed Tales Season 5 19:50 – The SaaS Playbook and my next two books Links from the Show: MicroConf Connect TinySeed The SaaS Playbook by Rob Walling Start Small Stay Small by Rob Walling Episode 697 | 7 Predictions for SaaS Bootstrappers in 2024 Vertical SaaS vs Horizontal SaaS - Which is More Profitable? State of Independent SaaS MicroConf Mastermind Program TinyFest Unwrapped: Inside Our First-Ever Founder Conference and Retreat in Cancun

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0:00.0	Is your outsource development team dropping the ball?
0:05.4	Maybe you've worked with a team that just couldn't grasp your vision and needed constant
0:09.8	oversight because they weren't thinking strategically.
0:12.7	Or maybe you ended up wasting hours micromanaging, often needing to jump on late-night calls
0:17.2	across massive time zone differences to get alignment.
0:20.6	And in the end, they delivered
0:21.7	a sluggish app with a frustrating UI that didn't come close to the solution you had envisioned.
0:26.8	If any of that sounds familiar, you need to reach out to our sponsor. Dev Squad. DevSquad provides
0:31.9	an entire development team packed with top talent from Latin America. Your elite squad will include
0:36.7	between two to six full-stack
0:38.4	developers, a technical product manager, plus specialists in product strategy, UIUX design, DevOps,
0:44.9	and QA all working together to make your SaaS product a success. You can ramp up an entire product
0:50.5	team fast in your time zone, and it rates 75% cheaper than a comparable U.S.
0:55.8	base team. And with DevS. Squad, you pay month to month with no long-term contracts.
1:00.5	Get the committed, responsive development team that your business deserves.
1:04.6	Visit devsquod.com slash startups and get 10% off for the first three months of your engagement.
1:10.6	That's devsquad.com slash startups.
1:16.8	Welcome back to another episode of Startups for the rest of us.
1:19.9	I'm Rob Walling.
1:20.8	Today I'm going to look at a couple of the predictions that I made three or four months ago.
1:25.4	Just revisit them because I feel like what were a third
1:28.7	of the way through the year. And I had a few thoughts on them. And I also want to give you an update
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