It's another episode of Startups for the Rest of Us.

I'm Rob Walling, and today on the show, Craig Hewitt, is actually the host.

Craig graciously accepted my invitation to come on the show and interview me about the new course

that I'm putting out through microconference called the SaaS Launchpad.

And it's at SaaSlaunchpad.co.

And it's an early stage course that focuses on finding ideas, pre-validating, doing some validation, building an MVP,

building a launch list, and finally launching, and knowing when to quit as well. And this course

is something that me and my team have been working on. It's almost a year now, and it's hundreds

and hundreds of person hours dedicated to this. I would love to tally it up. And just because

you put a bunch of hours into something doesn't mean it's good, but I'll just say I don't

put that much time into something if it's not good. And the course has launched, as of today,

SaaSlaunch by dot co, if you want to check it out. But we don't just talk about the course has launched, as of today, it's that's launched by dot co if you want to check it out.

But we don't just talk about the course.

Obviously, we do talk about what's in it.

But Craig asked me, why do a course versus a book?

Why do a course now?

Why cover this topic?

You know, it's a lot of the thought process.

We even get into some kind of business stuff of like behind the scenes thinking through the role that free content plays into the

ecosystem, the startup ecosystem is education versus courses. Why I will not just give it away for free?

You know, there's there's all this thought process that I hope you here. It's two experienced founders

who've been in the game a long time kind kind of talking about the thought process of why launched

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