Episode 731 | How to Delegate as a Perfectionist, SaaS Partnerships, Planning Your Next Quarter, and More Listener Questions (with Derrick Reimer)

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Entrepreneurship, Management, Business, Marketing

4.9 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In episode 731, join Rob Walling and Derrick Reimer as they tackle some more advanced listener questions. They discuss delegation and giving up areas of control as a founder, including examples from their time together at Drip. Derrick describes how he approaches partnering with other SaaS businesses and why planning a full quarter ahead doesn’t work for many bootstrapped founders. Episode Sponsor: Hiring senior developers can really move the needle in your business, but if you bring on the wrong person, you can quickly burn through your runway. If you need help finding a vetted, senior, results-oriented developer, you should reach out to today’s sponsor, Lemon.io. For years, they’ve been helping our audience find high quality, global talent at competitive rates, and they can help you too. Longtime listener Chaz Yoon, hired a senior developer from Lemon.io and said his hire ”definitely knew his stuff, provided appropriate feedback and pushback, and had great communication, including very fluent English. He really exceeded my expectations.” Chaz said he’d definitely use Lemon.io again when he’s looking for a senior level engineer. To learn more and get a 15% discount on your first four weeks of working with a developer at lemon.io/startups. Topics we cover: 1:17 – Delegating as a perfectionist 7:19 – Learning to hire those that are better than you in some domains 14:50 – Risk vs. certainty 19:01 – Finding specialized marketing roles vs. a generalist 24:04 – Managing partnerships with other SaaS products 31:17 – Reaching out about partnerships 32:46 – Quarterly planning for your SaaS 34:20 – Planning in smaller time blocks 40:58 – Quizzing developers’ on their knowledge Links from the Show: Purchase The SaaS Launchpad TinySeed The SaaS Playbook MicroConf YouTube Channel Derrick Reimer (@derrickreimer) | X SavvyCal Finding Fulfillment by Jason Cohen Shape Up 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

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0:00.0	You're listening to Start Up to the rest of us. My name is Rob Walling, and I am your host this week and every week on the show.
0:06.7	Today, I welcome back Derek Reimer, and we talk through some really interesting listener questions,
0:12.9	how to delegate as a perfectionist, how to organize and think about SaaS partnerships,
0:18.9	and planning your next quarter as a bootstrapper, as a super
0:22.7	small team. We'll jump into those questions in just a moment. If you haven't checked out my new
0:28.6	course, the SaaS Launchpad, head to SaaSlaunchpad.co. This is the first course I have created
0:35.4	in 14 years. It is incredibly in depth. It's a video course
0:39.9	with transcripts and worksheets and quizzes, and it's all about early stage. It's all about going
0:44.8	from zero to one, going from finding ideas to vetting them, to getting them launched successfully.
0:50.7	SaaSlaunchpad.com, if you want to check it out. Now let's dive into listener questions.
1:05.6	Derek Krimer, thanks for coming back on the show.
1:08.0	Pleasure to be back.
1:09.5	So I have some really good questions today,
1:11.9	continuing on this topic of more intermediate to advance questions. The first one is from
1:18.3	Hello, it's Ali on Twitter. Ali asks, we're at $32,000. I'm going to assume that's MRR,
1:25.4	and we've done it through long hours, endless experimentation,
1:28.5	and a lot of good luck. Hard work, luck, and skill sounds like. My question is, how should co-founders
1:34.2	with perfectionist tendencies delegate work? And what qualities should they look for when hiring?
1:41.4	And then Alley actually goes on to ask two or three more questions, which we can take in due
1:46.1	time.
1:46.6	But as someone with perfectionist tendency, we laugh because you and I are both that way in
1:53.6	certain areas.
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