Episode 737 | Key Takeaways from MicroConf Europe 2024 (With Derrick Reimer)

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Management, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.8 • 792 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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In episode 737, Rob Walling is joined by Derrick Reimer to recap the experience from MicroConf Europe 2024 in Dubrovnik. They discuss the differences between MicroConf US and MicroConf Europe, some small programming tweaks over the years, and they revisit the highlights from the talks at this event. If you missed the event and had some MicroConf FOMO, get your tickets now for our New Orleans event! 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: 2:47 – MicroConf Europe vs. MicroConf US 6:44 – Adding “excursions” to the programming 11:29 – From Maker to Founder to Owner to Entrepreneur with Peldi Guilizzoni 18:55 – Thinking big and small: Data-driven growth strategies to grow your business with Andrew Davies 20:45 – Contributing factors to the success of this event in particular 23:47 – 10 Lessons Learned in 10 Years of Starting, Growing, and Selling WebinarNinja with Omar Zenhom 26:40 – Bootstrapping Our Freemium Form Builder: From Zero to $1.5M ARR with Marie Martens 30:37 – 3 mistakes I won’t repeat after growing my business to +35M and selling it with Tim Vandecasteele 33:50 – Breaking Through the 7 SaaS Growth Plateaus with Rob Walling Links from the Show: Get Tickets for MicroConf US 2025, New Orleans Signup for the MicroConf newsletter Derrick Reimer (@derrickreimer) | X SavvyCal Peldi from Balsamiq (@peldi) | X The SaaS Playbook Omar Zenhom (@TheOmarZenhom) | X Episode 717 | Bootstrapping to $1.3M ARR and 300,000 Free Users If you have questions about starting or scaling a software business that you’d like for us to cover, please

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0:00.0	It's another episode of Startups for the Rest of Us. I'm your host, Rob Walling, and in this episode,
0:04.2	I sit down with Derek Rimer as we review the key takeaways from MicroConf Europe 2024,
0:11.1	which happened just two or three weeks back in Dubrovnik, Croatia. You'll hear us discuss in
0:16.7	this episode several of the most notable talks talks as well as some takeaways that we received
0:22.5	from the speakers. In addition, I give an overview of the event and I talk about how it sold out
0:27.2	in only seven weeks. And there were many folks who wanted to attend the event that weren't able
0:32.0	to get a ticket. So if you'd like to attend the next MicroConf, it's going to be in New Orleans next March.
0:39.0	You can head to microconf.com slash US to get your ticket now. The tickets as of today are the
0:44.9	least expensive they will ever be. They're only going to get more expensive. And this event,
0:49.4	if our past events are any indication, will sell out. So microcomf.com slash US if you're interested in heading
0:55.7	to New Orleans in March of 2025. And with that, let's dive right into my conversation with
1:00.9	Derek Grimer.
1:10.3	Eric Grimer, thanks for joining me on the show to talk through MicroConf Europe. Yeah, it's my pleasure to be back. Just sinking back into central time having left Europe yesterday.
1:21.2	So you woke up at 5. 5 a.m. all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. I get glimpses of what it's like to be a true morning person.
1:28.5	Indeed. I love flying west. It's so nice. And then flying east is like, oh, no, I need to
1:33.8	take gobs of melatonin and still wake up. Actually, the first night I was there, you know,
1:38.4	because I got two or three hours sleep on the flight to Dubrovnik and then first night I was there I stayed up just till
1:45.9	till 8 which is like a victory I'm so tired oh my gosh so I take melatonin and I figure if I can
1:52.0	usually if I can make it to like four or five I'm super happy right so I wake up and it's all dark
1:57.8	outside and it's like I got to go to the bathroom and I look at my clock it's 10 30 p.m. and I hit and I was like kind of awake and I was like no I just took a nap
2:07.9	that I basically and I was like I need to take more melatonin now to get down so I took again and I was and then
2:13.9	I was out to 3 30 and I was like no that's no, that's not enough. So I hate flying east.
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