Episode 740 | My New Book! The Entrepreneur's Guide to Selling Your Business Without Regret

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Management, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.8 • 792 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In episode 740, Rob Walling speaks with Dr. Sherry Walling about their new book, "Exit Strategy: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Selling Your Business Without Regret." They explore the emotional, psychological, and practical aspects of selling a business, emphasizing the universal challenges entrepreneurs face. The book draws on both Rob and Sherry’s unique experiences that they’ve shared with countless founders throughout their careers. Exit Strategy is now live on Kickstarter! Topics we cover: 2:01 – Not just a book for those selling SaaS 8:13 – The Kickstarter for the book is live today 12:16 – Before, during, and after the exit 14:55 – Why exiting is so hard 20:39 – Life after the exit 25:10 – A few traps await founders shortly after exit 26:24 – What do you do with a big pile of money? Links from the Show: MicroConf Remote Goes Live November 20th! Exit Strategy: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Selling Your Business Without Regret Rob Walling (@robwalling) | X Dr. Sherry Walling (@sherrywalling) | X Zen Founder Zen Founder Podcast The SaaS Playbook The Art of Selling Your Business by John Warrillow Before the Exit by Dan Andrews Finish Big by Bo Burlingham MicroConf TinySeed Testing Two Worlds by Dr. Sherry Walling 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	Welcome to Start Up to the Rest of us. I'm your host Rob Walling, and in this episode, I sit down with Dr. Sherry Walling to talk about our new book, Exit Strategy, the Entrepreneur's Guide to Selling Your Business Without Regret. The Kickstarter for this book launches today. If you want to back it or you're interested in checking out the tears and seeing all the amazing copy that Leanna Patch wrote for us, head to exit
0:22.5	strategybook.com. I hope you'll consider backing this book. I talk about it in the conversation,
0:28.9	but I'm really proud of the end product of what we put together. And we put a ton of time into it.
0:34.1	We interviewed a lot of entrepreneurs across different business types. It's not
0:38.4	just about selling SaaS. It's about selling, for the most part, any kind of business. And I'm really
0:43.0	excited to get this into the hands of folks like yourself, entrepreneurs who may be thinking about
0:49.2	selling, who may be in the midst of selling, or who have sold and are trying to think about
0:53.4	what's next. Or even if you are not thinking about selling today, having this knowledge in your head as you
1:00.7	build your business can only help you.
1:03.0	So exitstratagebook.com.
1:04.5	It'd be amazing if you decide to back the Kickstarter.
1:08.2	Before we dive into the episode, Microcomp Remote is going live on November 20th.
1:13.5	Remote is our virtual event. We run it twice a year, and this one is focused on early stage
1:18.8	marketing. I'm going to have three speakers, each doing Q&A after their talk, plus our founder
1:25.0	by founder sessions. This is where you get to meet other founders
1:28.5	in the microcomf community. It's our digital equivalent of the hallway track. MicroConf Remote is
1:34.7	one of the favorite offerings for early stage folks, and we get a great turnout. We sell several
1:40.5	hundred tickets. The purchase price is low, and if you're not able to make the event, which is on November 20th, you will get a recording
1:48.8	afterwards.
1:49.8	Head to microcom.com slash remote if you're interested.
1:53.0	And with that, let's dive into our conversation.
2:04.7	Dr. Sherry Walling, thanks so much for joining me on the show.
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