Episode 742 | Normalizing Hard Things, Facing Your Biggest Threat, and Making it Fast (A Rob Solo Adventure)

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Management, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.8 • 792 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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In episode 742, Rob Walling goes solo to explore normalizing doing hard things and facing your biggest threats. He also discusses a framework for founders looking to scale without cutting corners – making things work, making them right, and then making them fast. Exit Strategy Kickstarter ends on December 12! Topics we cover: (2:39) – Normalizing doing hard things (6:54) – The “hard things” in your startup (10:27) – Walking into the storm (16:21) – ”Make it work, make it right, make it fast” (22:04) – Building your “Founder Gut” (25:42) – Think in years, not months Links from the Show: Exit Strategy: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Selling Your Business Without Regret MicroConf Masterminds Applications Close on December 4th Rob Walling (@robwalling) | X Dr. Sherry Walling (@sherrywalling) | X The Comic Lab Podcast The SaaS Playbook The Stair Step Method of Bootstrapping This Took 11 Years to Be An "Overnight Success" - SaaS Exit Strategy 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 back to start up to the rest of us. I'm Rob Walling. I'm on a solo adventure today, and I'm going to be covering topics ranging from normalizing, doing hard things, about just getting used to doing hard things, about how bison's walk into storms. I'm not sure if you've heard about this, but it's an interesting adaptation they've
0:21.9	developed over hundreds or thousands of years. And then about making it work, making it right,
0:27.4	and making it fast. Before I dive into that, the Kickstarter for my new book, Exit Strategy,
0:33.4	the Entrepreneur's Guide to Selling Your Business Without Regret regret is live, and it closes next week
0:39.2	on December 12th. You can head to the link in the show notes, or you can go to kickstarter.com
0:44.9	and search for exit strategy. The book is 260, 70 pages of all the knowledge that my wife, Dr. Sherry Walling, who is a founder and executive
0:56.6	coaching consultant and myself have gathered over the past couple decades of working with
1:02.3	entrepreneurs, advising them, investing in them, and having had an exit or to ourselves.
1:07.7	So you can head to exit strategybook.com and also get a link to the Kickstarter there.
1:12.6	It would mean the world to me if you'd back it. And also, I think that everyone, whether you're
1:18.0	just starting out or whether you're thinking about exiting or in the middle of exiting,
1:22.2	can use some mental support, psychological support, and really learn from not only Dr. Sherry and I,
1:31.7	but the 15 or 20 entrepreneurs who have exited that we interviewed for this book. So I'm really
1:39.0	proud of what we put together. And I think for $30, it's quite this deal in terms of the amount and the
1:47.3	quality of the information that you'll gather from it. In addition, MicroConf Mastermind Applications
1:51.9	Close on December 4th. You've heard me talk about Mastermind's ad nauseum on this podcast about the
1:57.5	tremendous impact that they've had on my entrepreneurial career,
2:01.2	not only in the moment, but just keeping me going for the past couple decades.
2:05.6	MicroConfmasterminds.com, if you want to get matched with like-minded founders
2:10.0	who are bootstrapped and mostly bootstrapped, but ambitious,
2:13.7	and looking for accountability, friendship, camaraderie,
2:18.9	and frankly just looking to not feel so alone.
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