Episode 745 | Reflecting on 2024: Revisiting My Predictions, The Best Episodes, My Favorite Frameworks, and More (A Rob Solo Adventure)

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Management, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.8 • 792 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In episode 745, Rob Walling goes solo to reflect on 2024. He revisits key concepts and frameworks introduced on the podcast, including the 2-20-200 Validation Framework, Orthogonal SaaS, and the eight levels of platform risk. Rob also looks back at his top five favorite episodes and reviews his predictions for the year—some of which came to pass, and others that didn’t. Topics we cover: (2:05) – Looking back at concepts and frameworks from past 12 months (8:50) – Rob’s 5 favorite episodes (11:56) – Reflecting on 2024 accomplishments (19:47) – TinySeed Tales Returns in 2025 (21:18) – Evaluating 2024 predictions Links from the Show: The SaaS Launchpad – Start Free with “The DNA of a Great SaaS Idea” MicroConf YouTube Channel Episode 706 | 2/20/200 Validation, Prior Art, and Designing by Committee (A Rob Solo Adventure) TinySeed Vertical SaaS vs Horizontal SaaS - Which is More Profitable? Episode 735 | The 8 Levels of SaaS Platform Risk (A Rob Solo Adventure) The SaaS Playbook Episode 728 | Bootstrapping Gymdesk to a More Than $32.5M Exit Episode 706.5 | Rethinking My Most Common Advice Episode 729 | 9 Things I’ve Learned Investing in 170+ SaaS Companies Episode 709 | The 7 Greatest Investments of My Life Episode 694 | 2023 In Review: Amazing Growth & Fighting Burnout How Ben Chestnut Bootstrapped Mailchimp to a $12 Billion Exit MicroConf New Orleans 2025 Start Small, Stay Small by Rob Walling Exit Strategy: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Selling Your Business Without Regret TinySeed Tales

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of Startup to the Rest of Us.
0:03.0	I am Rob Walling, and in this solo adventure, I'm going to look back at 2024.
0:10.0	I'm going to reflect on some key concepts that I discovered slash introduced on this podcast in the last 12 months.
0:18.2	I'm going to reflect on accomplishments, things I was able to ship this year,
0:22.4	as well as look back at my top four favorite episodes from the year.
0:27.6	And then I'm going to revisit the predictions that I made for 2024.
0:31.8	Because with only, I'm recording this a few weeks in advance of it going live,
0:36.2	but there's only a couple weeks left in
0:37.8	2024, and some of these have come to pass, and some have not.
0:42.8	Before I dive into the episode, I want to let you know about my course, the SaaS Launchpad,
0:48.7	but not just the course, because I've talked about it on this show before, but the fact that
0:52.7	we have added a free sample, a free trial of
0:56.1	the course. It's one of the 27, 26 videos that are included in this course. Total course is about
1:04.0	nine and a half hours of content, and this is 28 minutes long. It's called the DNA of a great
1:08.6	SaaS idea. It's kind of my response to the question,
1:13.0	if you could design the ideal SaaS product for a bootstrapper, what would be all the aspects
1:19.8	that you would want from it? What elements would it have? And I think I came up with 17 or 18 different
1:26.0	factors. And realistically, I don't know that if there's a single idea that has all 18,
1:31.1	but it's things to think about as you are evaluating your SaaS ideas.
1:37.7	So SaaSlaunchpad.co, if you click the start free button,
1:41.9	you will be able to download that video and check out what the course is all about
1:46.4	sass launchpad.co as i've recorded this podcast over the years up to almost episode 750 in the course of almost 15 years, I like to reflect every so often.
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