Hello, loyal listener.

I'm excited to introduce you to a new podcast series I've been working on for quite a while, actually.

In addition to our regular weekly episodes of startups for the rest of us,

I want to give you an inside look at the struggles and the triumphs of a handful of founders

who are part of the current batch of my accelerator.

Join me as I have raw, transparent conversations about what it's like on the inside of an early

stage startup. I hope you enjoy it. Welcome to Tiny Seed Tales. I'm your host, Rob Walling. I'm a serial

entrepreneur and co-founder of Tiny Seed, the first startup accelerator designed for bootstrappers.

For the next several weeks, we'll follow a founder through his struggles, victories, and failures as he builds his startup.

Today on the show, I interview the founder of one of nine startups chosen out of nearly 900 applicants for this year's Tiny Seed Accelerator batch.

I'm Craig Hewitt. I'm the founder of Castos, podcast hosting and analytics.

Like many entrepreneurs, Craig has followed a unique path. He quit his corporate job in the

U.S. about three years ago, and he and his wife decided to travel for a few months through

Europe. Landing in Annecy, France, they fell in love with it and decided to

stick around. Was any piece of your decision to live in France kind of geo-arbitrage,

meaning is it cheaper to live there than where you were living before? No, very much the opposite,

actually. Unfortunately, a little bit. Yeah, I mean, we live about 30 miles from Geneva, Switzerland.

So we're like a suburb of the most expensive place in the world, literally.

Wow.

It's terrible.

Okay.

So that's not what the typical bootstrap path is to move somewhere cheap, you know?

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