TinySeed Tales S2E3 | Is This All Worth It?
Startups For the Rest of Us
Rob Walling
4.9 • 819 Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Can I sustain this for years and years on end? |
| 0:03.0 | Even though every day is not like this, but the ones that are like this are bad sometimes. |
| 0:18.6 | Welcome back to Tiny Seatales, a series where I follow a founder through their struggles, |
| 0:22.7 | victories, and failures as they build their startup. I'm your host, Rob Walling. I'm a serial |
| 0:27.4 | entrepreneur and co-founder of TinyC, the first startup accelerator designed for bootstrappers. |
| 0:33.1 | We're back with Brian and Scotty, co-founders of Gather. If you're just joining us, you should go back and listen to the previous two episodes. |
| 0:40.3 | As we learned last episode, Gather is trying to take their product upmarket, |
| 0:43.7 | which means focusing on finding product market fit with a new group of customers |
| 0:46.9 | and likely leaving behind the group they've been used to serving. |
| 0:50.4 | This week's focus is on a feeling that's pervasive in the entrepreneur community, anxiety. |
| 0:55.7 | Brian's quote from the start of this episode communicates that perfectly. |
| 0:58.9 | It's been an up and down week for their business. |
| 1:01.1 | But first, Scotty updates us on their two new hires and some good news on the sales front. |
| 1:06.0 | We hired a VA who is going to help us with, you know, all of the email, the cold email. |
| 1:14.6 | So she's responsible for managing that, responding to emails and setting up calendar dates for |
| 1:23.9 | those demos. |
| 1:26.4 | And then we've also hired a marketing slash industry expert who's going to come on part-time. |
| 1:36.6 | And we had our first meeting with her yesterday, and that was really great. |
| 1:41.6 | She went through a rewrite of our copy and just kind of spoke out loud |
| 1:47.2 | as she read it and kind of wear her head with her interior designer architecture hat on, |
| 1:53.9 | gave us some feedback. So we're really, really excited to get started with that, with her, get her going. |
| 2:03.1 | So, you know, we're just really, we're setting in place a lot of processes, writing things down more. |
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