Episode 588 | In Which Courtland Allen and I Cover a Lot of Startups Topics
02/01/22 • 64 min
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In Episode 588, Rob Walling chats with Courtland Allen about a wide range of bootstrapper and indie hacker topics including the struggles with motivation/depression, bootstrapping today, fighting the urge to quit, and frameworks for getting your first dollar.
The topics we cover
[3:43] Hiring a podcast producer [6:21] Letting go in business [7:09] Invite-only experiment on Indie Hackers [16:03] Thinking about the future [20:47] Financial freedom and starting a business [25:05] Depression as a founder and rediscovering purpose [37:10] Fighting the urge to quit [41:10] Getting your first dollar [52:35] The bootstrapper scene in 2010 and the relevance of bootstrappingLinks from the show
- Rob Walling on Twitter
- The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life
- Courtland Allen (@csallen) | Twitter
In Episode 588, Rob Walling chats with Courtland Allen about a wide range of bootstrapper and indie hacker topics including the struggles with motivation/depression, bootstrapping today, fighting the urge to quit, and frameworks for getting your first dollar.
The topics we cover
[3:43] Hiring a podcast producer [6:21] Letting go in business [7:09] Invite-only experiment on Indie Hackers [16:03] Thinking about the future [20:47] Financial freedom and starting a business [25:05] Depression as a founder and rediscovering purpose [37:10] Fighting the urge to quit [41:10] Getting your first dollar [52:35] The bootstrapper scene in 2010 and the relevance of bootstrappingLinks from the show
- Rob Walling on Twitter
- The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life
- Courtland Allen (@csallen) | Twitter
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Episode 587 | Renaming a Company, Revisiting Inflation, and Micropreneurship (Listener Email Edition)
In Episode 587, join Rob Walling as he answers listener emails including feedback and a critique about the podcast, the state of microentrepreneurship, and where to start with user growth.
The topics we cover
[2:22] The reason Rob continues to podcast [5:26] Renaming a company or podcast [8:40] Revisiting inflation [15:06] The state of microentrepreneurship [20:00] Where to start with user growthLinks from the show
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Transcript
It's another episode of Startups... Click the icon below to listen.Next Episode
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In Episode 589, Rob Walling chats with Jason Buckingham about how he found a startup idea from making more than 70 cold calls. It's a great story about staying focused, putting in the time and doing the hard work.
The topics we cover
[7:14] Finding a problem via cold calls [13:07] Identifying a problem and deciding what to do next [22:32] Getting spouses on board with entrepreneur journey [25:06] Working day jobs while building the product [30:09] Getting into Tiny Seed right before COVID-19Links from the show
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Transcript
Rob: In this week's episode of Startups For the Rest of Us, I talk with Jason Buckingham... Click the icon below to listen.If you like this episode you’ll love
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