Embracing Hard Work: Lessons from Track to Entrepreneurship

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!

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