Navigating Developer Skills for B2B SaaS Founders

In episode 605, Rob Walling is joined by Ruben Gamez, and they dig into a handful of listener questions. Topics range from building a SaaS with little development experience and using no-code tools to build your MVP to stair-stepping bootstrapping a two-sided marketplace.

Topics we cover: 

[0:55] Selling to the enterprise 

[4:31] What level of development expertise would you say the founders of a B2B SaaS should have in order to create a successful product? 

[13:26] Should you launch a productized service to validate a SaaS idea before building it?  

[20:47] Can you use the stairstep method to bootstrap a two-sided marketplace business? 

[31:34] Is no-code something you see mainly for building an MVP,  or is it something that you could sustainably build an actual SaaS startup on without running into scaling issues? What are the downside risks to no-code tools other than platform risk?

[37:08] Do you think no-code tools will ever get to the point where you can build a full SaaS business? 

Links from the Show:

• Ruben Gamez (@earthlingworks) I Twitter
• SignWell
• RocketGems
• Castos 
• Bubble
• Airtable 
• Dynamite Jobs
• Clarity.fm
• MicroConf Masterminds 
• The SaaS Founder Guide to No-Code 

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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