Episode 637 | B2B vs. B2C, Hiring for Sales, and Bootstrapping a 2-Sided Marketplace

In episode 637, join Rob Walling for another solo adventure as he answers a handful of listener questions. Topics covered range from hiring your first salesperson and acquiring a web app to dealing with the fear of having your idea copied and why bootstrapping a two-sided marketplace is usually a bad idea.

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Topics we cover: 

• 1:14 - You either die a consumer startup hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become a B2B SaaS founder.
• 2:40 - Hiring your first salesperson
• 9:36 - Bootstrapping a talent marketplace
• 15:10 - Acquiring a web app
• 19:40 - Getting over your fear of being copied when doing idea validation interviews

Links from the Show:

• Daniel Nguyen (@daniel_nguyenx)’s tweet
• The Mom Test 

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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