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In this episode, Rob Walling recounts building a multi-million dollar startup with $0 venture capital... Rob walks you through his journey of building Drip, and his step-by-step process for growing a profitable startup, plus how to build it from Day 1 so it actually sells.   Listen to the end to hear his BIGGEST regret!   Links from the Pod: Back The SaaS Playbook on Kickstarter Subscribe to the MicroConf YouTube Channel Watch this video on YouTube

If you've been laid off from a big tech company, you may be considering starting your own business. But is it the right move for you? In this podcast, we'll explore the reasons to start a business, reasons not to, and four tips to increase your chance of success.   Links from the Pod: Back The SaaS Playbook on Kickstarter Subscribe to the MicroConf YouTube Channel Watch this video on YouTube  

In this podcast, recorded at a MicroConf Local in Austin, Jason Cohen sits down with Rob Walling for a fireside chat at the WP Engine headquarters. The cover a range of topics including: Finding Product Market Fit Understanding how customers think about pricing and how to get them to pay more Identifying the Right Metrics Using Excitement as a Reason to Do Something If you haven't seen Jason's talk, Designing the Ideal Bootstrapped Business , on our YouTube Channel, you should. Links from the Pod: Back The SaaS Playbook on Kickstarter Watch this talk on YouTube Subscribe to the MicroConf YouTube Channel    

You got your first 100 customers, now what? How do you continue getting customers and keep them long term to reduce churn? Get more SaaS users with these simple strategies for scaling SaaS beyond 1000 customers. Links from the Pod: The SaaS Playbook Subscribe to the MicroConf YouTube Channel Watch this video on YouTube  

In this audio from MicroConf Remote 5.0, Amanda Natividad, VP of Marketing at Sparktoro, discusses the how content marketing trending more and more toward zero-click content.  Amanda gives away 3 methods for creating zero-click content from your existing long form content. Links from the Pod: Get your ticket for MicroConf Remote 6.0 Amanda Natividad | Twitter Sparktoro Get the slides from this talk

The crash of Silicon Valley Bank has a lot of founders on edge, and rightly so!   While the FDIC and the Federal Reserve have announced that they will step in and guarantee all deposits, even those above the FDIC threshold, there's still much to be sorted out in the coming days.   In this audio pulled from a YouTube livestream on Monday, March 13th, Rob Walling and Einar Vollset, co-founders of TinySeed, a startup accelerator, will be going live for about 30 minutes to chat about the impact this news will have on startups, why the guarantee of deposits was necessary, and what steps you might consider to protect your startup going forward.   Links from the Pod: MicroConf Remote MicroConf US Watch the replay of this livestream on YouTube Subscribe to the MicroConf YouTube Channel Rob Walling | Twitter Einar Vollset | Twitter  

In this audio from MicroConf Remote 5.0, Eran Galperin, founder of GymDesk, chats with Rob Walling about leveraging Capterra to find more customers for your SaaS app. Links from the Pod: Get your ticket for MicroConf Remote 6.0 Eran Galperin | Twitter GymDesk Get the slides from this talk GymDesk's Capterra Page

In this talk from MicroConf Remote 5.0, Gia Laudi of Forget the Funnel walks through using customer surveys and Jobs to Be Done interviews to discover how your product helps your best customers, so that you can find more of those ideal customers.  Links from the Pod: MicroConf Remote 6.0: March 21 + 22, 2023 | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM ET Gia Laudi | Twitter Forget the Funnel Get the slide deck

In this talk from MicroConf Growth US 2022, Rob Walling walks through 31 quick tactics for that get outsized results in your business. The tactics are broken up into the following categories: Growth Product Productivity Operations Get the slide deck here: Links from the Pod: MicroConf US 2023  Get the slide deck here  Watch this talk with slides on YouTube Rob Walling I Twitter

If Rob was starting over today, here's 3 steps he'd take to $1M+ revenue.   In this audio from a recent YouTube video, Rob breaks down his stair step approach to bootstrapping a SaaS business. Check out his original article here: The Stair Step Method of Bootstrapping   Links from Pod: List of SaaS Marketplaces Episode 612 of Startups for the Rest of Us Start Small, Stay Small Watch the video version on YouTube Subscribe to our YouTube Channel