Startups for the Rest of Us
The original podcast for Bootstrapped SaaS Entrepreneurs whether you’re preparing to launch or you’ve hit $10M ARR, learn from successful founders who have been in your shoes.
Episode 840 | 5 PM Revisited, Starting Over After Failure, Never...
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Episode 839 | The Journey Growing Help Scout to $35M ARR
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Episode 838 | 6 Key Takeaways From a TinySeed Batch Kick-Off
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Episode 837 | How Do You Learn Product? and Optimizing Your Trial...
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Episode 836 | The 5 A.I. Moats Acquirers Value Most
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Episode 835 | The Right Way to Use AI in Your Startup Marketing
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Episode 834 | Eric Ries Revisits The Lean Startup and Discusses H...
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Episode 833 | Success Patterns of Nobel Laureates, Developing Exp...
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Episode 832 | Going Full-time, When to Pivot, Building With Young...
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Episode 831 | Written vs. Verbal Ad Copy, Selling Into a Low-Awar...
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Episode 830 | Breaking Through Plateaus, Zero-Click Marketing, an...
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Episode 829 | AI is Bad at Product, Top 5 Startup Success Factors...
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2 months ago
Episode 828 | Am I Building a SaaS?, Serving Both B2C and B2B, Pr...
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2 months ago
Episode 827 | The Founder's Guide to Selling Your SaaS for What I...
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3 months ago
Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinke...
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Episode 825 | Talking Tailwind CSS and Founder Fitness (with Adam...
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3 months ago
Episode 824 | Crowded Markets, Problem Aware, A Stolen Idea, and...
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3 months ago
Episode 823 | Hot Take Tuesday: Is A.I. Killing B2B SaaS?, ChatGP...
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4 months ago
Episode 822 | No-code vs. A.I. Coding, SaaS Margins in the A.I. A...
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Episode 821 | How to Do Founder-Led Marketing (with Jay Clouse)
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Episode 820 | When to Quit Your Day Job, A.I. Feasibility Risk, a...
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4 months ago
Episode 819 | QSBS, Exit Multiples, How to Learn Marketing, and M...
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5 months ago
Episode 818 | What Does It Take to Be Successful? with Russ Walli...
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5 months ago
Episode 817 | Bootstrapping in the Age of AI with Jason Cohen
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Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stub...
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Episode 815 | Unexpected Skills Your Day Job Can Teach You About...
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6 months ago
Episode 814 | How to Beat a Venture-Backed Competitor (with Laura...
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6 months ago
Episode 813 | SaaS Predictions for 2026 (+ Reflections on 2025)
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6 months ago
Episode 812 | The 2025 State of TinySeed
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Episode 811 | When to Delegate the "Core Four SaaS Skills," Freem...
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Episode 810 | The Best A.I. Coding Stack, Shipping Fast, and More...
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7 months ago
Episode 809 | What I Learned Diving into A.I. for 100 Days (with...
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7 months ago
Episode 808 | A $500k "Step 1" Business, When to Consider SOC2, a...
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7 months ago
Episode 807 | The "Core Four" SaaS Skills and Knowing When You Sh...
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7 months ago
Episode 806 | Bootstrapping Missive to $8M ARR Over 10 Years
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8 months ago
Episode 805 | Gatekeeping vs. Paying Dues, Raw Material, and Surr...
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8 months ago
Episode 804 | Positioning, Inventing a Category, Marketing Global...
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8 months ago
Episode 803 | 8 Key Takeaways from MicroConf Europe 2025
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8 months ago
Episode 802 | Marketing Not Scaling, Where to Publish Content, an...
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9 months ago
Episode 801 | Competing Against Incumbents, Technical Co-Founders...
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9 months ago
Episode 800 | The 12 Commandments of Startups for the Rest of Us
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9 months ago
Episode 799 | TinySeed Tales s5e6: $500k ARR!
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9 months ago
Episode 798 | Lessons From 10 Years of SaaS Growth Without a Hock...
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9 months ago
Episode 797 | TinySeed Tales s5e5: Should I Raise More Funding?
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9 months ago
Episode 796 | Marketing Isn't Easy?, How to Grow Your Company, an...
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9 months ago
Episode 795 | TinySeed Tales s5e4: The $20K Milestone
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10 months ago
Episode 794 | From Struggling Side Project to Life-Changing SaaS...
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10 months ago
Episode 793 | TinySeed Tales s5e3: Building Momentum
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10 months ago
Episode 792 | Hot Take Tuesday: GPT-5 Struggles, the A.I. Bubble,...
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Episode 791 | TinySeed Tales s5e2: Growing Pains
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10 months ago
Episode 790 | From Scrappy to Scalable: Evolving Your Role as a F...
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10 months ago
Episode 789 | TinySeed Tales s5e1: From Agency to SaaS
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10 months ago
Episode 788 | Do I Need a Co-founder? And More Listener Questions...
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10 months ago
Episode 787 | "We Shut Down a $1.5M Product, and Raised $10M Inst...
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11 months ago
Episode 786 | Questions About Bootstrapping SaaS to a $90M Exit (...
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11 months ago
Episode 768 | Reacting to Controversial Startup Advice
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11 months ago
Episode 767 | Finding Your ICP, Prioritizing Feature Requests, Pr...
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11 months ago
Episode 766 | Close.com's Amazing Run to $40M ARR (with Steli Eft...
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11 months ago
Episode 765 | TinySeed Tales s4e9: Making the hardest decision
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Episode 764 | Finding Hockey Stick Growth with an A.I. Wrapper (w...
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Episode 763 | TinySeed Tales s4e8: One Last Pivot
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Episode 762 | Doing Great Work, Hierarchy of SaaS Skills, and Pub...
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Episode 761 | TinySeed Tales s4e7: Identifying Pain Points
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Episode 760 | White-Labeling, Founder Mindset, and More Listener...
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Episode 759 | TinySeed Tales s4e6: Does AI + Pivot = Success?
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Episode 758 | Do Free Trials Suck?, What Moves the Needle, and Mo...
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Episode 757 | TinySeed Tales s4e5: Founder Breakups, Crushing Fai...
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Episode 756 | Why Great Product Management Is Critical for Your S...
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Episode 785 | Choosing Between AI Products, Building Multiple App...
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Episode 770 | Revenue vs. Profit, Asking for Permission, and Mike...
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Episode 784 | The Wealth Ladder: Six Levels of Financial Freedom
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Episode 783 | Bootstrapping ScrapingBee to $5M ARR and an 8-Figur...
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12 months ago
Episode 782 | Why I Succeeded: My 10 Best Entrepreneurial Decisio...
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1 year ago
Episode 781 | A Founder's Regret List: 12 Mistakes I’ll Never Mak...
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1 year ago
Episode 780 | "I'll Never Sell My Company" and Other Myths Founde...
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1 year ago
Episode 779 | 10 Myths Most SaaS Founders Believe
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1 year ago
Episode 778 | Pricing Pilot Projects, Niching Down, Skipping Stai...
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1 year ago
Episode 777 | Why Retiring Might Be the Worst Goal for Entreprene...
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1 year ago
Episode 776 | How Bootstrapping Led to a Life-Changing $90M SaaS...
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Episode 775 | A.I. Coding Tools, User Experience, Racking Your Ow...
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1 year ago
Episode 774 | How a Non-Technical Founder Bootstrapped to Million...
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1 year ago
Episode 773 | How to Find Your Early Customer Profile (ECP)
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1 year ago
Episode 772 | A Highly Effective Framework for SaaS Positioning
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1 year ago
Episode 771 | What Changes As You Grow, AI Agents, Patents, and M...
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1 year ago