Startups For the Rest of Us

Episode 623 | TinySeed Tales s3e3: Paternity Leave

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In the third episode of season 3 of TinySeed Tales, Rob Walling checks in with Tony Chan of CloudForecast to see how he is faring since his co-founder is now on paternity leave.

During this time, Tony shares a big win along with dealing with some hiring and growth setbacks.

Topics we cover: 
  • 1:24 - How the business is doing while Francois is on paternity leave 
  • 2:36 - Tony’s perspective on being a solo founder for the past 6 weeks 
  • 5:04 - Managing your own founder psychology  
  • 7:49 - How Tony is dealing with an unexpected sales slump 
  • 16:16 - Did Tony end up hiring a full-time SDR?  
  • 21:04 - Dealing with setbacks 
  • 22:41 - What Tony is looking forward to in the next couple of months  
    • Links from the Show:
    • Tony Chan (@toeknee123) I Twitter
    • CloudForecast
    • TinySeed Applications are now open 
    • Episode 613 | Hacking Your Founder Psychology
    • Summit

      • 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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