Startups For the Rest of Us

Episode 629 | TinySeed Tales s3e6: Looking Ahead to $1M ARR

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In the final episode of TinySeed Tales Season 3, Rob Walling checks in with Tony Chan of CloudForecast. They reflect on some of the most prominent challenges and milestones that the business has faced over the last year.

Topics we cover: 
  • 1:31 - Tony reflects on attending his first MicroConf Growth in Minneapolis
  • 3:30 - An update on how CloudForecast’s content marketing efforts are going
  • 7:59 - Getting an article featured at the top of Reddit
  • 11:16 - An update on how their new senior engineer is doing
  • 16:18 - Why Tony prefers to hire full-time employees
  • 18:26 - An update on CloudForecast’s sales pipeline
  • 20:50 - Tony reflects on the challenges of figuring out where to invest time and capital
  • 24:30 - The importance of getting low-level tasks off your plate
  • 28:36 - What is Tony least looking forward to in the next year?
  • 30:38 - What is Tony most looking forward to in the next year?
    • Links from the Show:
    • Tony Chan (@toeknee123) I Twitter
    • CloudForecast
    • Cost of living the cloud life: Fossil fuel consumption as a service

      • 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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