Startups For the Rest of Us

Episode 650 | Building vs. Buying a SaaS, Day Job Constraints, and More Listener Questions

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In episode 650, Rob Walling answers more listener questions. We cover topics like how to get more customers while working a full-time job, talking to users when there is a language barrier, and whether to buy vs. build a SaaS product.

Topics we cover: 
  • 1:59 - Buying a small SaaS for $10,000 vs. getting financing and buying a SaaS for 6-figures
  • 8:00 - How to get more customers while working full-time
  • 13:33 - Can you hire someone to find an established SaaS business for you to buy?
  • 16:40 - Diverse entrepreneurship podcast recommendations
  • 20:08 - Talking to users when there is a language barrier
    • Links from the Show:
    • MicroConf Remote 6.0 
    • SaaS Playbook 
    • Zen Founder
    • Software Social 
    • Indie Hackers 
    • In Demand: How To Grow Your SaaS to $100k MRR 
    • They Got Acquired 
    • Afford Anything
    • Deploy Empathy: A Practical Guide To Interviewing Customers 
    • The Jobs-To-Be-Done Handbook

      • 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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