Startups For the Rest of Us

Episode 742 | Normalizing Hard Things, Facing Your Biggest Threat, and Making it Fast (A Rob Solo Adventure)


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In episode 742, Rob Walling goes solo to explore normalizing doing hard things and facing your biggest threats. He also discusses a framework for founders looking to scale without cutting corners – making things work, making them right, and then making them fast.

Exit Strategy Kickstarter ends on December 12!

Topics we cover: 
  • (2:39) – Normalizing doing hard things
  • (6:54) – The “hard things” in your startup
  • (10:27) – Walking into the storm
  • (16:21) – ”Make it work, make it right, make it fast”
  • (22:04) – Building your “Founder Gut”
  • (25:42) – Think in years, not months
  • Links from the Show: 
    • Exit Strategy: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Selling Your Business Without Regret
    • MicroConf Masterminds Applications Close on December 4th
    • Rob Walling (@robwalling) | X
    • Dr. Sherry Walling (@sherrywalling) | X
    • The Comic Lab Podcast
    • The SaaS Playbook
    • The Stair Step Method of Bootstrapping
    • This Took 11 Years to Be An "Overnight Success" - SaaS Exit Strategy
    • 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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