Startup to Last

Topics this week:

• Tyler is reading a book called Killing Marketing.
• Rick is trying some time management hacks.
• Tyler has a potential job candidate using his new approach to recruiting.
• Less Annoying CRM had their "day of rest" where developers take over customer service for a day.
• Rick is working on content and SEO for LegUp Health.
• Rick has filed his taxes.
• Rick gives a shoutout to a listener that makes software that verifies financial transactions who helped him with a question from last week.
• We discuss Webflow's product roadmap.

Topics from this week:

• Rick has a baby!
• Rick broke $2k MRR in March.
• Tyler gives an update on his content marketing site.
• Tyler is about to start recruiting a developer.
• We talk about all the speculative bullshit going on right now (NFTs, GME, bitclout, etc.).
• Rick feels pressure to narrow his focus now that he's a father.
• We discuss how to implement an internal tool with no-code.

You can learn more about what Dru's working on on Twitter or at Trends.vc.

Topics this week:

• Rick is feeling burnt out. We discuss how he noticed, and what he's doing to fix it.
• Rick's baby is expected this next week, so the next two weeks of the podcast will be pre-recorded episodes.
• Tyler is drowning in meetings.
• Tyler gives an update on his new content site.
• We talk a bit about SEO.
• Rick is looking for two plugins to help with his Webflow site.
• We have both received our first vaccine shots, and we discuss what it would look like to re-open an office.
• Rick has realized how personal the information he needs from customers is, and how that impacts trust building.

Topics this week:

• Rick breaks down how the new stimulus bill will impact health insurance and entrepreneurs.
• Rick is putting his big project on hold until after paternity leave.
• Tyler gives an update on Less Annoying Business.
• We discuss enterprise sales, and how it's more about project management than convincing someone to buy.
• We talk about Zapier's acquisition of Makerpad.

Topics discussed:

• Indie.vc is shutting down
• Rick gives a revenue and churn update.
• Rick is preparing for the birth of his first child, but has one more big project to finish first.
• Tyler recaps the first week of results after launching Less Annoying Business last week.
• We discuss whether it makes sense to build an audience.
• Tyler is trying to get help with Elasticsearch from his online community.
• We discuss the long, slow SaaS ramp of death.

Topics we covered today:

• Rick finished his goal for February of automating the monthly emails at Legup Health.
• Tyler gives an update on his new small business advice website. How do you like that link building I just did?
• Tyler remembers how fast a project can move when you don't have legacy code slowing you down.
• We discuss a variety of tools used to build a content site, especially Webflow and ConvertKit.
• Tyler used Fiverr for the first time to hire a designer.
• We discuss multitasking for motivation.
• We both prefer creating content from our own personal voice rather than on behalf of the company.
• We brainstorm what's next for Less Annoying Business/

Topics discussed this week:

• Rick is learning more powerful no-code tricks with Zapier, and advancing his PHP knowledge.
• We discuss the best way to learn how to write secure code.
• Tyler is wrapping up a big project which involves setting deadlines. We discuss healthy vs. unhealthy deadlines.
• Tyler is brainstorming content marketing approaches which is tough because he's not an expert on the topics his customers are most interested in.
• We discuss Rick's learnings from Peter Drucker.
• We talk about the idea of running an online competition

More topics:

• We discuss the state of independent SaaS and what it means to have a very low payback period.
• Rick has installed a development environment and is learning to code again.
• Tyler is almost done getting ready to switch the LACRM marketing site to Webflow.
• Tyler is considering trying out Mixpanel.
• Salesforce is going more remote. What does that mean for San Francisco.
• We discuss Tyler's tweet thread about his internal dashboards.
• We talk about the Trends.vc report on competitor risk.